"Who is building open source AI?" join our next Fireside Chat, last call to apply to our November Book Dash and meet us at the Festival of Hidden REF
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Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, curated by me: Alexandra, The Turing Way Research Project Manager, with contributions from the amazing The Turing Way team.
Below are some highlights of what you will find in this edition:
- 📚💨 Last days to apply to our November's Book Dash. Deadline is 11 September 2023
- 🔥 Save the date for our next Fireside Chat about "Who is building open source AI" on 21 September 2023
- 📢 Meet us at the Festival of Hidden REF in Bristol on 21 September 2023.
Keep reading for details on these highlights in 'Community News', 'Opportunities' and more from The Turing Way community.
To keep up to date with community events, you can also subscribe to our shared calendar.
If you're interested in keeping up in real-time, please check out our Welcome page, join our Slack workspace, follow the project on Twitter, or join us on Fosstodon.
Community News and Updates
Final call to apply to our Book Dash
Send your application via the application form for applicants
The application deadline is 11 September 2023 (everywhere in the world). 
Watch videos for detailed explanation on how to apply:
Both videos were created with Susana Roman Garcia – a community member who participated in our May 2023 Book Dash with the Data Hazards project. Thank you, Susana!
Apply to host a Book Dash Local Hub
Please submit your application by filling out this form for local hub as soon as possible, even if you don't have all your local details finalised - we are keen to help!
Please get in touch if you have any questions or feedback by emailing turingway@turing.ac.uk or on Slack via the #ask-away channel or by reaching out to me via Direct Message. Send your interest by filling out this form for local hub.
The application will close on 08 September 2023
Book your tickets for our Fireside Chat: "Who is building open source AI" (21 September 2023)
As part of Open Source Initiative's conversations about defining open source AI, The Turing Way is hosting a panel discussion that aims to center key communities who are building AI today, whose contributions are often overlooked. Through a conversation with panellists from content moderation, data annotation, and data governance backgrounds, we aim to highlight different kinds of contributors whose work is critical to the Open Source AI ecosystem, but are often left out of governance decisions or from benefiting from the AI value chain.
We hope this multi-domain, multi-disciplinary discussion can emphasise the importance of centering the communities who are integral to AI production in conversations, considerations, and definitions of "Open Source AI."
Invited speakers include: representatives from the African Content Moderators Union, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Cohere for AI's Aya initiative.
Book your tickets in our Eventbrite page
Community Events
New Dates - Workshop on Managing Open & Reproducible Computational Projects (14-15 September 2023)
Julien Colomb, Jo Havemann and Malvika Sharan will be delivering the Managing Open & Reproducible Computational Projects on 14 and 15 September from 9:00 to 12:00 BST (in your timezone).
They will introduce best practices in data science project management and teach how to apply them to a computational research project. This is a pilot version of this workshop. Therefore, we are particularly seeking participants who would like to both learn and reuse materials to teach others about managing computational projects.
We have created 25 tickets, which will be allocated on a "first come first serve" basis.
For any questions, please email turingway@turing.ac.uk
Read details and register to attend the workshop
Meet us at The Festival of Hidden REF 2023
Following up from the 2021 Hidden REF competition, The Festival of Hidden REF will bring together people who work in non-traditional research roles alongside policymakers, publishers and others involved in the research assessment.
You will join a community that is fighting for a more effective and fairer system of evaluating success in research.
The Alan Turing Institute and The Turing Way are proud sponsors of the Hidden REF Festival 2023.
See the full information and programme on their website
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 06 September 2023, 15:00-17:00 UTC (in your time zone). Join us for a Community Chat in the main room, and work on your own projects in break-out rooms!
- Translation and Localisation Weekly Meetings: every second Thursdays at 14:00 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.
- Infrastructure Monthly Meetings: every second Thursday of the month, at 16:00 UTC (in your time zone). These calls are for co-working on infrastructure support, and for learning more about the work of the team.
- Accessibility Monthly Meetings: every second Monday of the month, at 17:00 UTC (in your time zone)
- Fireside Chats: We always plan these talks as close to the last Thursday or Friday of the month as possible, depending on speakers availability. The next one is scheduled for 21 September 2023. Follow us on Eventbrite to be alerted about upcoming events.
Community-Contributed Announcements
Illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807
Open Science FAIR (25-26 September 2023)
OS FAIR 2023 aims to bring together and empower open science communities and services to identify common practices related to open science, to see what are the best synergies, deliver and operate services that work for many and to bring together experiences from all around the world and learn from each other.
OS FAIR 2023 is organised as an emblematic initiative of OpenAIRE. This year the event will be co-organized with FECYT.
The Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F) ─ Deadline 30 September
A multi-funder initiative by Ford Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures and Open Collective sustaining a platform for researchers and practitioners to better understand how open digital infrastructure is built and deployed.
They seek to support proposals addressing a range of issues related to open digital infrastructure, between 50k and 125k USD for 6-12 months.
Details on the opportunity here
ORFG Open Scholarship Seed Awards
Open scholarship can speed up discoveries, close information gaps, and promote reproducibility and innovation. To address this, the ORFG created the Open Scholarship Seed Award to support open scholarship activities within under-resourced contexts.
They seek to fund forward-looking activities to incentivize the engagement or adoption of open scholarship practices at Minority Serving Institutions in the United States and academic institutions in low and middle-income countries and territories.
- Awards will range from 1,000 USD - 4,999 USD.
- Funded activities should take place before August 1, 2024.
- Final reports will be due 30 days after the end of the proposed project period and no later than August 30, 2024.
Review and apply to ORFG Seed Award
Call for people working in AI as survey participants (for responsible AI research)
Emma Kallina, a PhD Student (University of Cambridge, UK) is inviting people working in AI/ML (e.g. UX, dev, management, compliance, consulting) to respond her PhD Survey. Her surey aims to understand the bottlenecks of stakeholder involvement in AI development in order to tailor interventions and tools that address them. In her PhD, she focuses on facilitating stakeholder involvement along the AI pipeline.
Click here to access the survey - The survey takes around 10 minutes, slightly longer if you are involving many stakeholders.
Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference 2023 (20-21 September 2023)
Bringing together Digital Inclusion researchers, policymakers and practitioners, from around the world, with a focus on well-being.
Organised by The University of Liverpool, UK. When: 20-21 September. Where: Online
Book your tickets at their Eventbrite page
Workshops and Conferences
Many members of The Turing Way community took a break in August but in September we would love to meet you at the following events:
- Eirini Zormpa will attend RSEConf23 on 5-7 September 2023
- Malvika Sharan will give a keynote at the OpenFest Sheffield Showcase on 6-7 September 2023
- Malvika Sharan will attend in-person and give a keynote at International Research Software Funders Workshop in Montreal, from 18-20 September 2023
- Emma Karoune will lead a workshop at The Hidden REF Festival on 21 September 2023
- Malvika Sharan will attend and give a keynote at the un-deRSE23 - Unconference for Research Software Engineering in Germany, on 26-28 September 2023
- Anne Lee Steele and Batool Almarzouq will give a keynote at the NHS-R Community Conference online, based in Birmingham, UK on 17-18 October 2023
📅 Check out our centralised event schedule 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 Etherpad
For more events, subscribe to the Open Research Calendar.
If you want us to promote your future events in the upcoming Newsletters, send Anne and me (Alexandra) an email at turingway@turing.ac.uk with the info. The #events channel on Slack is also a great option to promote community events.
Tweets, Toots and Mentions!
- Toot by Heidi Seibold (16 August 2023) - Link to toot
- Tweet by Falu (18 August 2023) - Link to tweet
In The Turing Way Orbit
Roles at The Turing
Research Associate – Project FAIR Fairness and Transparency theme 💰 £42,893 - £48,510/yr 🗓️ 10 September 2023
Data Scientist - ARC 💰 £42,893 - £48,300/yr 🗓️ 17 September 2023
Research Associate, Human Machine Teaming 💰 £42,893 - £48,300/yr 🗓️ 17 September 2023
Research Associate, Cardiac Digital Twins 💰 £42,893/yr 🗓️ 24 September 2023
Data Scientist - Partner Integrated, Defence and Security 💰 £42,893 - £48,300/yr 🗓️ 01 October 2023
Senior Data Scientist - Partner Integrated, Defence and Security 💰 £51,476 - £58,800/yr 🗓️ 01 October 2023
Visit The Alan Turing career page to access more opportunities.
Other Opportunities
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Job: Computational Scientist in Biomolecular Simulation 📍 Location: STFC Scientific Computing 💰 £39,748 - £44,166/yr ⏰ Submit your application by 03 September 2023 🔗 Read Details
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Open Call: rOpenSci Champions Program 2023 ⏰ Submit your application by 04 September 2023 🔗 Read Details
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Funding Opportunity: Diversity & Inclusion Project & Program Proposals 💰 US $5,000-$15,000 ⏰ Submit your application by 04 September 2023 🔗 Read Details
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Fellowship: The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science 💰 US $5,000-$15,000 ⏰ Submit your application by 04 September 2023 🔗 Read Details
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
- Welcome Page (A great place to start!⭐)
- GitHub repository
- Slack Workspace
- Mastodon profile
- YouTube Channel
- Twitter profile
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