Shoutouts
This week was a good week to chat with the Science Lab! Not only did we launch Instructor Hangouts on Friday, we had our monthly community call the day before; big MSL thanks go out to Kara Woo for discussing the forthcoming paper on getting started with open science, and to Leslie Chan and Angela Okune for introducing us to their work in open science in development in the global south.
Shoutouts also due for Atul Varma and Vincent Betro for their enlightening discussion of ScriptEd‘s and XSEDE‘s exploration of beyond-the-workshop student engagement around software bootcamps, and Damien Irving‘s discussion of the exciting Software Carpentry community in Melbourne, and video as a vehicle for collecting instructor feedback at our first ever Instructor Hangouts.
Many thanks also to Svetlana Belkin for her recent round up of open science initiatives including MSL.
In & Around the Lab
As shouted out above, the two biggest splashes this past week from the Lab were our monthly lab meeting (check out the notes & review the discussion), and the first instalment of Instructor Hangouts. We learned a bunch at Instructor Hangouts, both procedural and philosophical; check out the roundup, and don’t forget to give us feedback and jump on the schedule for the next round, on September 26!
Also of note this week and a project to watch – check out the awesome work being done by Matt Jones et al on Code as a Research Object, a project to produce metadata schemes for scientific software. The lab’s own Abby Cabunoc is involved in this project, so watch here for future updates!
Reading List
Lab meeting week is always a big week for the reading list – things of note:
- Examination of the challenge of putting open science into practice.
- PLOS ALM Reports is now open source.
- Blog post on the Opportunity cost of Open Science.
- How to perform code review for scientific software.
- AirMozilla talk on teaching software development to scientists.
- Positive experiences working with rMarkdown for rerunning analyses.
- Nextflow w/ Docker for reproducible science (thx W. King).
- Roundup of open science work (thx Svetlana Belkin).
- Persistent Identifiers and social science data in Africa.
- National Science Communication Institute “Open Science Initiative” (NOTE access code = OSI-2014)