Last chance to apply for Book Dash, Join us at our 5 Year Birthday Celebrations at Collaborations Workshop, Catch up on Community events & more!
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This April newsletter is full of updates, celebrations, and upcoming projects as always – another busy month with The Turing Way community!
🎂 Join us at our birthday celebrations at Collaborations Workshop in-person and online – thank you for 5 years of The Turing Way!
📚💨 Apply to join our next Book Dash in June, applications for participants have been extended until 30 April, which is TONIGHT!
💡 Our Practitioners Hub's Expression-of-Interest form to join the second cohort of Experts in Residence and the Network of Advisors is open until 30 May 2024
☎️ The next onboarding call is on 29 May, 15:00 UK time - save it in your calendar and sign-up to join
📺 Watch back the recordings from our April Community Forum and The Practitioners Hub events from March
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 and Fosstodon, or follow us on Linkedin.
You can also find all of these links on our start page.
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.
Applications for Book Dash close TONIGHT!
This is your last chance to get applications in for Book Dash: due 30 April 2024, wherever you are in the world - an extension from 26 April.
This upcoming Book Dash will take place from 3 to 7 June 2024, in various time zones and local hubs.
👉 Send your applications via this Google form
All are welcome! If you have been a part of our community or have a passion for collaboration to improve data science practices or The Turing Way itself, we would love for you to join us.
Apply to work with us on your ideas or join us again as a returning contributor and/or mentor.
The application deadline is 30 April – TODAY!
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Join the Practitioners Hub as Experts in Residence or Advisors
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub is inviting Expressions of Interest (EoI) from organisations, small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) and industry experts engaged in data science and AI to work with us.
With a focus on implementing best practices in data science and AI initiatives in their own organisations, practitioners from various sectors will engage in this cohort-based programme between September 2024 and February 2025.
The deadline for registering your interest is 30 May 2024.
👉 EoI form for SMEs and Organisations
EoI to join Network of Advisors
We are also accepting interest from individuals to join our network of advisors who will engage with our project and cohort activities.
Advisors will bring real-world expertise that can benefit small and medium enterprises interested in implementing best practices in data science and AI initiatives in their organisations.
Read more about the project to evaluate how you can contribute or participate in the second cohort - visit our website. For any further information, feel free to reach out to The Turing Way team.
Join us at Collaboration Workshop for our 5 Year Anniversary Workshop and Celebrations!
This week, The Turing Way community will be hosting a workshop celebrating 5 years at Collaborations Workshop 2024 (CW24) at Warwick University and online.
We have long roots at Collaborations Workshop, and were were first launched at CW19 as a lightly opinionated guide to data science!
In line with CW24's theme, we will be facilitating a showcase and discussions on the topics relating code testing, environmental impact of digital research and inclusive events.
Join us if you are planning to attend CW24, please do attend the workshop for a chance to join the shared reflection, a 'happy birthday' chorus and sharing a cake (for in person participants). 🧁 Learn more on the Github issue (#3551).
Also, join the discussion on how we should celebrate 5 years of our amazing community and project, also on Github and Slack.
Watch back our April 2024 Community Forum
Thank you for joining us on 23 April for our second Community Forum of 2024.
You can now watch the recording on YouTube
This forum was organised with a renewed format planned by Kirstie and Malvika that brought people into breakout rooms to give space for deeper and smaller discussion of the presented plans. The slide deck, notes and links from this call are on Framapad (which will be archived on GitHub): https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/TTW-Forum-23April.
There are many wonderful people to thank for organising and facilitating this call:
Danny Garside for facilitating this call (0:00 onwards!)
Jim Madge and Sarah Gibson for sharing about the Infrastructure Working Group (06:30)
Malvika for sharing a proposal for a Communications Working Group (join us for the discussion on this proposal at the Collaboration Cafe on 15 May!) (20:20)
Alexandra for presenting exciting updates about the Bridge AI and The Turing Way Practitioners Hub (don't forget that the Expression of Interest forms are open!) (32:05)
Winny Nekesa for reminding us about the Book Dash deadline (43:16)
Anne for providing tech and community support
Finally thank YOU (the cross-community pollinators 🐝) for joining us – it was wonderful to see many familiar and new faces! 💗
Your inputs and participation are much appreciated in this new community space.
Save the Dates for Community Forums in 2024
Save the dates for future Community Forum calls planned for 2024:
Thursday 11 July (15:00 - 16:30) - In your time zone
Thursday 03 Oct (15:00 - 16:30) - In your time zone
Thursday 12 Dec (15:00 - 16:30) - In your time zone
Recordings from the Practitioners Hub Showcase Event
On 6 March, The Turing Way hosted the The Turing Way Practitioners Hub Showcase event.
This full-day hybrid event was organised to discuss the Co-adoption of AI and Open Practices for Innovation, featuring panels, a fireside chat, case studies series and the launch of the Expression of interest to join the second cohort of Experts in residence.
