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The OLS-4 program
Purpose: Training for early stage researchers and young leaders interested in furthering their Open Science skills
Outcome: Ambassadors for Open Science practice, training and education across multiple European and international bioinformatics communities.
Process: A 16-week mentoring & training program, based on the Mozilla Open Leader program, helping participants in becoming Open Science ambassadors by using three principles:
- Sharing essential knowledge required to create, lead, and sustain an Open Science project.
- Connecting members across different communities, backgrounds, and identities by creating space in this program for them to share their experiences and expertise.
- Empowering them to become effective Open Science ambassadors in their communities.
Goals and Learning Objectives
The vision of Open Life Science program is to strengthen Open Science skills for early stage researchers and young leaders in life science.
At the end of the program, our participants will be able to:
- Describe and define the terms openness, open science, open leadership, community interactions, value exchanges, inclusivity, accessibility, open Science practices in developing resources and training
- Learn how to apply those principles to open leadership and working open in their projects and communities . Learn how to collect, invite, and tell stories that demonstrate how and why openness benefits the communities they serve
- Give original examples for the types of openness in science
- Design
- Illustrate the need for a project, its vision, and its goals
- Embrace and communicate the benefits of Open Science and how to strategically apply different open practices to their work
- Identify the public resources to share their data
- Identify the different type of Open Access and associated journals
- Build
- Start any project with openness in mind from day one
- Setup a project repository on GitHub using best practices for enabling collaboration
- Choose and apply open licenses appropriately
- Empower
- Create and enforce a safe working environment
- Promote the values of Open Science to empower others to lead and collaborate
- Include a broad range of contributors in their work
- Communicate their work and vision in a 2min demo of elevator pitch
- Lead an open project in science
Timeline
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June 21, 2021 : Call for Application opens on Open Review
See the guidelines and templates
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June 30, 2021 : Application webinar( Talk + Q&A) - Notes with Zoom call link
Watch recordings from previous webinars on YouTube
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July 09, 2021 : Application Clinic Call( Q&A) - Notes with Zoom call link
At this call, OLS team will be available to provide help if you have any question related to your application
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July 19, 2021 : Open Review registration deadline
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July 21, 2021 : Call for applications closed
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August 16, 2021 : Successful applicants announced
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September 13, 2021: Start of the program
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January 17, 2022: End of the program
Schedule
During the program,
- Mentors and mentees meet every 2 weeks for a 30 minutes call
- Mentees participate every ~2 weeks to 90-minutes cohort calls during which the program leaders introduce new topics and resources, facilitate break-out discussions, and invite expert from the field to give talks
- Mentees can participate to skill-up, Q&A or coworking session in the weeks without cohort calls
- Mentors take part to mentoring workshop and calls
Organizers will inform participants of the week schedule by email.
Role Descriptions
Project leads (aka Mentees)
Participants join this program with a project that they either are already working on or want to develop during this program. More details about the role of a project lead (mentee) can be found here.
For the fourth round of the Open Life Science program, we welcome 34 participants with 26 projects.
Mentors
Our project leads are supported in this program by our mentor-community who are paired based on the compatibility of expertise, interests and requirements of their projects. Our mentors are Open Science practitioners and champions with previous experiences in training and mentoring. They are currently working in different professions in data science, publishing, community building, software development, clinical studies, industries, scientific training and IT services.
Mentors advise and inspire
- Connect: to people, programs, companies
- Recommend: resources, readings, classes, experiences
- Feedback: for the project leads to consider
Pool of mentors
We thank the 32 mentors this round.
Working on insect genomics/bioinformatics platforms, and regular contributor to the Galaxy-Conda-GMOD-GTN exosystem
I am working as a Scientific Training Officer at EMBL-EBI and dedicate my work time to developing and designing training in the field of biomedical sciences and bioinformatics. In our training courses we encourage scientists to work according to and advocate the principles of Open Science. I am not a bioinformatician myself, but a chemist / biochemist by education, with several years of experience in scientific research; mainly in the wet lab.
Anne is an experienced Research Software Engineer. She is developing training materials and teaching basic-to-advanced research computing skills to students, researchers, Research Software Engineers from all disciplines to advance FAIRness of Software management and development practices so that research groups can collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, share and reuse their codes.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
Carly is a Senior Technician at the University of Western Australia, responsible for managing the archaeology laboratories, field safety, and equipment. She specialises in faunal analysis (zooarchaeology), and is passionate about connecting people with place and environment.
I am an Assistant Professor at Penn State University and I have been part of the Galaxy team for 5 years. I work on genomics and epigenetic and develop workflows and tutorials.
Physicist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. Recently finished a PhD analysis yeast transcriptomics. Now, working at EPCC developing use cases for analysing sensitive medical/demographic data sets with safe haven computing environments.
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
Hans-Rudolf is a Molecular Biologist turned Bioinformatician who is working in the Computational Biology facility at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel Switzerland. Before, he was leading the Bioinformatics Core group at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge UK.
I am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Former neuro-geneticist (10 year of research on fruit fly memory and behavior), I have been more recently interested in data analysis and management, as a specialisation for my interests in open science (open research). I am presently working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers via the SmartFigure Gallery project.
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
I am an early career researcher focused on building energy use with a passion for learning about open community and open science practices that I can apply to my work. I am motivated to share academic knowledge with those who can benefit from it. I would love to see an open data community of practice including households, building practitioners and researchers.
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
I trained as a physicist in atomic physics / quantum information processing (half theory, half experimental). I now work in the Electron Microscopy core facility at the Francis Crick Institute where I develop new hardware and software solutions for various imaging and image analysis bottlenecks. I have a lot of experience working in multidisciplinary teams and in doing so have learned how to communicate across very different communities.
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
I am a Systems Engineer passionate about applying Computer Science to improve the way we live. Enthusiast and promoter of open science in the region.
Dave coordinates training and outreach for the Galaxy Project. He has been a community person in life sciences for 13 years. Before that he worked in biological databases for 7 years. His training is in Computer Science, with an emphasis on databases.
Renato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
Mentoring training
Mentorship roles can sound like a big personal responsibility and can be overwhelming for new mentors. To support our mentors in this program, we will offer training, topic-based guided discussions and opportunity for social interaction over 4 calls during the mentorship round:
- 2 training calls in the beginning of the cohort to get participants trained and prepared for their role as mentors
- 1 catch-up call in the middle of the cohort to discuss new topics and challenges that might have occurred and address them
- 1 call at the end to capture experiences of mentors and assess their interest in future cohorts
- Social and co-working calls schedule will be agreed among the mentors as per their needs and interests
In the mentor training, our mentors will then gain mentoring skills (active listening, effective questioning, giving feedback), learn to celebrate successes and gain confidence on navigating challenges in mentoring.
A dedicated slack channel will facilitate open discussions among mentors to help them discuss their experiences, challenges and tips and tricks (contact the team if you are not yet on this channel).
Experts
Experts are invited to join cohort calls or individual mentorship calls to share their experience and expertise during the program.
We thank the 46 persons who registered to be experts in this round.
