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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: Aug 02, 2019
Describing the values and practices of Open Source Software, and the scope of the landscape analysis.
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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-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs, on organizational adaptation in an ever-shifting publication ecosystem. (One hour with transcript)
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Published: Jul 27, 2023
Interview with a professor and open education librarian at Wake Forest University about creating a research-based digital classroom: Domestic Knowledge. (48 mins with transcript)
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Published: Aug 15, 2023
🎧 From designing guidelines for tenure and promotion, to determining what's the best way to get your work cited, this podcast with University of Waterloo's Lennart Nacke discusses a lot of important scholcomm topics. (46 mins with transcript)
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Published: Oct 30, 2023
🎧 A publisher, a director of a library consortia, and a digital collections librarian walk into a deal. No joke! In this podcast, we hear how NERL and Sage came to a licensing agreement (47 minutes with transcript).
Published: Sep 12, 2023
How ought we consider your aliveness? Are you even alive??
Published: Apr 16, 2024
The politics of poetry and infrastructure.
