Last chance to apply for Book Dash, Join us at our 5 Year Birthday Celebrations at Collaborations Workshop, Online & more!
This newsletter is full of updates, celebrations, and upcoming projects as always – another busy month with The Turing Way community!
- 🎂 Join us at our birthday celebrations at Collaborations Workshop and online – thank you for 5 years of The Turing Way!
- 📚💨 Apply to join our next Book Dash in June, applications for participants have been extended until 30 April - TONIGHT!
- ☎️ The next onboarding call is on 29 May, 15:00 UK time - save it in your calendar and sign-up to join
- 💡 Our Practitioners Hub's Expression of Interest form for the second cohort is open until 30 May 2024
- 📺 Watch back the videos for the April Community Forum and The Practitioners Hub events
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.
You can find all of these links on our start page.
The upcoming Book Dash will takeplace from 3 to 7 June 2024 – and applications close TONIGHT (26 April 2024 - wherever you are in the world).
👉 Send your applications via this Google form
All are welcome! If you have been part of our community or have a passion for collaboration to improve data science practices or The Turing Way itself, we would love for you to join us
Apply to work with us on your ideas or join us again as a returning contributor and/or mentor.
The application deadline is 26 April – TODAY!.
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The Turing Way Practitioners Hub is inviting Expressions of Interest (EoI) from organisations, small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) and industry experts engaged in data science and AI to work with us.
With a focus on implementing best practices in data science and AI initiatives in their own organisations, practitioners from various sectors will engage in this cohort-based programme between September 2024 and February 2025.
The deadline for registering your interest is 30 May 2024.
👉 EoI form for SMEs and Organisations
We are also accepting interest from individuals to join our network of advisors who will engage with our project and cohort activities.
Advisors will bring real-world expertise that can benefit small and medium enterprises interested in implementing best practices in data science and AI initiatives in their organisations.
Read more about the project to evaluate how you can contribute or participate in the second cohort - visit our website. For any further information, feel free to reach out to The Turing Way team.
This week, The Turing Way community will be hosting a workshop celebrating 5 years with The Turing Way at Collaborations Workshop 2024 (CW24).
The Turing Way has long roots at Collaborations Workshop: we were first launched at CW19 as a lightly opinionated guide to data science!
In line with CW24's theme, we will be facilitating a showcase and discussions on the topics relating code testing, environmental impact of digital research and inclusive events.
Join us if you are planning to attend CW24, please do attend the workshop for a chance to join the shared reflection, a 'happy birthday' chorus and sharing a cake (for in person participants). 🧁 Learn more on the Github issue (#3551).
Also, join the discussion on how we should celebrate 5 years of our amazing community and project: the-turing-way/the-turing-way#3518
Thank you for joining us on 23 April for our second Community Forum of 2024.
You can now watch the recording on YouTube
This forum was organised with a renewed format planned by Kirstie and Malvika that brought people into breakout rooms to give space for deeper and smaller discussion of the presented plans. The slide deck, notes and links from this call are on Framapad (which will be archived on GitHub): https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/TTW-Forum-23April.
There are many people to thank for organising and facilitating this call
- Danny Garside for facilitating this call
- Jim Madge and Sarah Gibson for sharing about the Infrastructure Working Group (06:30)
- Malvika for sharing a proposal for a Communications Working Group (join us for the discussion on this proposal at the Collaboration Cafe on 15 May!) (20:20)
- Alexandra for presenting exciting updates about the Bridge AI and The Turing Way Practitioners Hub (don't forget that the Expression of Interest forms are open!) (32:05)
- Winny Nekesa for reminding us about the Book Dash deadline (43:16)
- Anne for providing tech and community support
Finally thank YOU (the cross-community pollinators 🐝) for joining us -- it was wonderful to see many familiar and new faces! 💗
Your inputs and participation are much appreciated in this new community space.
Save the dates for future Community Forum calls planned for 2024:
- Thursday 11 July (15:00 - 16:30) - In your time zone
- Thursday 03 Oct (15:00 - 16:30) - In your time zone
- Thursday 12 Dec (15:00 - 16:30) - In your time zone
On 6 March, The Turing Way hosted the The Turing Way Practitioners Hub Showcase event.
This full-day hybrid event was organised to discuss the Co-adoption of AI and Open Practices for Innovation, featuring panels, a fireside chat, case studies series and the launch of the Expression of interest to join the second cohort of Experts in residence.
