The first Gathering for Open Science & Hardware (GOSH) was held in March 2016 at CERN, Switzerland. GOSH is a diverse, global community working to enhance the sharing of open, …
Accelerating science and improving equitable access to hands-on STEM education through open science hardware
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) recently published a call for suggestions of research areas that could benefit from ‘networks of networks’ between US and international researchers. The GOSH Community …
GOSH Roadmap mentioned on BBC Radio 4 ‘Inside Science’
Jenny Molloy appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science with Adam Rutherford on Thursday 23 Nov to discuss synthetic biology and democratisation, including the need for open source technologies and …
Science Disrupt podcast on Open Minds, Open Hardware
The Science Disrupt podcast interviewed GOSH attendees Tom Baden and Andre Chagas about open hardware, including Fly Pi and Trend in Africa’s open hardware courses and other activities. They said: “We thoroughly enjoyed chatting to …
GOSH community in special journal issue: Ciência cidadã e laboratórios cidadãos | Ciencia ciudadana y laboratorios ciudadanos | Citizen science and citizen labs
Maria Lucia Maciel and Sarita Albagli recently edited a special edition of the journal Liinc em Revista – an interdisciplinary, international peer-reviewed open journal of critical reflection on the processes of …
Public Lab: OpenHour on Facilitation Techniques and Resources
GOSH 2017 co-organiser Max Liboiron, Safety Officer Klie Kliebert and attendee Maria Frangos participated in a Public Lab Open Hour on facilitation techniques back in June. As this topic is so important …
Makery: L’Afrique à l’assaut du biohacking pour la santé | Africa tackles biohacking for healthcare
Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou (University of Laval) and Jérôme Avom (Higher institute of medical technology, Cameroon) explain in Makery (French | English) how open science will make access to healthcare easier …
GOSH Manifesto and projects from open science hardware community highlighted in Digital Social Innovation Toolkit
Congratulations to two projects from the open science hardware community, involving several GOSH attendees, on being selected as part of six case studies from the European Commission-funded Digital Social Innovation …
Le Biohacking dans le domaine médical: perspectives pour les pays en voie de développement – seminar in Cameroon with GOSH community
The GOSH Community is out in force on 23-24 May 2017 for ‘Le Biohacking dans le domaine médical: perspectives pour les pays en voie de développement‘ or ‘Biohacking in the …
Gathering for Open Science Hardware 2016 reviewed in Journal of Open Hardware
GOSH organizers Shannon Dosemagen, Max Liboiron and Jenny Molloy have reviewed the GOSH 2016 meeting and discussed the goals for GOSH 2017 in a review article for the Journal for …