Jonathan Starr

Addicted to science.

Roles

Co-Director, SciOS · 2023–present
Founding Executive Director, Open Source Endowment · 2024–present
Instantiating Steward, IOSP — Institute of Open Science Practices · 2024–present
Managing Consultant, DeSci Labs · 2022–present
Program Manager, Open Source Science Initiative (NumFOCUS) · 2023–2025
Founder & President, The Science Commons Initiative · 2022–2024
President, LBRY Foundation · 2020–2022
Core Contributor, Gridcoin · 2013–present

PRSM — living knowledge graph of research and digital infrastructure (21.8M entities, 78M+ relationships)
Lettuce Compute — open infrastructure for volunteer computing · open beta
SciOS Compute — hosted Lettuce Compute; research question to volunteer-run code, with the setup done for you
GREP — the Great Research Extraction Project; extracting every software mention in the scientific literature
RRGI — publishing system for signed scientific claims, built on the AT Protocol and IPFS
IOSP Node Network — researcher-owned IPFS data-preservation network, launching at IOSP 2026
Citey — software citation toolkit; Chrome extension plus CFF and CodeMeta generators
Agent Teams & the Software Factory — the multi-agent development system that ships all of the above
Gridcoin — an economic system designed for science

IOSP — annual production-driven convening on open scientific infrastructure (Denver 2025 · Leiden 2026)
PICoding — four-week intensive teaching researchers to build multi-agent AI workflows
MIRA — contributor to the community-stewarded open schema for modular research attribution

The Core-Satellite Model — a funding interface for open source and open science — scios.tech, 2026
Resilient Data Futures — research data loss as an architectural problem — rdf.scios.tech
The Future of Science Depends on Open Source Engineers — scios.tech, 2026
DeSci for Web3 Builders — Substack, 2023
Distributed Ledger Technology for Open Scientists — Substack, 2022
Building Systems of Trustless Science — Medium, 2022
Gridcoin Whitepaper — 2017

U.S. DOE Open-Source Software Summit — keynote
OSCON — Funding Open Source as a Public Good
PIDFest — PRSM: What Persistent Identifiers Make Possible at Scale
IRSC — From Illegible to Investable: Tooling the Digital Commons for the Coming Decades
All Things Open — The Future of Science Depends on Open Source Engineers
DWeb Camp — Persistent, Atomic, Compositional Science: Foraging the DWeb Substrate for the Scientific Record
UW-Madison iSchool — guest lecture on PRSM

OFA Symposium — One Year Later: Building the Open Source Endowment
All Things Open — Why Open Source Needs an Endowment
JuliaCon — speaker
FOSDEM — Building Bridges Between Researchers, Technologists, and Infrastructure (Open Research); Bridging the Gap: Regional OSPO Networks (Community)