Marcio von Muhlen is a biological engineer trained at MIT turned entrepreneur and product manager in Silicon Valley. He worked on cancer diagnostics through blood sampling and sought better access to scientific research. His frustration with paywalled research articles led him to write the influential 2011 article "I Want a Github of Science."
Topics Discussed
- Outdated publishing processes in science
- The need for GitHub-style collaboration in research
- Developments since 2011, including PLOS and bioArxiv platforms
- Publishing as status signaling, leading to p-hacking and positivity bias
- Barriers to open scientific collaboration
- Lessons from Dropbox on bottom-up adoption
- Gates Foundation efforts to reform science publishing
- Reproducibility challenges in biology
- GitHub's elegant model where "the crowd decides what matters"
- Automation's role in making research more collaborative
- CRISPR and blockchain's potential impact
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