If you missed it, you can watch the recordings here:
Recurring Community Events and Calls ☕
Hosted all throughout the month, our recurring community calls are important and engaging spaces where you can learn more about The Turing Way!
Some require sign-ups (📝) and some don't (✅), but absolutely all are welcome to these calls! ✨
📝 Onboarding calls: The next call is on 29 May (next month!), 15:00-16:00 UTC+1 (in your timezone). These calls are hosted every two months, join us to connect with other new members of the community and learn more about the project! Sign-ups are open
📝 Community forums: The next call is on 11 July, 15:00-16:30 UTC+1 (in your timezone). Stay tuned for more information!
✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 1 May, 14:00-16:00 UTC+1 (see in your time zone). Feel free to drop in to meet the community, do some focused writing, or otherwise -- more information on Etherpad.
✅ Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: every other Wednesday at 14:30 UTC+1 (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. Join the #translation channel on Slack for more.
✅ Infrastructure Monthly Meetings: every second Thursday of the month, at 16:00 UTC+1 (in your time zone). These calls are for co-working on infrastructure support, and for learning more about the work of the team. Join the #infrastructure channel on Slack for more.
✅ Accessibility Monthly Meetings: every second Monday of the month, at 17:00 UTC+1 (in your time zone). These calls are for planning monthly sprints and co-working on access-related chapters and upcoming guide. Join the #accessibility channel on Slack for more.
📅 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.
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
Jim Madge, David Llewellyn-Jones, Anne and Malvika shared their experiences at FOSDEM at the Alan Turing's Institute's REG Tech Talk on 2 April
Malvika gave a keynote at the Open Research Conference 2024 in Manchester on 24 April
Pen-Yuan Hsing and Jennifer Ding gave a talk at the Open Science & Societal Impact online conference on 25 April: Zenodo link
In The Turing Way Orbit
Jobs at The Alan Turing Institute
We have a number of job openings to join different teams at the Turing. View and apply online for current vacancies via our careers site.
A few positions to check out:
Senior Research Community Manager, People in Data
⏰ Apply by 19 May 2024
📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
Information Assurance and Security Officer, Defence & Security
⏰ Apply by 12 May 2024
📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
Other opportunities
Funding and Fellowships
Funding: 2024 Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund RFP
Areas of work: Advance public commons of technology, for the benefit of everyone
⏰ Apply by 2 June 2024
Funding: The Scientific Integrity Fund
Areas of work: Provide Legal Assistance and Financial Support and raise community awareness about the detrimental effects of academic fraud
Fellowship: 2024 Mozilla Senior Fellows
Areas of work: Trustworthy AI
⏰ Apply by 6 May 2024
Fellowship: The NASA Lifelines Fellowship Program
Areas of work: Humanitarian and Earth science
⏰ Apply by 3 April 2024
Fellowship: 2024 Open Future Fellows
Areas of work: Advancing Digital Public Space and cultivating Digital Commons
⏰ Applications ongoing
Residentship: Astera, Open Science Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Areas of work: New tools for scientific publishing
⏰ Apply by 3 April 2024
Ambassador Program: Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH)
Areas of work: Open hardware, open science
⏰ Apply by 15 May 2024
📍 Location: Remote (maximum of 1 ambassador will be from each regional or topical OScH community)
Funding: UKRI via RAI UK
Areas of work: Skills and upskilling related to Responsible AI
⏰ Apply by 31 May 2024
📍 Location: UK
Funding: Open Book Collective
Areas of work: Open access scholarly books, publication infrastructures
⏰ Apply by 31 May 2024
📍 Location: Global
Jobs
Job: OceanOS: Senior Data Scientist
⏰ Start date is ASAP
📍 Location: Remote, London preferred
Job: Global Fishing Watch: Data Scientist, Vessel Tracking & Behavior
⏰ Apply by 3 May 2024
📍 Location: Remote
Job: Global Fishing Watch: Senior Data Scientist, Remote Sensing & Data Fusion
⏰ Apply by 3 May 2024
📍 Location: Remote
Job: Datacite: Communications Consultant
⏰ Rolling
📍 Location: Remote
Job: Software Sustainability Institute: Events Manager
⏰ Apply by 13 May 2024
📍 Location: Remote
Events and Courses
Conference: Society of RSE: RSECON24
📢 Call for submissions, reviewers, volunteers & registrations
📅 Register by 23 May 2024
📍 Location: London, UK
Conference: OpenFest
📢 Call for submissions
📅 Apply by 26 May 2024
📍 Location: Remote, with a supervisor based in The Netherlands
Live Training: Operationalising Ethics in AI
📢 Call for registrations
📅 Various dates in May and June 2024
📍 Location: Virtual
Course: A Learning Community for Community Stewards
📢 Call for registrations
📅 Starts Friday, 13 September (Taster on 20 August)
📍 Location: Virtual
Event: The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence
📢 Call for registrations
📅 21 - 25 May 2024
📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
For more events, subscribe to the Open Research Calendar.
Get involved + Connect with us!
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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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