I am an Experimental Psychologist and Fellow of the SSI at the University of Manchester interested in data visualisations, open science, and reproducible research. I am the University of Manchester Open and Reproducible Research Institutional Lead.
I am working as a Scientific Training Officer at EMBL-EBI and dedicate my work time to developing and designing training in the field of biomedical sciences and bioinformatics. In our training courses we encourage scientists to work according to and advocate the principles of Open Science. I am not a bioinformatician myself, but a chemist / biochemist by education, with several years of experience in scientific research; mainly in the wet lab.
I am a dentist who is passionate in immunology and genomic research. Our group in Thailand is working to expand our research capacity by introducing the single-cell transcriptomics to researchers of different fields. I enjoy bridging people from different expertise and encourage openness and collaboration.
Anne is an experienced Research Software Engineer. She is developing training materials and teaching basic-to-advanced research computing skills to students, researchers, Research Software Engineers from all disciplines to advance FAIRness of Software management and development practices so that research groups can collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, share and reuse their codes.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
I divide my time between data analysis to understand the smallest components of matter, instrumentation R&D, and science and education capacity building programs to build the next generation of scientists in Latin America. I am an advocate for virtual research and learning communities as a way to strengthen scientific connections between Europe and Latin America.
I studied psychology in my undergraduate degree (University of Queensland, Australia) and cognitive neuroscience in my postgraduate degree (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia). Throughout my PhD, I became increasingly disillusioned at the state of academia – particularly the scholarly publishing system – and decided I would rather devote my career to reforming academia than pursuing my research interests (which include consciousness, meditation, attention, and prediction). To this end, I joined IGDORE and founded Project Free Our Knowledge, a conditional pledge platform that seeks to increase the adoption of open and reproducible research practices through collective action.
I am an Assistant Professor at Penn State University and I have been part of the Galaxy team for 5 years. I work on genomics and epigenetic and develop workflows and tutorials.
Physicist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. Recently finished a PhD analysis yeast transcriptomics. Now, working at EPCC developing use cases for analysing sensitive medical/demographic data sets with safe haven computing environments.
Grew up on a farm in Germany. I like open science, sustainability and exploring the outdoors. I pursue a PhD working on improving the design of stable metalloproteins using deep learning and molecular simulation.
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
I am a former immunologist who now works at the UK’s Biobanking Centre. My role is to engage with researchers and Biobankers to improve efficiency in the sector.
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.
Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
Role in OLS:
NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
I work as data manager at CONABIO where I develop FAIR workflows for biodiversity and agricultural data. I also study a PhD at UNAM, and my research is focused on the challenges for integrating social and ecological data. I love working in interdisciplinary projects that combine my interests in sustainability, data and open research
I am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Former neuro-geneticist (10 year of research on fruit fly memory and behavior), I have been more recently interested in data analysis and management, as a specialisation for my interests in open science (open research). I am presently working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers via the SmartFigure Gallery project.
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
Independent scholar advancing open knowledge through a portfolio of projects in open education, open science, and open data. PhD in Public Policy with research interests at the intersection of science & technology policy and the future of work. Expertise in issues facing early career researchers.
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.
Kate Hertweck is a scientist and educator who endeavors to uphold core values like: diversity/equity/inclusion, accessibility of information, and learning over knowing. Their career as a scientist began in evolutionary genomics of plants, but is now focused on supporting biomedical researchers implementing reproducible computational methods and other approaches in open science.
I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
Katharina is a PhD student at the Peer-Produced Research Lab at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, France. She is working on the participatory design of tools to support bottom-up communities in citizen science in peer-producing knowledge. She has a background in cognitive and media science and user experience consulting and is passionate about art and illustration.
Dr. Stack Whitney is an environmental studies professor at RIT in upstate NY, USA. As a person whose teaching and work sits at the interface of environmental science and environmental humanities, she’s excited about “open” for all kinds of teaching and research. However, she’s also a critical advocate for ensuring that “open” initiatives and products do not exclude disabled leaders and participants.
Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
I received my PhD from the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Münster in the context of the research project ‘‘Opening Reproducible Research’’ (www.o2r.info). Today, I am working at ITC as an Open Science Officer. My job is to raise awareness for open practices and help researchers adhere to Open Science principles, including Open Data, Open Reproducible Research, Open Source Infrastructures, and Open Educational Resources. Another part of my work the co-organisation of the Open Science Community Twente, an inter-disciplinary, bottom-up community to promote, learn, share, and discuss Open Science practices.
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
Himanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
I am a Systems Engineer passionate about applying Computer Science to improve the way we live. Enthusiast and promoter of open science in the region.
I’ve wandered through science (neuroscience), access to science communication (open access, preprints) and community building. I currently find myself thinking more about how the money flows, who has power and how to dismantle inequitable power structures. I also watch the numbers as treasurer for Dryad (open data).
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
I’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
Lifelong developmental geneticist with interest in synthetic biology and creating open domain tools for research
Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.
Dave coordinates training and outreach for the Galaxy Project. He has been a community person in life sciences for 13 years. Before that he worked in biological databases for 7 years. His training is in Computer Science, with an emphasis on databases.
Renato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
Experts sorted by their expertise areas
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Ableism
Expertise:Accessibility, Road ecology, Novel ecosystems, Insects, Zines, OER
Dr. Stack Whitney is an environmental studies professor at RIT in upstate NY, USA. As a person whose teaching and work sits at the interface of environmental science and environmental humanities, she’s excited about “open” for all kinds of teaching and research. However, she’s also a critical advocate for ensuring that “open” initiatives and products do not exclude disabled leaders and participants.
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Accessibility
Expertise:Accessibility, Road ecology, Novel ecosystems, Insects, Zines, OER
Dr. Stack Whitney is an environmental studies professor at RIT in upstate NY, USA. As a person whose teaching and work sits at the interface of environmental science and environmental humanities, she’s excited about “open” for all kinds of teaching and research. However, she’s also a critical advocate for ensuring that “open” initiatives and products do not exclude disabled leaders and participants.
Expertise:Life sciences, Genetics, Synthetic biology, AccessibilityLifelong developmental geneticist with interest in synthetic biology and creating open domain tools for research
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Agrobiodiversity
Role in OLS: NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
Expertise:Fair, Open data, Data management, Agrobiodiversity, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary researchI work as data manager at CONABIO where I develop FAIR workflows for biodiversity and agricultural data. I also study a PhD at UNAM, and my research is focused on the challenges for integrating social and ecological data. I love working in interdisciplinary projects that combine my interests in sustainability, data and open research
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Ally skills training
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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App/software development
Expertise:Open innovation, Digitalization
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.
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Archaeology
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
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Balancing open science with the rest of your career
Expertise:Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;
My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.
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Bioanthropology
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
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Biobanking
Expertise:Biobanking
I am a former immunologist who now works at the UK’s Biobanking Centre. My role is to engage with researchers and Biobankers to improve efficiency in the sector.
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Biochemistry
Expertise:Computational Chemistry, Biochemistry, Protein Design, Deep Learning
Grew up on a farm in Germany. I like open science, sustainability and exploring the outdoors. I pursue a PhD working on improving the design of stable metalloproteins using deep learning and molecular simulation.
