One conversation at a time
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Shorter than usual, shiny as ever! 🔆
As always, highlighting the important work that the people in The Turing Way and our community are doing. Advancing data science practices step by step, having one conversation at a time.
One conversation at a time! - Chris Holdgraf, The Turing Way Fireside Chat
Enjoy… and keep the conversations coming!
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.
🎉 Our own Emma Karoune has received the inaugural Lisa Lodwick Award! This is very well deserved for her continued dedication, advocacy, and collaborative spirit. Her work has had a lasting impact on the community, and we are very proud for all she has been doing to support and advance open and fair archaeobotanical research.
So this award was a complete surprise to me and I am deeply honored to receive it. | Emma Karoune | 16 comments
So this award was a complete surprise to me and I am deeply honored to receive it. Thanks IWGP! Lisa Lodwick really inspired me to start investigating open research in my discipline - phytolith research - and this has led to all the work I am doing now with the International Committee on Open Phytolith Science. So it is wonderful to receive an award in her name. See our webpage to find out more about our work - https://lnkd.in/egjEm4eH And it's not just me doing all this great stuff! Thanks...
Fireside Chat Series keep firing community thoughts! Sign-up to attend the next one in August
This summer, we re-launched our 2025 series of Fireside Chats covering different aspects of governance monthly. 🔥
Learning From Each Other's Journeys: Case Studies from Open Communities - 31 July
Thank you so much to Aleksandra Nenadic(The Carpentries), Chris Holdgraf(2i2c/Jupyter), and Yanina Bellini Saibene(RLadies+), for sharing their expertise on governance from their own open communities. This session was chaired by Arielle Bennet and Yo Yehudi. Thanks to Sara Villa for providing support with online facilitation.
Words matter, but you can also have a name that is empty. We want to take actions to put meaning and value to our name. (Yanina Bellini Saibene)
🔥Sign up for our August edition: Exploring Distributed, Collaborative and Decentralised Governance Models - 28 August
This session will feature speakers from The Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease Network (CSID Network), Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) and The Engine Room.
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We look forward to seeing you there!
👉 For more information about each Fireside Chat and to sign up - visit out custom Start Page.
Watch our June Fireside Chat on Youtube
Opportunities in The Turing Way Network
Fill out Arielle Bennett’s survey: From code to contributions - exploring attitudes to open source in academia
📢 Calling all academic coders! We need your views on open source in academia
With the new UKRI software policy around the corner, it's never been more important to have a frank discussion about how to encourage, recognise, and promote both the use and maintenance of open source software in ways that benefit both individuals and the whole community.
How it'll be used: Findings from this survey will be used in a policy briefing to help advocate for national policies which address common barriers at a structural level, and to develop practical recommendations for improving open source contribution levels across academia. Keep an eye out for a workshop at RSEcon 2025 if you'd like to explore this topic in more depth. The survey will be open until 30 September 2025 and is open to researchers and research professionals anywhere in the world.
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! ✨
📝 Community Forums: The next call is being planned for September, 15:00-16:30 UTC+1 (in your timezone). Stay tuned for more information and date confirmation in a next newsletter.
✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 3rd September, 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.
✅ Community Management Working Group: every Tuesday, 10:00 UTC+1 (see in your time zone). Join the #community-management channel on Slack for more.
✅ Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: second Tuesdays on the month at 4pm UK time (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.
The power of explicit, thoughtful invitation in building diversity cannot be overstated (Arielle Bennet)
Overview of Talks and Workshops: July 2025
Sara Villa, Emma Karoune, Aman Goel and Malvika Sharan spoke at the STEP-UP conference on 7th July:
Sara gave a talk about Contextualising open science training programmes, presenting her work leading Open NeuroSeeds (OLS’s Open Seeds contextualised to neuroscience)
Emma’s talked focused on Professionalising diverse data science roles, an essential focus in the current research landscape.
Aman delivered a passionate talk about Diversity and Inclusion in Practice.
Malvika gave a keynote on Shaping Research (culture) through Communities Lessons from Open Science.
Malvika Sharan delivered the keynote at SciPy 2025, The Myth of Artificial - Spotlighting Community Intelligence for Responsible Science, where she talked about how open science initiatives like Open Life Science (OLS), The Turing Way, and others demonstrate how these communities provide the foundational infrastructure for science to serve society responsibly. Find some pictures on SciPy Linkedin page.
If you are in a room, there is a reason why you’re there. Don’t be afraid to share your own perspective. (Malvika Sharan)
As always, you can find an ongoing record of all of our work in our Zenodo Community page.
The Community Management Working Group is taking over our monthly updates, please bare with us and let us know if you spot anything interesting! 🌸
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