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Hi, and welcome to my Patreon page! Thank you for taking the time to
visit. My name is Jon Tennant, and I'm a palaeontologist by training.
So, think Jurassic Park, and you're pretty much there.
I don't work on dinosaurs too much anymore though. I finished my PhD a
few years back now, but something about the world of academia did not
sit well with me. It was a world of rules, restrictions, and
regulations, and not one which I felt comfortable in. I began a
different journey, one to help unlock science from behind the ivory
walls of research institutes, and from beyond the iron grip of private
publishing companies.
Over the last few years, I've dabbled in all sorts in this growing
movement known broadly as "Open Science". Mostly as a volunteer, I have
spent most of my time challenging the practices of multi-billion dollar
publishing empires for fun, while working to improve scientific
communication through things like community building, improving peer
review and, finding ways for more efficient collaboration.
For examples of my work, you can find my:
Blog, Green Tea and Velociraptors,
Research publication history (100% freely available), and
Work directly related to Open Science.
I have been lucky to give talks about this topic all over the world, and
take a great pleasure in watching Open Science becoming mainstream. Now,
I am thinking to the future, and working mostly on the shifting
relationship between science and society.
I also still write kids books on dinosaurs in my spare time. Most
recently, I stepped way out of my comfort zone to provide free
meditation guides online, for people looking into getting into the practice.
Asking for money is way out of my usual comfort zone. This is not
something I would usually do, at all. Most of the work I have ever done
has been completely for free, simply because I feel rewarded enough to
work on something that I love and hold dear. So, if you do find anything
that I do valuable, from dinosaur evolution to publishing dinosaurs, and
you are able to offer support, then it would be deeply appreciated, and
you will have my eternal gratitude.
All support received will go towards helping to create a fairer and
healthier scientific research culture.
Jon
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Recent posts by Jon Tennant
Jon Tennant posted 3+ times in the last week
Apr 8 at 6:29am
Converting adversity into productivity
So, 2020 has been off to an interesting start. The “OpenCon saga” pretty
much crippled me professionally. I have spent the last 5 months in
isolation mode to recover physically and emotionally from that.
Thankfully, while this rather vicious and intentional attempt to harm me
was quite successful, it also provided me with a brilliant and rare
opportunity.
Adversity is a strange concept. We can either let it destroy us,
allowing ourselves to be victims to whatever it is that has befallen
us. Or, we can reframe it internally and allow it to empower us. The
last few months have granted me the space to acknowledge and learn that
process. I am grateful that several key and specific individuals have
behaved with such hostility and irresponsibility towards me.
Establishing a rigorous meditation and exercise routine has helped me
to stay calm, rational, and focused in the face of this ongoing
difficulty. It challenged me to practice kindness and patience, even
when the hurt from was the greatest. I spend each morning meditating on
each of those bringing hate and conflict into my life, converting any
latent negative thoughts into love, compassion, and forgiveness. It is
quite a wonderful internal process. Our greatest teachers, after all,
are our “enemies”.
My original plan for recovery from this was to take time off,
completely. However, I realised almost immediately that I was quite
incapable of doing this. It felt like giving in, like hiding. Instead,
I felt compelled to continue to my work, and to channel a newly-found
energy mostly into writing. I don’t think I’m the greatest writer, but
I can at least write. By the time the rest of the world started
self-isolating because of the Coronavirus pandemic, I had been doing
this for several months already. I was pretty comfortable with
channeling virtually all of my energy inward, and fueling a new
conviction for my work.
During this time, many of my collaborations were quite damaged.
Individuals who I worked with and considered friends have been lost
over this incident. That is the worst thing about what those behind
this incident have done: they have poisoned an otherwise wonderful
community, and not been held accountable for this, yet. So, for me,
this became the perfect time for finishing off existing collaborative
research projects. But also, to reinvest focus on others that had been
in my mind for some time, but now emerged with a new sense of urgency.
Open Science and the shifting role of science in society has become so
beautifully emphasised now during the ongoing pandemic. That momentum
cannot be wasted.
