The video of this talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHYc9Z12j7M

1. Wear Your Open
on Your Sleeve
Michael Eisen
UC Berkeley, HHMI, PLOS
@mbeisen

3. Burden of Open

6. Antique Paywall

7. Pat

8. Useless

9. Fixed?

10. Disappointing

11. Rebellion

12. Not ready

14. Reluctant

15. The Nobelist, The Famous
Scientist and Me

16. Peon

18. Worship

19. Advice
“I admire your zeal. But if you do not publish in Science,
Nature and Cell you will never get a tenure track job, you
will never get tenure and your trainees will fail”
-N.C.
“Why do you care? There are only ten people in the world I
care about reading my papers and they all get Cell”
-R.T.
“You have to choose between making the world a better
place, and having a career in science”
-J.R.

20. Ignore

21. All In

22. Test

24. Success!

26. Tenure

33. Lesson 1
Don’t count on institutions or
“leaders” to fix things for you.
Do it yourself.
Others will eventually come
around but only after you show
them the way.

34. Lesson 2
Don’t ask for anyone’s
permission. You will never get
it.
Science has a lot of
institutions, but it is a
collective that moves forward
when people, not institutions,
take the lead.

35. Lesson 3
Be persistent, even obnoxious.
If you’re not annoying people,
you’re not doing it right.

36. Lesson 4
Wear your open on your sleeve

37. YMMV

38. Not done

39. Static

40. Slow

41. Expensive

42. Ineffective

43. Open Access Publishing

44. Open Access Publishing

45. Publish when YOU are ready

46. Publish First
Review Later

47. Review Early, Review Often

48. Review Usefully

49. Review Openly

53. Awesome