Join our Fireside Chat 'Implementing Open Science at Scale', Countdown to our May Book Dash and more
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Join our Fireside Chat 'Implementing Open Science at Scale', Countdown to our May Book Dash and more
Hello and welcome to our April Newsletter, curated by me: Alexandra, the The Turing Way Research Project Manager, with the support of the amazing The Turing Way team.
Below are some of the highlight of what you can find in this edition.
- 🔥 Join our next Fireside Chat 'Implementing open science at scale' chaired by NASA's Transform to OPen Science (TOPS) and The Turing Way on the 5 May 2023
- 📚💨 Countdown for our Book Dash, happening from the 22nd to 26th of May, with participants from over 10 countries. Some community events for you all to join too!
- 📢 The Turing Way Practitioners Hub team attended the Bridge AI Launch event on 25 April 2023
Carry on reading this newsletter for 'Community News', 'Opportunities' and more updates from The Turing Way community.
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, please check out our Welcome page, join our Slack workspace, follow the project on Twitter, or join us on Fosstodon.
Community News and Updates
Fireside Chat: Implementing open science at scale
This month, Chelle Gentemann from NASA's Transform to OPen Science (TOPS) and Malvika from The Turing Way will host a panel with Ana Persic (UNESCO Open Science), Nokuthula Mchunu (National Research Foundation, Africa Open Science Platform), Steve Crawford (NASA) and Alex Mendonça (SciELO Brasil).
- When: Friday 5 May 2023, from 14:00 - 15:30 pm see in your time zone
- Eventbrite Registration here
Recommendations, infrastructures, expert services, policies, government buy-in, grassroots advocacies or combinations of several of these -- what has worked in different geographical contexts? Highlighting these initiatives led and facilitated by our speakers, we will discuss the convening role of UNESCO, 25 years of SciELO's open access efforts, over 5 years of pan African Open Science Platform and the 2023 NASA's 'Year of Open Science' to drive the implementation of open science at various scales.
The Turing Way Book Dash is happening this month!
From the 22nd to 26th May, The Turing Way will host its 9th Book Dash. Contributors from over 10 countries will work virtually together in improving and developing new book sections. 🌍
Two hubs will be open for in-person collaborations, in London, UK and Delft, The Netherlands.
If you missed the application deadline, there are other ways to engage:
Github Training for beginners: 📅 When: Thursday 11th May, from 17:00 to 18:00 pm UK time (see in your time zone)
📍 Where: Register on Eventbrite
Community Share-out and Contributor Celebrations
📅 When: 26 May 2023, The Turing Way team is hosting two Community Share-out and Contributor Celebration sessions at 11:00 and 17:00 UK Time.
📍 Where: Register on Eventbrite -- attend one or both sessions to learn what recent updates have been made in the project and celebrating the incredible work of our contributors.
Recurring Community Calls ☕
Join us at our other regular Community Calls
All are welcome to these calls, no sign-up is needed! ✨
- Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 3 and 17 May 2023, 15:00-17:00 UK time. Join us for a Community Chat in the main room, and work on your own projects in break-out rooms! -- Find details in this HackMD.
- Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: every second 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.
- Fireside Chats: Last Friday of bimonthly - time and dates are dependent on speakers and organisers availability). Follow us on Eventbrite to be alerted about upcoming events.
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub at BridgeAI Launch Event
The Turing Way team members Malvika and Alexandra, attended the BridgeAI Launch event on 26 April 2023 to represent the Practiitioners Hub a forum for cross-sector engagement, knowledge exchange and strategic collaboration with organisations across different sectors . Our partnering organisation, Digital Catapult, will be identifying 2-3 Small-Medium Enterprises to be onboarded in the first cohort of Practitioners Hub.
BridgeAI Funding Opportunity: Feasibility studies for Artificial Intelligece
As part of the overall BridgeAI programme, Innovate UK is investing up to £5 million in grant funding to support collaborative feasibility studies for AI solutions across a range of key industry sectors, including Agriculture and food processing, Construction, Creative Industries and Transport (including logistics and warehousing).
