diff --git a/weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/abstracts_bios_2021.md b/weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/abstracts_bios_2021.md index 6a30d703..e236688c 100644 --- a/weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/abstracts_bios_2021.md +++ b/weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/abstracts_bios_2021.md @@ -49,6 +49,31 @@ Kirstie was named, with her collaborator Petra Vertes, as a [2016 Global Thinker **Slides**: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4537450 + +### Coding In The Open + +**Website**: https://codingedi.github.io + +**Date**: ?? June 2021 + +**Title**: The Turing Way: Empowering researchers in reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative science + +**Abstract**: Although reproducible research is necessary to ensure that scientific work can be trusted, it requires skills in data management, library sciences, software development, and data ethics considerations: skills that are not widely taught or expected of academic researchers. +Beyond these skills lie the structural and incentive barriers to working open. +_The Turing Way_ aims to provide a safe space for data scientists in academia, industry, government and the third sector to practice these skills and build open source materials covering version control, analysis testing, collaborating in distributed groups, open and transparent communication skills, and effective management of diverse research projects. +All attendees will leave Kirstie's presentation understanding the many dimensions of openness and how they can participate in an inclusive, supportive, kind and inspiring open source ecosystem as they seek to improve research culture, making it "open for all". + +**Bio**: Kirstie Whitaker leads the [Tools, Practices and Systems](https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-programmes/tools-practices-and-systems) Research Programme at [The Alan Turing Institute](https://www.turing.ac.uk) (London, UK). +The TPS community's mission is to invest in the people who sustain the open infrastructure ecosystem for data science. +Kirstie is the lead developer of [_The Turing Way_](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome), an openly developed educational resource inspire, train and enable researchers and citizen scientists across government, industry, academia and third sector organisations to apply open source practices to their work. +Kirstie is a passionate advocate for making science "open for all" by promoting equity and inclusion for people from diverse backgrounds, and by changing the academic incentive structure to reward collaborative working. +She is the chair of the Turing Institute's [Ethics Advisory Group](https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/data-ethics/ethics-advisory-group), a Fulbright scholarship alumna and was a [2016/17 Mozilla Fellow for Science](https://wiki.mozilla.org/ScienceLab). +Kirstie was named, with her collaborator Petra Vertes, as a [2016 Global Thinker](https://2016globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/2016/profile/petra-vertes-and-kirstie-whitaker) by Foreign Policy magazine. +You can follow her and her dog's adventures on Twitter [@kirstie_j](https://twitter.com/kirstie_j). + +**Slides**: + + --- ### TEMPLATE: Title of event diff --git a/weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/Weekly-meetings.md b/weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/kirstie-updates.md similarity index 85% rename from weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/Weekly-meetings.md rename to weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/kirstie-updates.md index 5f90659e..2b1d951e 100644 --- a/weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/Weekly-meetings.md +++ b/weekly-updates/Kirstie-Whitaker/kirstie-updates.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Notes from Kirstie's personal version of the "weekly meetings" file she asks all **2021** +* [31 May 2021](#date-31-may-2021) +* [16 May 2021](#date-16-may-2021) * [30 April 2021](#date-30-april-2021) * [28 March 2021](#date-28-march-2021) * [14 March 2021](#date-14-march-2021) @@ -22,6 +24,169 @@ Notes from Kirstie's personal version of the "weekly meetings" file she asks all --- +## Date: 31 May 2021 + +*Updates cover two weeks because the first week in May was quite a short one.