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Responsible Use of AI for Researchers – A conversation with Henri Max Deda
In a world where scientific progress holds the key to solving humanity’s most pressing challenges, Henri Max Deda, co-founder of scienceOS.ai, shares his journey from molecular biologist to science communicator and entrepreneur. Speaking with Jo Havemann, Henri reflects on how his diverse background and a pivotal lecture on the “Network Effect” inspired him to co-create a platform that empowers researchers to collaborate and innovate more effectively. The realization that vast amounts of unpublished research data lead to redundant R&D spending became a driving force behind scienceOS, a tool initially designed for life science researchers but now serving a broader scientific community.
Read more about this episode at https://access2perspectives.org/2025/07/a-conversation-with-henri-max-deda/
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In a world where scientific progress holds the key to solving humanity’s most pressing challenges, Henri Max Deda, co-founder of scienceOS.ai, shares his journey from molecular biologist to science communicator and entrepreneur. Speaking with Jo Havemann, Deda reflects on how his diverse background and a pivotal lecture on the “Network Effect” inspired him to co-create a platform that empowers researchers to collaborate and innovate more effectively …
Sergio Santamarina works as a librarian at a public university in Argentina, and has a focus on open science practices and challenges in Latin America. Together with Jo, he explores issues around open access publishing requirements, the cost barriers for obtaining Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in Latin American universities, and the importance of decentralized networks and persistent identifiers in research …
Hülya Afat and Jo Havemann explored the intersection of politics, education, and sustainability, offering valuable insights into how collaboration and community-building can drive positive change …
A conversation with Haseeb Irfanullah Haseeb joins Jo in this podcast episode to discuss the concept of resilience and its application to scholarly publishing, highlighting the need for both individuals and publishing systems to not only survive disruptions but also adapt and transform in response to future challenges. Dr Haseeb Md. Irfanullah is a biologist-turned-development facilitator who often introduces himself as a research enthusiast. ORCID: 0000-0002-5532-8922
Linkedin: /in/haseebirfanullah
Twitter/X: @hmirfanullah Over the past 25 years, Haseeb has been working for different international environment/ development organizations, academic/ research institutions, funders, and government agencies in different capacities.
Currently a Council Member of European Association of Science Editors (EASE), an associate editor of Learned Publishing, an associate at INASP, and a Chef of The Scholarly Kitchen, Haseeb advocates for sustainability, climate action, and resilience of the scholarly publishing ecosystem.
He has a PhD in aquatic ecology from the University of Liverpool, UK. Read Haseeb’s article on Understanding …
Linkedin: /in/haseebirfanullah
Twitter/X: @hmirfanullah Over the past 25 years, Haseeb has been working for different international environment/ development organizations, academic/ research institutions, funders, and government agencies in different capacities.
Currently a Council Member of European Association of Science Editors (EASE), an associate editor of Learned Publishing, an associate at INASP, and a Chef of The Scholarly Kitchen, Haseeb advocates for sustainability, climate action, and resilience of the scholarly publishing ecosystem.
He has a PhD in aquatic ecology from the University of Liverpool, UK. Read Haseeb’s article on Understanding …
As part of the IBRO World Congress 2023 (9-13 September – Granada, Spain), the ALBA Network and the IBRO Early Career Committee partnered to facilitate a wide-ranging discussion of what neuroscientists can do as a community to build research capacity in the Global South, and how this increase in local capacities for research and innovation can, in the broader picture, bring benefits to us all …
Translate Science is a working group that wants to exchange information, lobby, and build tools to make translations of scientific articles/reports/books, abstracts, titles, and terms more accessible and (thus) stimulate the production of such translations.
