The Turing Way Newsletter: 1 September 2022
Hi everyone,
Happy end-of-August!☀️😎
This newsletter is coming a bit later to you all, after a mid-summer break for the month of July and August (which have been hot ones here in the UK). As always, this newsletter is absolutely full of a ton of updates from our community – so much in fact, that we're splitting it in two!
This update is focused on Community News updates, while our usual mid-month update will focus on updates to The Turing Way book. Stay tuned!
- 🏃 Check out Talks and Workshops to learn more about talks that community leaders have given in the past few months.
- 🔥 Catch up on our July and August Fireside chats on 'Navigating growth and scale to sustain open communities' and 'Defining Open Infrastructure in Different Contexts'" on Youtube
- ☕ The next Collaboration Cafe is happening on 7 September , 15:00 - 17:00 UTC+1. See details.
As always, you can find more updates and opportunities in the 'Community News' and 'Opportunities in the Turing Way orbit' sections below.
If you're interested in keeping up with the community in real time, don't forget that you can always join our Slack workspace or follow the project on Twitter.
As usual, we have several recurring community calls happening in September. Don't forget: all are welcome to these calls, no sign-up is needed! ✨
This month, Collaboration Cafes are being hosted on 7 and 21 September 2022. As always, these calls are places for co-working, discussion, onboarding, and collaboration. They take place from 14:00 - 16:00 UTC (see in your time zone). Learn more in this shared HackMD: hackmd.io/@turingway/collaboration-cafe.
Weekly coworking calls are hosted every Monday from 11:00 - 12:00 London time (in your time zone). These calls are accountable spaces for coworking on your contributions or discussing your idea for The Turing Way. Find the joining link on this shared HackMD: hackmd.io/@turingway/coworking-calls.
The Translation and Localisation team hosts weekly open calls every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (in your time zone). These calls are for co-working on translation and localisation efforts across several languages, and for learning more about the work of the team. Thanks to Batool, Alejandro, Camila, Melissa, Andrea, Cigdam and Anne for participating in discussions and hands-on localisation work in Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish! For more information, join the #translation channel on Slack, and this HackMD.
Starting this week, Anne will be starting a new initiative: office hours! Every Friday from 11:00 - 13:00 BST (UTC+1), she will be hosting an open call for anyone interested. Drop by if you have any questions, want to do some co-working, or if you just want to say hello... no sign-ups required!
Illustration by Scriberia showing community as garden and members as gardners. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
On 26 August 2022, we hosted a fireside chat on “Defining ‘open infrastructure’ in different contexts”.
This fireside chat brought together different perspectives on ‘open infrastructure’ within and around research environments in order to ask the questions: what is open infrastructure anyway, for researchers and otherwise? How do these narratives and definitions of open infrastructure affect what kind of work is valued within them?
Chaired by Rayya El Zein (Code for Science & Society) and Anne Lee Steele (The Turing Way), this panel featured insights from Richard Dunks (Invest in Open Infrastructure), Lillian Achom (Access Plus) and Sarah Gibson (2i2c). Watch the recording on Youtube.
Last month on 29 July 2022, we hosted a next fireside chat will take place on the topic: Navigating growth and scale to sustain open communities.
This Fireside chat brought together projects and communities across the open ecosystem to talk more about the shared questions, challenges, and trade-offs that come with ‘scaling’ communities – and steps they have taken within their own communities to address them.
Chaired by Alycia Crall (The Carpentries) and Anne Lee Steele (The Turing Way), this panel featured insights from Geoffrey Kateregga (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team), Patrick Mineault (xcorr neuroAI consulting) and Selene Yang (Wikimedia Foundation, Geochicas - OpenStreetMap). Watch the recording on Youtube.
In response to the adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science in November 2021, UNESCO launched a Global Call for Best Practices in Open Science in November 2021. This year, The Turing Way (TTW), Open Life Science (OLS), and Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) communities organised three calls to develop community-led responses to the UNESCO call.
The Turing Way response, titled ‘Broadening the definition and implementation of accessibility, inclusion and incentivisation in open science' was published on Zenodo.
Thanks goes to Esther Plomp, Emmy Tsang, Arielle Bennett, Patricia Heterich, Alina Popescu, Eirini Zormpa, Emma Karoune, Vicky Hellon, Alejandro Coca-Castro, Batool Almarzouq, Anne Lee Steele, and Malvika Sharan who developed The Turing Way response. Thank you for thoughtful considerations on open science, and for joining us in this opportunity to combine our perspectives.
