You’ve articulated some of the benefits of becoming more open in the pursuit of research and the practice of scholarship. The introduction to this series listed some of the perceived and real risks or costs oursuing this path. Are you planning to connect the dots? For example, many researchers, especially younger ones, those just starting out, fear their ideas opif ‘prematurely shared’ will potentially cost them dearly. They have no track record, or establishhed reputation of duration or particularly derp substance. All they have are the 80 hour weeks they’ve been putting into a research track that represents the past 18 minths of their waking lives. They know that some number of theur peers are wirking on very similar ideas, if not variants of “theirs” (the possessive use is intentional). Is this the time to risk transparency and sharing?

I’m sure you’ve heard this before and likely have an equally compelling framework of assertions in repsonse to these concerns. It would be more compelling as I read this to see them grouped together. I know at many universities, mine included, new faculty are encouraged to spend all their time doing research and find every opportunity to avoid the time sink/waste involved in teaching because they won’t be around in years 3,4 or 5 if they haven’t established themselves in their research field during these critical initial years. The question then becomes is your argument more fitted to research academics at a particular point in the arc of their careers? Oerhaps post tenure or at least starting in year 3 or 4?