Explaining Open Access

Piled Higher and Deeper gets an assist from Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen to explain the open access in scientific publishing.


*Hat tip to Andrew Thaler.

Superpurrsition

Diesel Sweeties by Richard Stevens 3 (CC BY-NC 2.5)

Diesel Sweeties by Richard Stevens 3 (CC BY-NC 2.5)

There are comics that are card-carrying “science comics” that teach science (egBoxplot by Maki Naro) and express truths about the experience of being a scientist (egPiled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham). There are those that are super-nerdy all the time, like xkcd by Randall Munroe.

Then there are the comics that occasionally brush up against the scientific world – dropping a punchline that hints at larger concepts, drawing in those who understand and inviting inquiry from those who don’t. This strip from Diesel Sweeties by Richard Stevens 3 is part of that tradition.


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PhD Comics @phdcomics animated cartoon on #OpenAccess interview of me & Nick Shockey

I assume if you pay any attention to science satire/humor you are familiar with PhD Comics by Jorge Cham. If not, you must check it out. It is simply brilliant stuff. And thus I was completely floored when I was contacted about whether I wanted to be interviewed by Jorge for a video he was commissioned to make as part of Open Access week activities. I mean - I figging say no to almost everything these days but I said yes to this almost immediately. And so I did a phone interview with him and Nick Shockey from SPARC. And then Jorge worked his magic -- and here it is.