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The OLS-6 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 OLS is to strengthen Open Science skills for early stage researchers and young leaders in 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 1, 2022 : Call for Application opens
See the guidelines and templates
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June 20, 2022 (13:00 Universal Time): Application webinar( Talk + Q&A)
Register to join, or watch recordings from previous webinars on YouTube
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July 1, 2022 (540.0 Universal Time): Application Clinic Call( Q&A)
At this call, OLS team will be available to provide help if you have any questions related to your application. Register to join.
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July 7, 2022 : Call for applications closed
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August 1, 2022 : Successful applicants announced
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September 19, 2022: Start of the program
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January 16, 2023: 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 sixth round of the OLS program, we welcome 41 participants with 27 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.
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
I’m the Community Manager for The Turing Way @ The Alan Turing Institute, and an anthopologist by training. I was previously a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow at the Open Knowledge Foundation, and am currently a Fellow at the Internet Society. I also co-curate The Re:Source Project, which aims to support labor movements in supply chains through open data. In my past and present roles, I aim to contribute to the open ecosystem, and the research and tools that enable it.
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
I’m a recovering academic, with a strong interest in all elements of the data life cycle, from data collection and data analytics, to data curation and good data management practices, and I love figuring out data pipelines and workflows. I believe strongly in open science and open data, and promoting good practices for reproducible research. I have strong interests in capacity development, community building, and mentorship, and have worked in a variety of industries and academic institutes worldwide, and have research and work experience in many different scientific fields including ecology, biology, marine and terrestrial sciences, invasion biology, polar science, and climate change.
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.
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 am a budding scientist, interested in host-parasite interactions. I am open to continuous learning, and passionate about improving the health of man and animals.
I am a researcher and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Buenos Aires. I design nanomaterials to solve problems, recently using machine learning to guide and optimize the process.
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.
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.
I’m a biotechnologist and SynBio Africa emerging leader in synthetic biology and biosecurity fellow working with Beneficial bio to locally produce reagents and equipment for molecular biology research and application. My passion for Open Science and research led me to meet and join amazing people and communities in their efforts to impact the global open science landscape including Open Bioeconomy Lab, AfricaOSH, Africa Makers Gathering, and Open Science Shop. I see a lot of potential in distributed manufacturing and over the past years, I’ve been working to democratize global access to affordable and impactful scientific instruments. Fervant advocate of Open Science in Africa I’ve been shar
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.
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.
Jafsia is a Researcher in the Department of AI at MboaLab.
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.
PhD in Biomedical Science, with a deep appreciation for living systems at all scales, and an optimism about the lessons that humanity can take from Nature.
Enthusiastic advocate for the fundamental computational skills and practices required for reproducible research.
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
Caleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
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!
Multiplicity of skills and interests, within and beyond bioinformatics research and software engineering. Strategic planning of research activities, grant application writing, project management. Commitment to open science and FAIRification, organisation of events, involved in science communication and coding and data science teaching.
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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.
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
Researcher
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
I’m Director of Ethics at Genomics England, working to ensure we can innovate in genomic medicine and research while doing right by the participants who trust us with their data. I’m a philosopher by background and keen to bring better openness, transparency and accountability to the use of health-related data.
A research translator and innovation architect in the life science industry
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about chromatin, sequencing and data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with sourdough, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
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).
I am a DPhil Student studying computational neuroscience, and with a keen interest in investigating bias and fairness in AI models
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.
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 39 persons who registered to be experts in this round.
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
I’m the Community Manager for The Turing Way @ The Alan Turing Institute, and an anthopologist by training. I was previously a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow at the Open Knowledge Foundation, and am currently a Fellow at the Internet Society. I also co-curate The Re:Source Project, which aims to support labor movements in supply chains through open data. In my past and present roles, I aim to contribute to the open ecosystem, and the research and tools that enable it.
aka Laurel! I have experience working as an institutional communicator. Since 2008, I have been in charge of the analysis and planning of comprehensive institutional communication strategies combining digital communication, information systems, and organizations’ voices. I am also a professor at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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.
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
Chelle is an advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives.
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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.
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.
Elisa is a Data Steward at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this role, she supports researchers with many aspects of Research Data Management and Open Research. Elisa has a background in and a passion for history, but also loves the diversity of topics she sees in her daily life supporting researchers from all areas of research.
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.
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.
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.
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
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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.
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
Caleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
Konrad is interested in the question of how the brain solves the credit assignment problem and similarly how we should assign credit in the real world (through causality). In extension of this main thrust he is interested in applications of causality in biomedical research.
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.
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
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.