Read more about our work at translatescience.org We recorded this episode in mid-November 2022. Shortly after, in late December, we were notified of Victor’s sudden death. It is therefore with heavy hearts that we share this conversation with you, however, we hope his words can inspire you to agree with us on the importance of multilingualism in science and the opportunities translation of selected research output can provide for the global society. In memoriam of Victor Venema: blog.translatescience.org/in-memoriam-of-victor-venema/ To see all podcast episodes go to access2perspectives.org/conversations/ Victor Venema
(deceased) Jennifer Miller Danny Chan Mastodon: fediscience.org/@VictorVenema Twitter: @Grassr_Journals Matrix chat: @viv:datenburg.org Codeberg: Venema GitHub: VictorVenema ORCID: 0000-0001-5459-6733 Linkedin: /in/jennifermillerpublicpolicy/ Mastodon: JMMaok@mastodon.online ORCID: 0000-0002-8082-2316 Website: danwchan.ca Twitter: …
Read more about our work at translatescience.org We recorded this episode in mid-November 2022. Shortly after, in late December, we were notified of Victor’s sudden death. It is therefore with heavy hearts that we share this conversation with you, however, we hope his words can inspire you to agree with us on the importance of multilingualism in science and the opportunities translation of selected research output can provide for the global society. In memoriam of Victor Venema: blog.translatescience.org/in-memoriam-of-victor-venema/ To see all podcast episodes go to access2perspectives.org/conversations/ Victor Venema
(deceased) Jennifer Miller Danny Chan Mastodon: fediscience.org/@VictorVenema Twitter: @Grassr_Journals Matrix chat: @viv:datenburg.org Codeberg: Venema GitHub: VictorVenema ORCID: 0000-0001-5459-6733 Linkedin: /in/jennifermillerpublicpolicy/ Mastodon: JMMaok@mastodon.online ORCID: 0000-0002-8082-2316 Website: danwchan.ca Twitter: …
In this conversation, Sara shares with Jo how she committed herself to becoming a happy person and the journey that this led her onto …
Natira McDermott is a public speaking coach who helps her clients create successful businesses by dropping perfectionism and embracing their own compelling visibility. Despite winning her first high school debate, Natira spent most of her life avoiding an audience. (The irony of her being a public speaking coach is not lost on her.) …
Ludmilla Figueiredo is a research data and code curator coming from a background in ecology and conservational biodiversity. In the first episode (part 1), she talks with Jo about the implementation of the open science principles within the fast-paced and heavy workload researchers must handle.
In the second episode (part 2), Ludmilla presents to you a simple yet effective computational workbook she developed with her colleagues, to make FAIR data sharing easy for anyone. [To see all podcast episodes go to access2perspectives.org/conversations/] ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8217-7800
Website: ludmillafigueiredo.github.com
Twitter: @ludmillafi
Instagram: /ludmillafi/
Linkedin: /in/ludmillafi/
Github: ludmillafigueiredo Ludmilla’s Open Science Fellows project: github.com/FellowsFreiesWissen/computational_notebooks/ Photo: Ludmilla Figueiredo;
Credit: Gerhard Bayer, Bayer Fotographie 2020 Ludmilla Figueiredo has completed a postdoc studying the payment of extinction debts at the Ecosystem modeling group of the University of Würzburg in Germany, and, since March 2022, works as a data and code curator at the Data and Code Unit of the German Centre for …
In the second episode (part 2), Ludmilla presents to you a simple yet effective computational workbook she developed with her colleagues, to make FAIR data sharing easy for anyone. [To see all podcast episodes go to access2perspectives.org/conversations/] ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8217-7800
Website: ludmillafigueiredo.github.com
Twitter: @ludmillafi
Instagram: /ludmillafi/
Linkedin: /in/ludmillafi/
Github: ludmillafigueiredo Ludmilla’s Open Science Fellows project: github.com/FellowsFreiesWissen/computational_notebooks/ Photo: Ludmilla Figueiredo;
Credit: Gerhard Bayer, Bayer Fotographie 2020 Ludmilla Figueiredo has completed a postdoc studying the payment of extinction debts at the Ecosystem modeling group of the University of Würzburg in Germany, and, since March 2022, works as a data and code curator at the Data and Code Unit of the German Centre for …
Anna Picco-Schwendener is a Postdoctoral Researcher while Suzanna Marazza is a Legal consultant. They both work at USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland. They joined Jo on this podcast to talk about Data and Copyrights protection. To see all episodes, please go to our CONVERSATIONS page.