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Biodiversity
Expertise:SciComm, Community building, Open Data, Biodiversity
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, BiodiversityTheoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
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Bioinformatics
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Expertise:Transcriptomics; r; bayesian statistics; high performance computing; geospatial analysisPhysicist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. Recently finished a PhD analysis yeast transcriptomics. Now, working at EPCC developing use cases for analysing sensitive medical/demographic data sets with safe haven computing environments.
Expertise:Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Machine learning, TrainingDoing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible scienceFormer university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Carpentries
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Citizen science
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Expertise:User experience, User-centered/participatory design, Citizen science, Peer production, IllustrationKatharina is a PhD student at the Peer-Produced Research Lab at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, France. She is working on the participatory design of tools to support bottom-up communities in citizen science in peer-producing knowledge. She has a background in cognitive and media science and user experience consulting and is passionate about art and illustration.
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Climate change
Expertise:Python, Github, Glaciology, Remote sensing, Icebergs, Climate change, Icesat-2, Icepyx, Hackweeks
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
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Code of conducts
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Cognitive neuroscience
Expertise:Cognitive neuroscience, Psychology, Metascience, Peer review, Open access, Collective action, Community building
I studied psychology in my undergraduate degree (University of Queensland, Australia) and cognitive neuroscience in my postgraduate degree (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia). Throughout my PhD, I became increasingly disillusioned at the state of academia – particularly the scholarly publishing system – and decided I would rather devote my career to reforming academia than pursuing my research interests (which include consciousness, meditation, attention, and prediction). To this end, I joined IGDORE and founded Project Free Our Knowledge, a conditional pledge platform that seeks to increase the adoption of open and reproducible research practices through collective action.
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Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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Collaboration
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
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Collaborative working
Expertise:Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
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Collective action
Expertise:Cognitive neuroscience, Psychology, Metascience, Peer review, Open access, Collective action, Community building
I studied psychology in my undergraduate degree (University of Queensland, Australia) and cognitive neuroscience in my postgraduate degree (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia). Throughout my PhD, I became increasingly disillusioned at the state of academia – particularly the scholarly publishing system – and decided I would rather devote my career to reforming academia than pursuing my research interests (which include consciousness, meditation, attention, and prediction). To this end, I joined IGDORE and founded Project Free Our Knowledge, a conditional pledge platform that seeks to increase the adoption of open and reproducible research practices through collective action.
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Communication
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, Teaching
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
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Community
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Community building
Expertise:SciComm, Community building, Open Data, Biodiversity
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
Expertise:Cognitive neuroscience, Psychology, Metascience, Peer review, Open access, Collective action, Community buildingI studied psychology in my undergraduate degree (University of Queensland, Australia) and cognitive neuroscience in my postgraduate degree (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia). Throughout my PhD, I became increasingly disillusioned at the state of academia – particularly the scholarly publishing system – and decided I would rather devote my career to reforming academia than pursuing my research interests (which include consciousness, meditation, attention, and prediction). To this end, I joined IGDORE and founded Project Free Our Knowledge, a conditional pledge platform that seeks to increase the adoption of open and reproducible research practices through collective action.
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, TeachingAs the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
Expertise:Open innovation, DigitalizationI am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.
Expertise:Grantsmaking, Design thinking, Participatory research, Community buildingI’ve wandered through science (neuroscience), access to science communication (open access, preprints) and community building. I currently find myself thinking more about how the money flows, who has power and how to dismantle inequitable power structures. I also watch the numbers as treasurer for Dryad (open data).
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Community consultation
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Community engagement
Expertise:Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publication
I am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Community goals
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Community management
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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Community outreach
Expertise:Community outreach, Training, Imposter Syndrome, Data analysis and integration
Dave coordinates training and outreach for the Galaxy Project. He has been a community person in life sciences for 13 years. Before that he worked in biological databases for 7 years. His training is in Computer Science, with an emphasis on databases.
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Computational Chemistry
Expertise:Computational Chemistry, Biochemistry, Protein Design, Deep Learning
Grew up on a farm in Germany. I like open science, sustainability and exploring the outdoors. I pursue a PhD working on improving the design of stable metalloproteins using deep learning and molecular simulation.
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Computational Training
Expertise:Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomics
Renato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
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Computational biology
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
Expertise:Open innovation, DigitalizationI am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.
Expertise:Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomicsRenato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
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Computational inclusion
Expertise:Research data management, Open science, Fair principles, Inclusion & equity
I’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
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Conference organization
Expertise:Open innovation, Digitalization
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.
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Course delivery
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Course design
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Course development
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Creating and using open educational resources: the 5rs
Expertise:Public policy; science & technology policy; public management; program evaluation; civic tech
Independent scholar advancing open knowledge through a portfolio of projects in open education, open science, and open data. PhD in Public Policy with research interests at the intersection of science & technology policy and the future of work. Expertise in issues facing early career researchers.
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Culture change
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Curation
Expertise:Research data management, Open science, Fair principles, Inclusion & equity
I’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
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Data analysis and integration
Expertise:Community outreach, Training, Imposter Syndrome, Data analysis and integration
Dave coordinates training and outreach for the Galaxy Project. He has been a community person in life sciences for 13 years. Before that he worked in biological databases for 7 years. His training is in Computer Science, with an emphasis on databases.
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Data literacy
Expertise:Data literacy, Resource-constrained environmentsExpertise:Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;
My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.
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Data management
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Role in OLS: NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
Expertise:Fair, Open data, Data management, Agrobiodiversity, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary researchI work as data manager at CONABIO where I develop FAIR workflows for biodiversity and agricultural data. I also study a PhD at UNAM, and my research is focused on the challenges for integrating social and ecological data. I love working in interdisciplinary projects that combine my interests in sustainability, data and open research
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, NeuroscienceLilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
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Data patterns
Expertise:Machine learning, Open source, Software compliance, System design, Data patterns, User behaviour patterns, Python, Git
Himanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
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Data synthesis
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
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Data usage in the public sector
Expertise:Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies
Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.
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Databases
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Deep Learning
Expertise:Computational Chemistry, Biochemistry, Protein Design, Deep Learning
Grew up on a farm in Germany. I like open science, sustainability and exploring the outdoors. I pursue a PhD working on improving the design of stable metalloproteins using deep learning and molecular simulation.
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Design thinking
Expertise:Grantsmaking, Design thinking, Participatory research, Community building
I’ve wandered through science (neuroscience), access to science communication (open access, preprints) and community building. I currently find myself thinking more about how the money flows, who has power and how to dismantle inequitable power structures. I also watch the numbers as treasurer for Dryad (open data).
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Designing and developing training material
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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Devops
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Digital equity
Expertise:Research data management, Open science, Fair principles, Inclusion & equity
I’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
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Diversity
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, Teaching
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
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Drug discovery
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Ecology
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills trainingHao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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Environmental Archaeology
Expertise:Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
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Epigenetics
Expertise:Genomics, Epigenetics, Galaxy
I am an Assistant Professor at Penn State University and I have been part of the Galaxy team for 5 years. I work on genomics and epigenetic and develop workflows and tutorials.
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Equality, Anti-discrimination and justice
Expertise:Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies
Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.
