Jon Tennant
Short term fellow
jon.tennant@learningplanetinstitute.org
Dr Jon Tennant is a short-term research fellow at the CRI in Paris and independent researcher with IGDORE, after completing his PhD at Imperial College London in 2017. He was then Communications Director of ScienceOpen for 2 years. He is the founder of the Open Science MOOC, and the digital publishing platform paleorXiv. He is also a Shuttleworth Flash grantee, and has won an award for this work on peer review. He was the lead author of the Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development, and is co-author for the Open Science Training Handbook. He advises numerous of organisations within open scholarly communication. He is also a PLOS Paleo Community Editor, Executive Editor for the journal Geoscience Communication. He now spends most of his time writing about peer review and 'open science', including challenging the business practices of the commercial scholarly publishing industry.
Jon's Bio

So my career path is a bit weird. I bounced from Palaeontology into the world of scholarly communication, and have sort of struck out by myself. I really enjoy traveling and working from different locations around the world, meeting people, and just seeing where this path is going to lead.

MetaPaleo
Meta-analyses of Paleontological research
The limits of peer review
To understand the limits of peer review to help guide future innovations
The Paleome: a network analysis of dinosaur ecosystems
Reconstructing dinosaur networks from site collection open data to better understand ancestral ecosystems.
paleorxiv
paleorXiv is a free, open source and community-led digital archive for Paleontology research.
The Open Science MOOC
This is a mission-driven project to help make ‘Open’ the default setting for all global research.