The Excellence Paradox: Selecting for excellence is self-defeating
Does it really make sense to select only the best? I explore how excellence is self-defeating from a theoretical probability perspective.
Remarks for the Berlin Publishing Conference 2023
My remarks for the junior researcher panel at the APE2023 conference.
Open Inaccessibility
In my decade working on the openness of research I touched upon content accessibility only a few times, in part because it was and is a less discussed topic in my circles. But that does not make it less important.
After all: When a PDF is downloaded, who can read
Private open scholarship
A primary argument around open scholarship (i.e., open science) is that of “publicly funded means publicly accessible.” I don’t like that argument because it reinforces the inverse: Privately funded means privately accessible.
Reflections on my PhD and building sustainable science
This is the prepared introduction to my livestreamed PhD defense of 17.04.2020. The dissertation, “Contributions towards understanding and building sustainable science” can be found on ThesisCommons.