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
I am currently the infrastructure and impact measurement coordinator at MetaDocencia. I collaborate with The Turing Way, the OpenSciency project (formerly the NASA TOPS OpenCore team) and am a 2023 SSI and OLS fellow. I am also co-mentoring two Outreachy interns with the Open Science Community Saudi Arabia.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
Researcher
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.
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
Role in OLS:
Fellowship and Finance Manager
Patricia is currently a Research Data Specialist working at the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the DCC, she was the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham and have previously worked as a data librarian at CERN’’s Scientific Information Service working closely with software developers to deliver data and code sharing solutions. She loves collaborating openly and making projects welcoming to new comers.
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
Sara works with communities at Open Knowledge Foundation. She leads the Open Knowledge Network and manages the Frictionless Data community. She has previously worked in EU policy research and advocacy, and has managed projects on digital education and literacy with schools and public libraries from all across Europe. Sara is passionate about the open movement and strongly believes in removing barriers and opening knowledge as a means of empowering citizens and fostering democracy.
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about chromatin, sequencing and data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with sourdough, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
I am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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).
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Experts sorted by their expertise areas
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ecological niche modeling
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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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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Anaconda
Expertise:Open science software (python, Numfocus, Anaconda, Jupyter ecosystems), Open source organization
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
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And inclusion.
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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Anthropology
Expertise:Open knowledge, Open source research, Community-building, Digital social science, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology
I’m the Community Manager for The Turing Way @ The Alan Turing Institute, and an anthopologist by training. I was previously a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow at the Open Knowledge Foundation, and am currently a Fellow at the Internet Society. I also co-curate The Re:Source Project, which aims to support labor movements in supply chains through open data. In my past and present roles, I aim to contribute to the open ecosystem, and the research and tools that enable it.
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App 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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Astrochemistry
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
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Best practices in open & reproducible science
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Bio(medical) ontologies
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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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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Bioconductor
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
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.
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Biodiversity
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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Biodiversity informatics
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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Bioimage analysis
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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Bioinformatics
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
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.
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharingMallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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.
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open scienceI am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Biomedical science
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
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.
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Biophysics
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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Career development
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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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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Cheminformatics
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open science
I am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Chromatin
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Chromatin & dna
Expertise:Molecular biology, Genomics, Sequencing, Project management
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about chromatin, sequencing and data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with sourdough, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
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Climate science
Expertise:Satellite remote sensing, Oceanography, Climate science, Earth science
Chelle is an advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives.
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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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Collaborating with git & github/gitlab
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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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.
Role in OLS: Fellowship and Finance Manager
Expertise:Research data management, Fair data, Collaboration, Library and archiving skills, Open science and communityPatricia is currently a Research Data Specialist working at the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the DCC, she was the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham and have previously worked as a data librarian at CERN’’s Scientific Information Service working closely with software developers to deliver data and code sharing solutions. She loves collaborating openly and making projects welcoming to new comers.
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Communications
Expertise:Communications
aka Laurel! I have experience working as an institutional communicator. Since 2008, I have been in charge of the analysis and planning of comprehensive institutional communication strategies combining digital communication, information systems, and organizations’ voices. I am also a professor at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
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Communities
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:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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: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:Community building, Reproducibility, Computational Biology, Regulatory GenomicsCaleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, ChromatinMarta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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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 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-building
Expertise:Open knowledge, Open source research, Community-building, Digital social science, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology
I’m the Community Manager for The Turing Way @ The Alan Turing Institute, and an anthopologist by training. I was previously a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow at the Open Knowledge Foundation, and am currently a Fellow at the Internet Society. I also co-curate The Re:Source Project, which aims to support labor movements in supply chains through open data. In my past and present roles, I aim to contribute to the open ecosystem, and the research and tools that enable it.
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Competency frameworks
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Complexity science
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Computational Biology
Expertise:Community building, Reproducibility, Computational Biology, Regulatory Genomics
Caleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
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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:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open scienceI am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Computational studies
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Correlative light and electron microscopy
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
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.
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Course design
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Course organisation
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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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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Data integration
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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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.
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharingMallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Data modeling
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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Data science
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open science
I am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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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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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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Datascience
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Deep learning
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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Designing and developing training material
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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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 health
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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Digital medicine
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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Digital scholarship
Expertise:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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Digital social science
Expertise:Open knowledge, Open source research, Community-building, Digital social science, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology
I’m the Community Manager for The Turing Way @ The Alan Turing Institute, and an anthopologist by training. I was previously a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow at the Open Knowledge Foundation, and am currently a Fellow at the Internet Society. I also co-curate The Re:Source Project, which aims to support labor movements in supply chains through open data. In my past and present roles, I aim to contribute to the open ecosystem, and the research and tools that enable it.