If you missed it, you can watch the recordings here:
- Panel 1: Demystifying AI and Open Practices for SMEs:
- Fireside Chat with Amanda Brock (OpenUK)
- The Practitioners Hub - Case study series 2023 showcase
- Panel 2: AI and Open Practices in Emerging Sectors
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 29 May, 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 11 July, 15:00-16:30 UTC+1 (in your timezone). Stay tuned for more information!
- ✅ Collaboration Cafe: The next call is on 1 May, 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.
- ✅ 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 Thursday 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.
📅 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.
- Jim Madge, David Llewellyn-Jones Anne and Malvika shared their experiences at FOSDEM at the Alan Turing's Institute's REG Tech Talk on 2 April
- Malvika gave a keynote at teh Open Research Conference 2024 in Manchester on 24 April: [Zenodo link](ZENODO LINK HERE)
- Pen Yuan-Tsing and Jennife Ding gave a talk at Open Science & Societal Impact online conference on 25 April: Zenodo link
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:
- Senior Research Community Manager, People in Data
- ⏰ Apply by 19 May 2024
- 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
- Read details
- Research Associate x 2, Computational statistics and deep learning with applications in biomedicine – Turing-Roche Partnership
- ⏰ Apply by 28 April 2024
- 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
- Read details
- Research Associate, Applied Research Group, Defence & Security
- ⏰ Apply by 28 April 2024
- 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
- Read details
- Information Assurance and Security Officer, Defence & Security
- ⏰ Apply by 12 May 2024
- 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
- Read details
- Funding: 2024 Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund RFP
- Areas of work: Advance public commons of technology, for the benefit of everyone
- ⏰ Apply by 2 June 2024
- 🔗 Read Details
- Funding: The Scientific Integrity Fund
- Areas of work: Provide Legal Assistance and Financial Support and raise community awareness about the detrimental effects of academic fraud
- 🔗 Read Details
- Fellowship: 2024 Mozilla Senior Fellows
- Areas of work: Trustworthy AI
- ⏰ Apply by 6 May 2024
- 🔗 Read Details
- Fellowship: The NASA Lifelines Fellowship Program
- Areas of work: Humanitarian and Earth science
- ⏰ Apply by 3 April 2024
- 🔗 Read Details
- Fellowship: 2024 Open Future Fellows
- Areas of work: Advancing Digital Public Space and cultivating Digital Commons
- ⏰ Applications ongoing
- 🔗 Read Details
- Residentship: Astera, Open Science Entrepreneur-in-Residence
- Areas of work: New tools for scientific publishing
- ⏰ Apply by 3 April 2024
- 🔗 Read details
- Ambassador Program: Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH)
- ⏰ Apply by 15 May 2024
- 📍 Location: Remote (maximum of 1 ambassador will be from each regional or topical OScH community)
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: OceanOS: Senior Data Scientist
- ⏰ Start date is ASAP
- 📍 Location: Remote, London preferred
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Global Fishing Watch: Data Scientist, Vessel Tracking & Behavior
- ⏰ Apply by 3 May 2024
- 📍 Location: Remote
- 🔗 Read Details
- Job: Global Fishing Watch: Senior Data Scientist, Remote Sensing & Data Fusion
- ⏰ Apply by 3 May 2024
- 📍 Location: Remote
- 🔗 Read Details
- Conference: Society of RSE: RSECON24
- 📢 Call for submissions, reviewers, volunteers & registrations
- 📅 Register by 23 May 2024
- 📍 Location: London, UK
- 🔗 Read Details
- Conference: OpenFest
- 📢 Call for submissions
- 📅 Apply by 26 May 2024
- 📍 Location: Remote, with a supervisor based in The Netherlands
- 🔗 Read Details
- Live Training: Operationalising Ethics in AI
- 📢 Call for registrations
- 📅 Various dates in May and June 2024
- 📍 Location: Virtual
- 🔗 Read Details
- Course: A Learning Community for Community Stewards
- 📢 Call for registrations
- 📅 Starts Friday, 13 September (Taster on 20 August)
- 📍 Location: Virtual
- 🔗 Read Details
- Event: The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence
- 📢 Call for registrations
- 📅 21 - 25 May 2024
- 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
- 🔗 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
- Linkedin page
If you'd like to contribute to the next newsletter, please email Anne Lee Steele at asteele@turing.ac.uk! 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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