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We are excited to kick-off the fourth round of Open Life Science with another incredible cohort of mentors, mentees, and experts. We are honored to bring together members of diverse identities and backgrounds who represent expertise from different domains of research, who are working to address a wide range of relevant questions in their field and are motivated to bring a culture change in their areas. Many of them are long-standing Open Scientists who aim to use this opportunity to apply open science and community-based principles in their projects through this program.
We are thrilled to announce that 34 members, who are the project leads of 26 diverse projects, have joined the fourth cohort of the Open Life Science mentoring program - OLS-4!
The mentees joining this program are Adel Sarvary, Alejandro Coca Castro, Ali Humayun, Andreea Avramescu, Andres Sebastian Ayala Ruano, Arent Kievits, Batool Almarzouq, Burce Elbasan, Caitlin Augustin, Callum Mole, Cecilia Herbert, Cylcia Bolibaugh, Diego Onna, Elisa Rodenburg, Emmanuel Adamolekun, Erika Salomon, Ewa Leś, Florence Okoye, Gill Francis, Guillermo Luciano Fiorini, Irena Maus, Leena AlMehlisy, Lisanna Paladin, Luke Hare, Lydia France, Mai Alajaji, Manuel Lera Ramirez, Michael Addy, Nadine Spychala, Sagarika Valluri, Sara Villa, Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, Tobías Aprea, Wai-Yin Kwan. These individuals are based in 12 countries (Argentina, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States) where they will be leading their respective projects.
Topics for their projects include DIY and makerspace, Ethical AI, FAIR principles, Python library, agriculture, artificial intelligence, astrobiology, biodiversity, carbon footprinting, case study, citizen science, community health metric, complexity measures, data science, data stewards, data visualisation, database, deep learning, electoron microscopy and imaging, energy, environmental data, gender equality, genetic engineering, green infrastructure, interview, metagenomics, outreach, peer consulting, policymaking, programming, reproducible research, research community, research software engineering, river and freshwater ecology, scientific events, secondary school outreach, sequencing, soil sample, survey data, synthetic data, technical development, therapeutics, training, training and education, version control, web application.
Our project leads (aka mentees) have been paired with 1 or 2 mentors based on their specific requirements of expertise and interests along with time zones and language preferences. Our mentors are Open Science champions with previous experiences in training, mentoring, computing, and community skills. They are currently working in different professions in data science, education, citizen science, publishing, community building, software development, clinical studies, industries, scientific training, policymaking, IT services, and so on.
Additionally, we have an incredible experts’ community who will be delivering specialised talks during the cohort calls and will be available for our project leads for expert consultations upon request.
We welcome our 32 mentors, Alexander Martinez Mendez, Alexandra Holinski, Anne Fouilloux, Anthony Bretaudeau, Arielle Bennett, Beth Duckles, Bruno Soares, Bérénice Batut, Carly Monks, Dario Pescini, Dave Clements, Delphine Lariviere, Emily Lescak, Emma Karoune, Emmy Tsang, Esther Plomp, Fotis Psomopoulos, Gracielle Higino, Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Harpreet Singh, Iratxe Puebla, Jessica Scheick, Julien Colomb, Kate Simpson, Lena Karvovskaya, Lilly Winfree, Martin Jones, Meag Doherty, Renato Alves, Sam Haynes, Yo Yehudi, Yvan Le Bras, based in 14 countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States). 4 of them were participants and 17 mentors in the previous cohort (OLS-3). They will be supported by 46 experts.
We are extremely grateful to them for their support and contributions to OLS and their impactful work in other open communities. They are committed to supporting their mentees in this program to help create a more open and fair-research, knowledge-sharing and inclusive culture within life science and beyond.
We begin our program this week with a mentoring training call and mentor-mentee introductions. Check out the complete schedule and plans for OLS-4: https://openlifesci.org//ols-4.
You can keep track of our program, the progress of our second cohort and future announcements by following our twitter profile @openlifesci or subscribe to our announcements list.
We invite new contributions to the program as a new issue on the GitHub repo or by email to the team.
Once again, let’s welcome our mentors, mentees and experts to this program!
We wish our cohort members all the best as they begin this journey with us.