EPISODE · Jul 16, 2018 · 54 MIN
65: Blockchain and open science (with Jon Brock)
from Everything Hertz · host Dan Quintana
Dan and James chat with Jon Brock (Cognitive scientist at Frankl) about the use of blockchain technology for open science. Here's what they cover: What is the blockchain? Why Jon made the jump from academia to Frankl A cryptocurrency for open science What do institutional review boards think about using blockchain for data collection and storage? Autism heterogeneity How will this approach scale to biological signals and genetics data? What’s something that Jon’s changed him mind about in regards to academia? Links Frankl https://frankl.io Five reasons Frankl has a token https://medium.com/franklopenscience/why-does-frankl-need-a-frankl-token-4129d718ab74 Bjoern Brembs blog post http://bjoern.brembs.net/2018/05/after-24-years-when-will-academic-culture-finally-shift/ An explainer on cryptographic hashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Illustration Frankl in a nutshell https://medium.com/franklopenscience/frankl-in-a-nutshell-9b488c554dea Frankl for autism https://medium.com/franklopenscience/frankl-for-autism-e74f0108bf5a Rethinking Innateness https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rethinking-innateness Jon on Twitter twitter.com/DrBrocktagon Dan on Twitter twitter.com/dsquintana James on Twitter twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on Twitter twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Special Guest: Jon Brock.
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Dan and James chat with Jon Brock (Cognitive scientist at Frankl) about the use of blockchain technology for open science. Here's what they cover: What is the blockchain? Why Jon made the jump from academia to Frankl A cryptocurrency for open science What do institutional review boards think about using blockchain for data collection and storage? Autism heterogeneity How will this approach scale to biological signals and genetics data? What’s something that Jon’s changed him mind about in regards to academia? Links Frankl https://frankl.io Five reasons Frankl has a token https://medium.com/franklopenscience/why-does-frankl-need-a-frankl-token-4129d718ab74 Bjoern Brembs blog post http://bjoern.brembs.net/2018/05/after-24-years-when-will-academic-culture-finally-shift/ An explainer on cryptographic hashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Illustration Frankl in a nutshell https://medium.com/franklopenscience/frankl-in-a-nutshell-9b488c554dea Frankl for autism https://medium.com/franklopenscience/frankl-for-autism-e74f0108bf5a Rethinking Innateness https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rethinking-innateness Jon on Twitter twitter.com/DrBrocktagon Dan on Twitter twitter.com/dsquintana James on Twitter twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on Twitter twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Special Guest: Jon Brock.Support Everything Hertz
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