Are you looking for ways to boost productivity and solve challenges in your business? Or, do you have an innovative AI solution that could benefit businesses operating in high-growth potential sectors? If yes, then this competition is for you.
📅 Registration closes on 24 May 2023, 11:00 am (UK Time). Find all the information: here
Meeting Turing Way Members In Person!
Last month, many of The Turing Way members met in person in Buenos Aires during the Open Science Workshop in Latin America, organised by CZI with the support from Our colleagues from MetaDocencia based in Argentina. They also attended the CSV,Conf during the same week where Melissa Black, Esther Plomp and Malvika gave a talk Co-creating The Turing Way with global community.
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Connect at the 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
Collaborations Workshop (2-4 May 2023)
The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop 2023 (CW23) is taking place as a hybrid event in Manchester, UK from Tuesday 2 May - Thursday 4 May 2023.
The Turing Way members and collaborators will be hosting the following sessions:
Day 1: Tuesday, 2 May 2023
"Pathways to Sustainability for Research Projects and Outputs"
- Facilitators: Hari Sood and Anne Lee Steele (The Alan Turing Institute)
"Communities of practice and the pursuit for Open science on a global scale"
- Facilitators: Reina Camacho Toro (CNRS/CERN, LA-CoNGA physics), Camila Rangel (The Alan Turing Institute) and Nicolás Palopoli (National University of Quilmes, Metadocencia)
Day 2: Wednesday, 3 May 2023
"Research Infrastructure Roles: Perspectives, Paths, and Lived Experiences"
- Facilitators: Anne Steele and Emma Karoune (Alan Turing Institute)
Research Object Hub (RoHub) for FAIR research data management and Open Science in practice
- Facilitators: Anne Fouilloux (Simula Research Laboratory), Alejandro Coca-Castro (The Alan Turing Institute) and Jean Iaquinta (The University of Oslo)
Check out the full agenda here
Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2023 (15-17 May 2023)
The University of Edinburgh Library Research Support Team and grassroots organisation Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea are once again joining forces to run the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2023.
Open Research as a Tool for Addressing Global Challenges will run the following days:
- Monday 15 May 2023, 13:00 – 16:00 (BST) : Workshops, in-person only
- Tuesday 16 May 2023, 09:00 – 17:00 (BST): Conference, hybrid
- Wednesday 17 May 2023, 09:00 – 1300 (BST): Workshops, in-person only
The Turing Way team will be presenting a session on 16 May 2023 from 13:30 - 14:30 UK time.
- Topic: "Research Infrastructure Roles: Assembling Research Teams to Address Global Challenge"
- Facilitators: Alden Conner, Eirini Zormpa and Rachael Stickland (The Alan Turing Institute)
Reserve your spot here
For more events, subscribe to the Open Research Calendar.
If you want us to promote your future events in the upcoming Newsletters, send me (Alex) an email or Anne with the info. The #events channel on Slack is also a great option to promote community events.
Community News
Illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
Festival of Hidden REF (Thursday 21 September 2023), Bristol, UK
On 21st September 2023, the “Festival of Hidden REF” will bring together communities of vital-but-unrecognised roles alongside policymakers to work on building a more effective and fairer system of evaluating success in research.
Please see the blog post below for more information https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2023-03-31-help-us-create-more-effective-and-fairer-assessment-research-success
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Blog post: Can National Research and Education Networks be a focal point for Research Software Engineers in some regions?
Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal explores thoughts on the potential role of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in promoting the growth of a Research Software Engineering (RSE) community in Asia-Pacific. The significance of this lies in the fact that NRENs have not traditionally been significantly involved in supporting RSE groups in other regions.
How should an Open Research Infrastructure organisation spend USD 130,000?
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) have started a collective funding pilot last year with the goal to experiment with and learn from building a more collective, open and transparent funding process, in which they serve real community needs through centring the voices of those who are most impacted by/under-represented in funding decision-making.
They are now running a 15-min design survey and would love to invite you and those in your networks to help inform how this funding will be distributed. You can also express interest in joining the advisory panels for the funding calls we aim to launch in mid-May.
