Tatiana (Tanya) Khavenson’s Post

As we celebrate Open Access Week 2024, it’s time to put ‘community over commercialization’ in academic publishing. Traditional models still rely on costly subscriptions, limiting the reach of vital research. At Frontiers, we believe in putting researchers and institutions first through transparent, community-driven partnerships. With our flat-fee model, institutions can fully support their researchers, providing predictable and open publishing pathways without hidden costs. Let’s work together to remove paywalls and create a truly open academic ecosystem for the global community. Discover how we're helping institutions lead the change ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ebhvbTRF #OpenAccessWeek #OpenScience #OpenAccess #InstitutionalPartnerships

#fuzzyfridays The Cozy / Fuzzy Feeling of Peaceful Revolution! The "Real Labor" (as in real laboratory) in Leipzig is an initiative that aims to achieve the peaceful educational revolution. Initiated by Margret Rasfeld and Ute Puder, they have developed student centric principles such as Burn For! instead of Burn Out! and Relationships instead of Alienation which are guiding an ambitious and complex transformation of the Saxonian educational system, effectively making it a peaceful educational revolution. Like a moth to a light, I got involved about a month ago offering any type of support that I could provide. I was luck enough that Ute Puder not only really listened, but has trusted me enough to co-create events and novel outputs such as a transition map showing the transformation from our current base to the desired output, and hold mini participative lectures using my Ocmaya project as a base. (For those who don´t know, Ocmaya is a project that aims at expanding the collective paradigm to empower millions of tailored novel outputs for complex problems worldwide.) Yesterday, Ute and I co-created the first meeting of a diverse group, including politicians, educators, museum employees and small business owners that want to participate in creating educational spaces (Bildungslandschaften) within the heroic city of Leipzig. Imagine if Leipzig was a gigantic school and playground!. Not only their idea is amazing, Ute facilitated her first DT event by herself, without having heard about Design Thinking before and solely basing it on our co-created structure and plan. Perhaps this is to be expected since she is an amazing artist. I certainly hope to be posting more of the novel outputs that we co-create to encourage the citizens of #Leipzig to support this mammoth endeavor. For me, it is a warm and fuzzy feeling that I get when I meet people that fight and spend their time in achieving great perhaps even historic changes that are currently (given our existing mentality and collective paradigm) impossible and are easily discarded by the majority! I just keep coming back to Warren Weaver that summarizes this. “A revolutionary advance must be made in our understanding of economic and political factors. Willingness to sacrifice selfish short-term interests, either personal or national, in order to bring about long-term improvement for all must be developed.” I share a picture below without any people as not to go against any German data privacy laws. If you are interested in this effort, you can check out the Real Labor web page using the internet address below. https://lnkd.in/eXWsPdYE Have a nice weekend! #vivalarevolucionpacifica #educationalrevolution #ocmaya #reallaborleipzig #realchange #therootisthebottleneck

🔐 Unlocking the future of Behavioral Research through EU Support I recently had the privilege of presenting our EU funded project X-HuLog4.0 at the 2024 BOR Summer School in Vienna. This event brought together leading researchers and Ph.D. students from top European universities to discuss the latest research in behavioral OR. One key takeaway: All of our research is relying on funding to make an impact. Therefore EU support is about investing in our future. Funding projects that support pushing the boundaries of behavioral research is essential for creating societal impact that will shape the future for the next generation. Why is this relevant? If we can research societal and 💶 business challenges through our research and identify the levers on how to address them, we will be able to create a more sustainable, resilient and human centered - and therefore more livable future. It's important to remember that the EU's support for these initiatives isn't just idealistic; it requires substantial funding to ensure a meaningful impact on future societies. X-HuLog4.0, part of the 🇪🇺 EU Horizon Twinning program, is a prime example of how this funding can generate fresh insights and deliver long-term societal benefits, particularly in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The partner Universities Universität des Saarlandes, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim and VILNIUS TECH - Vilnius Gediminas Technical University enable researchers in Lituania to create strategies, best practices, networks and competencies for future research. The BOR Summer School, organized by the Technical University of Vienna and the BOR working group of the Association of European Operational Research Societies, is a testament to the power of collaboration and the importance of investing in the future of research. Many thanks to the organizers, Rudolf Vetschera, Ayşegül Engin, PhD, Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Adiel Almeida, L. Alberto Franco, Etiënne Rouwette, and Judit Lienert, for putting together such a stimulating and insightful program! And what a great opportunity to meet Ph.D. students from around the world doing their research at European institutions. Maren Suffel, Mounir Derboghossian, Christin Bauer, Mohammad Reza Mehrpour, Mohammad Mujahid Khan, Klaus Garrido Tenorio and many more - Looking forward to seeing you again soon - and reading your impactful research! #Cedit_uds #xhulog4 #BehavioralResearch #EUFunding #ResearchImpact #BORSummerSchool #HorizonEU #FutureOfScience Image Credit: Christin Bauer

Thank you all for joining Copenhagen International Debate days 2024 One of Crossing Borders Nordic projects called DAR, recently hosted 65 students from Finland and Lithuania and two schools in Denmark (Flakkebjerg Etterskole and New Nordic Youth) for a lively international debate about digital awareness. The international debate is part of the DAR project, the DAR project is a Nordic project that focuses on Digital awareness and resilience. It educates young people on how to use social media in a critical way and how to deal with issues like fake news, cyberbullying, and democracy. In addition to that, it revolves around debating and transnational activities among students across the three countries. Split into teams, they argued for and against the importance of social media while also tackling the impact of fake news and how to prevent it. One team cheered for social media, praising its power for communication and sharing information, they highlighted its role in bridging geographical barriers and cultivating online communities. The opposing team wasn't so sure, pointing out its negative effects and how it can divide people and voiced concerns about the negative impact of social media on mental health and its potential to sow discord among users. Despite their differences, both sides agreed that fake news is a big problem. They suggested things like teaching people how to tell fact from fiction and making social media companies take more responsibility and holding social media platforms accountable for the dissemination of misinformation. The debate served as an insightful exploration of the diverse perspectives surrounding social media and its associated challenges. It underscored the importance of fostering critical thinking skills and digital literacy among students in an increasingly interconnected world. Initiatives like the DAR Project provide invaluable opportunities for students to engage in constructive dialogue and develop a deeper understanding of complex societal issues.

