{"id":679,"date":"2025-05-13T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uv.mx\/personal\/aleleon\/?p=679"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:33:07","slug":"open-science-to-open-the-future-a-necessary-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uv.mx\/personal\/aleleon\/2025\/05\/13\/open-science-to-open-the-future-a-necessary-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Science to Open the Future: A Necessary Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are living in a critical moment for science. On one hand, we are facing a global crisis of trust: more and more public figures are disregarding scientific evidence, while skepticism around key issues\u2014such as climate change, vaccines, or biodiversity loss\u2014is growing across various social sectors. On the other hand, we are also facing an internal crisis: the so-called reproducibility crisis<\/strong>, which challenges the very foundations of how we produce and validate knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n
In this context, contributing as a co-author to the piece \u201cOpen Science to Open the Future\u201d<\/strong>, published in La Jornada Veracruz<\/em>, was a valuable opportunity to collectively reflect\u2014alongside colleagues from various institutions\u2014on the role that Open Science<\/strong> can and should play in the face of this landscape.<\/p>\n

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What is Open Science?<\/h2>\n

In the article, we argue that beyond free access to scientific articles, Open Science proposes a profound cultural transformation. It means making data, methods, code, and results available for review, reuse, and validation. But it also demands a rethinking of how we evaluate, communicate, and teach science.<\/p>\n

It is a call for transparency, collaboration, equity, and public accountability<\/strong>. Because if most science is publicly funded, shouldn’t its benefits also be freely accessible to society?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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A More Democratic Science<\/h2>\n

We advocate that opening science is not merely a technical or editorial strategy. It is an ethical and political stance that recognizes knowledge as a common good. It challenges elitist models, paywalls, and hypercompetitive cultures, while striving to recover the social purpose of research.<\/p>\n

As a collective, we believe this approach is essential if science is to continue playing a key role in building a more just, informed, and sustainable future.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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A Collective Effort<\/h2>\n

This text was collaboratively written by the Ciencia Abierta Xalapa<\/strong> collective, with support from the Institute of Ecology (INECOL), the Center for Biomedical Research at Universidad Veracruzana (UV), and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this dialogue alongside colleagues Miguel Equihua Zamora, Octavio P\u00e9rez Maqueo, Agust\u00edn Fern\u00e1ndez Eguiarte, Andr\u00e9s De la Rosa Portilla, Elio Lagunes D\u00edaz, Griselda Ben\u00edtez Badillo, and Claudio Torres Nach\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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\ud83c\udf31 Opening science also means opening pathways for society to take ownership of knowledge and use it for the common good.<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n