Read more + fill in the survey (survey deadline: May 8 2023):
For more events, subscribe to the Open Research Calendar.
Talks and Workshops
- Eirini Zormpa attended the BCSCWomen Lovelace Colloquium (Sheffield, UK) on 13 April 2023.
- Esther Plomp gave a talk "A manifesto for Rewarding and Recognising Team Infrastructure Roles at Force 2023 on 18 April 2023. Zenodo link
- Bastian Greshake attended the CZI Meeting in Buenos Aires, and presented his work with Transbiome project and AutSPACEs at the Turing.
- Alejandro Coca-Castro and Alden Conner gave a presentation on the Climate Informatics Panel on the 19 April 2023.
- Melissa Black, Esther Plomp and Malvika Sharan gave a talk titled "Co-creating The Turing Way with global community” on csv, CONF on 19 April 2023. Zenodo link
- Arron Lacey and Eirini Zormpa hosted a Seminar on "Building MLOPs tools accross Data Science Communities", with Julia Silge (Posit) and Ella Kay (Warwick University) on 20 April 2023.
- Anne Lee Steele and Malvika Sharan gave a keynote on UCL Open Science and the Case for Social Justice on 24 April 2023 titled "Emerging roles of open leadership in research: Insights from The Turing Way". Zenodo
- Emma Karoune and Vicky Hellon gave a talk on Reproducibility in practice: insights from The Turing Way at UK Health Security Agency Software Community of Practice on Tuesday 25 April 2023. Zenodo
Tweets, Toots, & Mentions
- Toot by Julia Silge Link to toot
- Toot by Dr Nicky Garland - Link to toot
- Toot by Yani Bellini Saibene - Link to toot
- Tweet by EDS Book - Link to tweet
- Tweet by Katie McDonough - Link to tweet
In The Turing Way Orbit
Roles at The Turing
- 👉Lead Research Data Scientist – Edge AI
- 💰 £62,666 - £67,200/yr
- 🗓️ 07 May 2023
- 👉Senior Research Associates (x2), Turing-Roche partnership
- 💰 £53,576 -£55,125/yr
- 🗓️ 10 May 2023
- 👉Research Assistant - Systems, Security and Machine Learning
- 💰£40,148/yr
- 🗓️ 21 May 2023
- 👉Research Associate - Online Safety
- 💰£42,893 - £48,510 /yr
- 🗓️ 21 May 2023
- 👉Research Project Manager, Defence and Security Programme
- 💰£40,950/yr
- 🗓️ 28 May 2023
- 👉Research Associate in Computational Biology (in partnership with the Earlham Institute)
- 💰£42,893 - £48,510/yr
- 🗓️25 May 2023
Visit The Alan Turing career page to access to more opportunities.
Other opportunities
- Job: University of Leeds - Research Fellow in Information Visualization
- ⏰ Apply by 3 May 2023
- 📍 Location: Leeds - Main Campus
- 💰 £36,333 to £43,1550/yr
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Crossref - Community Engagement Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 12 May 2023
- 📍 Location: Remote and global (with regular working in European timezones)
- 💰 EUR 58,000-70,000/yr (EUR)
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Ashland University - Research Coordinator, Psychology - College of Arts and Sciences
- ⏰ Apply by May 2023
- 📍 Location: The Ashland University International Collaboration Research Center (AUICRC)
- 🔗 Read Details
- Conference: Third IASSIST Africa Regional Workshop 2023: Submissions open
- ⏰ Apply by 31 May 2023
- 🔗 Read Details
- Conference: Mozilla House (Round Tables, Workshops, Installations)
- ⏰ 19-21 June, 2023
- 📍 Location: Amsterdam
- 🔗 Read Details
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
- Welcome Page (A great place to start!)
- GitHub repository
- Slack Workspace
- Mastodon profile
- YouTube Channel
- Twitter profile
If you'd like to contribute to the next newsletter, please email me @aaraujo.alvarez@turing.ac.uk or Anne Lee Steele at asteele@turing.ac.uk! Feel free to send a message on Slack, or book some time in on Anne's calendly to say hello.
Be safe, be open and have a great May.
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