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Building the hardware layer of open science: welcome to the team, Philip Dettinger
Philip Dettinger, a biomedical engineer and open-hardware developer, joins the Open Science Foundation as we begin to build out Open Hardware as part of our mission.
Our new fellow takes on verification in science
Scientific text is now cheap to produce, and the challenge is checking its claims. Our new fellow, Michael Saldivar, argues that an AI system should show its reasoning step by step, or decline to answer.
openUC2: can biophoton imaging be made affordable?
Our partners at openUC2 in Jena have written up how they built the biophoton microscope for the Open Science Institute, and how they cut its cost: a hobbyist astronomy camera, sawn open, milled flat and water-cooled to -30°C.
Open Science Foundation is now part of the Metascience Alliance
We have joined the Metascience Alliance, a global, cross-sector coalition connecting the people and organisations working on how research is conducted, evaluated, and communicated.
Open Science Foundation at a matchmaking evening in Paris
Robin Wilkening and Peter Dike presented OpenTwin at Recoding Medicine: Paris Matchmaking Evening at Station F, an evening by the Foresight Institute and SPRIND that put researchers, AI engineers, data holders, and funders in the same room.
How we build an open human body for our digital twin, in the browser
Every human digital twin needs a body. OpenTwin XR is our open-source, browser-based 3D viewer of human anatomy: several open atlases in one viewer, structures with machine-readable identities, and provenance treated as a feature.
All chapters in: Digital Twins in Medicine book enters Open Access production
Digital Twins in Medicine, a reference for the field building computational copies of patients, has cleared peer review. The Open Access volume moves into Springer production for Q4/2026.
Every OpenTwin starts with a body scan: the BodyLoop arrived
A 360° scan in 0.3 seconds, 32 sensors, no radiation. The Vitronic BodyLoop body scanner is now running at Medical Me in Freiburg, OpenTwin's partner site, and it gives the project its first physical measurement layer.
A Swiss open science gathering at Etherlaken
While the Open Science Campus of the Open Science Foundation is still in its planning phase, we invited the Swiss biohacking and open hardware scene to Etherlaken. They came with their own experiments: droplet microfluidics, a plotter in a backpack, the OpenTheremin (an instrument played by the body's electromagnetic field), and kits soldered with sunlight. What connected us most was the faint light that living things emit.
The data is in: our biophoton microscope is ready for business
An injured compass plant leaf, treated with hydrogen peroxide, emitted 1.56 times more light than an untreated control. Our first full measurement campaign on the open-hardware biophoton microscope in Jena is complete, the camera was counting single photons, and the result holds.