* + +### What brought you joy this week? + +* The Turing Way Book Dash was really special. + I'm so glad we were able to build such a lovely atmosphere in an all remote event. + * The Thursday icebreaker on brags and the shared meal and show and tell were really beautiful. +* TPS Seminar w Kaitlin Thayney - really interesting and good turnout! +* A compliment that I don't know if anyone else knew was so incredibly meaningful for me. + * A 2 year investment paying off ๐Ÿ™ +* Job posting for RAMs now open! + * https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/research_application_manager_x2_14360/en + * Twitter ๐Ÿงต: https://twitter.com/kirstie_j/status/1399480847347159047?s=20 +* Already raised ยฃ145 for Crohn's & Colitis! + * https://www.mywalkit.org.uk/fundraising/kirstie-walks-all-the-miles + * The lab have raised ยฃ345 already! ๐Ÿ™Œ + * https://www.mywalkit.org.uk/teams/whitaker-lab-walks-it + +### What did you achieve + +* Book Dassssh! + * I managed to attend quite a bit - phew. + * Merged the Barriers to Reproducible Reserach chapter that's been in the works for around 1 million years: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/reproducible-research/overview/overview-barriers.html + * I also did some good thinking about the collaboration guide... when I'm going to be able to capture that work I have NO idea.... but it was useful thinking ๐Ÿ˜ฉ +* Looking before we leap workshop + * Gave a keynote - thought it was pretty ok. +* DECOVID summer plan... ish +* EDoN Hub meeting & anonymisation strategy meeting +* Extended EDoN JD and promoted a bit on twitter + * https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/senior_data_analyst_modeller_edon_14053 + * https://twitter.com/kirstie_j/status/1399493741631709184?s=20 +* JupyterHub / Binder community meeting to welcome CM & congratulate SG +* BIDS Steering Group meeting +* DSG / EAG process discussion +* RAM jd open & promoted +* AIM PM jds reviewed by CL and submitted to recruitment. +* 1:1 w CF - very helpful +* Planning meeting w CCO5 which was really interesting +* Met ACC & set a few strategic directions for Pangeo +* Feedback to two grant applications that are now submitted ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿคž +* ASG Theme Lead meeting +* Job description for ASG community manager & a couple of iterations +* Scoping meeting for DSH +* Welcome AM & CN to AIM ๐Ÿ‘‹ +* AIM budget meeting +* Scheduled annual appraisal meetings +* AutSPACEs team meeting & dev team meeting +* Lovely guest speaker at lab meeting +* Led 1:1s w IKG, MS, GA, EK, AM, +* Connected w MOR, SB, TD & LA for social / future plan conversations +* Information governance certificates - loads of fun clicking through Bob's business questions ๐Ÿ˜ฌ +* Mancunian Matters piece is out: https://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/news/18052021-alan-turing-his-life-his-logic-his-legacy + * > She added: "There were so many women โ€“ working on shifts, and literally 365 days a year โ€“ supporting that effort, breaking the codes, doing the translation. + > It's great to remember them, and in our work at the Turing Institue we do focus on making sure that we tell those stories." + * > "One of the things that I'm very, very passionate about is the importance of invisible work. + > So, that's work to train people to support and empower โ€“ to make sure that others have the information that they need." + +### What did you struggle with? + +* Some paperwork is not going to take the smoother pathway that I had hoped. + Just need to keep my energy up to push it through. +* idk, it feels like I'm not doing all that much at the moment while also working super freaking hard. + * I think I need to bring back my postits for joys - I'm not tracking the work as well as I could be at the moment. + * To be fair, I think I'm getting a LOT of good work done.... it just isn't showing up as lots of crossed off items in my to do list ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ + Maybe some work is invisible for longer ๐ŸŒบ + +### Any other topics + +This space is yours to add to as needed. + + +## Date: 16 May 2021 + +*Updates cover two weeks because the first week in May was quite a short one.* + +### What brought you joy this week? + +* The TPS delivery team were SO SLICK in advocating (successfully) for funding. + * REALLY proud of the alignment that we've worked so hard for. +* AB read through my updates on GitHub and used them to fill in the TPS report. + So incredibly helpful - YAAAAAAAAY! ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ +* IKG doing an awesome job with the ethics workshop. +* VERY smooth transition for PDRA position contract extension thanks to KR & AB. +* Great planning chats w BM - and appreciate the mentorship for myself and someone in the team. +* AM gave a great talk to the ASG mgmt board. + * Which was itself a really fun meeting! +* Not exactly joy but I am SUPER grateful to KP for her work on a couple of contracts. +* Had a great long chat with an OHBM colleague about career progression - tried to offer her a job while also telling her not to trust advice from folks because they're always speaking from particular biases ๐Ÿ˜… + * Diversifying input is the name of the game here! +* Joined zoom celebration for a grant that I wasn't part of winning (CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TEAM ๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽŠ) but hopefully will be part of delivering within TPS ๐Ÿ™Œ + * Lovely to be invited ๐Ÿ˜Š +* A student came to my office hours!! + * I was helpful!! + * I am delighted ๐Ÿš€๐ŸŒŸ +* SG did a kickass demo on lauching a blog with Hugo during lab meeting. + So smooth! +* Chat w AR re: Neurohackademy. + +### What did you achieve + +* Attended Looking Before We Leap ethics workshop w Ada Lovelace Institute. + * V validating, and well organised by the team. + * https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/project/ai-research-ethics-committees +* TPS Q3 & Q4 report submitted - primarily thanks to AB! +* Autistica annual report (Q1-Q4) submitted to Health programme - entirely thanks to GA! +* Confirmed funding for PDRA position extension. +* Progress on job descriptions for RAM, EDoN, TPS Fellow & AIM PM positions. +* 2 x ASG core team meetings - v helpful. +* Gave helpful feedback to AM in prep for her presentation. + * Which went really well ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒ  +* Attended DA team meeting repping the AIM RSF. +* Chaired v useful - if frustrating (no one's fault!) ops group meeting. +* Programme Directors meeting. +* Internal discussion for potential partnership. +* Welcomed CM to the Turing BinderHub! ๐Ÿ™Œ +* Gave feedback for survey that Turing comms & engagement teams are running. +* Future planning meeting w DB & BM. +* V helpful alignment conversation w CH. +* DS4S&H meeting on applications in neuroimaging. +* EDoN & DSH meeting. +* EnvSensors monthly meeting. + * Time flies, so wild ๐Ÿ™€ +* 1:1s w GA, MS, IKG, AB +* 2 x AutSPACEs core team meeetings - useful for allocating roles and responsibilities. +* AutSPACEs dev team meeting - focusing on handover / roadmapping / prioritising. +* Didn't attend the AutSPACEs meet up - BUT did hear that LC ran it really well ๐ŸŒŸ + * Got a newsletter update sent around for this one - broadening the reach. +* Adjusted funding for AutSPACEs to be within TPS rather than Health (although still a joint project!) +* DECOVID meetings - all hands, expert check in, analyst steering group, leadership x2. + * Also coordinated work with the Engage at Turing students. +* Gave feedback on Turing call to DL - fun chat too ๐Ÿ‘‹ +* Interview with Mancunian Matters - what a lovely chap. +* Linked up ACC w FP - SUCH an exciting opportunity here! ๐ŸŒ +* Gave feedback on office space plan. +* Lab meeting. +* Letter of support for Neurohackademy. +* Letter of support for student application. +* Added my comments to AB's fantastic TPS newsletter: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/tps-project-management/pull/47 + * Number 10! + We're rocking along! ๐ŸŽธ ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŽค +* Reviewed LC's fabulous AutSPACEs newsletter: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/AutisticaCitizenScience/pull/466 +* GSOC student confirmed joining Autspaces + +### What did you struggle with? + +* One of the projects has very low engagement - really tough week knowing how to take it forwards. + * I think we got to a good point by the end. + Really valuable 1:1 chats to align (word of the week ๐Ÿ˜…) +* One really rough conversation but that hopefully draws a line under a 6 month process. + * Didn't go well, but at least the conversation is off the to do list and its a little clearer to see a pathway forwards. + +### Any other topics + +Got my vaccine this weekend!! +SO SO grateful. +Picture at: https://twitter.com/kirstie_j/status/1393843745871761409?s=20 + +Also did some reading and listening to podcasts about the conflict in Gaza. +Need to do more understanding of that fact, but did decide to [speak out publicly](https://twitter.com/kirstie_j/status/1393675808280096773?s=20) in support of Palestine. +The balance of power seems too disproportionately aligned to Israel to consider a "two sides" story of the conflict. + ## Date: 30 April 2021 *WOAH, I took a couple of Fridays off and really fell way way behind on a bunch of work.*