Suzanna Marazza is a collaborator at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)’s eLearning Lab (http://www.elearninglab.org) and as a legal consultant, she works on several projects dealing with digital law – ranging from copyright to data protection, especially within academia.
Both Anna and Suzanna work for the project CCdigitallaw (https://ccdigitallaw.ch/index.php/english) which is a competence center in digital law for Swiss Higher Education Institutions, doing workshops and responding to requests in Italian, German, French and English related to copyright, licensing and data protection.
They have also been able to develop the DMLawTool (https://dmlawtool.ccdigitallaw.ch), a software that aims at helping researchers in dealing with possible legal issues they …
Suzanna Marazza is a collaborator at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)’s eLearning Lab (http://www.elearninglab.org) and as a legal consultant, she works on several projects dealing with digital law – ranging from copyright to data protection, especially within academia.
Both Anna and Suzanna work for the project CCdigitallaw (https://ccdigitallaw.ch/index.php/english) which is a competence center in digital law for Swiss Higher Education Institutions, doing workshops and responding to requests in Italian, German, French and English related to copyright, licensing and data protection.
They have also been able to develop the DMLawTool (https://dmlawtool.ccdigitallaw.ch), a software that aims at helping researchers in dealing with possible legal issues they …
Joy Owango is the executive director of TCC Africa, the Training Center in Communication, based in Kenya and serving the whole continent of Africa.
Joy and Jo talk about how the scholarly community is working towards the concept of Global Research Equity – through the lens of Joy’s almost two decades’ worth of experience in scholarly capacity building and training across Africa. To see all episodes, please go to our CONVERSATIONS page. Joy Owango ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3910-2691
Website: tcc-africa.org
Twitter: @JoyOwango
Linkedin: /in/joy-owango-8a1b7824/
TRANSCRIPT Jo: Today it’s my great pleasure to welcome Ms. Joy Owango from TCC Africa, the executive director of TCC Africa, the training center and communication based in Kenya serving the whole continent of Africa. Welcome, Joy. Joy Owango: Thank you, Jo. Jo: The pleasure is immeasurable and not only because it’s always nice talking to you. Also, we are closely collaborating through our work with Africarxiv, the synergies we have …
Joy and Jo talk about how the scholarly community is working towards the concept of Global Research Equity – through the lens of Joy’s almost two decades’ worth of experience in scholarly capacity building and training across Africa. To see all episodes, please go to our CONVERSATIONS page. Joy Owango ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3910-2691
Website: tcc-africa.org
Twitter: @JoyOwango
Linkedin: /in/joy-owango-8a1b7824/
TRANSCRIPT Jo: Today it’s my great pleasure to welcome Ms. Joy Owango from TCC Africa, the executive director of TCC Africa, the training center and communication based in Kenya serving the whole continent of Africa. Welcome, Joy. Joy Owango: Thank you, Jo. Jo: The pleasure is immeasurable and not only because it’s always nice talking to you. Also, we are closely collaborating through our work with Africarxiv, the synergies we have …
Zoë Mullan is Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal, The Lancet Global Health. She is an Ex-Officio Board Member of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health; an International Advisory Board member of Sun-Yat Sen Global Health Institute, Guangzhou, China; and a Scientific Advisory Board member of the Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany …
Richard Jefferson is a molecular biologist, social entrepreneur, inventor, open information systems proponent and innovation system strategist. He founded Cambia almost 30 years ago, as a means to democratize science-enabled innovation. He works on “Solving the Problem of Problem Solving” He discusses his journey into molecular biology, social entrepreneurship and invention with Jo in this podcast …
Hendrik and Jo talk here about how people who obviously struggle with mental health challenges can be approached to make it easy for them to accept the support and develop strategies to recovery …
Erzsebet Toth-Czifra is an open science officer at DARIAH-EU in Berlin, Germany. She has also worked as a content integration manager, external lecturer, and language teacher in Budapest, Hungary. She shares with Jo what Open Science means to her personally and professionally in this podcast …
