Between 2017 and 2023, the “open Vertebrate” (oVert) project, funded by NSF, united 18 participating institutions to digitize vertebrates in their natural history collections through Computed Tomography (CT) scans. Six institutions acted as imaging centers with CT scanning labs, including […]
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Member Spotlight – Callie Crawford
Title: Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University, Department of BiologyExpertise: Functional Morphology, Fishes, Elasmobranchs, BiomechanicsORCID: 0000-0002-7225-8137Involvement in NoCTURN: Open Science and Education and Outreach Introduction Today, we’re featuring Dr. Callie Crawford, a functional morphologist based at Coastal Carolina University. Dr. Crawford has been using CT […]
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The importance of open science and data sharing in academic publishing: A journal editor’s perspective
Written by Heather F. Smith, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of The Anatomical RecordProfessor of Anatomy at Midwestern UniversityNoCTURN Open Science Committee member ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3738-0903 As scientists, we’ve all been there—trying to reconstruct another researcher’s steps or protocols, but missing the necessary information […]
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Like the onion but without the peels
By Kelsi Hurdle Note: the following blog post uses sarcasm to bring lightheartedness to a serious current issue. Like the onion but without the peels. The author’s views are her own. As confusion has erupted around the future of funding, […]
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March is Open Science Blog Month!
It’s officially March and the NoCTURN blog has been taken over by the Open Science Committee! Our posts will include highlights from community members and reflections on previous accomplishments in Open Science. We also encourage you to become more involved […]
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Unlocking the Power of Open Science: FAIROS Networks Unite!
As scientists funded by taxpayers, we’re always seeking ways to improve our work so that it can be made more accessible to others. Two key areas of focus are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and Open Science (OS), which aims […]
Open Science / Updates
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CT DMSP Now Available!
The highly anticipated Open Science CT Dataset Management and Sharing Plan is now available! You can download a copy below or check it out on the Open Science Resources page (which will be fully live by the end of the […]
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Thousands of natural history specimens that you can access for free!
We are in an era of digital innovation, and today the barriers to accessing the wonders of the natural world have been shattered like never before. Spearheaded by scientists at the University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History, a […]
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By RSS, Google Alerts, in Slack, or however you like. You can now keep up with NoCTURN activitities on your terms.
NoCTURN Blog Posts now autopopulate to the NoCTURN Slack. If you prefer, however, you can also save the URL of the whole Blog or just select categories (click the header at the top of a post for all posts in […]