Happy to share this recently published collaborative paper of mine on the Community Peer Research method. I often adopt Peer research as a community participatory method while working with the communities. In this paper, we as a group of researchers, reflected on learnings from various peer research projects. This paper was written in real-time using a shared document and is a great example of effective interdisciplinary collaboration.  https://lnkd.in/eF6V7yib #research paper #peerresearch #community

Digital libraries are the unsung heroes of open access and scholarly communication! 🌐 By providing free access to a wealth of academic resources, they dismantle barriers to knowledge and foster collaboration among researchers worldwide. Join the movement towards open access and explore the vast possibilities offered by digital libraries today! 💡 #OpenAccess #DigitalLibraries #ScholarlyCommunication Discover the power of open access with our digital library service! Access a world of knowledge at your fingertips. Try it now! 🚀 #OpenAccess #ExploreKnowledge

Announcing Progress Conference 2024: Toward Abundant Futures The progress movement has grown a lot in the last few years. We now have progress journals, think tanks, and fellowships. The progress idea has spread and evolved into the “abundance agenda”, “techno-optimism”, “supply-side progressivism”, “American dynamism”. All of us want to see more scientific, technological, and economic progress for the good of humanity, and envision a bold, ambitious, flourishing future. What we haven’t had so far is a regular gathering of the community. Announcing Progress Conference 2024, a two-day event to connect people in the progress movement. Meet great people, share ideas in deep conversations, catalyze new projects, get energized and inspired. Hosted by: the Roots of Progress Institute, together with the Foresight Institute, HumanProgress.org, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Institute for Progress (IFP), and Works In Progress magazine When: October 18–19, 2024 Where: Berkeley, CA—at the Lighthaven campus, an inviting space perfect for mingling Speakers: Keynotes include Patrick Collison, Tyler Cowen, Jason Crawford, and Steven Pinker. Around 20 additional speakers will share ideas on four tracks: the big idea of human progress, policy for progress, tech for progress, and storytelling/media for progress. Attendees: We expect 200+ intellectuals, builders, policy makers, storytellers, and students. This is an invitation-only event, but anyone can apply for an invitation. Program: Two days of intellectual exploration, inspiration and interaction that will help shape the progress movement into a cultural force. Attend talks on topics from tech to policy to culture, build relationships with new people as you hang out on cozy sofas or enjoy the sun in the garden, sign up to run an unconference session and find others who share your interests and passions, or pitch your ideas to those who could help make your dreams a reality. Special thanks to our early sponsors: Cato Institute, Astera Institute, and Freethink Media! We have more sponsorships open, see the conference info page or contact us for details.

I always feel amazed when our developer community supports Open Source projects like this ❤️ If you are wondering what it is about, check out our recent project that me and Srinjan Ghosh have been working on for our semester project at Sapienza Università di Roma under Prof. Roberto Beraldi Would love your honest feedback too. Check out this detailed article with code link at the end of the article: https://lnkd.in/e-px-FXi Ciao 👋 #OpenSource #DeveloperCommunity #AIProject #RecyclingInnovation #TechForGood #SemesterProject #CodeWithUs #TechCommunity #AIForChange #Sustainability #TechArticle #ProjectFeedback #CommunitySupport #RecyclingCompanion #DevTo

5 years of focussing on your research, not worrying about money to much… Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Well, the European Research Council may afford you just that. Their grants will buy you 5 years of a breather from the dreadful rat race to publish to secure funding to do your science Each of their funding routes carries M€’s of weight for your lab’s wallet One downside of ERC funding: You compete with a bloody huge lot of people. It’s very competitive. Yet, if you score one of the ERC’s grants: + Huge boost to your lab More people can be hired, more projects worked on, projects worked on, who were/are barely looked at. + Great lever to renegotiate with your university. You bring loads of money in, quite some prestige as well. Have them reward you for that! Details on funding schemes, deadlines for applications:                erc.europa.eu #FuffisfürsLabor #science #microscopymittwoch #microscopy

✺ Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley just published a beautiful resource, called Transformative Research Toolkit! I imagine this resource will be an invaluable help to all researchers, designers, policymakers, artists, educators, and community convenors working towards the decolonization of design and research (which is highly needed at this time). ✺ Excited to see that the authors have included “ancestral ceremonies” as a generative knowledge birthplace, acknowledging deeper cultural narratives and how they shape our findings today. “This transformative research toolkit refers to a wide range of processes where people center their lived experience and visions for social transformation, lead a process that systematically builds on this knowledge through investigation and learning rooted in their own ways of knowing, and take action to influence public narratives, policies, and power dynamics. In a nutshell, transformative research is any research process that positively transforms the people directly involved, the communities they are part of, and the structures shaping their lives.” ✼ Free and open to all, Transformative Research Toolkit 👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/eJsER_6m ✼ PDF version 👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/er8zGbMG What are your favourite resources for moving research towards decolonized practices of acquiring and synthesizing knowledge? #TransformativeResearch #Research #DecolonizeResearch