Ask Me Anything Call on Open Life Science: Empowering communities with open* principles. Wednesday, May 20th at 14:00-15:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 EDT

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19 May 2020 UTC

Ask Me Anything Call on Open Life Science: Empowering communities with open* principles. Wednesday, May 20th at 14:00-15:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 EDT

 
Date: 
19 May 2020 to 20 May 2020

Hello everyone,

 

We hope this email finds you well!

 

We are writing to invite you to yet another RDA ECEIG "Ask me Anything" meeting; the Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG) has been formed within RDA with a focus on connecting with and supporting early career professionals both within and outside RDA. The "Ask me Anything" meetings are hosted on a monthly basis, addressing topics that might be of general interest to ECRs - this month's AMA is dedicated to:

Open Life Science: Empowering communities with open* principles

 

As scientists, we are provided training and guidance in how to conduct research in the lab, design algorithms, analyse data and publish them. However, scientists are rarely expected to apply important skills such as open science principles for tooling and road mapping their projects, planning reproducible workflows, involving others in their work, and leading an inclusive community. Modern bioinformatics communities stand in the interface of computational and biological research. This interdisciplinary position requires us to develop collaborative projects by implementing such “open by design” principles in our research projects systematically -- skills that aren’t necessarily taught at university or graduate school level. 

This talk will introduce the Open Life Science (OLS) program and report important observations and outcomes from running the first cohort of the program. The talk will follow the same format as the cohort calls.

 

More about the Open Life Science and the cohort calls

Open Life Science is a volunteer-driven training and mentoring program aimed at empowering early career researchers and potential academic leaders to become open science ambassadors. Participants join OLS with a proposal to work on an open science project and attend a series of one-on-one mentoring calls over 16 weeks, alternating with full cohort calls that provide training on specific open science and leadership skills. OLS’s work is underpinned by a community of over 50 mentors and expert guest speakers.

Cohort calls cover a broad spectrum of topics relevant to leading an open project, ranging from open science topics, community building, project and contribution management of GitHub repositories, and caring both for yourself and others in your community. Calls are designed to be interactive and engaging, utilising a mix of Zoom’s break-out room features to facilitate group discussion, collaborative document editing, and guest speakers from academia and industry giving short talks.

 

If you are interested in attending May's AMA Call please note that registration is required! Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-life-science-empowering-communities-with-open-principles-tickets-105531916804

 

Additional information:

The talk will be held online on Wednesday, May 20th at 14:00-15:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 EDT

*Click here to find out the time of the event in your time zone.

 

Short bios of the speakers

 

Twitter handles

Open Life Science: @openlifesci

Bérénice Batut @bebatut

Yo Yehudi @yoyehudi

 

Looking forward to talking with you!

 

The Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG) co-chairs,

Devan Ray Donaldson, Fotis Psomopoulos and Elli Papadopoulou