[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":343},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-\u002Fnews\u002Fwelcome-philip-dettinger":3,"news-more-\u002Fnews\u002Fwelcome-philip-dettinger":75},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"body":9,"coverAlt":51,"coverCaption":52,"coverCredit":53,"coverImage":54,"date":55,"description":15,"draft":56,"extension":57,"hero":58,"license":59,"meta":60,"metaDescription":61,"navigation":62,"path":63,"reading":64,"seo":65,"sitemap":66,"stem":67,"summary":68,"tags":69,"theme":73,"updated":53,"__hash__":74},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fwelcome-philip-dettinger.md","Building the hardware layer of open science: welcome to the team, Philip Dettinger",[7],{"name":8},"Open Science Foundation",{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":47},"minimark",[12,16,19,22,38,41,44],[13,14,15],"p",{},"We are very pleased to welcome Philip Dettinger to the team as we begin to\nbuild out Open Hardware as another important part of our mission.",[13,17,18],{},"Philip is a biomedical engineer and open-hardware developer working at the\nintersection of biotechnology, robotics and rapid prototyping. He studied\nMolecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley and completed his master's and\ndoctoral degrees at ETH Zurich, where his research combined stem cell biology,\nmicrofluidics and automated laboratory technologies.",[13,20,21],{},"He later worked in the Tissue Engineering Group at the University of Basel and\nat Roche's Institute of Human Biology, developing advanced tissue-engineering\nplatforms, automated bioreactors, microfluidic systems and laboratory\nautomation technologies for human-relevant models and drug discovery.",[13,23,24,25,29,30,33,34,37],{},"His work spans academia and industry and includes open-source laboratory\nrobotics, automated bioreactors and advanced micro- and millifluidic culture\nsystems. He is an inventor on five patents and has published in journals\nincluding ",[26,27,28],"em",{},"Nature Communications",", ",[26,31,32],{},"Lab on a Chip"," and ",[26,35,36],{},"Analytical Chemistry",".",[13,39,40],{},"At the Open Science Foundation, Philip will focus on building hardware\ninfrastructure for rapid scientific prototyping and on connecting researchers,\nengineers and makers to turn scientific ideas into practical tools.",[13,42,43],{},"With Open Hardware, we are extending our open science work to the physical\ntools and systems that research depends on, making them easier to build, adapt\nand share.",[13,45,46],{},"Welcome to the team, Philip.",{"title":48,"searchDepth":49,"depth":49,"links":50},"",2,[],"Philip Dettinger, smiling, in a grey knit pullover over a navy collared shirt, against a white background.","Philip Dettinger.",null,"\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fwelcome-philip-dettinger\u002Fphilip-dettinger.jpg","2026-10-13",false,"md","letter","CC BY 4.0",{},"Biomedical engineer Philip Dettinger joins the Open Science Foundation to build hardware infrastructure for rapid scientific prototyping.",true,"\u002Fnews\u002Fwelcome-philip-dettinger","2 min",{"title":5,"description":15},{"loc":63},"news\u002Fwelcome-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.",[70,71,72],"Team","Open Hardware","Community","open-hardware","jA0ma_LP5NPER1wxMom125TcESTWUIo14DL02Ir1sEs",[76,107,196,270],{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":77,"body":79,"coverAlt":51,"coverCaption":52,"coverCredit":53,"coverImage":54,"date":55,"description":15,"draft":56,"extension":57,"hero":58,"license":59,"meta":103,"metaDescription":61,"navigation":62,"path":63,"reading":64,"seo":104,"sitemap":105,"stem":67,"summary":68,"tags":106,"theme":73,"updated":53,"__hash__":74},[78],{"name":8},{"type":10,"value":80,"toc":101},[81,83,85,87,95,97,99],[13,82,15],{},[13,84,18],{},[13,86,21],{},[13,88,24,89,29,91,33,93,37],{},[26,90,28],{},[26,92,32],{},[26,94,36],{},[13,96,40],{},[13,98,43],{},[13,100,46],{},{"title":48,"searchDepth":49,"depth":49,"links":102},[],{},{"title":5,"description":15},{"loc":63},[70,71,72],{"id":108,"title":109,"authors":110,"body":112,"coverAlt":177,"coverCaption":178,"coverCredit":53,"coverImage":179,"date":180,"description":116,"draft":56,"extension":57,"hero":181,"license":59,"meta":182,"metaDescription":183,"navigation":62,"path":184,"reading":64,"seo":185,"sitemap":186,"stem":187,"summary":188,"tags":189,"theme":194,"updated":53,"__hash__":195},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fnew-fellow-michael-saldivar.md","Our new fellow takes on verification in science",[111],{"name":8},{"type":10,"value":113,"toc":173},[114,117,143,148,151,155],[13,115,116],{},"Scientific text is now cheap to produce. Proposals, hypotheses and reviews can\narrive faster than people can read them. The challenge is checking their\nclaims. Our new fellow, Michael Saldivar, argues that an AI system should show\nits reasoning step by step, with each step tied to a source, computation or\nstated premise. If it cannot support a claim, it should decline to answer.",[13,118,119,120,127,128,133,134,139,140,37],{},"An AI researcher from Fresno with a mathematics degree from MIT, Saldivar built\n",[121,122,126],"a",{"href":123,"rel":124},"https:\u002F\u002Ftheoriaverified.com\u002F",[125],"nofollow","Theoria",", an open-source system that makes\nlanguage models prove answers step by step or abstain. His\n",[121,129,132],{"href":130,"rel":131},"https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2607.01223",[125],"paper"," describes the method. 