Open and Inclusive Science - Webinar 22nd Sept

Thank you, @rebecca for writing this and for sharing it here! It was a beautiful, interesting read.

It actually made me think a lot. I had not realized, yet, that these terms can be confusing and misleading.

I started talking about Inclusive Science last year in Porto, at the Open Science Fair 2019, in a keynote talk I had the opportunity to give. I remember sitting at my desk, few weeks before, trying to sketch my arguments/content for the talk, when it suddenly hit me: I had been observing too many voices being silenced, too many opinions being cancelled, in some spaces that were supposed to be the most open one out there - so I decided to talk about a shift in the conversation. My message became: I do not intend to advocate for Open Science anymore, if I don’t also actively listen to the voices that we all failed to listen to in the last years, and if I don’t give spaces to these voices.

I realized that representation, and its importance, was something I could not leave out when talking about Open Science. For me, at that point, September 2019, one thing could not exist anymore without the other.

Reading your blog made me doubt a lot of my approaches in communicating this, and I think I need to read it again, and then again, and see which forms my thoughts will have, then. :slight_smile:

Thank you again.

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