Challenges involve range of expertise needed, among others. Engineers yes, but not sufficient. Need expertise in human participant research, clinical expertise as well.

We have these type of open-access facilities in Australia with the National Imaging Facility anif.org.au/what-we-do/o...

You can also watch here the workshop keynotes that inspired all the work presented in this special issue.

"just" is doing a lot of work there.

Nice piece. Technology evolves quickly - there will be digital platforms & services in a few years that no one right now has even contemplated. Good luck for legislators and/or courts to keep up.

So they'll need to either define "Social Media" or have the courts define it when the first legal cases happen. Either way, it strikes me one of 3 outcomes:
1. Undefinable - law is junked
2. Everything needs age verification
3. Continuous innovation to fit loopholes
Is 2 the real govt aim?

Excellent! Many thanks!

Simply unbelievable! The incompetence to allow this to happen in the first place.

While I am happy about who has won this award (and TBQH, even happier about its application during the ongoing pandemic), I can't help but wonder how many other innovations we have refused to acknowledge because of who the innovators were/are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fuck yeah. Keep thinking about her story and that of Donna Strickland, 2018 Physics laureate, who was an Assoc Prof at the time. Her university, Waterloo, couldn't explain why she wasn't a full professor.

Have to wonder what we're missing out on with our current system of faculty evaluation.

Is there a way, beyond blind hope that ownership stays in the "right" hands, to avoid this? Are there ways for the scientific community to ensure that years of contributions to building a platform aren't ultimately wasted or trashed? How can we safeguard our collective inputs?

Sometimes the new ownership adds resources & supports, rather than dictates, how the platform evolves [e.g. Github?]. Other times, it seems clear that the platform has been fundamentally changed and/or is now operated by companies many consider destructive to scientific progress [Mendeley, X].