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Ethical and reflexive research methodologies
Expertise:Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies
Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.
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Event planning
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, Teaching
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
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Evolutionary biology
Expertise:Open innovation, Digitalization
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.
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FAIR
Expertise:Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, OsteologyEsther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
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FAIR principles
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Fair data
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible research, Fair software, Fair data
Anne is an experienced Research Software Engineer. She is developing training materials and teaching basic-to-advanced research computing skills to students, researchers, Research Software Engineers from all disciplines to advance FAIRness of Software management and development practices so that research groups can collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, share and reuse their codes.
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Fair principles
Expertise:Research data management, Open science, Fair principles, Inclusion & equity
I’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
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Fair software
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible research, Fair software, Fair data
Anne is an experienced Research Software Engineer. She is developing training materials and teaching basic-to-advanced research computing skills to students, researchers, Research Software Engineers from all disciplines to advance FAIRness of Software management and development practices so that research groups can collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, share and reuse their codes.
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Feminist and queer approaches to tech and data
Expertise:Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies
Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.
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Full-stack developer
Expertise:Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomics
Renato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
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Galaxy
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Expertise:Genomics, Epigenetics, GalaxyI am an Assistant Professor at Penn State University and I have been part of the Galaxy team for 5 years. I work on genomics and epigenetic and develop workflows and tutorials.
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Galaxy training
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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Gender and stereotyping
Expertise:Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies
Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.
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Gene expression
Expertise:Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;
My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.
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Genetics
Expertise:Life sciences, Genetics, Synthetic biology, Accessibility
Lifelong developmental geneticist with interest in synthetic biology and creating open domain tools for research
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Genomics
Expertise:Genomics, Epigenetics, Galaxy
I am an Assistant Professor at Penn State University and I have been part of the Galaxy team for 5 years. I work on genomics and epigenetic and develop workflows and tutorials.
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Git
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Expertise:Machine learning, Open source, Software compliance, System design, Data patterns, User behaviour patterns, Python, GitHimanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
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Git and github
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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GitHub
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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GitHub/GitLab Pages
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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GitLab
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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Github
Expertise:Python, Github, Glaciology, Remote sensing, Icebergs, Climate change, Icesat-2, Icepyx, Hackweeks
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
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Giving presentations
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, Neuroscience
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
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Glaciology
Expertise:Python, Github, Glaciology, Remote sensing, Icebergs, Climate change, Icesat-2, Icepyx, Hackweeks
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
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Go to market
Expertise:Product strategy, Go to market, User research
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
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Grantsmaking
Expertise:Grantsmaking, Design thinking, Participatory research, Community building
I’ve wandered through science (neuroscience), access to science communication (open access, preprints) and community building. I currently find myself thinking more about how the money flows, who has power and how to dismantle inequitable power structures. I also watch the numbers as treasurer for Dryad (open data).
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Hackweeks
Expertise:Python, Github, Glaciology, Remote sensing, Icebergs, Climate change, Icesat-2, Icepyx, Hackweeks
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
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Health sciences
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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High-throughput sequencing
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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Human cell atlas
Expertise:Immunology, Single-cell transcriptomics, Tropical disease, Human cell atlas, Interdisciplinery research
I am a dentist who is passionate in immunology and genomic research. Our group in Thailand is working to expand our research capacity by introducing the single-cell transcriptomics to researchers of different fields. I enjoy bridging people from different expertise and encourage openness and collaboration.
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Human rights
Expertise:Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies
Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.
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Icebergs
Expertise:Python, Github, Glaciology, Remote sensing, Icebergs, Climate change, Icesat-2, Icepyx, Hackweeks
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
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Icepyx
Expertise:Python, Github, Glaciology, Remote sensing, Icebergs, Climate change, Icesat-2, Icepyx, Hackweeks
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
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Icesat-2
Expertise:Python, Github, Glaciology, Remote sensing, Icebergs, Climate change, Icesat-2, Icepyx, Hackweeks
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
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Illustration
Expertise:User experience, User-centered/participatory design, Citizen science, Peer production, Illustration
Katharina is a PhD student at the Peer-Produced Research Lab at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, France. She is working on the participatory design of tools to support bottom-up communities in citizen science in peer-producing knowledge. She has a background in cognitive and media science and user experience consulting and is passionate about art and illustration.
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Immunology
Expertise:Immunology, Single-cell transcriptomics, Tropical disease, Human cell atlas, Interdisciplinery research
I am a dentist who is passionate in immunology and genomic research. Our group in Thailand is working to expand our research capacity by introducing the single-cell transcriptomics to researchers of different fields. I enjoy bridging people from different expertise and encourage openness and collaboration.
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Imposter Syndrome
Expertise:Community outreach, Training, Imposter Syndrome, Data analysis and integration
Dave coordinates training and outreach for the Galaxy Project. He has been a community person in life sciences for 13 years. Before that he worked in biological databases for 7 years. His training is in Computer Science, with an emphasis on databases.
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Inclusion
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, Teaching
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
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Inter and transdisciplinary research
Role in OLS: NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
Expertise:Fair, Open data, Data management, Agrobiodiversity, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary researchI work as data manager at CONABIO where I develop FAIR workflows for biodiversity and agricultural data. I also study a PhD at UNAM, and my research is focused on the challenges for integrating social and ecological data. I love working in interdisciplinary projects that combine my interests in sustainability, data and open research
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Interdisciplinery research
Expertise:Immunology, Single-cell transcriptomics, Tropical disease, Human cell atlas, Interdisciplinery research
I am a dentist who is passionate in immunology and genomic research. Our group in Thailand is working to expand our research capacity by introducing the single-cell transcriptomics to researchers of different fields. I enjoy bridging people from different expertise and encourage openness and collaboration.
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Isotopes
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
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Jekyll
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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Language documentation
Expertise:Community management, Rdm, Open science
I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
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Leadership
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, Teaching
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
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Life science
Expertise:Research data management, Open science, Fair principles, Inclusion & equity
I’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
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Life sciences
Expertise:Life sciences, Genetics, Synthetic biology, Accessibility
Lifelong developmental geneticist with interest in synthetic biology and creating open domain tools for research
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Linguistics
Expertise:Community management, Rdm, Open science
I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
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Logic models for program planning and evaluation
Expertise:Public policy; science & technology policy; public management; program evaluation; civic tech
Independent scholar advancing open knowledge through a portfolio of projects in open education, open science, and open data. PhD in Public Policy with research interests at the intersection of science & technology policy and the future of work. Expertise in issues facing early career researchers.
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Machine learning
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training
Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.
Expertise:Machine learning, Open source, Software compliance, System design, Data patterns, User behaviour patterns, Python, GitHimanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
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Meta-transcriptomics
Expertise:Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomics
Renato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
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Metagenomics
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Expertise:Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomicsRenato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
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Metascience
Expertise:Cognitive neuroscience, Psychology, Metascience, Peer review, Open access, Collective action, Community building
I studied psychology in my undergraduate degree (University of Queensland, Australia) and cognitive neuroscience in my postgraduate degree (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia). Throughout my PhD, I became increasingly disillusioned at the state of academia – particularly the scholarly publishing system – and decided I would rather devote my career to reforming academia than pursuing my research interests (which include consciousness, meditation, attention, and prediction). To this end, I joined IGDORE and founded Project Free Our Knowledge, a conditional pledge platform that seeks to increase the adoption of open and reproducible research practices through collective action.
