The Open Science Notice Board

Open Science: Trust and Integrity in Science

The overarching theme for this year’s conference is Open Science: Trust and Integrity in Science. This encompasses how open science can foster a culture of transparency, collaboration, and accountability in scientific research.  

In an era where public trust in science is both crucial and contested, this event brings together researchers, PhD-students and other staff from Lund University and researching organisations in the local vicinity to explore how open science practices can strengthen the integrity and credibility of scientific knowledge. 

The programme committee invite all LU-affiliated researchers and PhD-students as well as support staff that work with research support to attend this free of charge lunch-to-lunch conference that highlights Open Science, by featuring inspiring speakers and lively discussions. We have a limited number of seats for participants that are not LU-affiliated. If you are not LU-affiliated and want to attend the conference, please contact karolina.lindh@ub.lu.se.

Registration is now open. Please register here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/i7ZdzGrejh

Vegetarian lunch and coffee is included. On the 19th of November there will be a poster mingle with drinks and snacks.

The programme is preliminary and will be updated continuously.

Wednesday 19th November

11:30-13:00 Registration and lunch

13:00-13:10: Welcome speech and opening of conference 

13:10-14:00: Keynote: Open Science in Sweden, Europe, and Beyond 

We open the Lund University Open Science Days with a keynote that places trust and integrity in science at the center of the conversation. This introductory session, supported by VR, will reflect on how Open Science is being shaped locally at Lund University, nationally in Sweden, across Europe, and globally. From research funders’ perspectives to the responsibilities of institutions and researchers, we will explore how openness can strengthen reliability, transparency, and societal trust in knowledge.

14:00-14:30: Open Science in the crosshairs: The massification of commercial academic publishing, AI, and ethical open access futures 

As with most aspects of the academic endeavour, the rapid emergence of generative AI has dropped like a bomb into the academic publishing ecosystem, exposing significant fault lines in how the academy disseminates knowledge. From the large corporate publishers selling access to their corpuses to be harvested by LLMs to journals publishing submissions with AI prompts intact, AI is exposing contradictions in academic publishing. This session will lay out some of the challenges we face and open up discussion for possible ethical open access publishing futures.

Speaker: Nicholas Loubere, Senior lecturer, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-15:45: Innovation and Open Science 

Speakers TBD 

Session host: Nicoló Dell’Unto – Professor, Archaeology

15:45-16:30: The politics of archives for Open Science 

Speakers TBD 

Session host: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya – Researcher, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies

16.30 – Poster mingle and reception.

The program committee invites PhD students, researchers and support staff to present their experiences of engaging in open science at the poster exhibition. A call for posters will soon be announced. If you already have an idea for a poster about an open science project or initative that you are engaged in, please contact alice.olsson@ub.lu.se

Both LU and non-LU contributors are warmly encouraged to apply; a limited number of spots are available for external contributions. 

Thursday 2oth November

08:00-09:00 Registration and coffee 

9:00-9:45: Keynote: Malcolm MacLeod, Professor of Neurology and Translational Neuroscience and Co-Director of Edinburgh Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh

9:45-10:30: Preprint services and their impact on open science. 

Open data and open articles are important components of open science. At least some 80 resources provide preprints, i.e. versions of manuscripts before publishing in journals. Multidisciplinary arXiv was established already in 1991, several others are more recent. Together they contain millions of manuscripts. Preprint services are important channels for sharing information; many of the submissions are never published elsewhere. In this session, we will give an introduction to preprint services and provide personal experiences in different fields. 

Speakers:

Nicholas Leigh – Senior lecturer, Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy

Anders Irbäck – Professor, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)

Moderator:

Mauno Vihinen – Professor and Research Team Manager, Protein Bioinformatics

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45: Indigenous knowledges and Open Science. 

Speakers TBA.

Session host: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya – Researcher, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies

11:45-12:30: Open Science and ethical frameworks sensitive to both security and recognition

Doing research with communities in vulnerable social positions presents several ethical challenges. How can we as researchers act morally when research guidelines are not aligned with the interests of the one we are doing research with? How to go about when GDPR reenforces the imbalance of power between researchers and participants? In this session, researchers from different disciplines discuss trust and ethics when conducting research with women experiencing violence and with asylum seekers.

Speakers:

Claudia Di Matteo – Doctoral student, School of Social Work

Sara Arapiles – Postdoc, Department of Law

Moderator: Sara Hultqvist, associate professor and senior lecturer, School of Social Work.

12:30-12:45: Closing the conference