This is a story of a personal Open Science Journey of Ecologist Antica Culina (@antica_c on Twitter). From not knowing anything about Open Science to becoming an active advocate of it, co-founding SPI-Birds database (www.spibirds.org) and SORTEE (https://www.sortee.org/) and serving on the Advisory Boards of several Open Science related initiatives such as https://fairsfair.eu/ or https://openknowledgemaps.org/ . In this episode, Antica also discusses the difference between Open and FAIR data.