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Methods of interactive delivery (face-to-face and virtual courses)
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Mixed methods
Expertise:Social science, Qualitative research, Sustainability, Standards, Mixed methods, Post academics
I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.
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Neuroscience
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, Neuroscience
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
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Neuroscience.
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Neurosciences
Expertise:Neurobiology
Former neuro-geneticist (10 year of research on fruit fly memory and behavior), I have been more recently interested in data analysis and management, as a specialisation for my interests in open science (open research). I am presently working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers via the SmartFigure Gallery project.
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No listed expertise
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Online training
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Open Data
Expertise:SciComm, Community building, Open Data, Biodiversity
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
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Open Science
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training
Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.
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Open access
Expertise:Cognitive neuroscience, Psychology, Metascience, Peer review, Open access, Collective action, Community building
I studied psychology in my undergraduate degree (University of Queensland, Australia) and cognitive neuroscience in my postgraduate degree (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia). Throughout my PhD, I became increasingly disillusioned at the state of academia – particularly the scholarly publishing system – and decided I would rather devote my career to reforming academia than pursuing my research interests (which include consciousness, meditation, attention, and prediction). To this end, I joined IGDORE and founded Project Free Our Knowledge, a conditional pledge platform that seeks to increase the adoption of open and reproducible research practices through collective action.
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Open data
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, BiodiversityTheoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Role in OLS: NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
Expertise:Fair, Open data, Data management, Agrobiodiversity, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary researchI work as data manager at CONABIO where I develop FAIR workflows for biodiversity and agricultural data. I also study a PhD at UNAM, and my research is focused on the challenges for integrating social and ecological data. I love working in interdisciplinary projects that combine my interests in sustainability, data and open research
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, NeuroscienceLilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
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Open education
Expertise:Open education, Science and education capacity building, Virtual research and learning communities, Scientific connections between developed and developing countries, Particle physics
I divide my time between data analysis to understand the smallest components of matter, instrumentation R&D, and science and education capacity building programs to build the next generation of scientists in Latin America. I am an advocate for virtual research and learning communities as a way to strengthen scientific connections between Europe and Latin America.
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Open educational resources
Expertise:Open science hardware, Sti policy, Open educational resources
Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.
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Open protocols
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
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Open research
Expertise:Open research, Reproducibility, Psychology
I am an Experimental Psychologist and Fellow of the SSI at the University of Manchester interested in data visualisations, open science, and reproducible research. I am the University of Manchester Open and Reproducible Research Institutional Lead.
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Open science
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible research, Fair software, Fair data
Anne is an experienced Research Software Engineer. She is developing training materials and teaching basic-to-advanced research computing skills to students, researchers, Research Software Engineers from all disciplines to advance FAIRness of Software management and development practices so that research groups can collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, share and reuse their codes.
Expertise:Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.
Expertise:NeurobiologyFormer neuro-geneticist (10 year of research on fruit fly memory and behavior), I have been more recently interested in data analysis and management, as a specialisation for my interests in open science (open research). I am presently working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers via the SmartFigure Gallery project.
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, NeuroscienceLilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
Expertise:Research data management, Open science, Fair principles, Inclusion & equityI’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
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Open science hardware
Expertise:Open science hardware, Sti policy, Open educational resources
Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.
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Open science, reproducibility
Expertise:Open science, reproducibility
I received my PhD from the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Münster in the context of the research project ‘‘Opening Reproducible Research’’ (www.o2r.info). Today, I am working at ITC as an Open Science Officer. My job is to raise awareness for open practices and help researchers adhere to Open Science principles, including Open Data, Open Reproducible Research, Open Source Infrastructures, and Open Educational Resources. Another part of my work the co-organisation of the Open Science Community Twente, an inter-disciplinary, bottom-up community to promote, learn, share, and discuss Open Science practices.
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Open science, reproducible computational methods, training, community building, cancer biology, genomics, evolutionary biology
Expertise:Open science, reproducible computational methods, training, community building, cancer biology, genomics, evolutionary biology
Kate Hertweck is a scientist and educator who endeavors to uphold core values like: diversity/equity/inclusion, accessibility of information, and learning over knowing. Their career as a scientist began in evolutionary genomics of plants, but is now focused on supporting biomedical researchers implementing reproducible computational methods and other approaches in open science.
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Open source
Expertise:Transcriptomics; r; bayesian statistics; high performance computing; geospatial analysis
Physicist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. Recently finished a PhD analysis yeast transcriptomics. Now, working at EPCC developing use cases for analysing sensitive medical/demographic data sets with safe haven computing environments.
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, NeuroscienceLilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
Expertise:Machine learning, Open source, Software compliance, System design, Data patterns, User behaviour patterns, Python, GitHimanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
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Open workflows
Expertise:Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
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Openness without extraction
Expertise:Accessibility, Road ecology, Novel ecosystems, Insects, Zines, OER
Dr. Stack Whitney is an environmental studies professor at RIT in upstate NY, USA. As a person whose teaching and work sits at the interface of environmental science and environmental humanities, she’s excited about “open” for all kinds of teaching and research. However, she’s also a critical advocate for ensuring that “open” initiatives and products do not exclude disabled leaders and participants.
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Osteology
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
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Palaeoecology
Expertise:Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
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Participatory research
Expertise:Grantsmaking, Design thinking, Participatory research, Community building
I’ve wandered through science (neuroscience), access to science communication (open access, preprints) and community building. I currently find myself thinking more about how the money flows, who has power and how to dismantle inequitable power structures. I also watch the numbers as treasurer for Dryad (open data).
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Particle physics
Expertise:Open education, Science and education capacity building, Virtual research and learning communities, Scientific connections between developed and developing countries, Particle physics
I divide my time between data analysis to understand the smallest components of matter, instrumentation R&D, and science and education capacity building programs to build the next generation of scientists in Latin America. I am an advocate for virtual research and learning communities as a way to strengthen scientific connections between Europe and Latin America.
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Peer production
Expertise:User experience, User-centered/participatory design, Citizen science, Peer production, Illustration
Katharina is a PhD student at the Peer-Produced Research Lab at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, France. She is working on the participatory design of tools to support bottom-up communities in citizen science in peer-producing knowledge. She has a background in cognitive and media science and user experience consulting and is passionate about art and illustration.
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Peer review
Expertise:Cognitive neuroscience, Psychology, Metascience, Peer review, Open access, Collective action, Community building
I studied psychology in my undergraduate degree (University of Queensland, Australia) and cognitive neuroscience in my postgraduate degree (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia). Throughout my PhD, I became increasingly disillusioned at the state of academia – particularly the scholarly publishing system – and decided I would rather devote my career to reforming academia than pursuing my research interests (which include consciousness, meditation, attention, and prediction). To this end, I joined IGDORE and founded Project Free Our Knowledge, a conditional pledge platform that seeks to increase the adoption of open and reproducible research practices through collective action.
