The FAIR² Chronicles: Data stories for an AI world
Episodes
From Trash to Trajectories: Linking Waste, Emissions, and Development in a Single Global System
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Waste is often reported as a management problem. Emissions are reported as a climate problem. This episode is about what happens when those two are fi...
Seeing Atolls as a System: Inside the First Fully Integrated Indo-Pacific Atoll Dataset
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you work in ecology, conservation, island biogeography, or environmental data—and you’ve ever struggled to connect biodiversity, climate, ocean...
A Multi-Site View of Brain Injury: The TOP-NT Harmonized Rat MRI Dataset
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you work in neuroimaging, neurotrauma, or computational neuroscience—and especially if you’ve ever wished for a truly comparable, cross-lab vie...
Staying Ahead of SARS-CoV-2: Inside the Ultimate Spike Protein Mutation Dataset
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you work anywhere near virology, structural biology, or computational genomics—and especially if you’ve ever wished for a true map of the SARS-...
Publish or Perish. But Who’s Reading?
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Science is accelerating. We’re publishing more papers and generating more data than ever before. But much of that knowledge—however valuable—goe...
Making Data Count: How FAIR² Portals Turn Open Data into Real Scientific Impact
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been excited to use an open dataset, only to find yourself lost in a maze of cryptic files, missing context, and dead-end links? You’r...
The Myth of Objective Data
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We often hear about making AI responsible—but what if the real problem isn’t the model? What if it starts much earlier, with the data we feed into...
What Will We Carve in Stone?
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world shaped by constant change, memory is fragile — and preservation is never automatic.Inspired by a visit to the Qianlong Stone Steles in Be...
From FAIR to FAIR²: Raising the Bar for Scientific Data Practice
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it really take to make data usable—not just technically FAIR, but truly findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable in the ways scie...
If You Can’t Reproduce It, Is It Even Science?
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dig into the often-overlooked cornerstone of scientific progress: reproducibility. It’s not flashy, but it’s fundamental. With...
What If Sharing Your Data Was Easier Than You Think?
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every day, researchers generate valuable datasets. But many of them never get shared—let alone reused. Why? Because data sharing still feels hard: c...
FAIR² Data Articles: Unlocking Research Data Value
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore a growing opportunity for researchers: turning their datasets into recognized, reusable, and citable scientific contributi...
An introduction to FAIR² and Senscience
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Ocean Insights: Three Decades of Marine Monitoring in the Basque Country
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit senscience.substack.com