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Sarah Gulliford (Kearns)
Sarah works for Knowledge Futures, particularly as the managing editor of Commonplace, and freelance writes mostly about science. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from the University of Michigan in 2020. Sarah loves to write in books, make sourdough, and play the banjo.
Published: Jul 24, 2019
Open access is great in concept, but what do we need to do at our universities to make it practical? Written in collaboration with UMich's science policy group, ESPA.
Published: Jul 24, 2019
Dr. Stephen Hawking's positivity and humor in the face of a debilitating disease and the black hole of the cosmos serves as an inspiration. Having passed away last year, I reflected on his impact on modern physics and how his life encourages us to stay hopeful.
Published: Jul 24, 2019
After I read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, I started looking into biological property rights in general and found some interesting overlaps with today's genetic sequencing tools like 23&me.
Published: Jul 24, 2019
What makes you, you? Probably a combination of your physical body and your character/personality traits. So much of life scales: proteins make cells make organs make organisms. At a human level, we've heard of existential crises, but can cells have laps of identity too?
Published: Jul 24, 2019
So why the heck am I writing a book? Am I the person to tell it? Find out here!
Published: Jul 24, 2019
What will this book be about? What's the tone and feel of it? This might not be the final introduction, but here's a draft of it that I wrote for the Flagship ComSciCon workshop in 2019.
Published: Aug 02, 2019
Describing the values and practices of Open Source Software, and the scope of the landscape analysis.
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Not so marginal annotations: How sharing notes could be best practices in open peer review
Published: Sep 20, 2019
Preparing for Peer Review Week 2019, I stumbled across a book, "Annotation," undergoing community peer-review. This got me thinking about the role of marginalia in peer review and how sharing our interactions with scholarly texts will improve research and academic communities.
Published: Mar 10, 2020
Science as a practice has gone through paradigm shifts, starting as a hobby and becoming institutionalized. Citizen science helps put curiosity and discovery back in the hands of people.
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Published: Nov 03, 2021
Improving science communication skills and confidence through locally organized workshops.
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Published: Oct 04, 2021
🎧 The authors of Data Feminism reunite to discuss the joys and benefits of community review.
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Published: Mar 30, 2020
The Commonplace is a space where people discuss the digital infrastructure and policies needed to distribute, constellate, and amplify knowledge for the public good.
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Published: Jun 04, 2021
A call for contributions. Submissions close on Wednesday, June 23, 2020.
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Published: Jul 15, 2021
🎧 A conversation about open source funding, the importance of maintaining code, and open access as liturgy.
Published: Aug 17, 2021
A call for contributions. Submissions close on Monday, September 13, 2021.
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Published: Nov 15, 2021
🎧 The publishing academic complex is out of control, and current policies will only open future publications and not the backlog of research. How do you change a system which has so much social and economic power over scholarship?
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Published: Nov 24, 2021
For the Open Publishing Fest 2021, we had a discussion with some of the authors to keep the conversation and momentum going about fair and emergent business models in publishing.
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Published: Jan 19, 2022
A call for contributions for an on-going series.
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Published: Feb 24, 2022
College students face big problems ahead. This interview with the Lead Librarian for Public Science at NC State talks about Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions: an online curricula that prepares students both for university and the world beyond.
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Published: Apr 21, 2022
🎧 A conversation about communicating amongst scientists, clinicians, policy makers, and rural communities with the communications specialist of the Northern New England Clinical & Translational Research Network (1h 15m with transcript).
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Published: May 11, 2022
🎧 A conversation with some of the folks behind the NERL Playbook and the Backflip deal with Elsevier (1 hour with transcript)
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Published: Jul 28, 2022
🎧 A conversation with the creators of the immersive found poetry adventure at MIT's Hayden Library (~30 minutes with transcript)
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Published: Sep 19, 2022
🎧 Creating data provenance standards to combat misinformation and human rights crises (45 minutes with transcript).
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Published: Dec 01, 2022
🎧 Leveraging bureaucracy, pre-registered reports, and shame to change scientific publishing practices (56 min with transcript).
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Published: Mar 02, 2023
Sharing the experiences of displaced researchers and fostering an academic community despite authoritarian oppression.
Published: Jan 30, 2023
A bit on the how and why we do what we do on Commonplace
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Published: Jan 17, 2023
🎧 What if university libraries paid for the articles they actually accessed? And then gave away the rest to the public? (47 minutes w/ transcript)
Published: Feb 13, 2023
🎧 On living literature reviews, disruptions in citations, and creating a narrative (1 hour with transcript).
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Published: Mar 30, 2023
Interview with the founding editor of "Seeds of Science" in which we learn about their peer-review gardening program and what it means to create a speculative science journal. (54 mins with transcript)
Published: May 30, 2023
A Spotlight on COPIM, the Community-lead Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs, on organizational adaptation in an ever-shifting publication ecosystem. (One hour with transcript)
