Last day to apply for our November Book Dash, Welcome to our new Project Manager, and join our upcoming community calls!
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.
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.
- 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 ([email protected]) for specific questions or support in drafting your application.
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 various outreach activities, public events and a docuseries 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!
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
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.
📅 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.
Congratulations to Jack Breen, a Turing-Roche Community Scholar, who recently merged a new chapter on the Rick of Bias in Research into The Turing Way.
The Risks of Bias in Research chapter builds on one of the focus areas of the Turing-Roche Partnership. Jack 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.
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). See below for more information.
- ✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 3 April, 14:00-16:00 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.
- 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](ADD LINK HERE)
- 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.
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 "Building an Effective AI Team." The discussion will explore the challenges and opportunities in developing AI teams that can deliver on an organization’s strategic goals, as well as the skills required to confidently address current and future AI challenges.
Let me know if you need further adjustments! 👉 Register to attend (via Turing's website)
The OLS team is very 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! :admission_tickets: 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 ([email protected]) with any questions.
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.
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)
- 🔗 Read More here
- ⏰ Apply by 13 October 2024
- Mission Lead, Fundamental Research in AI for Physical Systems
- 🔗 Read More here
- ⏰ Apply by 20 October 2024
- Research Associate, Cyber Security Risk Analysis and Management of Identity Systems
- 🔗 Read More here
- ⏰ Apply by 7 October 2024
- Partnership Development Lead
- 🔗 Read More here
- ⏰ Apply by 6 October 2024
- Mission Lead, Environmental Forecasting
- 🔗 Read More here
- ⏰ Apply by 13 October 2024
- Event: Open Knowledge Foundation: The Tech We Want Online Summit
- ⏰ 17 October
- 📍 Location: Remote
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: University of Southampton: Lecturer in Humanities Data Science
- ⏰ Apply by 30 October 2024
- 📍 Location: Southampton, UK
- 🔗 Read Details
- Event: FOSS Backstage 2025: Call for talks
- ⏰ Apply by 13 November 2024
- 📍 Location: Berlin, Germany
- 🔗 Read Details
- Event: PyData Global: Call for talks
- ⏰ Apply by 7 October 2024
- 📍 Location: Remote
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: University of Bristol: Research Associate, Meta-research
- ⏰ Apply by 9 October 2024
- 📍 Location: Bristol, UK
- 🔗 Read Details
For more events, subscribe to the Open Research Calendar.
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 Anne Lee Steele at [email protected]! 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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