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Jonathan Tennant (1988 - 9 April 2020), was an English scientist in the fields of paleontology and science communication, an outspoken open science advocate, and published author of children books.

Life

Born 1988 in Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire. Jon spent his first 18 years living in Leicester with his family; parents and 2 sisters, Rebecca Tennant and Sarah Tennant. Jon attended Granby Primary School, Bushloe High School and then Beauchamp College where he excelled in science. He also lived in Berlin and Indonesia where he died young in his early 30s on April 9th, 2020, in Bali, from a motorbike accident at 1am local time. At that time he was working as a member of the research organisation IGDORE.

Education

He obtained a PhD from Imperial College London in 2017, with a thesis on the patterns of biodiversity and extinction through geological time for which he was awarded the Janet Watson Centenary Memorial Prize

Open Science

A key advocate, speaker and activist in the Open Science Movement. He was very vocal about the importance of open, global access to knowledge and cultural change within the scientific community. He was an Editor for the PLOS Paleo Community, part of the Mozilla Open Leadership Cohort and he was a keynote speaker at various academic and scholarly publishing conferences and science-related events across disciplines across the globe. He worked as Communications Director for ScienceOpen. His advocacy was picked up by mainstream media outlets such as The Guardian and The Washington Post. Arguably his advocacy contributed to major historical events for open science such as many countries' library and university consortiums boycotting Elsevier and the European implementation of Plan S. He inevitably contributed to other aspects of scientific change such as debates about payment for peer review, and harsh criticism of some of the worlds most renown and respected scientific associations and their practices.

Institutional initiatives

Founder of the Berlin Open Science Meetup, which runs monthly meetings at Top Lab and at the Charité mensa. Partner/founder of Generation Research, ‘GenR’ and a founder of the Open Science MOOC and the preprint service PaleorXiv.

Open science talks

“Have we started a fire?” Talk for the Kickoff Event of the Open Science Fellows Program at Wikimedia Foundation. Jun 5th, 2019.

"Open science is just good science" (original 'What do penguins, cobras and Gimli have to with open science'), May 23 or 24th? 2018 DARIAH

“Talk from the Blockchain for Science Con” : 2018 – www.blockchainforsciencecon.com. Open Science | Dr Jon Tennant | Slides

Tennant, Jon. 2018. “Reproducibility: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Open Science [Invited Talk].” Pp. i–i in 2018 IEEE Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches for Visualization (BELIV).

