By Yuan T. for the NASA Space Apps 2023 Open Science Storytelling! Challenge

Lyrics (also available in video subtitles):

With a rapidly changing world, new problems requiring new solutions are arising every day. We need science to help solve them, but lots of information is reserved to just the researchers or locked behind a paywall. We need more voices to share knowledge so we can accelerate, improve, and enable more breakthroughs with our science.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Transform to Open Science!

Yeah, open science!
Please don’t stay in silence
We need your voices to be heard without bias
Including everyone no matter where you’re from
Welcoming people from all kinds of backgrounds
Free and accessible
Towards something incredible
A future with people creating change so unforgettable
Join the movement for research improvement
Where we’ll come together and change for the better

Everything starts with a thought
Whether it works out or not
Let’s give it a go
We might find something cool we don’t know
Engaging communities, forming hypotheses
Encouraging unity and new opportunities
Broadening participation to lots of different nations
Helps acceleration of scientific innovations
Various minds on board, we’ll learn about so much more
There’s no need to hoard, ready to explore?

Time to get data so let’s perform experiments
Document every step so we can stay transparent
We’re keeping results real, doesn’t matter if we fail
Eliminating bias, that’s how science prevails
Making the process discoverable so we can find false leads
It increases our experiment’s reproducibility
Allowing our findings to be available publicly
Lets others in on our discoveries

Publishing results to an open source
Gives all the ability to contribute more
Not everybody has the same circumstance
Keeping it open gives everyone a chance
Maybe someone will notice the experiment has a flaw
They can try it out and see what it yields once and for all
If it works out the same, then it increases reliability
But if not, now there’s a new possibility!

BAM! A new question!
Why did that happen?
Did things turn out to be like the prediction?
Sparking discussion, exchanging information
Science is all about communication
Further inquiring, continuing to be inspired
There’s no limit to the knowledge we can acquire
Let’s come together like birds of a feather
And find all the answers to the universe

Yeah, open science!
Please don’t stay in silence
We need your voices to be heard without bias
Including everyone no matter where you’re from
Welcoming people from all kinds of backgrounds
Free and accessible
Towards something incredible
A future with people creating change unforgettable
Join the movement for research improvement
World, come together and change for the better

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