Last days to apply for Book Dash, rewatch our Fireside Chat, and learn about the Practioners Hub!
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Last days to apply for Book Dash, rewatch our Fireside Chat, and learn about the Practioners Hub!
Hello and welcome to our March Newsletter, this time written by me: Alexandra, the new 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.
- 📚💨 Final reminder to apply to our 9th bi-annual Book Dash taking place from the 22-26 May 2023 in London and Delft. Applications for participants close on 3 April.
- 🔥 Rewatch our first 2023 Fireside Chat on "Community care in times of digital burnout" here
- 📢 Heard about our upcoming Practioners Hub and want to learn more? Read more about this new initiative below!
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 join our Slack workspace, follow the project on Twitter, or join us on Fosstodon.
Community News and Updates
The Turing Way at AIUK 2023
AIUK, hosted in London by the Alan Turing Institute on the 21st and 22nd March offered an in-depth exploration of how data science and AI can be used to solve real-world challenges. The Turing Way engaged with the attendants in several ways:
Photo of The Turing Way stand at AIUK 2023
- Kirstie Whitaker gave a talk titled "Stop breeding unicorns", which gave a comprehensive overview of different research infrastructure roles, and advocated for investing in expert teams rather than single individuals. Zenodo link
- Batool Almarzouq was a part of panel about “Navigating global opportunities & challenges for value-based approaches to tech governance”
- Sophia Batchelor and Esther Plomp gave our “Git Good” (Introduction to Github) workshop! Zenodo link. You can also watch a recording from a different sessions on YouTube.
- Hari Sood and Alden Conner presented PITCHFEST where contestants had to summarise their research in 90 seconds. This was a very popular sessions at AI UK!
- Malvika Sharan hosted a panel about "Individual skills for global impact" in a data science and AI-driven economy, featuring Mark Richards, Monica Granados and Kirstie Whitaker as expert panelists.
Photo taken at AIUK, at The Turing Way stand. Team members from left to right: (seated) Batool Almarzouq, Anne Lee Steele, Kirstie Whitaker, Alexandra Araujo Alvarez, Georgia Aitkenhead, Jennifer Ding, Arielle Bennett, Emma Karoune. (standing): Vicky Hellon, Eirini Zormpa, Sophia Batchelor, Hari Sood, Arron Lacey, Dave Chapman, Malvika Sharan, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, David Sarmiento, Cami Rincon.
Final call to apply for our Book Dash
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.
If you have previously interacted with the project or our community, or 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.
*You can use the template document to prepare your draft.
Learn more about the Book Dash and the application process.*
The deadline for submission is 3 April 2023 (midnight anywhere in the world) .
Application form for attendees: https://forms.gle/LL5SN3RdGXVEzNbi7
Apply and join an incredible team of contributors worldwide! 💪🌍🌎🌏
Recurring Community Calls ☕
Rewatch our March Fireside Chat
Thank you so much to Agnes Kiragga, Eirini Zormpa, Chris Hartgerink, Patricia Herterich, and Mayya Sundukova for co-organising, co-facilitating, and co-creating this month's Fireside Chat on 31 March, titled "Reflect, Unlearn, Reframe: Community Care in times of digital burnout". You can rewatch this month's Fireside chat here and review our shared notes here.
To check out our previous Fireside Chats, visit this archive.
🔥Stay tuned for April 2023's Fireside Chat, which will focus on the Year of Open Science! Stay tuned, and follow up on Eventbrite to learn more.
Join us for our upcoming "Community Chats" at Collaboration Cafes!
We are excited to start piloting "Community Chats" during Collaboration Cafes! While Collaboration Cafes will continue to hold themed break-out rooms for projects that community members are working on, we are trialling a variety of themed discussions in the main room. These chats may be community or research-related: whatever you want to discuss or present! Feel free to join in without any pressure to participate - and remember, you can always drop by anytime, no sign-ups needed!✨
- On 5 April 2023, 15:00-17:00 UTC (see in your time zone), Community Manager Anne Lee Steele will lead an open discussion about our use of slack channels and how we use the platform within the community.
- On 19 April 2023, 15:00-17:00 UTC (see in your time zone), Core team member Alejandro Coca-Castro will lead and facilitate a discussion around environmental data science and sustainability in research, and share more about the Environmental Data Science Book and upcoming collaborations. Join the upcoming #environmental-sustainability channel on slack to learn more.