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Discrimination
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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Diversity
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
Expertise:Biodiversity informaticsI am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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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.
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open scienceI am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Earth science
Expertise:Satellite remote sensing, Oceanography, Climate science, Earth science
Chelle is an advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives.
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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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Education
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
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Electron microscopy
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
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.
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Electrophysiology
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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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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Equity
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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Ethnography
Expertise:Open knowledge, Open source research, Community-building, Digital social science, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology
I’m the Community Manager for The Turing Way @ The Alan Turing Institute, and an anthopologist by training. I was previously a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow at the Open Knowledge Foundation, and am currently a Fellow at the Internet Society. I also co-curate The Re:Source Project, which aims to support labor movements in supply chains through open data. In my past and present roles, I aim to contribute to the open ecosystem, and the research and tools that enable it.
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FAIR
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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Fair
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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Fair data
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.
Role in OLS: Fellowship and Finance Manager
Expertise:Research data management, Fair data, Collaboration, Library and archiving skills, Open science and communityPatricia is currently a Research Data Specialist working at the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the DCC, she was the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham and have previously worked as a data librarian at CERN’’s Scientific Information Service working closely with software developers to deliver data and code sharing solutions. She loves collaborating openly and making projects welcoming to new comers.
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Fair principles
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharing
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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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Fair research software
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Feminism
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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Fieldwork
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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Fiji
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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Fluorescence microscopy
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
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.
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Galaxy
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
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.
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharingMallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Gender
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:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Genomics
Expertise:Molecular biology, Genomics, Sequencing, Project management
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about chromatin, sequencing and data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with sourdough, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
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Geography
Expertise:Social sciences, Technology, Society, The internet, Localization, Open science
I am currently the infrastructure and impact measurement coordinator at MetaDocencia. I collaborate with The Turing Way, the OpenSciency project (formerly the NASA TOPS OpenCore team) and am a 2023 SSI and OLS fellow. I am also co-mentoring two Outreachy interns with the Open Science Community Saudi Arabia.
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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
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:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharingMallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Github/gitlab pages
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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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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Glam
Expertise:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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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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Human genomics and phenomics
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharing
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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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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Image analysis
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
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.
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Imaging
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
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.
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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Inclusion & equity
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
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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Information literacy
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
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Information theory
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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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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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
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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Journaling
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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Jupyter ecosystems)
Expertise:Open science software (python, Numfocus, Anaconda, Jupyter ecosystems), Open source organization
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
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Knowledge graphs
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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Libraries
Expertise:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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Library and archiving skills
Role in OLS: Fellowship and Finance Manager
Expertise:Research data management, Fair data, Collaboration, Library and archiving skills, Open science and communityPatricia is currently a Research Data Specialist working at the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the DCC, she was the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham and have previously worked as a data librarian at CERN’’s Scientific Information Service working closely with software developers to deliver data and code sharing solutions. She loves collaborating openly and making projects welcoming to new comers.
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Life coaching
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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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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Machine learning
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, VolNadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open scienceI am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Mental health
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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Mentoring
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
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Metadata
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharing
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Metascience
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Microscopy
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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Molecular biology
Expertise:Molecular biology, Genomics, Sequencing, Project management
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about chromatin, sequencing and data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with sourdough, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, ChromatinMarta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Napari
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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Network science
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open science
I am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Neurodiversity
Expertise:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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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.
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, VolNadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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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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Next Generation Sequencing
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
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.
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Nextflow
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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Ngs
Expertise:Molecular biology, Genomics, Sequencing, Project management
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about chromatin, sequencing and data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with sourdough, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
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Numfocus
Expertise:Open science software (python, Numfocus, Anaconda, Jupyter ecosystems), Open source organization
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
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Oceanography
Expertise:Satellite remote sensing, Oceanography, Climate science, Earth science
Chelle is an advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives.
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Online training
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Ontologies
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharing
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Open communities
Expertise:Open communities, Open knowledge
Sara works with communities at Open Knowledge Foundation. She leads the Open Knowledge Network and manages the Frictionless Data community. She has previously worked in EU policy research and advocacy, and has managed projects on digital education and literacy with schools and public libraries from all across Europe. Sara is passionate about the open movement and strongly believes in removing barriers and opening knowledge as a means of empowering citizens and fostering democracy.
