"I think one of the things is trying to deal with that all the people that tend to be most focused on open are early career researchers, who tend to be people most passionate about it, and I think in that, as of most issues that early career researchers are worried about, power dynamic that comes into this, it's more difficult for them to make themselves heard about these issues, and that's where it plays into high-level issues because there needs to be buy-in form people at the top in order to get a lot of change going at larger institutions or system-wide levels."
"I really enjoy OpenCon because there's sort of two facets in which I'm interested about open science. The first is practicing open science myself, and that has been the case in both when I was a bench researcher but also in what I'm doing now. Part of the whole premise is to make academia more transparent and putting data out there, making it openly available, open for critique." Future of Research has
data open for analysis right now on postdoc salaries in the US. "We have already had some cool people sharing code and excellent plots of distributions or salaries, which is really awesome." But there is also a higher level aspect, under their mission "of trying to help early career researchers practice science...we are thinking how to enable people to practice open science and act as a group that can try and push for that as part of the policies that we are trying to implement. And so trying to figure out how a lot of the same issues come up again in all these different themes of open science: struggling for independence, trying to find what kind of job you want, regardless whether it's academia or not, these things all have the same kind of issues coming up for early career researchers."