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English paleontologist (1988–2020) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jonathan Tennant (6 May 1988 – 9 April 2020[1]) was an English paleontologist who was also active in science communication. He was an outspoken open science advocate, including publishing research on the topic.[2][1]
Tennant was born in 1988 in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire. His first 18 years were in Leicester with his parents and two sisters, Rebecca and Sarah. Jon attended Granby Primary School, Bushloe High School and then Beauchamp College.[citation needed] He obtained a PhD from Imperial College London in 2017.[2]
He later lived in Berlin, Paris, and Bali, where he died from a motorbike accident at age 31.[1] As a science communicator, Jon was a regular contributor to Discover on paleontology.[3]
A key advocate, speaker and activist in the Open Science movement, he was a supporter of open access to knowledge and cultural change within the scientific community. He was an Editor for the PLOS Paleo Community, executive editor for Geoscience Communication, part of the Mozilla Open Leadership Cohort, and worked as Communications Director for ScienceOpen.[1][2] With Jennifer Beamer, Jeroen Bosman, Björn Brembs, Neo Christopher Chung, Gail Clement, and others, he wrote an influential guide and strategy on open access and open research.[4]
He was a panelist and keynote speaker at various academic and scholarly publishing conferences worldwide.[5] Among his talks are
In 2014, Tennant and open access advocates drafted an open letter to American Association for the Advancement of Science expressing concerns about the journal Science Advances. They cited issues with reuse restrictions, failure to meet Budapest Open Access Initiative standards, and high publication fees.[11]
He was a founder of the Open Science MOOC and the preprint service PaleorXiv.[1]
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