Expertise:Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publicationI am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Post academics
Expertise:Social science, Qualitative research, Sustainability, Standards, Mixed methods, Post academics
I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.
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Preprints
Expertise:Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publication
I am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Principles of FAIRification of (training) material
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Product strategy
Expertise:Product strategy, Go to market, User research
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
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Project communications
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, Neuroscience
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
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Project management
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, Neuroscience
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
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Protein Biochemistry
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Protein Design
Expertise:Computational Chemistry, Biochemistry, Protein Design, Deep Learning
Grew up on a farm in Germany. I like open science, sustainability and exploring the outdoors. I pursue a PhD working on improving the design of stable metalloproteins using deep learning and molecular simulation.
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Psychology
Expertise:Open research, Reproducibility, Psychology
I am an Experimental Psychologist and Fellow of the SSI at the University of Manchester interested in data visualisations, open science, and reproducible research. I am the University of Manchester Open and Reproducible Research Institutional Lead.
Expertise:Cognitive neuroscience, Psychology, Metascience, Peer review, Open access, Collective action, Community buildingI studied psychology in my undergraduate degree (University of Queensland, Australia) and cognitive neuroscience in my postgraduate degree (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia). Throughout my PhD, I became increasingly disillusioned at the state of academia – particularly the scholarly publishing system – and decided I would rather devote my career to reforming academia than pursuing my research interests (which include consciousness, meditation, attention, and prediction). To this end, I joined IGDORE and founded Project Free Our Knowledge, a conditional pledge platform that seeks to increase the adoption of open and reproducible research practices through collective action.
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Publishing
Expertise:Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publication
I am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Publishing web content
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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Python
Expertise:Python, Github, Glaciology, Remote sensing, Icebergs, Climate change, Icesat-2, Icepyx, Hackweeks
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
Expertise:Machine learning, Open source, Software compliance, System design, Data patterns, User behaviour patterns, Python, GitHimanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
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Qualitative research
Expertise:Social science, Qualitative research, Sustainability, Standards, Mixed methods, Post academics
I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.
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R
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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R Package Development
Expertise:Transcriptomics; r; bayesian statistics; high performance computing; geospatial analysis
Physicist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. Recently finished a PhD analysis yeast transcriptomics. Now, working at EPCC developing use cases for analysing sensitive medical/demographic data sets with safe haven computing environments.
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Remote sensing
Expertise:Python, Github, Glaciology, Remote sensing, Icebergs, Climate change, Icesat-2, Icepyx, Hackweeks
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
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Reproducibility
Expertise:Open research, Reproducibility, Psychology
I am an Experimental Psychologist and Fellow of the SSI at the University of Manchester interested in data visualisations, open science, and reproducible research. I am the University of Manchester Open and Reproducible Research Institutional Lead.
Expertise:Transcriptomics; r; bayesian statistics; high performance computing; geospatial analysisPhysicist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. Recently finished a PhD analysis yeast transcriptomics. Now, working at EPCC developing use cases for analysing sensitive medical/demographic data sets with safe haven computing environments.
Expertise:Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, PalaeoecologyI’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, BiodiversityTheoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Expertise:Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomicsRenato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
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Reproducible reports
Expertise:Neurobiology
Former neuro-geneticist (10 year of research on fruit fly memory and behavior), I have been more recently interested in data analysis and management, as a specialisation for my interests in open science (open research). I am presently working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers via the SmartFigure Gallery project.
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Reproducible research
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible research, Fair software, Fair data
Anne is an experienced Research Software Engineer. She is developing training materials and teaching basic-to-advanced research computing skills to students, researchers, Research Software Engineers from all disciplines to advance FAIRness of Software management and development practices so that research groups can collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, share and reuse their codes.
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Reproducible science;
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Research data management
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
Expertise:NeurobiologyFormer neuro-geneticist (10 year of research on fruit fly memory and behavior), I have been more recently interested in data analysis and management, as a specialisation for my interests in open science (open research). I am presently working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers via the SmartFigure Gallery project.
Expertise:Community management, Rdm, Open scienceI am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
Expertise:Research data management, Open science, Fair principles, Inclusion & equityI’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
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Research integrity
Expertise:Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publication
I am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Research methods
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, Teaching
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
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Research reproducibility
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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Research software
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Resource-constrained environments
Expertise:Data literacy, Resource-constrained environments
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Rna
Expertise:Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;
My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.
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Road mapping and strategy planning
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Scholarly communication
Expertise:Neurobiology
Former neuro-geneticist (10 year of research on fruit fly memory and behavior), I have been more recently interested in data analysis and management, as a specialisation for my interests in open science (open research). I am presently working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers via the SmartFigure Gallery project.
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SciComm
Expertise:SciComm, Community building, Open Data, Biodiversity
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
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Science and education capacity building
Expertise:Open education, Science and education capacity building, Virtual research and learning communities, Scientific connections between developed and developing countries, Particle physics
I divide my time between data analysis to understand the smallest components of matter, instrumentation R&D, and science and education capacity building programs to build the next generation of scientists in Latin America. I am an advocate for virtual research and learning communities as a way to strengthen scientific connections between Europe and Latin America.
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Science communication
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Expertise:Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publicationI am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Science reproducibility
Expertise:Science reproducibility; open software; linux
I am a Systems Engineer passionate about applying Computer Science to improve the way we live. Enthusiast and promoter of open science in the region.
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Scientific Education and Training
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Scientific connections between developed and developing countries
Expertise:Open education, Science and education capacity building, Virtual research and learning communities, Scientific connections between developed and developing countries, Particle physics
I divide my time between data analysis to understand the smallest components of matter, instrumentation R&D, and science and education capacity building programs to build the next generation of scientists in Latin America. I am an advocate for virtual research and learning communities as a way to strengthen scientific connections between Europe and Latin America.
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Semantics
Expertise:Community management, Rdm, Open science
I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
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Single-cell transcriptomics
Expertise:Immunology, Single-cell transcriptomics, Tropical disease, Human cell atlas, Interdisciplinery research
I am a dentist who is passionate in immunology and genomic research. Our group in Thailand is working to expand our research capacity by introducing the single-cell transcriptomics to researchers of different fields. I enjoy bridging people from different expertise and encourage openness and collaboration.
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Social science
Expertise:Social science, Qualitative research, Sustainability, Standards, Mixed methods, Post academics
I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.
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Software compliance
Expertise:Machine learning, Open source, Software compliance, System design, Data patterns, User behaviour patterns, Python, Git
Himanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
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Software development
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Standards
Expertise:Social science, Qualitative research, Sustainability, Standards, Mixed methods, Post academics
I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.
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Sti policy
Expertise:Open science hardware, Sti policy, Open educational resources
Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.
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Sustainability
Expertise:Social science, Qualitative research, Sustainability, Standards, Mixed methods, Post academics
I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.