- TTW: https://zenodo.org/record/6841867
- OLS: https://zenodo.org/record/6841873
- IOI: https://zenodo.org/record/6828389
Congratulations to everyone who graduated from the fifth cohort of Open Life Science, including The Turing Way core team members Vicky Hellon, Achintya Rao, and Anne Lee Steele - as well as Emma Karoune and Malvika Sharan who were both mentors and mentees in the programme. 🎊🎓
Congrats to more graduates & The Turing Way contributors from previous graduations, including Ismael Kherroubi García and Alan Turing Institute Research Engineering Group (REG) teammembers Callum Mole, Lydia France, and Luke Hare, who were mentored by Computational Biology Resource for EMBL Heidelberg (EMBL BioIT) team members Lisanna Paladin and Renato Alves.
Congrats to graduates and mentors who also participated in The Turing Way community: Arielle Bennett, Alejandro Coca-Castro, Batool Almarzouq, Patricia Herterich, Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Esther Plomp, Julien Colomb, Anne Fouilloux, Georgia Aitkenhead, Elisee Jafsia, Laura Accion, Lena Karvovskaya, and Sara Villa. 🎊🌻
Many members of our community were selected to join the NASA TOPS program, which aims to embed open science more broadly within their organisation.
Participants include allies and friends from across the open science ecosystem as well as The Turing Way contributors, including Sara El-Gebali, Yo Yehudi, Esther Plomp, Batool Almarzouq, Melissa Black, Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Saranjeet Kaur, Anne Fouilloux, Reina Camacho, and Elio Campitelli.
Malvika Sharan was selected to join the NASA TOPS community panel for one year. Along with other members in the panel, she will advise on TOPS mission, plans, and future activities.
The NASA TOPs community panel serve as a representative of open science communities in these conversations; and speak to their experience with open science; lessons learned in conducting open science; and provide input on future steps to be taken by TOPS, TOPS partners, and the greater NASA science community. Malvika was also selected as the NASA TOPS OpenCore Subject Matter Expert to contribute to development of Open Results Curriculum to link resources from The Turing Way and her other work in Open Life Science.
Speed blogs written during Collaborations Workshop 2022 are now online. You can check them out at the Software Sustainability Institute's blog, written by core team members and members of the community of The Turing Way.
"How to be more GLAM-RS", written by Patricia Herterich, Jez Cope, Achintya Rao, Emma Karoune and Malvika Sharan wrote about how support for Research Software sustainability can support the Galleries/Libraries/Archives/Museums (GLAM) sector: https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2022-07-20-how-be-more-glam-rs
"Ethical governance in open source", written by Yo Yehudi, Arielle Bennett, Gemma Turon, Declan Bays, Sarah Gibson, Stephen Druskat, Yadira Sanchez and Sophia Batchelor wrote about ethical considerations for open source projects: https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2022-07-07-ethical-considerations-your-open-source-governance
The Turing Way was recently cited by Catapult Energy System's "Data Science: From Academic to Industry" report. The report focuses on how knowledge, tools and skills from research institutions can be used to facilitate the transition to Net Zero within the energy sector.
Alejandro Coca-Castro, co-lead of The Turing Way Translation and Localisation Team and founder of the Environmental Data Science Book presented at the launch event in July. Watch the recording of the online event here. Thank you for represnting The Turing Way in this space, and with your expertise
Andrea Sánchez-Tapia, co-lead of Translation and Localisation team recently co-authored a paper on "Ten simple rules to host an inclusive conference" with other organisers of the useR! stastical computing conference.
Authors include: Rocío Joo, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Dorothea Hug Peter, Batool Almazrouq, and Laura Ación. Congratulations, team! 🎉
Jennifer Ding, a Research Application Manager at the Alan Turing Institute and core team member of The Turing Way recently released a blog about defining how 'open' is used in 'open AI'. Her blog features The Turing Way as an example of how researchers can co-create a definition and practice of open AI that meets the needs of more communities. Congratulations, Jen! 🎉 Read the blog here.
