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Join us next week at our Community Share-outs and Fireside Chat!

Hi Turing Way friends,

Last month, we celebrated our 5th anniversary in grand style at the Collaborations Workshop. The celebration doesn't stop there — next week, join us for our 11th Book Dash from June 3 to June 7, 2024!

We are hosting two community-wide events on 7 June 👉 Sign up here!

  • 🔥 Fireside Chat sponsored by Society of RSE - Making Things More Accessible in Data Science.
  • 🎉 Community Share-outs and Celebration sessions at the end of our Book Dash week.

Also check out opportunities to work with us through the Practitioners Hub - Expression of Interest forms are open for joining our second cohort as open source, open data and AI advisors or companies interested in adopting AI.

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.

Community News and Updates

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Our 11th Book Dash is Happening: 3-7 June!

Next week, we'll be welcoming more than 40 long-time and new contributors to our 11th Book Dash event.

This week of collaboration and contributions will be hosted online, with participants joining from more than six different time zones, as well as at two hybrid hubs in London and Amsterdam.

While the application process to join the full event has closed, we are organising two open and community-wide events in 7 June 2024.

👉 Sign up to join — You will receive joining information for both the Share-Outs and Fireside Chat events.

The Book Dash event will close with two Community Share-Out and Contributor Celebration sessions at 11:00 and 17:00 London time (UTC+1). These calls will showcase work from the Book Dash week, inviting collaborations from the wider community.

This time, we are also featuring a Fireside Chat as part of this Book Dash. Read more below.

Fireside Chat on "Making Things More Accessible in Data Science"

A fireside flyer for upcoming session on Making things more accessible in data science. Taking place on 7 June at 13:00 UTC. The event is hosted by The Turing Way and sponsored by Society of RSE, Speakers are Lynn Kirabo, Chirstopher Kurz, Liz Hare and Tania Allard.

Liz Hare and Tania Allard will co-chair our first Fireside Chat of the year with Lynn Kirabo and Christopher Kurz.

Thanks to the generous sponsorship from the Society of RSE grant awarded to Liz Hare, which will go towards covering the cost associated with this event.

Please sign up and find details on this shared Framapad.

Join the Practitioners Hub as Experts in Residence or Advisors

The Turing Way Practitioners Hub has extended the deadlines for Expression of Interest.

👉 Interest form for Experts in Residence - open till 3 June

Members from Small and Medium Enterprises will join our second cohort to receive workshops, coaching, and have access to a dedicated forum for knowledge exchange around the adoption of AI and emerging technologies.

👉 Interest form for advisors - open till 15 June

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 understand 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.

Thank you for joining us at our Five Year Anniversary Workshop at Collaborations Workshop!

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Kirstie Whitaker led a workshop at the Software Sustainability Institute's annual event, Collaborations Workshop 2024. This event marked five years since the project was launched in 2019 at the Collaboration Workshop.

The workshop featured different aspects of The Turing Way, aligned with this year's theme of the event: Environmental Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning tools for science, and Citizen Science. Slides have been shared on Zenodo.

Thank YOU for joining if you were there. If you missed it, we have a treat for you - we recorded a podcast with Peter Schmidt, who will be publishing this episode next week (watch this space).

Sophia Batchelor and Alejandro Coca-Castro presented talks on the inclusive event chapter (which was live-merged!) and the Environmental Data Science Book, respectively. Emma Karoune provided online facilitation to ensure a good hybrid experience for the attendees.

This event would not have been possible without Alexandra Araujo Alvarez and Anne Lee Steele, who were instrumental in setting up the celebration facilitation.

Save the Dates for Community Forums in 2024

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Save the dates for future Community Forum calls planned for 2024:

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! ✨

  • 📝 Onboarding calls: The next call is on 26 June, 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 19 May, 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.
  • ✅ 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.

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Talks and Workshops

  • Kirstie gave a presentation "Delivering on open and responsible AI with The Turing Way" for the Turing Fellows monthly forum on 14 May Zenodo
  • Esther Plomp, Denise Bianco, Emma Karoune, Anne, and Aoife hosted the onboarding sessions for Book Dash on 23 May
  • Johanna Bayer, Mishka Nemes, and Aoife hosted our Github Training Workshop on 29 May.

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In The Turing Way Orbit

Jobs at The Alan Turing Institute

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:

Director of Delivery Infrastructure

  • ⏰ Apply by 30 June 2024
  • 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Read details

Data Study Group (Early-Career) Principle Investigator

  • ⏰ Apply by 12 June 2024
  • 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Read details

Research Associate, UK Spatial, Climate and Health PPL Community

  • ⏰ Apply by 2 June 2024
  • 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Read details

Research Associate, Development of an AI Data Engineer

  • ⏰ Apply by 3 June 2024
  • 📍 Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Read details

Other opportunities

Funding and Fellowships

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

Jobs

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

Events and Courses

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

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.

Get involved + Connect with us!

You are welcome to join The Turing Way community, and learn more about the project.

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.

Did you miss the last newsletters? Check them out here.