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Sustainability science
Role in OLS: NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
Expertise:Fair, Open data, Data management, Agrobiodiversity, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary researchI work as data manager at CONABIO where I develop FAIR workflows for biodiversity and agricultural data. I also study a PhD at UNAM, and my research is focused on the challenges for integrating social and ecological data. I love working in interdisciplinary projects that combine my interests in sustainability, data and open research
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Synthetic biology
Expertise:Life sciences, Genetics, Synthetic biology, Accessibility
Lifelong developmental geneticist with interest in synthetic biology and creating open domain tools for research
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System design
Expertise:Machine learning, Open source, Software compliance, System design, Data patterns, User behaviour patterns, Python, Git
Himanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
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Teaching
Expertise:Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, Teaching
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible scienceFormer university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Teaching open science: an open syllabus from open education for a better world (oe4bw)
Expertise:Public policy; science & technology policy; public management; program evaluation; civic tech
Independent scholar advancing open knowledge through a portfolio of projects in open education, open science, and open data. PhD in Public Policy with research interests at the intersection of science & technology policy and the future of work. Expertise in issues facing early career researchers.
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Time series analysis
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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Training
Expertise:Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training
Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.
Expertise:Community outreach, Training, Imposter Syndrome, Data analysis and integrationDave coordinates training and outreach for the Galaxy Project. He has been a community person in life sciences for 13 years. Before that he worked in biological databases for 7 years. His training is in Computer Science, with an emphasis on databases.
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Transcriptomics
Expertise:Transcriptomics; r; bayesian statistics; high performance computing; geospatial analysis
Physicist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. Recently finished a PhD analysis yeast transcriptomics. Now, working at EPCC developing use cases for analysing sensitive medical/demographic data sets with safe haven computing environments.
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Tropical disease
Expertise:Immunology, Single-cell transcriptomics, Tropical disease, Human cell atlas, Interdisciplinery research
I am a dentist who is passionate in immunology and genomic research. Our group in Thailand is working to expand our research capacity by introducing the single-cell transcriptomics to researchers of different fields. I enjoy bridging people from different expertise and encourage openness and collaboration.
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Typology
Expertise:Community management, Rdm, Open science
I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
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User behaviour patterns
Expertise:Machine learning, Open source, Software compliance, System design, Data patterns, User behaviour patterns, Python, Git
Himanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
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User experience
Expertise:User experience, User-centered/participatory design, Citizen science, Peer production, Illustration
Katharina is a PhD student at the Peer-Produced Research Lab at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, France. She is working on the participatory design of tools to support bottom-up communities in citizen science in peer-producing knowledge. She has a background in cognitive and media science and user experience consulting and is passionate about art and illustration.
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User research
Expertise:Product strategy, Go to market, User research
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
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User-centered/participatory design
Expertise:User experience, User-centered/participatory design, Citizen science, Peer production, Illustration
Katharina is a PhD student at the Peer-Produced Research Lab at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, France. She is working on the participatory design of tools to support bottom-up communities in citizen science in peer-producing knowledge. She has a background in cognitive and media science and user experience consulting and is passionate about art and illustration.
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Version control
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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Virtual events
Expertise:Open innovation, Digitalization
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.
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Virtual research and learning communities
Expertise:Open education, Science and education capacity building, Virtual research and learning communities, Scientific connections between developed and developing countries, Particle physics
I divide my time between data analysis to understand the smallest components of matter, instrumentation R&D, and science and education capacity building programs to build the next generation of scientists in Latin America. I am an advocate for virtual research and learning communities as a way to strengthen scientific connections between Europe and Latin America.
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Web applications
Expertise:Open innovation, Digitalization
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.
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Wiki*
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Wordpress
Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
Expertise:Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web contentBérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
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Working with a distributed team
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, Neuroscience
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
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Writing documentation
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, Neuroscience
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
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Yeast & fungi
Expertise:Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;
My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.
A dedicated slack channel will facilitate open discussions among experts and other participants in OLS-4 to help them expand their network while discussing relevant topics (contact the team if you are not yet on this channel).
Facilitators
Facilitators work closely with the OLS organisers to manage and run cohort calls. They lead efforts in preparing cohort call notes, co-hosting cohort calls and ensuring the sharing of call recordings and resources through OLS channelss
We thank the 7 persons who facilitated in this round.
Batool is a computational biologist affiliated with both KAIMRC in Saudi Arabia and the University of Liverpool in the UK. As an advocate for Open Science and its role in improving scientific and economic outputs in the Middle east, Batool established an Open Science Community in Saudi Arabia (OSCSA). OSCSA aims to create significant value towards Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, which focus on enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education in the Kingdom
I’m a color vision researcher and open science advocate.
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.
Festus is a researcher in bioinformatics and data science. His main interestes include community outreach, open science, reproducible research and networking. He is actively engaged in training activities and he is the lead at the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya(BHKi).
Michael is a PhD bioinformatics student with a keen interest in epigenetics and genomics. A co-founder of Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya (BHKI). He is a certified Software Carpentries instructor, an Open Life Science (OLS) graduate and a mentor. He is passionate about capacity building!
During my PhD, I used genetics, imaging and modelling to study the mitotic spindle in yeast. Throughout my research, software developing has always been the most enjoyable and rewarding part, so I am hoping to stir my career in that direction. Outside of work I like being in nature, hiking and reading.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
Researcher
Organizers
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
Collaborators
OLS team have established the following collaborations to support organisation specific projects within the OLS-4 cohort:
OLS-4 for EOSC-Life
Open Life Science has received the EOSC-Life Training grant (first round), to train and mentor EOSC-RI members under the collaboration name OLS-4 for EOSC-Life. In the simplest terms, EOSC-Life is 13 European life science Research Infrastructures making their data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) so that researchers can combine resources from multiple RIs for new research funded through our Open Calls and receive support through the variety of additional services we offer, including alignment with relevant standards and policies (GDPR, etc.).
OLS-4 for Faculty of Applied Sciences/TNW - TU Delft
Under the collaboration name OLS-4 for TNW, Open Life Science has partnered with the Faculty of Applied Sciences through the Faculty Graduate School and the Data Steward, Dr. Esther Plomp at TU Delft. This partnership will offer training and mentoring to interested members from the Faculty of Applied Sciences to join the fourth cohort (OLS-4) individually or in teams. They will have an opportunity to develop Open Science aspects in the projects that they either already have been working on, or want to develop in the near future. Mentors will be preferably selected within their own discipline, as PhD candidates will be eligible for 5 Discipline-related credits for their Doctoral Education Programme.
OLS-4 for Turing
Under the collaboration name OLS-4 for Turing, Open Life Science has partnered with The Turing Way, a project within the Tools, Practices and Systems Research Program in The Alan Turing Institute. This partnership will offer training and mentoring to interested members from Turing and The Turing Way communities to join the fourth cohort (OLS-4) individually or in teams. They will have an opportunity to develop Open Science aspects in the projects that they either already have been working on, or want to develop in the near future. Mentors will be preferably selected from The Alan Turing Institute but there will be a possibility to match projects with the right mentor from the broader cohort. The roles and benefits for the participants and the eligibility of proposed projects will be as described for our main program.
This program will provide a unique opportunity to individuals and teams in these organisations to integrate best practices for open and reproducible research in new or ongoing projects.
Resources
The resources available to the OLS-4 cohort members will facilitate their communication, training, mentoring and learning process during their participation in the program.
