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Shoutouts<\/h2>\n

Many thanks to Kathi Unglert<\/a> for contributing our first Study Group lesson<\/a>. Check it out and share your lessons on coding, data wrangling and community leadership with us there!
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In & Around the Lab<\/h2>\n

The Science Lab opened a call for discussion & contributions this week to its new Study Group project<\/a>. Getting together with a familiar group of friends and colleagues every few weeks to take up a new idea is a great way to share skills and learn from each other; we’d like to explore ways to facilitate those discussions, and we’re starting by collecting example lessons and material from the community. If you have a short lesson (even just some rough notes!) on anything in open science, whether it’s coding, data science, open practice, community building or a social media primer for scientists, send us a pull request or open an issue – we’d love to include your ideas and share them with the wider community.
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Outside the Lab
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President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget<\/a> has reaffirmed the US’ commitment to open data, seeking to “open up Government-generated assets, including data and the results of federally funded research and development\u2014such as intellectual property and scientific knowledge\u2014to the public<\/em>” (pp 74); read more in Heather Joseph<\/a>‘s article<\/a> from SPARC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Don’t miss Carl Boettiger<\/a>‘s recent paper<\/a> on the use of Docker to support reusable and reproducible scientific code in rapidly changing development environments; containerization promises to be an integral practical element in reproducible scientific code, and Carl’s exploration is both practical & insightful.<\/p>\n

Near-Term Forecast<\/h2>\n

Kaitlin Thaney & Bill Mills are heading to Australia for the Research Bazaar Conference<\/a> – an event at University of Melbourne on open research technology. We’ll be running trainings as well as talking to researchers and lab heads from across Australia and New Zealand about open science. We’ll also be announcing our first Science Lab Hub – which we’re piloting with the University of Melbourne to help serve as open science boots-on-the-ground in Australia. Stay tuned for more.<\/span><\/p>\n

This coming Thursday, February 12 is our next community call<\/a>, at 11 AM ET<\/strong>. We’ll be hearing from Kathi Unglert on the skills-sharing study group she’s helping out with at UBC, and from the project leads from the upcoming Toronto Open Science Code Sprint<\/span><\/strong>, hosted by the Mozilla Science Lab. We’ll be hearing from the Lab’s own Abby Cabunoc<\/a> on Contributorship Badges<\/a> for open science; Christopher Ing<\/a> on Matplotdash<\/a>, a Collaborate<\/a> project seeking to build a monitoring dashboard for large scientific computational jobs; Sibyl Gao on WormBase<\/a>, a successful collaboration and communication platform in the nematode genetics & biology community; Madeleine Bonsma<\/a> on Pathogens & Disease Immunity<\/a>, another Collaborate project that seeks to build a database of phage and bacteria genomes for studying how bacteria resist infection, and Max Franz on Cytoscape.js<\/a>, a graph theory library in JavaScript. The Toronto Sprint promises to be an excellent opportunity to meet the community behind these projects and explore them together; we hope you’ll join us to learn how you can get involved, too!<\/span><\/p>\n

Get Involved<\/h2>\n

Check out a few of these projects, from the Science Lab and our friends:<\/p>\n

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