Academic Works

Open science

• Tennant, Jonathan, and Nate Breznau. 2022. “Legacy of Jon Tennant, ‘Open Science Is Just Good Science.’” SocArXiv Preprint. [posthumous]
• Tennant, Jonathan. 2020. “Time to Stop the Exploitation of Free Academic Labour.” MetaArXiv Preprint.
• Machin-Mastromatteo, J.D. and Tennant, J., 2020. "Open science, open access and Latin America: a short conversation with Jon Tennant.” Digital Library Perspectives. ISSN: 2059-5816.
• Tennant, Jon. 2019. “The Global State of Open Science.”
• Tennant, Jon, Bruce Becker, Tanja de Bie, Julien Colomb, Valentina Goglio, Ivo Grigorov, Chris Hartgerink, Ricardo Hartley, Johanna Havemann, Bianca Kramer, Christopher R. Madan, Paola Masuzzo, Lisa Matthias, Monika Schlatter, Tobias Steiner, and Rutger Vos. 2019. “We Are More Powerful When We Work Together as a Community to Solve Problems.” Collaborative Librarianship 11(2):84–90.
• Bezjak S, Clyburne-Sherin A, Conzett P, Fernandes PL, Görögh E, Helbig K, Kramer B, Labastida I, Niemeyer K, Psomopoulos F, Ross-Hellauer T. 2018. The Open Science Training Handbook.
• Tennant, Jon. 2018. “Do We Need an Open Science Coalition?” Impact of Social Sciences Blog. Retrieved January 24, 2022 ().
• Tennant, Jon, and Erik Lieungh. 2018. “The Future of Open Science.” Open Science Talk (11). doi: 10.7557/19.5294.
• Tennant, Jon. 2018. “Who Should Own Public Science? Preprints, Power, and Publishers.” Septentrio Conference Series (1). doi: 10.7557/5.4592.
• Tennant, Jonathan, Serge Bauin, Sarah James, and Juliane Kant. 2018. “The Evolving Preprint Landscape: Introductory Report for the Knowledge Exchange Working Group on Preprints.” MetaArXiv Preprint
• Czifra-Tóth, Erzsébet, and Jon Tennant. 2017. “A Number of Freely Available Tools Can Help You Improve Your Literature Review Routine and Stay on Top of Published Research.” Impact of Social Sciences Blog. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
• Tennant, Jon. 2017. “What Are the Barriers to Post-Publication Peer Review?” Impact of Social Sciences Blog. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
• Tennant, Jon, Daniel Graziotin, and Sarah Kearns. 2017. “We Have the Technology to Save Peer Review - Now It Is up to Our Communities to Implement It.” Impact of Social Sciences Blog. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
• Tennant, Jonathan P., Jonathan M. Dugan, Daniel Graziotin, Damien C. Jacques, François Waldner, Daniel Mietchen, Yehia Elkhatib, Lauren B. Collister, Christina K. Pikas, Tom Crick, Paola Masuzzo, Anthony Caravaggi, Devin R. Berg, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Sara Mannheimer, Lillian Rigling, Daniel S. Katz, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Nazeefa Fatima, Marta Poblet, Marios Isaakidis, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Sébastien Renaut, Christopher R. Madan, Lisa Matthias, Jesper Nørgaard Kjær, Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Cameron Neylon, Sarah Kearns, Manojkumar Selvaraju, and Julien Colomb. 2017. “A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review.” F1000Research 6:1151. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.12037.3.
• Tennant, Jonathan P., François Waldner, Damien C. Jacques, Paola Masuzzo, Lauren B. Collister, and Chris. H. J. Hartgerink. 2016. “The Academic, Economic and Societal Impacts of Open Access: An Evidence-Based Review.” F1000Research 5:632. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8460.3.
• Tennant, Jon. 2016. “Breaking the Traditional Mould of Peer Review: Why We Need a More Transparent Process of Research Evaluation.” Impact of Social Sciences Blog. Retrieved January 24, 2022.

Paleontology

• Tennant, Jonathan P., and Philip D. Mannion. 2014. “Revision of the Late Jurassic Crocodyliform Alligatorellus, and Evidence for Allopatric Speciation Driving High Diversity in Western European Atoposaurids.” PeerJ 2:e599. doi: 10.7717/peerj.599.
• Tennant, Jonathan P., Philip D. Mannion, and Paul Upchurch. 2016a. “Environmental Drivers of Crocodyliform Extinction across the Jurassic/Cretaceous Transition.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1826):20152840. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2840.
• Tennant, Jonathan P., Philip D. Mannion, and Paul Upchurch. 2016b. “Evolutionary Relationships and Systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): Implications for the Rise of Eusuchia.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177(4):854–936. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12400.
• Tennant, Jonathan P., Philip D. Mannion, and Paul Upchurch. 2016c. “Sea Level Regulated Tetrapod Diversity Dynamics through the Jurassic/Cretaceous Interval.” Nature Communications 7(1):12737. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12737.
• Tennant, Jonathan P., Philip D. Mannion, Paul Upchurch, Mark D. Sutton, and Gregory D. Price. 2017. “Biotic and Environmental Dynamics through the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Transition: Evidence for Protracted Faunal and Ecological Turnover.” Biological Reviews 92(2):776–814. doi: 10.1111/brv.12255.
• Young, Mark T., Jonathan P. Tennant, Stephen L. Brusatte, Thomas J. Challands, Nicholas C. Fraser, Neil D. L. Clark, and Dugald A. Ross. 2016. “The First Definitive Middle Jurassic Atoposaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Neosuchia), and a Discussion on the Genus Theriosuchus.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(2):443–62. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12315.

Children's books

His best known children book is Excavate Dinosaurs!.