On gaining tenure as an open scientist

"On December 10th, 2014, I was formally awarded tenure at UC Davis, where I will start as an Associate Professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine on January 5th, 2015. In my research statement for my job application, I wrote: Open science and scientific reproducibility: I am a strong advocate of open science, open source, open data, open access, and the use of social media in research as a way to advance research more broadly. I've been an advocate of "open" for decades, and since becoming an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in spring 2008, I have explored a variety of approaches to doing science more openly: I blog and tweet about our research. All my senior-author papers are open access and were posted as preprints. I post all of my single-author grants openly, as soon as I submit them. All of our source code is openly available on github and most of our papers are written in public on github. I sign almost all of my paper reviews and post many of them (the ones that I remember to post ;) on my blog. While being open, I achieved several career milestones, including publishing several senior author papers, graduating several doctoral students, giving an invited talk at a Gordon Conference, keynoting several international conferences, having several highly ranked universities recruit me, getting an NIH R01 (and overall bringing in more than $2m in grants while at MSU), getting recruited and hired at an Associate Professor level, gaining tenure, and becoming a Moore Investigator with sustained medium-term funding. There are certainly many more successful people than me out there, but I personally don't know what else I could wish for - my plate is full and I'm pursuing research I believe to be important. Here are some things I've observed over the years ..."