Calls
Cohort calls
The full cohort meetings take place every 2 weeks (unless mentioned otherwise) and last for 90 minutes.
During these calls:
- Organisers/hosts will introduce new topic of the week
- Speakers will present their work related to the topic of the week
- Participants will be given group discussion exercises
- An open Q&A will be run and notes will be co-developed
- Exercises will be given for the week to be completed before the mentee-mentor meeting
The calls will be hosted online using the Zoom web-conferencing option. A link for the calls will be shared for each meeting separately.
Look up the shared notes for each call linked to the schedule in this website. You will also be updated via email each week by the organisers with additional details to aid your participation.
If you can’t make it to a call:
The call will be recorded and available on the OLS YouTube channel after the call.
If you can not attend most calls during the program due to the time zone incompatibility or other personal obligation, please let the organisers know. If you are unable to communicate with your mentor regularly or do not engage in the program as planned, we may need to evaluate if you are able to finish the program.
Mentor-mentee calls
The Mentor-mentee calls take place every 2 weeks (unless mentioned otherwise) and last for 30 minutes.
During these calls:
- Mentors help their mentees evaluate their understanding of the new topics
- Mentees will complete their task assigned at the cohort calls using new skills learned that week
- Mentors and mentee will review progress together where mentees provide constructive feedback
- Mentors will connect mentees with other experts and get consulted on their project when needed
Coordinate with your mentor how you manage the notes and assignments for your 1:1 calls.
The online communication options can be agreed upon by the mentor-mentee pairs. A few options to explore are the following:
- Zoom: 40 mins limit for each call
- Google hangout: Free for members with google account
- Skype: Free, download the app
- Whereby.com: Free option, valid upto 4 participants
- Jitsi: Free, open source web-based call is possible
- Whatsapp or other phone-based calls: Only if both mentor and mentee are comfortable with exchanging numbers
If a mentor has to miss a mentee-mentor meeting, please discuss it with your mentee and reschedule your call. If you are unable to make it to any slot together, please find other ways (asynchronous documentation) to interact with your mentee.
If a mentor has to step back from the program for any reason, please communicate with the organisers to identify an alternative for their mentees.
Skill-up calls
In some weeks during which there is not cohort call, we will offer some optional skill-up calls.
The calls will be hosted online using the Zoom web-conferencing option. A link for the calls will be shared for each meeting separately.
Look up the shared notes for each call linked to the schedule in this website. You will also be updated via email each week by the organisers with additional details to aid your participation.
Q&A calls
The Q&A sessions take place in weeks during which there is not cohort call. These calls are optional but highly valuable for enhancing your understanding of the materials discussed in OLS-4 with the help of other participants.
The calls will be hosted online using the Zoom web-conferencing option. A link for the calls will be shared for each meeting separately.
Mentor calls
4 mentor calls will take place during the program.
The calls will be hosted online using the Zoom web-conferencing option. A link for the calls will be shared for each meeting separately.
Speaker Guide
We have a short guide for invited speakers.
Communication channels
Communication within the cohort members
OLS-4 Slack Channel
A dedicated Slack channel has been setup to facilitate real-time as well as asynchronous communication among the all members of the OLS-4 cohort. A personal invitation link will be shared with the participants via an email.
OLS-4 private Google group
Organizers inform participants of the week schedule by email. An archive of all emails can be found on the private OLS-4 Google group.
An invitation is sent to all participants (mentees, mentors, etc) at the beginning of the program. If it is not the case, please contact the team
Communication with members not in the cohort
General updates from the program such as new posts, collaborations and relevant retweets will be shared via our official Twitter channel.
Gitter
We have a public Gitter channel that can be used by members of the public contact the OLS team and community.
OLS Google group
Updates regarding new calls for applications, announcements, and final project presentations are posted on the OLS public Google group
Community Participation Guidelines
This project, as part of the Open Life Science community, is committed to providing a welcoming, friendly, and harassment-free environment for everyone to learn and grow by contributing. As a result, we require participants to follow our code of conduct.
This code of conduct outlines our expectations for participants within the community, as well as steps to reporting unacceptable behavior. We are committed to providing a welcoming and inspiring community for all and expect our code of conduct to be honored. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be banned from the community.
Our open source community strives to:
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Be friendly and patient.
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Be welcoming: We strive to be a community that welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited to members of any race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, colour, immigration status, social and economic class, educational level, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, and mental and physical ability.
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Be considerate: Your work will be used by other people, and you in turn will depend on the work of others. Any decision you take will affect users and colleagues, and you should take those consequences into account when making decisions. Remember that we’re a world-wide community, so you might not be communicating in someone else’s primary language.
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Be respectful: Not all of us will agree all the time, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It’s important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one.
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Be careful in the words that we choose: We are a community of professionals, and we conduct ourselves professionally. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants. Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren’t acceptable. This includes, but is not limited to: Violent threats or language directed against another person, Discriminatory jokes and language, Posting sexually explicit or violent material, Posting (or threatening to post) other people’s personally identifying information (“doxing”), Personal insults, especially those using racist or sexist terms, Unwelcome sexual attention, Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior, Repeated harassment of others. In general, if someone asks you to stop, then stop.
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Try to understand why we disagree: Disagreements, both social and technical, happen all the time. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively. Remember that we’re different. Diversity contributes to the strength of our community, which is composed of people from a wide range of backgrounds. Different people have different perspectives on issues. Being unable to understand why someone holds a viewpoint doesn’t mean that they’re wrong. Don’t forget that it is human to err and blaming each other doesn’t get us anywhere. Instead, focus on helping to resolve issues and learning from mistakes.
Diversity Statement
We encourage everyone to participate and are committed to building a community for all. Although we will fail at times, we seek to treat everyone both as fairly and equally as possible. Whenever a participant has made a mistake, we expect them to take responsibility for it. If someone has been harmed or offended, it is our responsibility to listen carefully and respectfully, and do our best to right the wrong.
Although this list cannot be exhaustive, we explicitly honor diversity in age, gender, gender identity or expression, culture, ethnicity, language, national origin, political beliefs, profession, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and technical ability. We will not tolerate discrimination based on any of the protected characteristics above, including participants with disabilities.
Reporting Issues
If you experience or witness unacceptable behavior, or have any other concerns, please report it by contacting the organisers - Bérénice, Malvika and Yo. (team@we-are-ols.org).
To report an issue involving one of the members, please email one of the members individually (berenice@we-are-ols.org, malvika@we-are-ols.org, yo@we-are-ols.org).
All reports will be handled with discretion. In your report please include:
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Your contact information.
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Names (real, nicknames, or pseudonyms) of any individuals involved. If there are additional witnesses, please include them as well. Your account of what occurred, and if you believe the incident is ongoing. If there is a publicly available record (e.g. a mailing list archive or a public IRC logger), please include a link.
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Any additional information that may be helpful.
After filing a report, a representative will contact you personally, review the incident, follow up with any additional questions, and make a decision as to how to respond. If the person who is harassing you is part of the response team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. If the complaint originates from a member of the response team, it will be handled by a different member of the response team. We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse.
Attribution & Acknowledgements
This code of conduct is based on the Open Code of Conduct from the TODOGroup.