Jon Tennant

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|date=June 2023}} He obtained a PhD from Imperial College London in 2017.

He later lived in Berlin, Paris, and Bali, where he died from a motorbike accident at age 31. As a science communicator, Jon was a regular contributor to Discover on paleontology.{{Cite web |title=Jon Tennant {{!}} Discover Magazine |url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/author/jtennant |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=www.discovermagazine.com}}

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. 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.{{Cite report |url=https://osf.io/b4v8p |title=Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development |last=Tennant |first=Jonathan |last2=Beamer |first2=Jennifer Elizabeth |date=2019-01-30 |publisher=MetaArXiv |doi=10.31222/osf.io/b4v8p |last3=Bosman |first3=Jeroen |last4=Brembs |first4=Björn |last5=Chung |first5=Neo Christopher |last6=Clement |first6=Gail |last7=Crick |first7=Tom |last8=Dugan |first8=Jonathan |last9=Dunning |first9=Alastair}}

He was a panelist and keynote speaker at various academic and scholarly publishing conferences worldwide.{{Cite web |title=Open Scholarship |url=http://fossilsandshit.com/open-scholarship/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926103522/http://fossilsandshit.com/open-scholarship/ |archive-date=2022-09-26 |access-date=2021-04-11 |website=Green Tea and Velociraptors |language=en-CA}} Among his talks are

• "Open science is just good science",{{Cite journal |last=Tennant |first=Jon |date=2019-08-16 |title=Open Science is Just Good Science |url=https://campus.dariah.eu/en/resource/posts/open-science-is-just-good-science |journal=DARIAH-Campus |language=en}} 2018 DARIAH Annual Event on Open Science (keynote){{Cite web |title=In memoriam of Jon Tennant {{!}} DARIAH |url=https://www.dariah.eu/2020/04/14/in-memoriam-of-jon-tennant/ |access-date=2023-03-30 |language=en-GB}}
• "Have we started a fire?",{{Cite web |title=Open Science Fellows: "Have we started a fire? – Yes. The fire rises." Jon Tennant – Wikimedia Deutschland Blog |date=4 June 2019 |url=https://blog.wikimedia.de/2019/06/04/open-science-fellows-have-we-started-a-fire-yes-the-fire-rises-jon-tennant/ |access-date=2023-03-30 |language=de-DE}} 2019 Open Science Fellows Program from Wikimedia Deutschland (closing event)
• "Reproducibility: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Open Science", 2018 IEEE Conference Evaluation and Beyond – Methodological Approaches for Visualization (invited talk).{{Cite book |date=2018-10-21 |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8634081 |pages=i |doi=10.1109/BELIV.2018.8634081 |isbn=978-1-5386-6884-9 |s2cid=240114870 |chapter=Reproducibility: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love open science [Invited talk] |title=2018 IEEE Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches for Visualization (BELIV) }}
• Invited panelist at the international conference held in 2018 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of SciELO.{{Cite web |title=Panelists - Jonathan Tennant |url=https://www.scielo20.org/painelistas/jonathan-tennant/index.html |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=International Conference for the 20th anniversary of SciELO |language=pt-br}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Opinion: OA Advocates Slam Science Advances|url=https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/opinion-oa-advocates-slam-science-advances-37005|access-date=2021-04-10|website=The Scientist Magazine®|language=en}}

He was a founder of the Open Science MOOC and the preprint service PaleorXiv.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20220928011857/http://fossilsandshit.com/research/ List and summary of paleontology works]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20220926103522/http://fossilsandshit.com/open-scholarship/ Full list of open science related publications and talks]
• Nate Breznau's 2022 article [https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/hfns2/ Legacy of Jon Tennant, ‘Open Science Is Just Good Science] posthumously co-credited to Jon.
• [https://open-science-training-handbook.github.io/Open-Science-Training-Handbook_EN// The Open Science Training Handbook], of which Jon was a co-author.

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