It’s going to be a tough sell. The scientists involved are saturated with cultural norms and deep beliefs that more information is always better, and academic and funding incentives are aligned with that understanding.
I don’t know that the “open data movement” is, like, radically influencing the beliefs of scientists involved in this kind of work, but rather they’re both products of the same (mostly great) culture of openness.
I think the actual long-term solution is to influence trainees and help them rise to positions of influence. In the meantime we need to mitigating risks from these projects in ways that don’t depend on changing hearts and minds of the senior scientists most highly invested in their continuation.
It’s going to be a tough sell. The scientists involved are saturated with cultural norms and deep beliefs that more information is always better, and academic and funding incentives are aligned with that understanding.
I don’t know that the “open data movement” is, like, radically influencing the beliefs of scientists involved in this kind of work, but rather they’re both products of the same (mostly great) culture of openness.
I think the actual long-term solution is to influence trainees and help them rise to positions of influence. In the meantime we need to mitigating risks from these projects in ways that don’t depend on changing hearts and minds of the senior scientists most highly invested in their continuation.