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What is Opscientia?
We’re a community of open science activists, researchers, organisers and enthusiasts that have come together to work on the problems of data sharing, reproducibility, incentive alignment, coordination, and intellectual ownership that plague knowledge creation today.
Together, we’re building a scientific ecosystem that unlocks data silos, coordinates collaboration and democratises funding. Our long-term vision is to create a global network of automated knowledge foundries, where scientists and AI co-create new knowledge.
Science is Broken
Did you know that less than 10% of data collected by publicly funded research in the US is published alongside their papers? Or that an average 70% of researchers have failed to replicate their colleagues’ work across disciplines, including Physics, Biology and Psychology? A hyper competitive culture in academia precludes collaboration while existential challenges require immediate scientific solutions.
Digital Services Enhance Disparity
Modern scientific insights are typically generated by an exclusive community of researchers working at institutions with proprietary instruments, siloed data, and specialized infrastructure. This status quo has remained undisturbed for decades, further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic which has enhanced the disparity of access to instruments of information-gathering, coordination, commerce, and knowledge-sharing.
Decentralised Data Fabric
The Opsci ecosystem is powered by the Decentralised Science (DeSci) Stack, a Web3 software development kit linking decentralised finance with data markets, privacy-preserving cloud services, and the power of smart contracts to coordinate global citizen science communities together around a collectively determined incentive structure.
A Web3-powered open science ecosystem that unlocks data silos, coordinates collaboration and democratises funding
Who are we?
Shady
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Shady El Damaty, Ph.D. is an avid advocate for open science to promote the synthesis of human creativity, artistic expression, and powers of observation with tools for automation to supercharge the spirit of discovery and innovation. He founded Opscientia, to achieve this vision, and building on 10 years of methods development and digital infrastructure for big data neuroscience research.
Sarah
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Sarah Hamburg, Ph.D., is co-founder, neuroscientist and product strategist from the U.K. with years of experience in human neuroimaging, user experience research, and product development.
Liliana
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Liliana Muscarella, M.A., is Opscientia’s social impact strategist, bringing analytical and practical experience at the nexus of global inequality and conflict stabilization. Having worked in humanitarian aid and development at the United Nations, USAID, and international NGOs, Liliana’s expertise lies in new ways of thinking, working together, and decolonizing existing global structures.
Advisors
Miri
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Miri Rossitto is the CEO of COWE Communications and is Opscientia’s brand management strategist from the U.S. with 10 years of experience consulting and advising successful start-ups.
Roberto
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Roberto Espinosa is an economist with over 20 years of experience in business development for large IT companies. Roberto is also an innovation and business lecturer, mentor for international start-up programs in Spain, and venture capitalist advisor.
Community
Kinshuk
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Kinshuk Kashyap, is Opscientia’s Google Summer of Code Fellow from India, who was awarded a competitive summer fellowship to contribute to the DeSci Stack.
Dan
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Daniel Byington, M.Sc., is a business development specialist from the U.S. with a rich background in market and scientific research for pharmaceutical drug development.
Achintya
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Achintya Kumar, is Opscientia’s Open Web Fellow from India, who is applying his web development skills to build the DeSci Stack.
Polls are open for the Open Web Fellowship submissions! Two proposals in this funding cycle:
1) Scientific Pre-Print Archival on the Permaweb
2) Simulations for Science Token Communities
anonymous voting here --> https://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=6164594ae4b0393e1398f91f
We'll be hosting our first informal community discussion today at 17:30 GMT+1 on the general question of "How might we decentralize AI?". We'll discuss what the pros and cons of decentralization are for AI and a little bit on the technologies that might help us to achieve it.
👩🏽🔬✨ Our second proposal for the Open Web Fellowship is up: Permanent Archival of Open Access Research Papers on Arweave by @AkshataM16. Voting starts on Wednesday and ends Friday. Leave your #DeSci review here 👉
https://hack.opsci.io/t/opscientia-open-web-fellowship-a-platform-to-store-preprints-and-publications-permanently/49