Adam Marblestone, interviewed by Celya Gruson-Daniel – The BioBright Project
We chose three of the podcast interviews by Celya Gruson-Daniel to present to you. Celya Gruson-Daniel has just finished a tour of the United States interviewing more than 60 people on their views about science, open source and reproducibility. Essentially this is a user’s guide on how to hack your PhD.
Adam Marblestone, Doctoral Student in Biophysics at Harvard University, discusses his work where he says, ‘Biological science is facing a level of complexity more sophisticated than other areas, except for a field such as particle physics.’ The challenge is the matter of scale as disciplines converge and as experts from totally different mindsets have to work together. The individualistic structure of academia and the competitivism of industry are not capable of this collaboration, currently. In neuroscience, Marblestone is working to formalize the basic constraints and assumptions, and to document what are the problems and possibilities for work. This is a matter of organizing primarily and working out principles. Then, the information can be made available as open source, for interoperability in logistics, open software, and knowledge. ‘The idea is to dynamically form teams to get things done at a certain scale,’ he says.
For more information:
P2P Foundation’s Page on Hack Your PhD
* The full set of interviews is available via SoundCloud: HackYourPhD