Last day to apply for our November Book Dash, Welcome to our new Project Manager, and join our upcoming community calls!
Explore The Turing Way Book and connect with us via our start page.
As the seasons begin to shift across the globe, The Turing Way community is gearing up for a busy and exciting period.
We are thrilled to share our latest updates with you, while you prepare for the chillier days of autumn in Europe or enjoy a different season in your part of the world.
Here a a few highlights from this month's newsletter:
📚💨 Apply to join our November's Book Dash – Applications close on 30 September (midnight anywhere in the world)!
📣 Join our next Community Forum on 18 October and onboarding call on 30 October – save the dates and sign up to join!
📢 Check out the new chapters on data missingness written by members from the Turing-Roche Partnership!
As usual, you can find more updates, events 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
Applications have been extended to 30 September (ahora - disponible en español!)
The call for applications for this upcoming Book Dash (4 to 8 November 2024) has been extended to 30 September (TODAY) - anywhere in the world.
👉 En inglés: Send your applications (via Google form)
👉 En español: Send your applications (via Google form)
If you've been part of our community and share our passion for collaboration to promote data science best practices or want to improve The Turing Way, this is your chance.
Apply to work with us on your ideas or join us as a contributor and/or mentor.
Help us spread the words by sharing tweets, toots, or Linkedin post.
Need some help and collaboration on your Book Dash application?
At our recent Collaboration Cafes, we discussed various aspects of the Book Dash. Notes are available in our shared document.
You can use the template document to prepare your draft offline and read details about the event in our Community Handbook.
To help you get started, Anne and Susana Roman Garcia have also created videos with Tips for Applying and Application Walk-Through.
Finally, reach out on our Slack workspace's #ask-away channel or email Anne (asteele@turing.ac.uk) for specific questions or support in drafting your application.
Join us in welcoming our New Research Project Manager, Léllé Demertzi!
We are delighted to announce that Léllé Demertzi has joined our team as the Research Project Manager of The Turing Way!
Léllé, an architect by training, brings a wealth of experience to The Turing Way community through her diverse roles and accomplishments in arts and cultural management.
Before joining our team, she served as a Programme Administrator for Living with Machines, where she helped organise a docuseries, various outreach activities and public events within the Arts and Humanities field.
Léllé also worked as the Programme Coordinator for Data Science for Science and Humanities and she is an Organiser for the AI & Arts Interest Group at The Alan Turing Institute.
We are excited to welcome her to our team and look forward to introducing her to our community!
Join our next Community Forum on 18 October
On Thursday, 18 October at 15:00 UK time (in your time zone), we are hosting our next Community Forum.
👉 Sign up to attend the Community Forum (via Google form)
This is part of a series of community calls that bring together members of The Turing Way community - including people who have not yet contributed to the project!
Modelled off a political town hall event, this online session is an opportunity to better understand activities across the project, our governance process and how decisions are made.
Our aim is to leverage the expertise across our community, and we explicitly invite you to review our processes and recommend improvements.
We expect that the calls will be a mix of celebration, feedback, and opportunities to build connections with other organisations and initiatives around the world.
Save the date for our final Community Forum:
Thursday 12 Dec (15:00 - 16:30) - In your time zone
Practitioners Hub 2024 Cohort has officially launched!
We are delighted to share that 20 organisations have joined the 2024 cohort of the Practitioners Hub.
A kick off and official launch event took place in September, with first set of workshops on Stakeholder Management in AI.
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub is an extension of The Turing Way that engages and involves industry experts, called Experts in Residence (EiRs), from partnering organisations.
The 2024 cohort will host nearly 40 EiRs, information for which is shared in our website: https://www.turing.ac.uk/turing-way-practitioners-hub/eirs.
The launch event took place at The Alan Turing Institute in London on 24 September, with several participants joining in person and online.
Slide deck from the kick off event is shared on Zenodo with an overview of the programme and some next steps.
🎃 Join us for Hacktoberfest! 🎃
As always, Hacktoberfest contributions are welcome! Help us fix bugs, translate our README.md files into your language, and edit chapters. See this issue for more information.
Upcoming events
📅 Check out our 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.
Chapter updates
Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
Missing Data Chapter in Guide for Project Design
Congratulations to Zeena Shaw, a Turing-Roche Community Scholar, who recently merged a new chapter on Data Missingness into The Turing Way.
The Data Missingness chapter builds on one of the focus areas of the Turing-Roche Partnership.
Zeena highlights the relevant work of the Partnership and draws upon her PhD research, where she encountered challenges related to missing data.
Read the chapter in our guides and learn more about the story behind the chapter on X/Twitter, Linkedin, or Fosstodon.
Thank you to Vicky Hellon and Dr Tapabrata (Rohan) Chakraborty for reviewing the chapter.
