Future of Science by DeSci Foundation

This episode with Richard Sever, co-founder of bioRxiv and medRxiv, focuses on preprints. How come they have been so widely adopted as a means of disseminating research? Which factors helped, and what made the process difficult? We also discuss the place (and time) of scientific validation in a scientific system where work is published and shared rapidly, and independently, without

In this episode, we talked to Professor James Zou, who brought us his perspective on how academia might collaborate with AI. He covered how AI could help us ask better questions instead of answering them, how they can translate information for different levels of expertise, and how we can use them to make our feedback more diverse and specific instead of general. After that, we exp

How does innovation work? Can we design systems that optimize for innovative ideas and solutions? James Evans has been researching rich digital twins of knowledge ecosystems like science and Wikipedia. A key finding of his work is that diversity is the prime driver of innovation. In the episode we discuss which dimensions of diversity matter, and whether there is an optimal amount

Taylor Oshan has been exploring how use and take advantage of decentralized infrastructure like IPFS and Filecoin for geospatial data. In this podcast we learn what geospatial data actually is - rumor has it it’s about 60% of all data! Then Taylor explains why decentralizing is an important effort and how it can increase the robustness as well as efficiency of data storage and ac

Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Insitute, a non-profit that’s focused on the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. In this episode, Allison tells us about the history behind Foresight, and why it was started in the first place. Then we talk about predicting progress: Is that even possible? Are we making enough progress? Too much? And what dr

In this episode, we sat down with Daniel Hook CEO of Digital Science. Digital Science is a company that invests in software companies servicing researchers and research institutions. Daniel shared his personal journey from being a researcher in theoretical physics to starting his own software company to now leading innovation in the scientific tooling space with Digital Science. We

In this episode we talked to Davide Grossi about peer review. Davide is a decision making and mechanism design researcher at University of Groningen and the University of Amsterdam. We first covered the state of peer review today: How it’s being done and how it’s going wrong – Davide likens the outcome of reviews to a lottery: Whether you get a positive or negative review se

Josh Nicholson is co-founder and CEO of Scite, a deep learning platform that evaluates the reliability of scientific claims by citation analysis. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of the Winnower (acquired 2016) and CEO of Authorea (acquired 2018 by Atypon), two companies aimed at improving how scientists publish and collaborate. He holds a PhD in cell biology from Virginia Te

Juan Benet started multiple highly influential projects in the crypto world, like IPFS and Filecoin. He started his company Protocol Labs to build out further technologies to aid the preservation, spread, and usage of information. In this episode, we talked about the grand ideas behind the technologies Juan and his network have been building over the past decade. Some of the questi

James Boyd co-founded the Wolfram Institute together with Stephen Wolfram in order to advance physics, mathematics, and other scientific disciplines through the strategic use of computational technology. In this podcast, Philipp and Carla dig a little deeper into James' views on a future in which science is done automatically. What will that look like? What's the role of humans in