Permanent closure of the open science notebook

Transition toward safer, more effective platforms for open research, collaboration, and public engagement

Notice: this open science notebook is permanently closed. This decision reflects a strategic shift toward identifying more suitable venues and robust mechanisms for delivering open content, sharing results effectively, engaging constructively with good-willed scientists, and providing meaningful support where it is most needed.

I will continue publishing through yet to be specified media venues and own social media channels, seeking all paths that broaden readership and help consolidate a resilient community committed to mutual protection. Consortia will be set up again. Materials will be shared, opening up course-ware and tools developed by myself. It all required is to be continued. My aim is to help shape a platform and a network with the necessary conditions for research to be conducted safely and for the outcomes of scientific work to be shared responsibly, in the service of communities and society as a whole. This includes teaching, learning, and collective advancement, grounded in integrity and cooperation, and deliberately distancing from ill intentioned individuals or organizations. The present venue created excessive exposure to bad actors; this transition is therefore necessary to pursue these goals responsibly and sustainably.

This transition acknowledges the cumulative impact of trauma and the non-negotiable need for economic sustainability -that of mine, my beloved ones, peers and of all other honest actors involved, as well as society-wide. Any future platform must incorporate effective constant checks, balance and filters, an effective system of governance, and safeguarding mechanisms that ensure competence and good faith, teach and bring up, prioritize those most in need, enabling them to reach safer professional positions while preserving their capacity to work. Equally essential is the systematic exclusion of bad actors whose conduct undermines trust, safety, and the integrity of research. Such system does not exist yet, as many others do, required for our basic professional and human needs -this poses both a challenge and an unique collective opportunity. The system is to be developed and implemented to improve open scientific methods of working together. The objective is focused, protected collaboration that allows necessary work to proceed responsibly, without exposing vulnerable contributors to further harm. I am working on it, as other do. I wish you all success in this and all your endeavours.

The open science notebook has been active for more than four years, spanning most of my doctoral period. During this time, I endured continuous physical violence, alongside systematic dispossession of health, income, and any realistic chance to develop away from the perpetrators. Threats, retaliation in response to attempts to obtain justice, and sustained harassment persisted throughout. Once harm was normalized, hostility spread, and additional actors joined in the abuse, amplifying its severity. A doctorate is widely recognized as intrinsically demanding. Under these conditions, imposed deliberately and sustained over time, the experience became a constant fight for survival. The losses incurred are irreversible. No mechanism exists to restore what was taken, nor to compensate for the damage inflicted, even if myself ever achieves law to be enforced. The damage to myself and my beloved ones, to the career that sustained us -as well as everyone who should had benefited from the ongoing work, society-wide- is too profound. The chances of doing good will never be brought back. Torture is the best way to put what I endured.

This platform will remain online temporarily in its current state for archival purposes only. No further maintenance, development, or active maintenance will be undertaken here. All updates and communications will be disseminated exclusively via the main domains henning.md and health.int.eu.org, coordinated through networked collaboration. The guiding principle is collective strength, built through unity, shared responsibility, commitment to moral values, and coordinated action.