We will list the Community Chats schedule on our HackMD. Find the joining details here.
Aside from these Community Chats, as always –– feel free to drop in to meet the community, do some focused writing, or work on other projects!
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 5 April, 15:00-17:00 UTC (see in your time zone). Join us for a Community Chat in the main room, or work on your own projects in break-out rooms! -- see this HackMD for more information.
- 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 every month, usually 16:00-17:00 UTC (but dependent on speaker and organiser availability). Follow us on Eventbrite to be alerted about upcoming events.
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub Update
After more than four years of building open resources with a diverse community of researchers and practioners, The Turing Way has started the Practitioners Hub programme in 2023, which aims to extend the impact of the project. The Practioners Hub will be a forum for cross-sector engagement, knowledge exchange and strategic collaboration with organisations across academia, research, engineering systems, government, and healthcare leading data science initiatives.
Image by The Turing Way community and Scriberia. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807
Five leading organisations have been invited to join the inaugurual cohort to systematically build a shared understanding of open science, reproducibility, accessibility and research ethics to enhance quality, rigour and integrity in data science and AI.
The Practitioners Hub is a 3-year programme funded by the Ecosystem Leadership Programme (UKRI funded) and Bridge AI (more info below).
Bridge AI Launch
The £100M Bridge AI programme, sponsored by Innovate UK, will be having its launch event on 26 April 2023, in London.
BridgeAI (Innovate UK KTN (ktn-uk.org)) aims to help businesses in high growth sectors such as agriculture, construction, creative and transport industries, to harness the power of AI and unlock their full potential. The Practitioner Hub will extend the impact of The Turing Way community-led approaches and resources to those sectors.
Interested organisations can register here
The Turing Institute is a delivery partner, together with DigiCat, STFC Hartree and KTN ltd.
Meet Turing Way Members at these 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
Good luck to community members attending the Open Science Retreat 2023
A number of Turing Way community members will be attending Heidi Seibold's Open Science Retreat at Aspenstein Castle from April 3-7, 2023. We hope your time away is restful and rejuvenating, and looking to learn more about it on your return!
csv,conf,v7 in Argentina (19-20 April 2023)
A community conference for data makers everywhere, returns in person in April! Featuring stories about data sharing and data analysis from science, journalism, government, and open source.
Climate Informatics 2023 (Reproducibility Challenge: 1-31 May 2023) / Registration dealine: 22 April 2023
Building on the success of previous CI hackathons, the #CI2023 Reproducibility Challenge is back!
- 📆 Registration Deadline: 22 April 2023
- 📝 Challenge: 1-31 May 2023
- 📌 Location: Online
- 📚 Fields: Climate + ML + AI
- 🖥️ Website: https://bit.ly/ci-2023-rc
Join the Collaboration Cafe on 19 April, to discuss this event with Alejandro Coca-Castro and the Environmental Data Science community!
UCL Open Science and the Case for Social Justice (24 April)
The annual UCL Open Science Conference is now Open for booking!
This year they are going fully hybrid and invite attendants to join for free from 10am – 4.00pm on 24th April 2023, either on campus in Bloomsbury or online for a day-long conference with the theme: "Open Science and the Case for Social Justice."
Book your tickets now, here!
Image from UCL website
👋 Collaborations Workshop (4-5 May 2023)
The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, policy makers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.
Collaborations Workshop 2023 (CW23) will take place as a hybrid event in Manchester, UK from Tuesday 2 May - Thursday 4 May 2023.
The Turing Way members and close collaborators will be hosting sessions at Collaborations Workshop, stay tuned for next month's newsletter for more information. Check out the full agenda here:
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.
Feature on #Code4Thought Podcast
🎙️In the March episode of Code4Thought, Peter Schmidt met with Jeremy Cohen, Radovan Bast, Weronika Filinger, and Malvika Sharan to discuss the Training gap and needs for software engineers in research.
You can listen to it here.
📢 NASA/TOPS: Seeking Open Science Success Stories
The Transform to OPen Science (TOPS) team, that several The Turing Way members contribute to, is dedicated to promoting and advancing open science, especially in relation to climate change. To demonstrate the impact of open science, they are seeking compelling scientific discoveries or advances that would not be possible without open science (data, software, tools, or sharing results) are compelling to a broad, diverse, public audience. They want to showcase more open science based scientific discovery success stories for Earth Day. They are also interested in stories that highlight the contributions of citizen scientists (using NASA data or funding). An example of what we are looking for is here and here.
