Book Dash Applications are open, and stay tuned for our upcoming Fireside Chat!
Explore The Turing Way Book and connect with us via our start page.
As the year continues, The Turing Way community is bringing back our regularly scheduled programming... and a whole lot more!
- 📚💨 Our 9th bi-annual Book Dash will be taking place in May 2023. Host a local hub, attend virtually, applications are open for participants and hubs!
- 👋 Check out our new welcome page here, and share the link with your networks!
- 🔥 Save the date for our upcoming Fireside Chat called "Reflect, unlearn, reframe: Community care in times of digital burnout" on 31 March, 14:00 UTC+1 (in your timezone)! (sign up on Eventbrite)
- ✍️ Apply to The Turing Way Senior Research Fellow position (here) by 12 March.
- 📢 Join us at Mozilla Fest, Open Data Day(s), & AI-UK (see more below)!
As usual, you can find more updates and opportunities in the 'Community News' and 'Opportunities in The Turing Way orbit' sections below. To keep up to date with community events, you can also subscribe to our shared calendar here. 📅
If you're interested in keeping up in real-time, don't forget that you can always join our Slack workspace, follow the project on Twitter, or join us on Fosstodon.
Community News and Updates
Illustration by Scriberia showing community as a garden and members as gardeners. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
Apply for the Senior Research Associate position
The Turing Way is hiring a Senior Research Associate. The Turing Way was recently awarded funding to establish The Turing Way Practitioners Hub to involve and support domain experts from different sectors (such as academia, industry, government, research organisations and the public) applying data science. The Senior Research Associate will lead collaborative research and strategic development of the Practitioners Hub, implementing best practices for reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science working adjacent to The Turing Way. Visa sponsorship to work in the UK is possible.
- Read more here
- ⏰ Apply by 12 March 2023
Fireside Chats are returning for the 2023 season!
Our Fireside Chat series is resuming this year! The first event of this month will be taking pleace on 31 March, 14:00-15:30 UTC+1 (see in your time zone) on the topic Reflect, Unlearn, Reframe: Community care in times of digital burnout.
Facilitated by Patricia Herterich (Open Life Science) and Eirini Zormpa (The Alan Turing Institute), this panel will feature insights from Mayya Sundukova (Open Life Science), Chris Hartgerink (Liberate Science) and one more Agnes Kiragga (African Population Health Research Council).
Join us, and sign up on Eventbrite here.
Book Dash 2023: calls for applications
Save the Date! Our First Book Dash of 2023 will be taking place on 22-26 May 2023. Take a look at these tweets or toots to learn more.
Host a Local Hub
The Turing Way invites you to submit your interest for organising an in-person event during the next Book Dash in May 2023. The deadline for submission is 20 March 2023. Local hub form: https://forms.gle/T3ZY5sXrkmjaydMf7
Please let us know if you are interested in hosting a local event in your organisation/city during the Book Dash week. Upon review, applicants will receive more information from The Turing Way team, who will guide local hosts in their organisational work on a case-by-case basis.
Attend Book Dash
We have opened the call for application to participate in the upcoming Book Dash. The deadline for local hub submission is 3 April 2023. Application form for attendees: https://forms.gle/LL5SN3RdGXVEzNbi7
If you have previously interacted with the project or our community, and have always wanted to make more time to collaborate with us on your ideas, send us your application. Previous Book Dash attendees are also invited to express their interest to join us back as contributors, mentors for new participants and/or as a Book Dash Planning Committee member.
You can use the template document to prepare your draft. Learn more about the Book Dash and the application process.
Open Book Dash Q&A at Collab Cafe
Join us at our next Collaboration Cafe, where we'll be hosting an open Q&A about the Book Dash. Find the joining details here.
Upcoming events
📅 Check out our new events calendar to learn more about what is happening in the community.
✨ If you are attending an event and would like to meet folks from across the community, please include that in this pad.
Attend the Turing's Annual AI-UK (21-22 March)
AI-UK is the UK's national showcase of data science and artificial intelligence (AI). Hosted by The Alan Turing Institute, AI UK 2023 will be an in-depth exploration of how data science and AI can be used to solve real-world challenges. If you are attending this event, do get in touch with The Turing Way team who are delivering talks, panel and exhibitions at the conference (email Anne).
