 As you've seen in the invitation, we have lots of guests, and all guests are equal, but some are more equal than others. And Rima, we thought we would start with you, and welcome, and thanks for coming here. Where were you standing, by the way? I was at the wall. At the wall, in the ceiling, as far as we can get. Yeah. And take a sponsor close. And for the people who don't know, Rima. Yeah, so we need to introduce you. Hi, I'm Rima. I am in, I work in social psychology. I'm a postdoc here at Tilburg, and I started working here about a year ago. And open science is sort of my hobby, so thanks for having me here. It's great to have you here, and it is your hobby, and you were standing in the ceiling. But some other people said, well, of course it's a good thing, but we have, for example, we have privacy issues. And someone else said that we also have career issues. What do you think about what's being said, just from the audience? Well, it resonates very well with what I've heard before, being said. So this is these concerns that I heard that seem to be against open science, but I don't actually think that they are. But these concerns, they pop up again and again when I go to different places to talk to different people about this issue. And, yeah, so it seems like we are at a point where we can decide what to do, in which direction to go. There are some people who worry, and I can very well understand these worries, and no one's alone with them. But I think there are things that we can do about it. For example, is that one of the things that you've done, you've done a MOOC, a massive open course, a massive open online course? I'm not sure how massive it's going to be, but it's definitely open, and it will also be online. I think it's still being edited, but so far it's all recorded. And this course is about basically introducing why open science is just a natural consequence of doing science. So I talked with a colleague before, and he said, if you want to define open science, basically, cross out the open, it's just science, because open science calls for making your materials available so that others can collaborate with you and making science a more transparent endeavor. And, necessarily, if we want to be able to see if our findings hold up, if we want to be able to see if we can contribute to the work that someone else has done and extended and learned some new stuff, then it's completely necessary that it will be open, because only like this can we work on science together. And shall we take a look at the small bits to see what it is in practice? Oh, sure. Welcome to this chapter of the Open for Inside course, where we work on some basic philosophical topics revolving around the question, what is true? We want to find out how we can learn things about the world, how we can know how the world works. More specifically, we will address three areas. First, how can we know things are true? In other words, how can we verify what is true, fact, and real? Second, how can we know things aren't true? In other words, how can we falsify a speculation and show it is indeed not true? And third, how can we rely on things we think are not false? In other words, how can we rely on the works of others? So give us a small impression. How does this, this is the end, this is what it's done? How did this start? What was the first thought when you were like taking a run in the park and then suddenly thought, this is what I should do? No, I didn't start with a run in the park. It started with, I was teaching. I was teaching undergrad students who were about to do their first experiment in psychology. And I noticed that they don't really know, at least at that time, they didn't really know what experiments are good for and why we use them as the go-to method at least in behavioral science. And I thought that's not okay. That's basically why I like experiments and I think we should teach better how they work and why. And so I tried to take a little bit of a very fundamental approach using some philosophy of science to justify why experiments are one of the great ways of doing science. And like I said before, I think just the open science kind of naturally folds into this so it made sense to me to combine it with the two. Was it hard to do because you must have a busy schedule as we all have. There's lots of things to do in your to-do list and then you also are going to do this or was your boss so friendly to say, take as many hours as you like? So I don't think he would say take as many hours as you like. As you know, the time is the one thing that's very constrained in research of course. But I was able to do this also with great support from Don and the open science community here in Tilburg. And I also had support from the Wikimedia Foundation who supported me in the process of coming up with what exactly I wanted to put in the course. So I wasn't alone with it. And that's I think one of the big nice things about the open science community is actually a community. So if you are stuck somewhere or you support somewhere you can usually find someone who knows what to do. And if we're talking from a scientific point of view this community, how big is it to give us an impression, to give us an idea? Are you like a small part of a big cake or are you already maybe mainstream? I think we're growing. So if you're in a community you tend to see people everywhere. So I think in every conference I go to I always meet people that I've seen before. But sometimes you forget that not everyone is on board. And also here most people were standing on this side of the room. So it seems like you're also kind of on board already. Maybe not on the wall but on the way there. And that makes me at least often forget that there are some people who massively disagree. And so I think it's important to keep that in mind. It's not a self-fulfilling prophecy. Open science will just not randomly become the new norm or the norm. It won't happen by itself. Yes, it won't happen by itself but we actually have to do something for it if we think that this is the way we should take science. And in your opinion what is the biggest step or biggest challenge we need to take? That's a difficult question. I think the biggest problem is the publishing landscape. And so it makes sense that here we are at an open access event as well. I think changing incentives for how we publish, what we can publish, how we pay for, do we have to pay for, things that we publish. I think that will, you know, if