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Hello world, how is it already November?! 🍃🍁🌿🍂
This newsletter seems to be getting longer every time I send it out! As usual, this one is packed with updates from The Turing Way community: from information about upcoming events to recent chapter updates to our guides, to recent talks and workshops... and more!
- 📢 We are hiring a Research Project Manager, send in your application before 1 December: Apply!
- 📚 💨 Our biannual Book Dash is happening from 14-18 November. We're excited to welcome new and returning members for a week of collaboration and coworking. Join the public sessions on GitHub training on 9 November, Data Conversations co-hosted with VU Amsterdam on 15 November and Community Share-outs on 18 November!
- 🔥 We've concluded the Fireside chat series for the 2021-2022 season. Check out our Youtube playlist to watch the recordings. Thanks to our co-organisers and speakers, and thank you all for tuning in!
Many new chapters have been added to the guides, on topics related to machine learning model licenses, research infrastructure, sensitive data, and more. Check out Chapters and Collaborations in Progress to learn more about these updates.
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, or join us on Fosstodon.
Community Events
Community calls are key for The Turing Way community: they're where folks learn about each others' work, collaborate on ideas, and get inspired.
Image used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
Book Dash, Community Share-outs, and GitHub Training Session 📚💨
The 8th annual Book Dash will be happening from 14-18 November. We're excited to welcome newcomers and returnees for a week of collaboration and coworking! Book Dashes are an important space where our community comes together to write chapters in The Turing Way, work on new projects, do focused work, and learn from each other. While most of our working sessions will take place online, we will continue to pilot a hybrid and hub model next week!
While Book Dash will be attended by invited participants, we will be hosting several public events listed below.
GitHub Training Session 🛠️
On 9 November at 17-18 UTC/UK time (in your timezone), The Turing Way team members will host a training session for members new to GitHub. Sign up on Eventbrite to attend.
Data Conversations: Innovation in Research 📊
This month, VU Amsterdam's Research Data Management (RDM) Community Manager and a Book Dash committee member is hosting a Data Conversation during Book Dash week.
On 15 November at 14-15:30 UTC/UK time, this Data Conversation will feature Leighann Kimble (VU Amsterdam) and Maxine Mackintosh (Genomics England) sharing lessons learned about reproducibility in medical research and data sharing. Find details and register.
Community Share-outs 🤗
Join us at our two Community Share-outs, which will be happening on the last day of Book Dash. Everyone is invited – to learn more about The Turing Way project, and see what the community got up to during Book Dash!
These Community Share-out events will happen on Friday 18 November, 11:00 - 12:30 UTC/UK time (in your timezone) or 17:00 - 18:30 UTC/UK time (in your timezone).
Sign up on Eventbrite.
Recurring Community Calls ☕
All are welcome to these calls, no sign-up is needed! ✨
- Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 7 December, 14:00-16:00 UTC (see in your time zone). Feel free to drop in to meet the community, do some focused writing, or otherwise -- see this HackMD for more information. 16 November's session is replaced by the Community Shareouts during the Book Dash.
- Core Team Coworking Calls: every Monday, 10:00 UTC (see in your time zone). Currently being trialled as stand-up for the core team (though all are welcome!). Find the joining link on this shared HackMD.
- Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: every 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. Join the #translation channel on Slack, and see this HackMD for joining details.
- Office Hours: Every Friday from 12:00 - 14:00 UTC (see in your time zone). Drop by if you have any questions, want to do some co-working, or if you just want to say hello. Signing-up is not required -- see this HackMD for more information. There won't be an office hour during the Book Dash week.
2021-2022 Fireside Chats 🔥
49 diverse members from over 10 communities co-organised the Fireside Chats in 2021-2022.
The first round of the Fireside Chat series concluded last month! This series was started to bring together diverse perspectives and catalyse cross-community collaborations across community-oriented projects in the open science ecosystem.
Beginning with our inaugural Fireside Chat about "What is The Turing Way?" featuring co-leads Kirstie Whitaker and Malvika Sharan with Cassandra Gould van Praag, these conversations have focused on all sorts of topics related to open science: from open hardware to citizen science, open infrastructure to translation and localisation, to community building and sustainability more broadly.
Thank you so much for tuning in, co-organising, co-designing, and for being a part of these Fireside Chats with us. All recordings are available on this Youtube playlist.
Watch a few recent recordings from recent months:
- October: Supporting citizen and participatory science communities (video link)
- September: Connecting open hardware to open science (video link)
- August: Defining 'open infrastructure' in different contexts (video link)
Stay tuned for 2023! ✨
Community News
Illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
There are lots of updates from the community from the past few months: everything from adding new collaborators to new chapters, project updates, to everything in between!