Learn more about this event here, and grab your ticket -- we hope you will join us either in person or online!
Join us at Open Data Day (9 March) and Mozilla Festival (24 March)!
This year, both the Mozilla Festival (21-24 March) and Open Data Days (4-10 March) are organising events around the topic of Artificial Intelligence in various contexts.
Join Jen and Anne, who will be giving an interactive workshop about responsible use of data while building ML models for Open Data Days on 9 March from 14:30-15:15 UTC. Learn more and sign up here. To learn more about other events during Open Data Days, visit their website.
Join Jen and Yacine, supported by Anne in a talk and workshop about the workshop about responsible use of data while building ML models at Mozilla Festival Online, on 24 March from 14-15 UTC. Learn more and sign up here. To learn more about MozFest and how to grab a ticket, visit their website.
Recurring Community Calls ☕
All are welcome to these calls, no sign-up is needed! ✨
- Collaboration Cafe: The next calls are on 15 March and 15 March, 14:00-16:00 UTC (see in your time zone). Feel free to drop in to meet the community, do some focused writing, or otherwise -- see this HackMD for more information.
- Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (in your time zone). -- see this HackMD for more information. These calls are for co-working on translation and localisation efforts across several languages, and for learning more about the work of the team.
- Community Chats: Last Friday of every month, usually 16:00-17:00 UTC (but dependent on speaker and organiser availability). We alternate between Fireside Chats in a panel format and informal conversations. Follow us on Eventbrite to be alerted about upcoming events.
Try out our new welcome page!
The Turing Way now has a welcome page! Inspired by the GOSH Community's welcome page, we have created our own as a starting point for new and returning community members. Check it out here, and let us know what you think!
Feature on NHS-R Podcast
Arron Lacey, Malvika Sharan, and Anne Lee Steele were recently featured on the NHS-R Community podcast about The Turing Way and the importance of reproducibility in the health field, organised and run by Chris Beeley. You can listen to it here. Thank you so much for inviting us!
Welcome to our new Research Project Manager!
A warm welcome to Alexandra Araujo Alvarez, our new Research Project Manager for The Turing Way! Alex is from Peru, and was previously a Research Project Manager at an arts research centre that connected academics, artists, and policymakers with a focus on mental health and wellbeing. She brings a wide range of experiences with project management to The Turing Way, and we are excited to see how her expertise will enable us to improve and processes, and grow as a community. Alex will be primarily support the development of our upcoming Practitioner's Hub, amongst other projects. We are so excited to welcome her to the team, and have already noted her positive effects upon our community. Welcome, Alex!
Illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
Help Wanted
There are plenty of ways of getting involved in The Turing Way project: see below for a couple of ideas.
Beginner-friendly ⭐
- Anything tagged good first issue or good-first-PR is a good place to start.
- Join the Reviewers & Editors group in curating stale issues for projects, chapter ideas, and other work that are beginner-friendly for the community.
- Fix the hyperlinks in the CONTRIBUTING.md guide for inclusivity
Chapter ideas 💡
- Contribute to a new chapter idea about on and offboarding lab members
- Along similar lines, contribute to a new chapter on creating an inclusive lab culture
- Contribute to an upcoming chapter on the environmental impact of open research
- Join the discussion on reorganising the Research Data Management chapters
- Add to a new chapter on literate programming
Reviewers wanted 📚
- Review an overview of reusing code by creating software packages.
- Review a PR that reorganises the chapter on version control for datasets
Infrastructure questions 🛠️
- Should we use conda for dependency management?
- Help to fix a bug in rendering the book
- Give your feedback on a proposal about auto-generating a figure list
It's been a busy few months of talks by and with community leaders. As always, you can find an ongoing record in our Zenodo Community page.