there was one magic thing to happen I would hope that the publishing landscape would change completely. Okay, and another thing that's also important here on the university is always what is the definition? And we can talk the whole afternoon only about the definition of open science and open access. We can have huge battles about it. But then we're not learning from all the people that we're going to invite here. So you have the honor of saying for us as a dictator what is the definition that we're going to use? What do you think the best definition of open science and open access? So we all know what we're talking about. So I think for open science I would go with the definition by Foster of open science which is that open science means science is done in a way that makes it possible for others to collaborate and contribute. And out of this definition that follows it must be transparent the way we do science. And open access ties in there because people can't read your paper. They can't read about your research because it's hidden behind the paywall. That means it's not transparent. So open access to meetings publishing in a way that is accessible to others. And I think access is the one big topic in open more generally whether it's open access, software, hardware, anything. Can we live with that? I think we can. Do we have questions so far for Rima? Things you want to know? Things you want to share or want to compliment or criticize? Yes, thank you, Nima. What I was wondering, so you have designed a MOOC about open science, right? So do you then practice what you preach? Are you using existing materials in your MOOC that have been recorded or made by someone else? That's a good question. In the MOOC I have definitely used CC0 images and CC by the way is creative commons licensing. That means those are openly freely accessible pictures that are available to everyone to use. And sometimes people specify that you have to also give them credit and say, oh, this picture was taken by this and that person. And sometimes people give other sort of restrictions on how you can use these materials. But yes, I've used materials that were published under a CC license in this MOOC. Fair enough? There are a number of other initiatives like yours out there, right? Are you familiar with those and have you considered using materials from them, for example? Yes, so I haven't put anyone else's thoughts basically into this MOOC. I don't want to say it's all mine, but that's sort of my production, my contribution. And I want to make sure that it is freely accessible for others to use. And the way I want to make it usable is to also link to other projects because yes, I'm aware this is definitely not the only open anything course. There are many out there and I think open educational resources like this, there are too few at the moment, so I think it's fair that I contribute another one. And one that is actually quite specific and not too long, so I'm not sure how massive it is. But yeah, there are definitely other things out there that you can use in your teaching and in your own learning. Thanks for bringing that up. Thank you very much. Two more questions over here. So where can we find more information about this MOOC? Yeah, where can we find it? You've seen a little bit, but if you want to see the full clip. Yeah, so the full clip is still being edited. That means it's not quite there yet. That means I have to ask for a little bit of patience. And it'll soon at some point appear on the Public University website. And then it'll also live on YouTube. And I'm sure you will hear of it once it's actually there. But so far it's still, it only lives on hard drive in the studio on campus. So I can't show you all of it. And soon, is that a matter of days, weeks, months, years? What is soon? It's completely not in my hands. It's completely in the hands of the editors. I've done my part. Oh, we know. It's taken a couple of weeks. Yeah, a couple of weeks. A couple of weeks and then it will be online. Okay, thanks for that question. Over here. So we can all hear. One of the things I'm looking for, and one of the reasons why I'm attending is I'm looking for templates for open education materials such as your MOOC, or I have like a bunch of assignments that I plan to release open source, but I don't want to quote unquote waste my time on like thinking what is a good format to put it in. I just want a template where I can paste it and publish it. Like, yeah, maybe there are also other people in the room and maybe we can have like a list of links or people to approach. Yeah, yeah. I can also maybe ask this question to them. Oh, yeah, can you have this? I don't want to steal your whole presentation. So yes, there are a number of platforms that contain open educational resources. There's also a number of websites, for example, that contain textbooks that are completely editable. And that can be that allow for the export of IMS packages. IMS packages are content types that you can directly import into your digital learning environment. So I don't know which one you use here. Is that Browse Base or Canvas or Blackboard? Canvas. I hear Canvas. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So this textbook would then be you would be able to cut this apart in any way you see fit and then export that directly into your Canvas environment. So that means that this material becomes extremely easy to use and reuse for others. So there's a number of places where you can find resources like this. And yes, I can help with finding those. But that's the good news. The bad news is that there's really not that big of a movement along these lines yet. So the amount of books are limited, but more is being done as we speak. Yeah. Thanks for the question. Thanks for that answer. Anything to add? And of course, go to Dan Hutter. Yes. I actually just did a workshop at the conference of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science about Open Educational Resources. So if you want a summary on where to find them and how to make them, I have the workshops on the OSF. You're welcome to use it and to take a look at it. Dan, can I give you the link and pop it up there? Yeah. Sort of. Okay. For now, you said anything? Everything you want to say for now? I'm good. Yeah. And you can be our conscience. So you're going to sit over there and whenever you raise your hand, you will be the first to talk. And you'll get a big round of applause now. Thank you very much. We might go home.