Call for application for the upcoming Book Dash, GSoC 2021 proposal and new community resources
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Hello Turing Way friends!
As we enter the second quarter of the year, we hope you are keeping well! 😇
In this newsletter we highlight:
- 📚 call for application to the upcoming Book Dash (17-21 May) - deadline is 15 April 2021,
- ☀️ proposal ideas from Google Summer of Code (GSoC) candidates are welcome,
- 🏗 learn about open source projects building upon The Turing Way,
- 🥁 shout out to many community members for delivering talks, workshops and discussions at various events.
Thanks to Ismael Kherroubi Garcia and Kirstie Whitaker for reviewing this newsletter.
We are sending spring wishes from The Turing Way community. 🌸
Find more details on these topics below 👇
Community Meetings
Join the upcoming Book Dash event: 17 - 21 May 2021
Kirstie Whitaker tweeting to invite applications and joining Collaboration Cafes to clarify questions.
Applications can be submitted until 15 April 2021 by responding to this online form. A few points to note:
- It takes an average of 30 minutes to prepare an application. Therefore, we have provided a template document to help you work on your application draft locally before you submit it.
- Successful participants will be provided with a budget to pay for any accessibility and participation related requirements including subsistence cost. You can see details in this report from the last Book Dash.
- We invite our previous attendees to join to mentor new participants at one of the sessions. Please go ahead and fill the form indicating your interest in co-facilitating the event.
Regular community calls
Collaboration Cafes are taking place on 07 April (first Wednesday) and 21 April (third Wednesday) 2021 from 15:00 to 17:00 GMT (See in your timezone). You can find more details in this shared document: https://hackmd.io/@turingway/collaboration-cafe.
Co-working Calls are taking place in Eastern Time Zones on Monday from 11:00 to 12:00 GMT (next call in your timezone) and in Western Time Zones on Wednesdays from 15:00 to 16:00 GMT (next call in your timezone) when Collaboration Cafés are not scheduled. Please find the dates and connection details for the upcoming calls: https://hackmd.io/@turingway/coworking-call.
Onboarding calls will continue to take place on Fridays from 15:00 to 16:00 GMT (next call in your timezone). You can more details on this shared HackMD: https://hackmd.io/@turingway/chat-onboard. Please sign-up to join one of the upcoming calls. You are also welcome to lead one of these sessions - get in touch with the team members to express your interest (email: theturingway@gmail.com).
Laura Acion tweeting about The Turing Way onboarding call in Spanish to invite members to learn about the project.
News from the community
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 participation
The Turing Way is accepting proposals from interested student developers (GSoC candidates) to write their application to work on the project. You can find details on the GitHub issue and Neurostars.
New chapters
FAIR principles: Thanks to Esther Plomp, Emma Karoune and Ismael Kherroubi-Garcia for writing and reviewing the chapter on FAIR principles.
Research Activism: Laura Carter, Arielle Bennett-Lovell and Asha Titus co-wrote the first draft of the chapter Activism in Research, and they invite you to contribute by adding case studies and examples from your work.
Image by Scriberia and The Turing Way community from a previous Book Dash, Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4323154.
Request for Review: We have several chapters currently waiting to be reviewed in the Pull Requests. Specifically, we invite you to comment on the draft chapter on Ways to Enter The Turing Way, Research outreach, Leadership in Data Science. Many small edits have been made by new contributors, which are ideal places to start if you want to test your reviewing skills on GitHub.
Relevant resources
Projects building upon The Turing Way
We are always happy to learn about Open Source projects that are built upon the project model developed and practised within The Turing Way. Below, we are highlighting some of those projects that might be useful for you.
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UK Government Analytical Community. (2020). Quality assurance of code for analysis and research (version 2021.3). Office for National Statistics, Best Practice and Impact division: https://best-practice-and-impact.github.io/qa-of-code-guidance/
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A Citizen Science Guide for Research Libraries, From the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group. https://github.com/CitSci-WG/guide.
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Turing Data Stories. Beavan, D., Rangel Smith, C., Van Stroud, S. and Xu K. Turing Data Stories, 2020. https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/TuringDataStories.
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FAIR Cookbook, https://fairplus.github.io/the-fair-cookbook, Rocca-Serra, P. (University of Oxford) Sansone, S. A., (University of Oxford) Splendiani, A., (Novartis) Giessman, R. (Bayer AG) and FAIRplus Consortium Members
If you have been developing your project up on The Turing Way in any capacity, we would love to learn and share your work with our community members.
Citation and References
- Culina, A., van den Berg, I., Evans, S., & Sánchez-Tójar, A. (2020). Low availability of code in ecology: A call for urgent action. PLoS Biol., 18(7), e3000763. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000763.