Farah Hussain is the Managing Director at Farah Hussain Coaching and Training in London, England. With over 30 years of experience as a coach and trainer, Farah and her organization offer services such as executive coaching, leadership development, diversity & inclusion, corporate training, management consulting, career development coaching and team building. These services are targeted at individuals and businesses that are seeking to refine their leadership skills. In this podcast, she shares her experiences as a leadership coach and trainer with Jo …
From manuscript preparation to business-related best practices, scholarly publishers increasingly integrate data capture and analysis into their systems. These efforts are considered essential to enable interoperability, ensure transparency, and build trust with authors, funders, and institutions …
Jo Cowper is the founder of Six Degrees East, a company she founded out of her passion to help business owners build stronger, more unique and more resilient brands that unlock growth for their businesses. She shares her views on how marketing and branding strategies can help in science communication …
Gareth Dyke shares his wealth of experience on Open access, preprints and scholarly publishing with Jo …
Chris Emezue shares his vision and achievements as the founder of Lanfrica with Jo. Lanfrica seeks to promote African languages and make their resources discoverable …
Avi Staiman and Jo share some of their experiences and observations made, as well as resources and best practices to foster a global and multilingual research environment …
Kate and Jo talk about unhealthy stress in working and research environments and what measures each of us can take to gain and maintain a state of wellbeing …
Bianca and Jeroen talk with Jo about one of their most recent interactive projects, the Publication Strategy Tool, a tool that helps researchers reconsider their publication strategies by thinking about publishing goals to inform new choices in what, when, how, and where to publish …
Nici Pfieffer is Chief Product Officer at the Center for Open Science and in that position works towards enabling researchers to share their work to advance the transparency and reproducibility of science. With Jo, she talks about the importance of open digital infrastructure and how she contributes to research rigor and the achievements made through her work …
In 2020/21, Huges Abriel took a sabbatical to visit some of his colleagues in francophone Africa. He shares with us his experiences and what led to that journey in the first place …
Wellness consultant Julie Wren talks with Jo about maintaining physical and mental wellbeing despite the impact a high-octane life can have on health and longevity. She is an expert in nutrition, mental wellness, self-care, and draws conclusions from the gut-brain axis to building wellness into your daily routine. We discuss the term ‘infobesity’ aka information overload and what effects that can have on our wellbeing. Julie also shares tips around building healthy routines through moving, nourishing and resourcing with the 20 minutes rule …
Data scientists and open knowledge evangelist Paola Masuzza shares with Jo what Open Science means to her, and how Open Science and Research Integrity relate to each other. We talk about the influence that the late Jon Tennant had on each of our careers and look at the next steps for the Open Science MOOC as it is being migrated to the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE). Personal profiles ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3699-1195 Website: theyjustwriteitoff.blogspot.com Twitter: @pcmasuzzo Linkedin: /paola-chiara-masuzzo-572a1428 Figshare: /authors/Paola_Masuzzo/736785 Paola Masuzzo Born in Sicily more than 3 decades ago, Paola is a full time data scientist, a half time independent researcher and a half time open knowledge evangelist. Yes, she wishes days had more hours. She moved to Belgium 10 years ago to do a PhD in Bioinformatics at Ghent University. During her PhD, she got to understand for the very first time how …
Following up on our previous episode with Joyce Wangari Nugi, in which we talked about Holistic wellness and mental health in research careers, this episode is about Wangari’s work for the deaf community and deafness in academia. We are joined by N’kadziri Aminah Idd, who facilitates sign language interpretation throughout our conversation (see the video below) …