- Andrea Sánchez-Tapia and Camila Rangel Smith participated in two pannels about "The Turing Way: translation and localisation" on 4 and 10 August: https://zenodo.org/record/7007685
- Hari Sood, Sophia Batchelor, Esther Plomp and Anne Lee Steele gave two interactive workshops at CarpentryCon called "Git Good: Using Github for Collaboration in Open Source Communities" on 2 and 10 August: https://zenodo.org/record/6997522
- Alden Conner gave a talk at UWE Bristol about "Impact through community: The Turing Way" at their Turing Networking Award group on 20 July: https://zenodo.org/record/6914444
- Arron Lacey and Emma Karoune gave a talk at the AIM-RSF knowledge share series at the Alan Turing Institute about "Reproducibility in health data research" on 25 July: https://zenodo.org/record/6895192
- Emma Karoune and Vicky Hellon gave a talk on "Reproducibility in practice: insights from The Turing Way" at the NHS Digital Reproducible Analytical Pipeline (RAP) Community on 22 July: https://zenodo.org/record/6849036
- Alejandro Coca-Castro gave a talk about "The Turing Way: A collaborative guide to data science and research" at the Data Science: From Academia to Industry event organised by Energy Systems Catapult on July 19: https://zenodo.org/record/6866185
- Malvika Sharan shared initial findings and updates from her project on open governance with Anne Lee Steele at the OLS-5 graduation, titled "Exploring Governance Models in Open Science Community Projects: Open Life Science Cohort 5 Project" on July 18: https://zenodo.org/record/6864146
- Esther Plomp and Emma Karoune gave a talk to the German Chapter of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) about "Removing Barriers to Reproducible Research in Archaeology" on July 1: https://zenodo.org/record/6784277
- Malvika Sharan and Emma Karoune gave a talk about "Open science for enabling reproducible, ethical and collaborative research: Insights from The Turing Way" at Southhampton's Open Science Festival on 25 June. https://zenodo.org/record/6737966
Throughout the month of August, Malvika and Anne have been working on planning efforts during what was called a "Turing Way Maintenance Week". You can read more about what this week tackled during this week in the Community Research update
The second core/organisational team meeting is planned for 9 September. From there, we will be undergoing a period of
Thank you to all for sharing The Turing Way within your communities, and repurposing these materials for your use. This is exactly what we are all about!
- https://twitter.com/Mimi_Nugget/status/1552649580516294656
- https://twitter.com/PHerterich/status/1563187741533163523
- https://twitter.com/KamradStephan/status/1548990924197400582
- https://twitter.com/Snehashish_22/status/1560237880173527040
- https://twitter.com/CambridgeC2D3/status/1549051894693212160
- https://twitter.com/Helena_LB/status/1546553294931300352
- Alan Turing Institute: Research Assistant, AI Standards
- ⏰ Apply by 5 September (apply here)
- 📍 London, UK
- mySociety: Action Lab
- ⏰ Apply by 5th September (apply here)
- 📍 Remote, UK-based learn more here
- Data Science for Health Equity: Community Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 5th September (apply here)
- 📍 Remote, UK-based learn more here
- Alan Turing Institute: Research Associate/Senior Research Associate, AI Standards
- ⏰ Apply by 8 September (apply here)
- 📍 London, UK
- Outreachy: Mentorship project submission
- ⏰ Apply by 9 September (apply here)
- 📍 Remote
- TU Delft: Open Science and Academic Skills Teacher
- ⏰ Apply by 11 September (apply here)
- 📍 Delft, Netherlands
- Invest in Open Infrastructure: Communications Associate
- ⏰ Apply by 12 September (apply here)
- 📍 London, UK
- Alan Turing Institute, Senior Community Manager, Data-Centric Engineering
- ⏰ Apply by 25 September (apply here)
- 📍 London, UK
- Data Science by Design: Reconnect
- ⏰ Apply by 30 September (learn more here)
- 📍 Remote
- Open Bioinformatics Foundation: Event Fellowship
- ⏰ Apply by 1 October (learn more here)
- 📍 Remote
- N8 CIR: Ally Skills Training by Open Life Science
- ⏰ Apply by 7 October (sign up here)
- 📍 Remote
- PREreview: Community Manager
- ⏰ Rolling (apply here)
- 📍 Remote
- PREreview: Project Manager
- ⏰ Rolling (apply here)
- 📍 Remote
- US Research Software Sustainability Institute: Community Manager
- ⏰ Rolling (apply here)
- 📍 Remote, US-based
- Research Data Netherlands: Dutch data prize, netherlands, 3500 euros, 30 sept
- ⏰ Apply by 30th September (apply here)
- 📍 Netherlands learn more here
- Research Software Engineering Conference 2022
- 🗓️ 6 - 8 September (Newcastle, UK, tickets here)
- Open Work in Academia Summit
- 🗓️ 7 - 9 September (Rochester, UK, register here)
- Open Data Institute: Strategic Data Skills Course
- 🗓️ 14 September - 7 November 14:00 BST
- ⏰ Sign up here
- 📍 Remote, UK-based
- Open Access Week
- 🗓️ 24 - 30 October (Worldwide, info here)
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If you are interested in joining our community, or learning more about the project, don't forget that we have our Community Co-working calls on Mondays, Collaboration Cafes every first and third Wednesdays and Fireside chats monthly.
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