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Across both parts of the work, the test stays the same: every claim\nshould be traceable to evidence or a stated premise, and the system should\nleave unsupported claims unanswered.",[144,152,154],{"id":153},"try-theoria","Try Theoria",[13,156,157,158,162,163,168,169,37],{},"The interactive demo is at ",[121,159,161],{"href":123,"rel":160},[125],"theoriaverified.com",".\nThe code is open at\n",[121,164,167],{"href":165,"rel":166},"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fzaladbar\u002Ftheoria",[125],"github.com\u002Fzaladbar\u002Ftheoria",", and the\npaper is at ",[121,170,172],{"href":130,"rel":171},[125],"arxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2607.01223",{"title":48,"searchDepth":49,"depth":49,"links":174},[175,176],{"id":146,"depth":49,"text":147},{"id":153,"depth":49,"text":154},"Michael Saldivar, in a white cap and a black T-shirt, stands in front of Yosemite Valley, with El Capitan on the left, Half Dome in the distance and Bridalveil Fall on the right.","Michael Saldivar at Tunnel View, Yosemite National Park.","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fnew-fellow-michael-saldivar\u002Fmichael-saldivar-yosemite.jpg","2026-10-01","dispatch",{},"Michael Saldivar, who built the open-source verifier Theoria, joins the Open Science Foundation as a fellow to build a screening workflow for research proposals.","\u002Fnews\u002Fnew-fellow-michael-saldivar",{"title":109,"description":116},{"loc":184},"news\u002Fnew-fellow-michael-saldivar","Scientific text is now cheap to produce, and the challenge is checking its claims. 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Building an Open Microscope to Find Out",[144,226,228],{"id":227},"what-they-built","What they built",[13,230,231,232,236],{},"The first step was a reference system on the openUC2 FRAME. It pairs two\nlow-magnification, high-numerical-aperture Nikon objectives, one facing the\nsample and one facing the sensor, with an Andor EMCCD camera cooled to -100°C.\nThis setup detected emission down to a few photons per second per square\ncentimetre over 30 to 60 minute exposures. It produced the\n",[121,233,235],{"href":234},"\u002Fnews\u002Fbiophoton-microscope-jena\u002F","first measurement campaign"," we reported in\nJune. The catch is the camera, which alone costs about twice as much as the\nmicroscope around it.",[13,238,239],{},"The second step was to replace it. Calculations by their colleague David\nsuggested that a back-illuminated, cooled CMOS camera of the kind used in\namateur astrophotography could detect plant biophotons if its sensor ran cold\nenough. The stock air cooling stopped at -10°C. The team cut off the cooling\nblock with a band saw, milled the surface behind the sensor flat, and attached\na water block fed with 10°C water from a chiller. The sensor reached -30°C, the\ntemperature the IMX571 datasheet gives as the best trade-off between dark\ncurrent and quantum efficiency. A second Peltier stage reached lower still, but\nbrought condensation and ice and used more power, so they dropped it.",[13,241,242],{},"First results from the modified camera show photon emission at the wound site\nof a leaf over a 30 minute exposure. The cooling adds nothing to the camera's\nfootprint.",[144,244,246],{"id":245},"why-it-matters-to-us","Why it matters to us",[13,248,249],{},"The Open Science Institute (OSI) wants this measurement to be possible for\ngroups that cannot buy a scientific EMCCD. A working low-cost detector is the\nfirst requirement for that. The next steps are calibration against the\nreference system and replicate experiments across species and stress\nconditions.",{"title":48,"searchDepth":49,"depth":49,"links":251},[252,253],{"id":227,"depth":49,"text":228},{"id":245,"depth":49,"text":246},"A small cooled CMOS camera on a wooden desk, its stock heat sink replaced by a machined aluminium water block with two metal hose fittings on top.","The back-illuminated CMOS camera after the modification: stock cooling removed, water block attached.","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fopenuc2-affordable-biophoton\u002Fwater-cooled-camera.jpg","2026-09-25","Benedict Diederich and the team at openUC2 have\npublished their own account of the biophoton microscope they built with us.