Danny Chan is the President of Biotech Without Borders, a non-profit community biology lab in New York City. Besides trying to defend his time to pursue independent research centered around protocol development for the DIY science community, he enjoys video games, eating new food around the city, watching movies with his partner, and playing table-top RPGs …
Sridhar Gutam is a Senior Plant Physiologist at ICAR, the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, and also the Convenor at Open Access India. His main area of interests are Plant Physiology, Plant Phenology and Plant Phenotyping as well as Open Access, Open Data, Free and Open Source Software …
Stephanie Gauttier is an Assistant Professor at the Grenoble School of Management (GEM) doing research at the intersection of information systems, human-computer interaction, and ethics. She is the Vice-Chair of the COST Action CA 19117 Researcher Mental Health Observatory and is active in initiatives related to supporting researchers’ mental health. For the Marie Curie Alumni Association, Stephanie co-created a peer-to-peer mental health mentoring network …
In today’s episode, Jo talks with Abigail Dean about her personal experience from working in the conservation and environmental research field to citizen science projects to web design and social media. Abigail shares her insights about the importance of being able to communicate research and science in a digestible way to the general public that doesn’t have a science background …
Dr. Mimi Zhou is a conversion copywriter who works with coaches and service providers to unleash the full impact of their words. Clients love that she can swiftly see the missing pieces in their messaging and copy and impeccably fill them in to bring their vision to life. By nailing their messaging and copy, Mimi supports her clients in leveraging their revenue in less time. Mimi’s path to becoming a copywriter began when she snuck into a personal finance class at 22. This class opened her eyes to the empowerment that comes along with knowing how to manage your own money. She believes that all women deserve to make their own money and uses her copywriting skills to help female business owners do exactly that. Photo credit: Mimi Zhou (portrait); photographer: Darcy Rogers Personal profiles Website: mimizhou.com Twitter: mimithezhou Linkedin: /mimizhou/ Instagram: /mimithezhou/ (These days, I’m most active on IG …
Nithaya Chetty is a Professor in theoretical and computational physics and Dean at the Faculty of Science at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa. In a recent commentary in University World News, Nithaya expressed his concern about the war in Ukraine and emphasized the need for scientific diplomacy and cooperation. In this conversation, Nithaya and Jo talk about the options, opportunities, and difficulties scientific diplomacy provides …
Nadja Neumann tells us about her journey from molecular biologist to research advisor and podcast host. With a PhD in Molecular Biology and a strong commitment to scholarly communication and open science, Nadja is keen to find ways to bridge the gap between the research community and other stakeholders to create an open, equitable, and efficient exchange of knowledge. Currently living her passion by working with research support at Karlstad University, Nadja’s areas of expertise are strategic publishing, bibliometrics, data management, and sch …
Maureen Archer is President of the training and consulting firm Professional English Inc. and helps professionals (incl. researchers) improve their English skills and confidence for career advancement. With Jo, she talks about the career path that led her to her current profession, common challenges and obstacles with the English language as perceived by non-native English speakers, as well as some of the key skills researchers should have in communicating their ideas, thoughts, and results …
Tatyana Deryugina talks with Jo Havemann about the ongoing war in Ukraine, her outreach to Russian scholars to encourage them to oppose the war and take feasible action, as well as some of the responses she received …
Julieta Arancio, Alex Kutschera and André Maia Chagas share details about their mentorship program for Open Hardware projects …
Wangari talks about her experience as a professional in mental health, her work at Eider Africa, and the importance of community values for holistic well-being …
Laure shares steps in her career including her contributions to ORCID as founding executive director that led her towards building the Mighty Red Barn consultancy. We explore the purpose and role of [open] scholarship and respectful community building as well as collaboration in engaging with societal challenges …
Access 2 Perspectives now hosts conversations around various topics from Open Science to Science Communication …