- Research Data Management 1 day workshop (Version 1). El-Gebali, Sara. (2021, February), Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4562630.
- Peikert, A., & Brandmaier, A. M. (2020). A Reproducible Data Analysis Workflow with R Markdown, Git, Make, and Docker. PsyArXiv. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8xzqy
- Data science boosts Trusts' ability to manage ambulance demand. (2021, March 11).
- Data collection tips and resources, Wellcome Open Research.
- Fair-AI - Fair Artificial Intelligence in Education, Nemorin, S.
- The Certificate in Reproducible Research is a joint study program of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
Acknowledgements and celebrations
Contributor in focus: Batool Almarzouq
Batool Almarzouq is the founder of R-Ladies in Saudi Arabia (Dammam) and is currently developing a local network for increasing open science awareness. She has a PhD in bioinformatics from the University of Liverpool and has extensive experience in pharmacology, biochemistry and structural biology. She enjoys applying deep learning to answer biological questions and supports the infrastructure-related aspects in The Turing Way.
Batool has become a part of our core contributing team ever since she participated in the Book Dash in November 2020, she shares:
“This was such an amazing experience. It helped me to develop my technical skills. Thank you so much to everyone I met in this Book Dash event.”
Updates from Collaboration Workshop 2021
Several of The Turing Way community members are attending the Collaboration Workshop 2021 this week. Chaired by Rachael Ainsworth, the Software Sustainability Institute team members managed to deliver yet another exciting and engaging virtual unconference. We especially recommend watching the keynotes by Michelle Barker and Chonnettia Jones (video), and panel discussion chaired by Becca Wilson (video).
You can get the latest update from the event under Twitter hashtag #CollabW21. Some of our highlights involving The Turing Way members are the following:
- Arielle Bennett-Lovell presented a lightning talk inviting contributions to the Activism chapter in the Guide of Ethical Research.
- Emma Karoune, Batool Almarzouq and Malvika Sharan hosted a short workshop demonstrating the online book, specifically highlighting our plans for the Guide for Project Design. They invite your contributions under issue #1837.
- Yo Yehudi, Arielle Bennett-Lovell, Laura Carter and Malvika Sharan were part of winning teams for scoping Collaborative Ideas for the hack day.
- Emma Karoune, Daisy Parry, Jez Cope, Laura Carter, Patricia Herterich and Sarah Gibson contributed to different projects on Hack Day.
- Aida Mehonic and Esther Plomp also attended the conference and participated in discussion and workshop demo sessions.
Recent Workshops
- Sarah Gibson, Emma Karoune, Martina G. Vilas and Sophia Batchelor delivered a workshop at the Research Software Camp hosted by the Software Sustainability Institute on 2 March 2021. You can find the slides on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/4573146. They also wrote a summary that is available online on the SSI blog page
Illustration from the SSI blog on Binder capturing the workshop The Turing Way team ran at the Research Software Camps 2021
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Kirstie, Malvika and Sarah delivered a 2-day workshop on reproducibility, open science, collaboration and communication for the graduate students in The Alan Turing Institute. All slides are available on Zenodo: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4623778.
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Batool Almarzouq, Emma Karoune and Malvika Sharan hosted a workshop at the Collaboration Workshop 2021 under the title ‘Good Practices for Designing Software Development Projects (The Turing Way)’. The presentation with discussion prompts are available on Zenodo: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4650221.
Presentations and Talks
- Sarah Gibson presented two talks on Binder at the ReproHack event on 09 March 2021 (Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4581098) and for the COMPUTE research school at Lund University on 22 March 2021 (Zenodo: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4625924).
- On 2 March 2021, Malvika presented a talk at Open Research - A vision for the future hosted by the RIOT Club, under the title “Ten arguments against open science that you can win”. (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4572985).
- On 24 March 2021, Malvika discussed the open source community-building aspects of The Turing Way at the Reproducible Analytical Pipeline champions network meetup (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4633118) and participated in a DORA webinar discussing assessment challenges related to contributions to research reproducibility and open science (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4633185).
Twitter Mentions
1 Tweet by Emily Lewis about the CW21 workshop about The Turing Way she attended. 2 Tweet by Batool Almarzouq, who was co-facilitator of the CW21 workshop. 3 Tweet by SSI about the Binder workshop delivered by The Turing Way team during Research Software Camp 2021. 4 Tweet by Ismael Kherroubi Garcia about a presentation (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4603091) he gave with the AutSpaces team. 5 Tweet by Heidi Siebold highlighting the usefulness of our community handbook. 6 Chris Tomlinson quote Tweeting Isabel Birds tweet about The Turing Way workshop they attended.*
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