I found it quite amusing that my first article of 2020 happened to be
in an Elsevier journal. But hey, stranger things have happened. I don’t
want this to come across that as some sort of boastful display of
productivity. I am writing this because I am pretty damn proud of
myself for battling through the OpenCon shitstorm, and using this
lesson to convert terrible adversity into blossoming creativity and
productivity. I cannot think of any other way of being than trying to
be our absolute best, even when it is most difficult.
So, here are the research articles/publications that I have worked on
and completed since the beginning of the year. Many are editorial-type
(E) articles, others are original research articles (R), and others are
books (B). I have done all of this without expecting or receiving a
penny of payment in return. So, if anyone finds any of this work of
value, please consider helping out by either sharing what you find
interesting, or even joining my new Patreon. All support is appreciated
and gratefully received!
The list
E: Open Scholarship as a mechanism for the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (preprint DOI).
E: Fixing the crisis state of scientific evaluation (preprint DOI).
E: On the use of preprints in geochemistry: the good, the bad and
the ugly (preprint DOI).
R: Open Science in dinosaur paleontology (preprint DOI).
E: Time to stop the exploitation of free academic labour (preprint DOI).
E: A value proposition for Open Science (preprint DOI).
E: How can we achieve a fully open future? (preprint DOI).
E: Web of Science and Scopus are not global databases of knowledge
(preprint DOI).
E: How open science is fighting against private, proprietary
publishing platforms (preprint DOI).
R: Standardising Peer Review in Paleontology journals (preprint DOI).
E: What can scholars learn from Open Source software communities
during pandemics (preprint DOI).
R: International disparities in open access practices of the Earth
Sciences community (preprint DOI).
R: Open Access: what we can learn from articles published in
geochemistry journals in 2018 and 2019 (preprint DOI).
E: Major socio-cultural barriers to widespread adoption of open
scholarship (preprint DOI).
R: 10 Simple Rules for Innovative Dissemination of Research
(preprint DOI).
R: The limitations in our understanding of peer review (preprint DOI).
R: Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open
Online Papers (MOOPS) (preprint DOI).
R: Open Up: A Survey on Open and Non-anonymized Peer Reviewing
(preprint DOI).
B: The [R]evolution of Open Science (DOI).
R/B: A tale of two ‘opens’: intersections between Free and Open
Source Software and Open Scholarship (DOI).
B: 4 years of PLOS Paleontology (DOI).
E: Geoscience in a time of pandemics (DOI).
E: Comments on “Factors affecting global flow of scientific
knowledge in environmental sciences” by Sonne et al. (2020) (DOI).
Hopefully there is something here for pretty much everyone! Most of
them are “preprints” for now, so if anyone, anyone at all, has any
thoughts or comments and any of this, all feedback is much appreciated.
Final thought
Adversity is always a teaching moment, if we approach it with a healthy
mindset. Be it online harassment and bullying, or say, a pandemic. Each
moment is an opportunity for introspection. The more difficult and
challenging it is, the more room you have for growth.
Over the last few months, I feel that people have tended to either fall
on two sides of a dividing line here: they take responsibility for
their own actions, feelings, and words, or they do not.
This pandemic is a catalyst for change, and has granted each and every
single one of us this same opportunity for growth. Which side will you
be on?
So, 2020 has been off to an interesting start. The “OpenCon saga” pretty
much crippled me professionally. I have spent the last 5 months in
isolation mode to recover physically and emotionally from that.
Thankfully, while this rather vicious and intentional attempt to harm me
was quite successful, it also provided me with a brilliant and rare
opportunity.
Adversity is a strange concept. We can either let it destroy us,
allowing ourselves to be victims to whatever it is that has befallen
us. Or, we can reframe it internally and allow it to empower us. The
last few months have granted me the space to acknowledge and learn that
process. I am grateful that several key and specific individuals have
behaved with such hostility and irresponsibility towards me.
Establishing a rigorous meditation and exercise routine has helped me
to stay calm, rational, and focused in the face of this ongoing
difficulty. It challenged me to practice kindness and patience, even
when the hurt from was the greatest. I spend each morning meditating on
each of those bringing hate and conflict into my life, converting any
latent negative thoughts into love, compassion, and forgiveness. It is
quite a wonderful internal process. Our greatest teachers, after all,
are our “enemies”.
