​Join us for an evening of food, drinks, and networking. We'll have science fair-style presentations about the projects working to make research more open:

• ​Alchemy (Filipp Kramer)

• ​Architectural Ecology: Harnessing Design and Automation to Open Access to Planktonic Ecosystems (Adam Larson)

• ​Enhancing the CV of Stanford Medicine (Mario Malicki)

• ​Fylo (Saif Haobsh)

• ​MetaPages: Scientific Workflows in the Browser (Dion Whitehead)

• ​Open Molecular Software Foundation (Karmen Condic-Jurkic)

• ​ResearchHub - A Peer Review Marketplace (Jeffrey Koury)

• ​SciSci (James Boyd)

• ​SenseNets (Ronen Tamari)

• ​Stencila (Nokome Bentley)

• ​Tabulous (Mike Lee)

​(If you've already registered via the preexisting Google form, we've got your info and you're all set!)

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​Project details

​Alchemy: the social data sharing platform for biologists

​Filipp Kramer, Astera

​Biology data is fragmented and siloed across multiple domains and paywalls. Alchemy is a platform that incentivizes researchers to share, search, and experiment with biology data all in one place.

​Architectural Ecology: Harnessing Design and Automation to Open Access to Planktonic Ecosystems

​Adam Larson, Stanford

​This is a collaborative project between CCA and Stanford that combines thoughtful design with technology to create an automated buoy, equipped with the Planktoscope microscope, for accessible, real-time observation of plankton ecosystems. This project aims to offer an open science tool that lets anyone explore and understand the rich diversity of plankton, the foundation of marine life, in their natural environment. By blending with its surroundings, the buoy minimizes impact while expanding access to valuable ecological data.

​Enhancing the CV of Stanford Medicine

​Mario Malicki, Stanford University

​SPORR made recommendations to SoM that include researchers being able to hihglight their rigor and transparency activities on their CVs, include code and data sharing, protocols, open peer review. Details here: https://med.stanford.edu/sporr/rewards/CVTemplate.html

​Fylo: the neural ecosystem

​Saif Haobsh, Astera

​Current research tools often fall short in fostering true collective intelligence. They struggle with information overload, lack dynamic adaptability, and fail to bridge interdisciplinary gaps. Fylo is reimagining scientific discourse by merging AI with human cognition for a seamless, intuitive, and dynamic experience. At its core, Fylo employs adaptive intelligence and symbolic knowledge systems to create evolving, contextual knowledge graphs that adapt in realtime. This powerful combination allows researchers to navigate, synthesize, and discover insights across disciplines with unprecedented ease and depth.

​MetaPages: Scientific Workflows in the Browser

​Dion Whitehead, Astera

​There are usually a large number of technically challenging and time-consuming steps to use and integrate scientific software into your workflows. Publishing a paper and linking to some software (like a github repo) is not guarantee that the code works, or will work. Metapages connects code, visualization, compute resources and storage all in the browser. Complex workflows become simply links to embed, and share with others, speeding up the collaboration process by automating away the laborious, risky, painful steps of using, interacting with, and integrating workflows into your own work. One-click workflows!

​Open Molecular Software Foundation

​Karmen Condic-Jurkic, Open Molecular Software Foundation

​Open Molecular Software Foundation (OMSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to facilitate collaboration and open source software development for molecular simulation and design. Our goals include creating a cost-effective center supporting an open source ecosystem, building expertise around managing and governing multi-institutional collaborative projects, exploring pathways to sustainability, and accelerating innovation by sharing our knowledge and tools under permissive licenses.

​ResearchHub - A Peer Review Marketplace

​Jeffrey Koury, ResearchHub Foundation

​ResearchHub is a modern science platform focusing on changing incentives in science to promote open and reproducible research behaviors. To this end, ResearchHub has developed a peer review marketplace, where researchers can be incentivized to perform peer review on preprints.

​SciSci: Investigative reporting and analysis for STEM

​James Boyd, Astera

​James is building a new organization that combines investigative reporting, scientific review, and institutional analysis to uncover internal, technical, and strategic dimensions of contemporary science fields not communicated in popular science media or academic papers. He is developing public goods that provide technical, nuanced, insider accounts of current research developments (promising, problematic, and debated) based on anonymous, large-sample input from research communities. He is also building commercial products and services to deliver metascientific analysis that explains and examines directions in such fields. James' scope is international and covers a collection of disciplines, spanning the theoretical sciences, life sciences, and technology. His goal is to make internal and strategic perspectives more accessible to all STEM stakeholders.

​SenseNets: Adding social media posts to the scientific record 

​Ronen Tamari, Astera

​Social media posts are a valuable source of scientific knowledge, but they get buried in noisy feeds and locked away by platforms. Ronen’s project, Sensemaking Networks, enables researchers to transform their social media activity into meaningful scientific contributions by converting research-related posts into machine-readable nanopublications. Sensemaking Networks leverages AI and decentralized knowledge graphs to radically enhance the openness, findability and reusability of science social media. With Sensemaking Networks, social media becomes an integral part of a more effective, participatory and collaborative science.

​Stencila: Tools for generative AI in scientific authoring

​Nokome Bentley, Astera

​Large language models and other generative AI have the potential to greatly improve scientific productivity. But to fully realize this potential, the way that scientists interact with these tools will need to move beyond simple chat interfaces and copy/paste workflows.

​Stencila will bring generative AI to scientific authoring in ways that improve usability, reliability, and transparency. This includes providing LLMs with contextual information (including from the document, data, and the literature) to improve accuracy and relevance, a library of task-specific prompts, and routing each task to the LLM that performs best.

​Tabulous

​Mike Lee, Tabulous

​Tabulous is a web application to help scientists manage, analyze, and visualize their data with the help of an AI assistant