\nIt starts with a question the Open Science Foundation brought to them:\ncan the faint light emitted by living plant tissue be imaged on an open-source\nmicroscope, and can it be done without a camera that costs more than the rest\nof the instrument?",{},"openUC2 in Jena describe how they built our biophoton microscope and cut its cost with a hobbyist astronomy camera, milled flat and water-cooled to -30°C.","\u002Fnews\u002Fopenuc2-affordable-biophoton-microscope",{"title":198,"description":258},{"loc":261},"news\u002Fopenuc2-affordable-biophoton-microscope","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.",[267,71,268],"Open Health","Instrumentation","bNC1pZNapKnsNgDnfbVo68gfvi5ntNi8NtF2weUpGX8",{"id":271,"title":272,"authors":273,"body":275,"coverAlt":328,"coverCaption":329,"coverCredit":284,"coverImage":330,"date":331,"description":332,"draft":56,"extension":57,"hero":181,"license":59,"meta":333,"metaDescription":334,"navigation":62,"path":335,"reading":64,"seo":336,"sitemap":337,"stem":338,"summary":339,"tags":340,"theme":194,"updated":53,"__hash__":342},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fmetascience-alliance.md","Open Science Foundation is now part of the Metascience Alliance",[274],{"name":201,"role":202},{"type":10,"value":276,"toc":324},[277,292,296,308,311,315],[13,278,279,280,285,286,291],{},"We are very happy to join the\n",[121,281,284],{"href":282,"rel":283},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cos.io\u002Fmetascience-alliance",[125],"Metascience Alliance"," as a\nparticipating organisation, and to become part of a vibrant open science\ncommunity. The Alliance is a global, cross-sector coalition that brings\ntogether researchers, funders, institutions, publishers, policymakers, and\ninfrastructure providers working to strengthen how research is conducted,\nevaluated, and communicated. It is in a two-year pilot phase, catalysed and\noperationally supported by the Center for Open Science, and the Open Science\nFoundation is now\n",[121,287,290],{"href":288,"rel":289},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cos.io\u002Fmetascience-alliance\u002Forganizations",[125],"listed among the participating organisations","\nthat have signed its Letter of Intent.",[144,293,295],{"id":294},"why-we-are-joining","Why we are joining",[13,297,298,299,303,304,307],{},"In our own projects, open science is the one principle that connects the dots.\nIn the ",[121,300,302],{"href":301},"\u002Fopentwinlab\u002F","OpenTwin"," project we develop open standards, protocols,\nand reference pipelines to build, validate, and apply digital twins in medicine.\nIn the ",[121,305,71],{"href":306},"\u002Finstitute\u002Fopen-hardware\u002F"," project we develop openly\ndocumented, freely licensed scientific instrumentation that anyone can build,\nmodify, and share.",[13,309,310],{},"In the Alliance we want to bring our experience of building open tools into the\nconversation, and to learn from colleagues tackling open science dissemination\nelsewhere.",[144,312,314],{"id":313},"looking-ahead-to-montreal","Looking ahead to Montreal",[13,316,317,318,323],{},"The next large gathering of the metascience community is\n",[121,319,322],{"href":320,"rel":321},"https:\u002F\u002Fmetascience.info\u002F",[125],"Metascience 2027"," in Montreal, from 14 to 16 June\n2027, presented by the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (TOSI) and the Center\nfor Open Science. The conference is a separate initiative from the Alliance,\nthough many of the same organisations take part. We are very much looking\nforward to it as an opportunity to meet in person and discuss the future of\nopen science.",{"title":48,"searchDepth":49,"depth":49,"links":325},[326,327],{"id":294,"depth":49,"text":295},{"id":313,"depth":49,"text":314},"The Metascience Alliance wordmark: white lettering on a black field, the word ALLIANCE flanked by two red rules.","The Metascience Alliance, a global coalition currently in a two-year pilot phase.","\u002Fimages\u002Fnews\u002Fmetascience-alliance\u002Fmetascience-alliance-logo.jpg","2026-09-22","We are very happy to join the\nMetascience Alliance as a\nparticipating organisation, and to become part of a vibrant open science\ncommunity. The Alliance is a global, cross-sector coalition that brings\ntogether researchers, funders, institutions, publishers, policymakers, and\ninfrastructure providers working to strengthen how research is conducted,\nevaluated, and communicated. It is in a two-year pilot phase, catalysed and\noperationally supported by the Center for Open Science, and the Open Science\nFoundation is now\nlisted among the participating organisations\nthat have signed its Letter of Intent.",{},"The Open Science Foundation has signed the Metascience Alliance Letter of Intent and joins its two-year pilot as a participating organisation.","\u002Fnews\u002Fmetascience-alliance",{"title":272,"description":332},{"loc":335},"news\u002Fmetascience-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.",[341,72,192],"Open Science","un3V87gthQxBFU-kVdi9Y9ixynmW9rBRWn1BWA8uZZM",1792383628322]