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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:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, GlamJez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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 knowledge
Expertise:Open knowledge, Open source research, Community-building, Digital social science, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology
I’m the Community Manager for The Turing Way @ The Alan Turing Institute, and an anthopologist by training. I was previously a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow at the Open Knowledge Foundation, and am currently a Fellow at the Internet Society. I also co-curate The Re:Source Project, which aims to support labor movements in supply chains through open data. In my past and present roles, I aim to contribute to the open ecosystem, and the research and tools that enable it.
Expertise:Open communities, Open knowledgeSara works with communities at Open Knowledge Foundation. She leads the Open Knowledge Network and manages the Frictionless Data community. She has previously worked in EU policy research and advocacy, and has managed projects on digital education and literacy with schools and public libraries from all across Europe. Sara is passionate about the open movement and strongly believes in removing barriers and opening knowledge as a means of empowering citizens and fostering democracy.
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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 publications
Expertise:Social sciences, Technology, Society, The internet, Localization, Open science
I am currently the infrastructure and impact measurement coordinator at MetaDocencia. I collaborate with The Turing Way, the OpenSciency project (formerly the NASA TOPS OpenCore team) and am a 2023 SSI and OLS fellow. I am also co-mentoring two Outreachy interns with the Open Science Community Saudi Arabia.
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Open publishing
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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Open research
Expertise:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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Open scholarship
Expertise:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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Open science
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, GlamJez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, VolNadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open scienceI am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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 and community
Role in OLS: Fellowship and Finance Manager
Expertise:Research data management, Fair data, Collaboration, Library and archiving skills, Open science and communityPatricia is currently a Research Data Specialist working at the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the DCC, she was the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham and have previously worked as a data librarian at CERN’’s Scientific Information Service working closely with software developers to deliver data and code sharing solutions. She loves collaborating openly and making projects welcoming to new comers.
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Open science software (python
Expertise:Open science software (python, Numfocus, Anaconda, Jupyter ecosystems), Open source organization
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
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Open science support
Expertise:Fair, Research data management, Open research, Research support, Qualitative research
Elisa is a Data Steward at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this role, she supports researchers with many aspects of Research Data Management and Open Research. Elisa has a background in and a passion for history, but also loves the diversity of topics she sees in her daily life supporting researchers from all areas of research.
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Open source
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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Open source organization
Expertise:Open science software (python, Numfocus, Anaconda, Jupyter ecosystems), Open source organization
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
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Open source research
Expertise:Open knowledge, Open source research, Community-building, Digital social science, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology
I’m the Community Manager for The Turing Way @ The Alan Turing Institute, and an anthopologist by training. I was previously a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow at the Open Knowledge Foundation, and am currently a Fellow at the Internet Society. I also co-curate The Re:Source Project, which aims to support labor movements in supply chains through open data. In my past and present roles, I aim to contribute to the open ecosystem, and the research and tools that enable it.
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Operations management
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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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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Phytoliths
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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Plant community ecology
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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Post-transcriptional gene regulation
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharing
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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PostgreSQL
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
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.
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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: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.
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:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharingMallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Psychology
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Publishing web content
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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R
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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: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.
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharingMallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Rdm
Expertise:Fair, Research data management, Open research, Research support, Qualitative research
Elisa is a Data Steward at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this role, she supports researchers with many aspects of Research Data Management and Open Research. Elisa has a background in and a passion for history, but also loves the diversity of topics she sees in her daily life supporting researchers from all areas of research.
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Rdm support
Expertise:Fair, Research data management, Open research, Research support, Qualitative research
Elisa is a Data Steward at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this role, she supports researchers with many aspects of Research Data Management and Open Research. Elisa has a background in and a passion for history, but also loves the diversity of topics she sees in her daily life supporting researchers from all areas of research.
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Regulatory Genomics
Expertise:Community building, Reproducibility, Computational Biology, Regulatory Genomics
Caleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
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Reproducibility
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, BiodiversityTheoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Expertise:Community building, Reproducibility, Computational Biology, Regulatory GenomicsCaleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
Expertise:Science reproducibility; open software; linuxI am a Systems Engineer passionate about applying Computer Science to improve the way we live. Enthusiast and promoter of open science in the region.
Expertise:Molecular biology, Genomics, Sequencing, Project managementI’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about chromatin, sequencing and data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with sourdough, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
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Reproducible science
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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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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:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, GlamJez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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
Role in OLS: Fellowship and Finance Manager
Expertise:Research data management, Fair data, Collaboration, Library and archiving skills, Open science and communityPatricia is currently a Research Data Specialist working at the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the DCC, she was the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham and have previously worked as a data librarian at CERN’’s Scientific Information Service working closely with software developers to deliver data and code sharing solutions. She loves collaborating openly and making projects welcoming to new comers.