Submit your stories here. Science results that you share with them by 4 April 2023 have the best chance of being a part of Earth Day.
Talks and Workshops
- Malvika Sharan gave a career talk organised by the UCL Bioscience Postdoc representatives under the title "Open Science for data science careers" on 30 March 2023. Zenodo link.
- Patricia Herterich gave a presentation about The Turing Way at the RDA Plenary birds of a feather session: "Computational Reproducibility: What’s Next for RDA?" on 17 March 2023. Zenodo link
- Jennifer Ding and Anne Lee Steele participated in a conversation about the Mozilla AI Working Group and ran a workshop about "Reimagining the AI Production Pipeline!"" at the Mozilla Festival on 21 and 24 March 2023
- Danny Garside and Anne Lee Steele gave talk about "Understanding Maintenance as a Turing Way" on FOSS Backstage on 14 March 2023. Zenodo link
- Susana Roman Garcia and Anne Lee Steele ran a workshop for the PhD students in Newcastle on "Open science and reproducibility" on 6-7 March 2023. Zenodo link
- Anne Lee Steele gave a keynote on 10 March 2023 one-day symposium, "Data Hazards, Ethics and Reproducibility One-Day Symposium" organised at the Turing by Enrichment students. Zenodo link
- Malvika Sharan also gave a few talks at the beginning of this month including:
- Keynote at the DHNB2023 Conference on 8 March under title "Open science for enabling reproducible, ethical and collaborative research: Insights from The Turing Way": Zenodo link.
- Keynote on 3 March 2023 at XPECTO'23, hosted by IIT - Mandi under the title "Building an equitable world with open source": Zenodo link
- A 'Deep Dive' talk on 2 March 2023 under the same title for the Genomics England organised for internal stakeholders: Zenodo link
- Keynote at the DHNB2023 Conference on 8 March under title "Open science for enabling reproducible, ethical and collaborative research: Insights from The Turing Way": Zenodo link.
Tweets, Toots, & Mentions
- Toot by Liz Hare Link to toot
- Tweet by Patricia Herterich - Link to tweet
- Tweet by Kirstie Whitaker - Link to tweet
- Tweet Steve Haroz - Link to tweet
- Toot by Esther Plomp - Link to toot
- Tweet by Alejandro Coca-Castro - Link to tweet
In The Turing Way Orbit
Roles at The Turing
- 👉Research Associates (x3) - The Science of Cities and Regions
- 💰 £40,850 to £46,200/yr
- 🗓️12 April 2023
- 👉Group Leaders (x3) - The Science of Cities and Regions
- 💰£80,000 - £95,000/yr
- 🗓️16 April 2023
- 👉Personal Assistant
- 💰£30,000-£32,000/yr
- 🗓️16 April 2023
- 👉Research Project Manager for the Turing Research Innovation Cluster In Digital Twins (TRIC:DT)
- 💰£39,000/yr - £42,000/yr
- 🗓️19 April 2023
- 👉Programme Manager, Bridge AI
- 💰£51,025-£54,500
- 🗓️23 April 2023
Other opportunities
- Job: Open Data Services: Senior Data Analyst
- ⏰ Apply by 4 April 2023
- 📍 Location: Remote, UK based
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Code for Science & Society: Programs Coordinator
- ⏰ Apply by 9 April 2023
- 💰 $63,000/yr (USD)
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: University of Leeds: Director of Digital Research
- ⏰ Apply by 12 April 2023
- 📍 Location: University of Leeds
- 🔗 Read Details
- Conference: ADR UK Conference 2023: Submissions open
- ⏰ Apply by 12 April 2023
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: University of Sheffield: AI Research Engineer
- ⏰ Apply by 24 April 2023
- 📍 Location: University of Sheffield
- 💰 £29,762 to £44,414/yr
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: University of Glasgow: Research Software Engineering/Data Scientist
- ⏰ Apply by 25 April 2023
- 📍 Location: University of Glasgow
- 💰 Grade 7/8 £38,474 - £43,155/yr / £47,047 - £54,421/yr
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: University of Glasgow: Research Associate/Fellow in Natural Language Processing
- ⏰ Apply by 25 April 2023
- 📍 Location: University of Glasgow
- 💰 Grade 7/8 £38,474 - £43,155/yr / £47,047 - £54,421/yr
- 🔗 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
- 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 April.
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