Note: The Turing-Roche Partnership's Community Scholar Scheme, led by Vicky, supports 10 PhD students to embed themselves within the partnership and develop a community project related to data science in health.
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 30 October, 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 18 October, 15:00-16:30 UTC+1 (in your timezone). Sign-ups are open.
✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 2 October, 15:00-17:00 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.
✅ Coworking Calls: every Monday, 10:00 UTC+1 (see in your time zone). Find the joining link on this shared 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 Tuesday 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.
Talks and Workshops
Anne Lee Steele facilitated the panel "Digital Rights and Governance: Building Trust, Inclusion, and Resilience in the Digital Age" at the Internet Society's Early Career Forum on 10 September
Susana Roman Garcia and Ceilidh Welsh gave a lightning talk about "The Turing Way: Community Practices for Reproducible Research" on 11 September: Zenodo link
Malvika gave a keynote titled "Contributors, Authors, and their Acknowledgements" at Open Science Summer School 2024 organised by the LMU Open Science Center (OSC) and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) on 12 September. All slides from the event are shared on osf.
Hosted by humyn.ai, Malvika gave a talk titled "Applying Open Source for Community and Product Management at the Turing" on 12 September. Slide on Zenodo.
In The Turing Way Orbit
Attend the BridgeAI - AI Insight Chat Series!
On 24 October 2024, from 12:00 to 13:30 UK time, the first session in the AI Insight Chat Series will take place online.
Building on the Fireside Chat format, our colleague Alexandra Araujo Alvarez, the Turing's Senior Research Community Manager for BridgeAI is working with different teams is designing this series.
This session will feature an expert panel sharing perspectives from various sectors on the topic 🚀 “Is Open Source the future of AI?”
Join Innovate UK’s BridgeAI programme partners, the Alan Turing Institute on 24 October for an exciting panel discussion tailored for UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as they explore the critical question: Is Open Source the Future of AI?
How can open-source AI offer flexibility, foster collaboration, and reduce costs?
What are the risks and challenges of open-source adoption, and how can SMEs overcome them?
How can open-source AI drive innovation and help SMEs compete in a global market?
What real-world examples can guide your AI strategy and decisions?
Whether you're new to AI or looking to enhance your existing strategy, this session will offer valuable takeaways to guide your decisions.
Let me know if you need further adjustments!
👉 Register to attend (via Turing's website)
Join NASA TOPS 101 training by OLS's Nebula!
The OLS team is excited to announce that registration is open for a next cohort of the OLS-NASA Nebula Program - help us with spreading the news or register yourself!
⭐ The program is 6-weeks long and covers the Open Science 101 Curriculum with hands-on learning and coaching.
This is perfect for individuals or teams taking their first steps in open science and who want expert support with any aspect of their research: data, code or publications.
📅 The cohort runs from October 21 to November 29.
You can also request partial of full fee waiver if you can't pay for the training!
🎫 The last day to apply for a fee waiver is October 7.
🔗 Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/ols-nebula.
🔗 Fee waiver request: https://forms.gle/VV453jezChtK4cUG6
Feel free to contact Irene Ramos (irene@we-are-ols.org) with any questions.
Apply for the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship
Applications for the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellowship Programme 2025 are closing soon!
SSI Fellows serve as ambassadors and advocates for good practices in research software and data science. They receive a financial support package, networking opportunities, and professional guidance throughout the fellowship.
The deadline for applications is 7 October 2024.
A launch webinar was hosted to discuss various aspects of the fellowship application process, and a recording is available online. For more information, visit the SSI website.
Several members of The Turing Way are part of the fellowship network and can answer questions about the application process.
You can reach out to them via the #askaway channel of The Turing Way Slack Workspace.
Jobs and Other Opportunities
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:
Research Associate, AI Solutions For Fraud Detection (Project FAIR)
⏰ Apply by 13 October 2024
Mission Lead, Fundamental Research in AI for Physical Systems
⏰ Apply by 20 October 2024
Research Associate, Cyber Security Risk Analysis and Management of Identity Systems
⏰ Apply by 7 October 2024
Partnership Development Lead
⏰ Apply by 6 October 2024
Mission Lead, Environmental Forecasting
⏰ Apply by 13 October 2024
Other opportunities
Event: Open Knowledge Foundation: The Tech We Want Online Summit
⏰ 17 October
📍 Location: Remote
Job: University of Southampton: Lecturer in Humanities Data Science
⏰ Apply by 30 October 2024
📍 Location: Southampton, UK
Event: FOSS Backstage 2025: Call for talks
⏰ Apply by 13 November 2024
📍 Location: Berlin, Germany
Event: PyData Global: Call for talks
⏰ Apply by 7 October 2024
📍 Location: Remote
Job: University of Bristol: Research Associate, Meta-research
⏰ Apply by 9 October 2024
📍 Location: Bristol, UK
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.
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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