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 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 engineering practice
Expertise:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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Research support
Expertise:Fair, Research data management, Open research, Research support, Qualitative research
Elisa is a Data Steward at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this role, she supports researchers with many aspects of Research Data Management and Open Research. Elisa has a background in and a passion for history, but also loves the diversity of topics she sees in her daily life supporting researchers from all areas of research.
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Rigor in neuroscience and beyond
Expertise:Data, Brains, Learning, Deep learning, Causality
Konrad is interested in the question of how the brain solves the credit assignment problem and similarly how we should assign credit in the real world (through causality). In extension of this main thrust he is interested in applications of causality in biomedical research.
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Rna
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Rna biology
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharing
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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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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Same as before
Expertise:Reproducibility, Computational biology
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
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Satellite remote sensing
Expertise:Satellite remote sensing, Oceanography, Climate science, Earth science
Chelle is an advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives.
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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.
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Scientific community engagement
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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Segmentation
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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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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Sensitive data
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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Sensitive data sharing
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharing
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Sequencing analysis
Expertise:Molecular biology, Genomics, Sequencing, Project management
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about chromatin, sequencing and data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with sourdough, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
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Shallow learning
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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Sociology
Expertise:Open knowledge, Open source research, Community-building, Digital social science, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology
I’m the Community Manager for The Turing Way @ The Alan Turing Institute, and an anthopologist by training. I was previously a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow at the Open Knowledge Foundation, and am currently a Fellow at the Internet Society. I also co-curate The Re:Source Project, which aims to support labor movements in supply chains through open data. In my past and present roles, I aim to contribute to the open ecosystem, and the research and tools that enable it.
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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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Sql
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharing
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Statistics
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Strategy 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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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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Sustainable coding practices
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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Teaching
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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Teaching and organising workshops
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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Terminologies
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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Therapeutic writing facilitation
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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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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Tools for online education
Expertise:Social sciences, Technology, Society, The internet, Localization, Open science
I am currently the infrastructure and impact measurement coordinator at MetaDocencia. I collaborate with The Turing Way, the OpenSciency project (formerly the NASA TOPS OpenCore team) and am a 2023 SSI and OLS fellow. I am also co-mentoring two Outreachy interns with the Open Science Community Saudi Arabia.
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Training
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
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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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Translation
Expertise:Social sciences, Technology, Society, The internet, Localization, Open science
I am currently the infrastructure and impact measurement coordinator at MetaDocencia. I collaborate with The Turing Way, the OpenSciency project (formerly the NASA TOPS OpenCore team) and am a 2023 SSI and OLS fellow. I am also co-mentoring two Outreachy interns with the Open Science Community Saudi Arabia.
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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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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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Volunteer-based group
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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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
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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Workflows
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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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
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.
A dedicated slack channel will facilitate open discussions among experts and other participants in OLS-6 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 am a Mathematician and hold a Ph.D. in Cybernetics, currently working as a NeuroAI researcher to develop brain-augmented AI systems. I have been involved with several open sources (e.g. Linux software development community of Turkey) and open science (Brainhack, OHBM, OLS) communities and worked on various projects for the dissemination, training, and management of open science/source projects and communities. I developed guidelines and educational materials and organized many events and training courses to train government and military officials, students, and scientific researchers. I love creating means to bring community members with diverse backgrounds and expertise.
Currently studying towards a MSc in philosophy of the social sciences at the LSE. Curious about the values that drive human action, and the nature of collaboration.
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).
Research student developing point of care diagnostic tool for malaria, He’s enthusiast of open science tools with skills in R programing and other open access software for bioinformatic analysis
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:
Community Researcher & Programme Coordinator (contract)
Chilean worker and researcher. Social scientist (wannabe). I am an immigrant, not an expat. Open science hardware was my entrance to the world of critical open science. “Critical” as in: it matters who gets to be involved in science.
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-6 cohort:
OLS-6 for EOSC-Life
OLS has received the EOSC-Life Training grant (first round), to train and mentor EOSC-RI members under the collaboration name OLS-6 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-6 for Faculty of Applied Sciences/TNW - TU Delft
Under the collaboration name OLS-6 for TNW, OLS 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 6th cohort (OLS-6) 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-6 for Turing
Under the collaboration name OLS-6 for Turing, OLS 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 sixth cohort (OLS-6) 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-6 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-6 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-6 cohort. A personal invitation link will be shared with the participants via an email.
OLS-6 private Google group
Organizers inform participants of the week schedule by email. An archive of all emails can be found on the private OLS-6 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.