The Turing Way is hiring a Research Project Manager
This role will join the Tools, Practices and Systems research programme at the Alan Turing Institute, to support work on the newly funded Practitioner Hub. The position holder will work with the programme’s scientific leadership, The Turing Way core team and staff, as well as the wider project community, to coordinate each research project from concept to implementation. The Project Manager will work with the Programme Manager to coordinate the delivery of strong project governance, and with the Community Manager on operational tasks. With the HR team, they will manage recruitment and contract-related responsibilities. You will need a CV and Cover Letter to submit your application. See details on the Turing's job portal.
Nominated for OpenUK 2022
The Turing Way has been nominated for the Open UK 2022 awards under the category of "Belonging". Learn more on the OpenUK website. Thank you!
VU Amsterdam: new TTW collaborator!
Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam has been added as an official collaborator to The Turing Way community. Thank you so much to Lena Karvovskaya for stewarding contributions to The Turing Way (she is a co-author of the Peer Review chapter). Learn more about VU Amsterdam in the Record of Contributors.
Chapters and Collaborations in Progress
New Chapters
A bunch of new chapters have been added to The Turing Way over the past few months, related to a wide variety of ongoing and emergent topics across data science and open research. Congratulations to the writers and reviewers that made it happen!
- Research Infrastructure Developers Summary: Owain Kenway recently added a summary of the Research Infrastructure Developers' role to the Research Infrastructure Roles subchapter. Owain leads a team of RIDs at UCL - so far the only institution to host them.
- Machine Learning Model Licences: Jennifer Ding and Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis collaborated to write a sub-chapter on machine learning model licenses which includes a case study based on concerns raised through the license selection process during BigScience. Thank you to Arron Lacey, Sophia Batchelor, and Anne Lee Steele for reviewing.
- Personal Story for RSE Asia: Saranjeet Kaur added her personal story as an RSE to the Research Infrastructure Roles sub-chapter. Thank you to Kim Martin, Esther Plomp, and Malvika Sharan for reviewing.
- Sensitive Data: Over the number of few years, an extensive set of subchapters has emerged around sensitive data. There are three sections: about sensitive data, managing a sensitive data project, and working on sensitive data projects. Congratulations to Emma Karoune, Maria Eriksson and many others for co-authoring a new chapter on project design!
- Ethical Considerations when Choosing an Open Source Governance Model: Arielle Bennett added a speedblog co-written with Yo Yehudi, Gemma Turon, Declan Bays, Sarah Gibson, Stephan Druskat, Yadira Sanchez and Sophia Batchelor at Collaborations Workshop 2022, an annual workshop series hosted by the Software Sustainability Institute. This new sub-chapter is in the Guide for Ethical Research.
- Data Papers: Emma Karoune and Vicky Hellon co-wrote an article about Data Papers: describing both what they are and how to write them, available under the Publishing Different Article Types subchapter.
- Peer Review: Lena Karvovskaya added a new chapter related to peer review, making explicit a process that many researchers tend to learn through informal methods. You can find it in the Guide for Communication.
Help needed
If you're just getting started, check out 'good first issue' or 'good first PR review'. If you're interested in getting involved with ongoing chapters, there are plenty of ongoing collaborations happening, with a few listed here:
- Collaborate with Liz Hare to improve the alt-text for graphics and data visualisations (issue #2630)
- Work with Julien Colomb to revise a chapter on version control for datasets (pull request #2356)
- Help Andrea Sanchez-Tapía to write a new chapter on literate programming (issue #2549)
- Help us to summarise the fireside chats in the Community Handbook (issue #2344)
- Help Elisa Rodenberg with qualitative research practices in the Guide for Reproducible Research (issue #2386)
Have an idea for collaborations or a chapter? Connect with us on Slack, at a community call, or comment directly on an issue or PR!
Infrastructure and Maintenance Updates
Maintaining a massive repository like The Turing Way takes a lot of digital caretaking 🤗✨
Danny Garside, a project maintainer, recently updated our version of JupyterBook and has been compiling and working on bugs within the project, as documented in this issue. Thank you so much for your caretaking and maintenance work of The Turing Way, Danny!
Alden Conner, a core team member, recently refreshed and standardised our promotion pack. Together with Sarah Gibson, a core member and project maintainer, she has also been working to update the GitHub Issue templates. Learn more in this project board. Thank you, Alden and Sarah, for making it easier to talk about and contribute to The Turing Way!
Project Governance Updates
The second core team meeting was held on 7 September 2022. Working Groups were initiated during this time, and are being trialled across the project. Ongoing documentation is in this GitHub Discussion as well as done independently by each group:
- Reviewers and Editors: The R&E team has been working to address stale issues within the project. Learn more in their GitHub Discussion.
- Mentors and Trainers: The M&T team have been working to archive historical talks and workshops within the project. Learn more in this GitHub issue.
