As part of the bachelor-studies reform here at the University of Oslo, the Institute of Biosciences, where I work, is reorganising its bachelor curriculum. One exciting part is the implementation of the Computing in Science Education (CSE) project, into the different subjects. The goal of the CSE project is to make calculations/computing an integral part of the bachelor curriculum from the very first semester, interweaving the subject-specific material with mathematics and programming. CSE has been working successfully with the curriculum of the Physics, Mathematics, Informatics, Chemistry and ..read more

I’m done. No more. From now on, for me it is Open Science, or nothing. I will no longer do closed science. Source: wikimedia commons, user Jérôme I did my PhD in the late 1990’s, and was educated in the ‘classical mode’ of doing science: do your work, get it published in a journal with an as high as possible impact factor, write grants or apply for a postdoc to do more such science. As a result, articles that resulted from my PhD work appeared in closed access journals. Fast forward more than 10 years, and science is changing, opening up: Open Access is gaining traction, Open Source software ..read more