Senior Researcher - The Alan Turing Institute, London. Co-Lead https://scholar.social/@turingway@fosstodon.org, Co-Director OLS (OpenLifeScience). #OpenScience, #CommunityBuilding, #Inclusive Research Culture, Digital Commons. Reimagined Democracy, Open Leadership, Training and Mentoring. Expcet typos! 🇮🇳🇩🇪🇬🇧
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"What does Governance mean to us in Research and Open Science?"
📅 30 June 2025, 15 - 16:30 UTC+1 (UK time)
Featuring: @Neil Chue Hong, Simon Hettrick, Riva Quiroga, @oscarseip, and @malvikasharan
This first fireside chat will feature insights from SSI leadership and Fellows, alongside leadership from The Turing Way.
Sign-up on this form: https://forms.gle/d2vuQcpoXJpDP1QQ6
Wonderful keynote from @malvikasharan at #BioNTCCHD2024 about lessons learned in community management.
💡 Had a great discussions with @malvikasharan Sharan from The Alan Turing Institute about #collaborating on skills development! She leads The Turing Way initiative, which collects and develops #knowledge and training materials to help #researchers and #practitioners work in an open source way. Looking forward to exploring ways in how we can collaborate through #EOSA. 🤝
You can find @malvikasharan tomorrow at #FOSDEM BoF 10:00am in room H3242 (BoF track B). She's keen for everyone to participate and give their opinion!
You can also read the @turingway chapter on this topic. And give a follow to them both!
What a great talk to finish the session!
@malvikasharan Do not harm means taking a step back to consider if the work that you are doing can possibly be significantly harming a community or an individual.
Looking at literature, Malvika discovered Do Not Harm is actually compatible with open models, but there are some known harms of #data and #tech
@malvikasharan Malvika stumbled upon the Do Not Harm project a few years ago and was suprised to see that there were no direct links to #opensource and #openscience.
🔴 @malvikasharan from @turingway is delivering the last talk of the day about Applying the "Do No Harm" Principle to Open* Practices and Technology
I received some end-of-year gifts from @turingway!
Stickers, a personalised post card, and these brilliant Turing Way socks!
10 lesson learned by Malvika
The first keynote by Malvika start with her extensive experience on community participation and management. #CarpentryConnect
Thank you for tagging @petrichor. Hi @pixouls, @yoyehudi, Kaitlin Stack Whitney and I have drafted some of our tested practices here: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/k3bfn. I hope you'd find that useful.
We also have some logistical documentation in @turingway https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/organising-meetings.
Our wonderful @malvikasharan is live at State of Open Con now!
She shared the difficulties (and possibilities) of collaboration for open science, the geographic biases that inform how AI is made (and the open source contributions that bely this work), and then how 'Do No Harm' can be used as a framework to support inclusive technology development.
Learn more about her talk here: https://stateofopencon.com/schedule2024/
📢 We are so excited to announce that The Turing Way now has its own Github organisation! 🥳🎉🪩🎊
🏡 Check out our new home here: https://github.com/the-turing-way
This past year, it became clear that our global community needed more space to collaborate, experiment, translate & localise, maintain infrastructure, and make our growing list of resources and projects accessible and centralised in one place.
In May 2023, a significant milestone was reached as The Carpentries transitioned all 43 of its official lessons to a new lesson infrastructure, The Carpentries Workbench. The Carpentries Workbench was a 3-year project led by @zkamvar with input and contributions from many community members.
We asked Jennifer Stubbs @malvikasharan, @fmic_, Eric Jankowski, @lgatto and @csoneson for their reflections on the project, its impact, and on Zhian’s leadership: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/08/celebrating-carpentries-workbench/
Our September newsletter is out! 🎉🥳
As always, this newsletter is full of updates. Read and subscribe here: https://tinyletter.com/TuringWay/archive 💫
📚💨 Applications for November's Book Dash are due by 11 Sept: https://forms.gle/qbbQT8cUmiLvoBus5
💼 Join @jcolomb, Jo Havemann & @malvikasharan at their pilot workshop "Managing Open & Reproducible Computational Projects" (14-15 Sept): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managing-open-reproducible-computational-projects-for-project-leaders-tickets-691159656137
🔥 Join us at our upcoming Fireside Chat "Who is building open source AI?" on 21 Sept: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-is-building-open-source-ai-tickets-709277416847
Happy birthday to science fiction and horror writer and original badass goth girl MARY SHELLEY, born OTD in 1797.
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” — Mary Shelley, introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein.
Generative AI is a big challenge for open data - I've reconsidered sharing my own stuff.
Creative Commons are asking people to get involved in the wider 'beyond copyright' issues.
'Though using CC licenses and legal tools for training data and works produced by generative AI may address some legal uncertainty, it does not solve all the ethical concerns raised, which go far beyond copyright — involving issues of privacy, consent, bias, economic impacts, and access to and control over technology, among other things.
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For many creators, these and other issues may be a reason not to share their works at all under any terms, not just via CC licensing. CC wants AI to augment and support commons, not detract from it, and we want to see solutions to these concerns to avoid AI turning creators away from contributing to the commons altogether.'
https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/18/understanding-cc-licenses-and-generative-ai/
Are you a Black researcher at a #UK institution, seeking research funding for work in #education, #welfare or #justice? Please do consider participating in the Nuffield Foundation's focus groups on how we can improve our grantmaking to give more grants to Black researchers. Participants will be compensated. Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWSJseaIM9QlXUlf4QmgonfqW0rvfEanBtw8Ye5DNHuc3b7w/viewform
I am so #grateful to be working with a community that is full of supportive and caring leaders. This year has been a tough one for me, but seeing these testimonials reminds me that my work with the #CarpentriesWorkbench is valued in more ways than I can imagine.
Thank you to Jennifer, Eric, @malvikasharan, @fmic_, Charlotte, and @lgatto and for taking the time to write these and to the entire community for your patience and feedback through the process :blobcatheart:
https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/08/celebrating-carpentries-workbench/
Definitely do not go to these websites to get free study books. Also, don't go to https://12ft.io/ to unlock paywalls.
libgen.is, pk1lib.org, ethos.bl.uk, sabaq.pk, sci-hub.se, archive.org, lej4learning.com.pk, pdfdrive.com, unpaywall.org