- Maintainers: An Infrastructure/Maintainers Working Group is beginning to formalise its efforts, as documented in this issue.
These groups are currently closed to the wider community as we trial what support could look like for them. Thank you all for your hard work in supporting and maintaining The Turing Way project!
Talks and Workshops
It has been a busy few months of talks by and with community leaders. As always, you can find an ongoing record on our Zenodo Community page.
- Danny Garside and Malvika Sharan gave a talk about sharing responsibility for reproducibility at Big Team Science. (Slides)
- Arielle Bennett, Jennifer Ding, and Anne Lee Steele organised a hackathon on research infrastructure roles at Big Team Science. (Slides)
- Emma Karoune, Jennifer Ding, and Anne Lee Steele delivered a workshop on open research and equity at Genomics England's conference on 19 October. (Slides)
- Sophia Batchelor and Emma Karoune gave a workshop to the 2022 cohort of Turing enrichment students on 11 October. (Slides)
- Eirini Zormpa and Anne Lee Steele gave a talk about The Turing Way at King College's DRIVE-Health CDT on 4 October. (Slides)
- Sophia Batchelor gave a talk at the University of Leeds’s ReproducibiliTea on 22 September 2022. (Slides)
- Arielle Bennett hosted a Turing Way booth at the CZIOpenSci conference on 20 September 2022.
- Lightning talk at the Code for All Summit about The Turing Way on 19 September 2022, Anne Lee Steele on “Community-led Best Practices for Data Science”. (Slides/Recording)
- Malvika Sharan, Eirini Zormpa and Arron Lacey delivered a two-day in-person workshop for the Connections Workshop series at the Alan Turing Institute on 76 and 17 September. (Slides)
- Jennifer Ding and Anne Lee Steele gave a lightning talk at Mozilla’s Building Trustworthy AI Working Group meeting on 15 September.
- Anne Lee Steele gave a keynote about her experiences with open research at RSECon Asia-Australia 2022 on 14 September. (Slides/Recording)
- Asma Kacem and Melissa Black gave a talk on the globalisation of open source at ReadtheDocs on 13 September. (Slides)
- Hari Sood gave an introduction to The Turing Way at an AIM-RSF meeting at the Alan Turing Institute on 1 September.
- Andrea Sánchez-Tapia and Malvika Sharan gave a talk on talk for the MetaDocencia Governance Series on intersectionality in governance with live interpretation in English and Spanish on 31 August. (Slides)
Tweets, Toots & mentions
Thank you to all for sharing The Turing Way within your communities, and repurposing these materials for your use. This is exactly what we are all about!
- https://fosstodon.org/web/@da5nsy/108760121842868538
- https://twitter.com/neocarlitos/status/1586021470320226304
- https://twitter.com/PhDToothFAIRy/status/1585704783926665216
- https://twitter.com/turingrss_hdlab/status/1583098150596018176
- https://twitter.com/Carlos_MFerr/status/1582032661022793728
- https://twitter.com/openuk_uk/status/1580837112529965056
In The Turing Way Orbit
Opportunities
- Alan Turing Institute: Research Project Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 1 December
- 📍 London, UK (learn more here)
- Alan Turing Institute: Research Project Manager, Foundational AI
- ⏰ Apply by 20 November
- 📍 Remote, USA (learn more here)
- Mozilla: Data Futures Lab
- ⏰ Apply by 11 November
- 📍 Remote, Global (learn more here)
- University of Sheffield: Research Data Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 15 November
- 📍 Sheffield, UK-based (learn more here)
- TU Delft: Skills4EOSC Training Coordinator
- ⏰ Apply by 20 November
- 📍 Delft, Netherlands (learn more here)
- Mozilla: Creative Media Awards
- ⏰ Apply by 30 November
- 📍 Remote, Global (learn more here)
- INCF: Project Manager
- ⏰ Apply by 30 November
- 📍 Stockholm, Sweden (learn more here)
- Mozilla: Africa Innovation Mradi - In Real Life (IRL) Fund
- ⏰ Apply by 30 November
- 📍 Kenya, South Africa (learn more here)
- NHS: Digital Fellowships
- ⏰ Apply by 1 December
- 📍 Remote, UK (learn more here)
- Code for Science and Society: Digital Infrastructure Incubator
- ⏰ Apply by 2 December
- 📍 Remote, Global learn more here
- Open Collective: Senior UX Designer
- ⏰ Applications ongoing
- 📍 Remote, Global (learn more here)
- US Research Software Sustainability Institute: Community Manager
- ⏰ Applications ongoing
- 📍 Remote, US-based learn more here
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. We host Community Co-working calls on Mondays, Collaboration Cafes every first and third Wednesdays, Office Hours every Friday and Fireside chats monthly.
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