My original plan for recovery from this was to take time off,
completely. However, I realised almost immediately that I was quite
incapable of doing this. It felt like giving in, like hiding. Instead,
I felt compelled to continue to my work, and to channel a newly-found
energy mostly into writing. I don’t think I’m the greatest writer, but
I can at least write. By the time the rest of the world started
self-isolating because of the Coronavirus pandemic, I had been doing
this for several months already. I was pretty comfortable with
channeling virtually all of my energy inward, and fueling a new
conviction for my work.
During this time, many of my collaborations were quite damaged.
Individuals who I worked with and considered friends have been lost
over this incident. That is the worst thing about what those behind
this incident have done: they have poisoned an otherwise wonderful
community, and not been held accountable for this, yet. So, for me,
this became the perfect time for finishing off existing collaborative
research projects. But also, to reinvest focus on others that had been
in my mind for some time, but now emerged with a new sense of urgency.
Open Science and the shifting role of science in society has become so
beautifully emphasised now during the ongoing pandemic. That momentum
cannot be wasted.
I found it quite amusing that my first article of 2020 happened to be
in an Elsevier journal. But hey, stranger things have happened. I don’t
want this to come across that as some sort of boastful display of
productivity. I am writing this because I am pretty damn proud of
myself for battling through the OpenCon shitstorm, and using this
lesson to convert terrible adversity into blossoming creativity and
productivity. I cannot think of any other way of being than trying to
be our absolute best, even when it is most difficult.
So, here are the research articles/publications that I have worked on
and completed since the beginning of the year. Many are editorial-type
(E) articles, others are original research articles (R), and others are
books (B). I have done all of this without expecting or receiving a
penny of payment in return. So, if anyone finds any of this work of
value, please consider helping out by either sharing what you find
interesting, or even joining my new Patreon. All support is appreciated
and gratefully received!
The list
E: Open Scholarship as a mechanism for the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (preprint DOI).
E: Fixing the crisis state of scientific evaluation (preprint DOI).
E: On the use of preprints in geochemistry: the good, the bad and
the ugly (preprint DOI).
R: Open Science in dinosaur paleontology (preprint DOI).
E: Time to stop the exploitation of free academic labour (preprint DOI).
E: A value proposition for Open Science (preprint DOI).
E: How can we achieve a fully open future? (preprint DOI).
E: Web of Science and Scopus are not global databases of knowledge
(preprint DOI).
E: How open science is fighting against private, proprietary
publishing platforms (preprint DOI).
R: Standardising Peer Review in Paleontology journals (preprint DOI).
E: What can scholars learn from Open Source software communities
during pandemics (preprint DOI).
R: International disparities in open access practices of the Earth
Sciences community (preprint DOI).
R: Open Access: what we can learn from articles published in
geochemistry journals in 2018 and 2019 (preprint DOI).
E: Major socio-cultural barriers to widespread adoption of open
scholarship (preprint DOI).
R: 10 Simple Rules for Innovative Dissemination of Research
(preprint DOI).
R: The limitations in our understanding of peer review (preprint DOI).
R: Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open
Online Papers (MOOPS) (preprint DOI).
R: Open Up: A Survey on Open and Non-anonymized Peer Reviewing
(preprint DOI).
B: The [R]evolution of Open Science (DOI).
R/B: A tale of two ‘opens’: intersections between Free and Open
Source Software and Open Scholarship (DOI).
B: 4 years of PLOS Paleontology (DOI).
E: Geoscience in a time of pandemics (DOI).
E: Comments on “Factors affecting global flow of scientific
knowledge in environmental sciences” by Sonne et al. (2020) (DOI).
Hopefully there is something here for pretty much everyone! Most of
them are “preprints” for now, so if anyone, anyone at all, has any
thoughts or comments and any of this, all feedback is much appreciated.
Final thought
Adversity is always a teaching moment, if we approach it with a healthy
mindset. Be it online harassment and bullying, or say, a pandemic. Each
moment is an opportunity for introspection. The more difficult and
challenging it is, the more room you have for growth.
Over the last few months, I feel that people have tended to either fall
on two sides of a dividing line here: they take responsibility for
their own actions, feelings, and words, or they do not.
This pandemic is a catalyst for change, and has granted each and every
single one of us this same opportunity for growth. Which side will you
be on?
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