Introducing ThinkLab — A platform for massively collaborative open science | ThinkLab

"Today, I'm excited to announce ThinkLab! ThinkLab is building a platform for academic scientists to share their research openly, online, and in real-time, while collaborating with a worldwide network of their peers. The goal is to accelerate scientific discovery through a model of research that I’m calling 'massively collaborative' open science. But critically, we're not just building a collaboration platform and hoping scientists use it, we’re actually working with science funders to create incentives that compel its adoption. There are two interesting things we do: we give scientists grants to lead open research projects on our platform, and we pay other scientists to openly share feedback and insights throughout those projects (paid based on peer assessment of the scientific value of their comments). The business model is to help science funders distribute their money in a way that creates better incentives for scientists and better outcomes for society. As part of the launch I'm personally putting up $50,000 to support the first projects on the platform. If you’re a scientist interested in leading the scientific community in an open research project, this is your chance! And if you're a philanthropist that wants to help bring scientific research into the Internet age, this is your chance too! ..."