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About Me

Want to email me? Fire away: Ross.Mounce (at) Gmail

Welcome to my blog.

You’ll find I’ve written posts on academia, open access, biodiversity informatics, phylogenetics, palaeontology, conferences, hackathons and other such here.

I’m the Director of Open Access Programmes at Arcadia Fund. Prior to this I was a postdoc at the Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. I studied Biology as an undergrad student at Imperial College, progressed to a Masters degree at the NHM, London and completed my PhD at the University of Bath.

As a direct consequence of my research I became involved with Open Knowledge, particularly the Open Science Working Group. There is much room for improvement in the way that science is currently done – particularly with regard to providing Open Data & Code in re-usable and frictionless ways.

I am both a Panton Fellow (Class of 2012) & a Software Sustainability Fellow (Class of 2016).

I use this blog as a personal platform for open comment on Open Science.

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  1. […] Ross Mounce then had an interesting presentation on the state of open data in research. Since Mounce is a postdoctoral researcher, he had deep insights regarding the open data issues. He simply believes that if a researcher doesn’t share his data, his research can’t be trusted (or believed!). The large size of data shouldn’t be a barrier, as some MRI scans with a total of 39 Gigabytes were just shared openly online. Mounce is against PDF and other closed source formats, and he advises to go with open formats such as csv. […]

  2. […] prompted by a couple of twitter conversations around a Times Higher Education article which quotes Ross Mounce, founding editor of Research Ideas and Outcomes, who argues for open publication at every stage of […]

  3. […] Format. The ReadCube Enhanced “PDF” doesn’t allow you that portable feature. As Ross Mounce said in a tweet; “It’s not PDF. It’s javascript rendering made to look like PDF. […]

  4. […] couple of Twitter conversations around a Times Higher Education article that quotes Ross Mounce, founding editor of Research Ideas and Outcomes, who argues for open publication at every […]

  5. […] the next session, “OpenCon Webcast: OpenData 101” by Ross Mounce was screened and it educated participants on the basics of open data, the legal and technical […]

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