Talks and Workshops
- Malvika Sharan gave a keynote about "Buildling an equitable world with open source" at ITT at XPECTO'23 hosted by IIT-Mandi on 3 March: Zenodo link
- Emma Karoune and Anne Lee Steele gave a workshop on "FAIR Principles and Open Research" for the Centres for Doctoral Training at University of Cambridge on 15 February: Zenodo link
- Kirstie Whitaker gave a keynote about "Revolutionising Team Science with Research Infrastructure Roles" at the RSE in Data & AI Workshop hosted by Warwick University and The Alan Turing Institute on 18 February: Zenodo link
- Malvika Sharan gave a talk about "Investing in Research Infrastructure roles" at State of Open Con on 8 February: Zenodo link
- Emma Karoune, Malvika Sharan, and Anne Lee Steele ran a booth at State of Open Con on 7 & 8 February.
- Susana Roman Garcia and Anne Lee Steele gave a workshop about reproducibility in research on 8 February: Zenodo link
- Anne Lee Steele gave a talk about "The Turing Way and reproducibility" at FOSDEM on 4 February: Zenodo link
Tweets, Toots, & Mentions
- Tweet by Patricia Herterich: https://twitter.com/PHerterich/status/1631242896186785792
- Toot by Danny Garside: https://fosstodon.org/@da5nsy/109623113444951521
- Tweet by Chris Hartgerink: https://twitter.com/chartgerink/status/1631214807239086087
- Tweet by Environmental Data Science Book: https://twitter.com/EnvDSbook/status/1632826150975164421
- Toot by Paul Marrow: https://fosstodon.org/@evopma@ecoevo.social
In The Turing Way Orbit
Superbloom: Survey for Usable Software Ecosystem Research
Funded by the Sloan Foundation, our friends at Superbloom (formerly Simply Secure) are researching how scientific open source software teams understand, consider, and undertake usability and design initiatives in their projects. They are seeking responses to a brief survey, in order to get a broad range of insights and opinions from the open source scientific software ecosystem. The project is titled “Usable Software Ecosystem Research” or “USER” for short. They are investigating:
- How norms in academic, science, and/or open source working environments affect the choices teams make around their users and different kinds of design interventions
- How team dynamics and trust affects those choices
- What teams would need to be interested in or able to prioritize usability in their work.
Other opportunities
- Job: Genomics England: Open Source Manager
- ⏰ Applications are rolling
- 📍 Location: London, UK
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: TU Delft: Project lead discipline-specific data guidelines
- ⏰ Apply by 10 March 2023
- 📍 Location: Hybrid, Netherlands-based
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: TU Delft: Data Manager - iRODS pilot
- ⏰ Apply by 10 March 2023
- 📍 Location: Hybrid, Netherlands-based
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: TU Delft: Trainer on Research Data Management & Digital skills (3 vacancies)
- ⏰ Apply by 10 March 2023
- 📍 Location: Hybrid, Netherlands-based
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: TU Delft: Data Steward (Library)
- ⏰ Apply by 10 March 2023
- 📍 Location: Hybrid, Netherlands-based
- 🔗 Read Details)
- Job: TU Delft: Data Manager (3 vacancies)
- ⏰ Apply by 10 March 2023
- 📍 Location: Hybrid, Netherlands-based
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Stockholm University: SciLifeLab, Bioinformaticians (2 vacancies)
- ⏰ Apply by 20 March 2023
- 📍 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- 🔗 Read Details
- Fellowship: The Maintainers
- ⏰ Apply by 29 March 2023
- 📍 Location: Remote
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: DataKind: Data Science Project Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 31 March 2023
- 📍 Location: Hybrid, UK-based
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Bellingcat: Tech Community Facilitator
- ⏰ Apply by 15 May 2023
- 📍 Location: Remote
- 🔗 Read Details
For more events, subscribe to the Open Research Calendar.
Get involved + Connect with us!
You are welcome to join The Turing Way community, and learn more about the project.
- About the project
- The Turing Way book
- HackMD Intro Page
- Welcome Page
- GitHub repository
- Slack Workspace
- Mastodon profile
- YouTube Channel
- Twitter profile
If you'd like to contribute to the next newsletter, please email Anne Lee Steele at asteele@turing.ac.uk! Feel free to send her a message on Slack, or book some time in on Anne's calendly to say hello.
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