{"id":879,"date":"2014-09-14T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozscienceblog.wpengine.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:40:45","slug":"mozilla-science-lab-week-in-review-sept-8-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/mozilla-science-lab-week-in-review-sept-8-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Science Lab Week in Review, Sept. 8-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shoutouts<\/h2>\n<p>This week was a good week to chat with the Science Lab! Not only did we launch <a title=\"hangoutsBeta\" href=\"https:\/\/mozillascience.org\/instructor-hangouts-beta-test\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instructor Hangouts<\/a> on Friday, we had our monthly community call the day before; big MSL thanks go out to <a title=\"karaWoo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kara_woo\">Kara Woo<\/a> for discussing the forthcoming <a title=\"codefestPaper\" href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/osmanuscript\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> on getting started with open science, and to <a title=\"leslieChan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.utsc.utoronto.ca\/~chan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Chan<\/a> and <a title=\"angelaOkune\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Honoluluskye\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Okune<\/a> for introducing us to <a title=\"osDevelopmentNetwork\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ihub.co.ke\/blog\/2014\/08\/introducing-the-open-and-collaborative-science-in-development-network-ocsdnet\/\" target=\"_blank\">their work<\/a> in open science in development in the global south.<\/p>\n<p>Shoutouts also due for <a title=\"toolness\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toolness\" target=\"_blank\">Atul Varma<\/a> and Vincent Betro for their enlightening discussion of <a title=\"scriptE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scripted.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ScriptEd<\/a>&#8216;s and <a title=\"xsede\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xsede.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">XSEDE<\/a>&#8216;s exploration of beyond-the-workshop student engagement around software bootcamps, and <a title=\"damienIrving\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrClimate\" target=\"_blank\">Damien Irving<\/a>&#8216;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.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks also to Svetlana Belkin for her <a title=\"roundup\" href=\"http:\/\/ubuntusense.com\/2014\/09\/10\/open-science-improving-collaboration-between-researchers\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent round up<\/a> of open science initiatives including MSL.<\/p>\n<h2>In &amp; Around the Lab<\/h2>\n<p>As shouted out above, the two biggest splashes this past week from the Lab were our monthly lab meeting (check out the <a title=\"callNotes\" href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/sciencelab-calls-sep11-2014\" target=\"_blank\">notes<\/a> &amp; review the discussion), and the first instalment of Instructor Hangouts. We learned a bunch at Instructor Hangouts, both procedural and philosophical; check out the <a title=\"hangoutsBeta\" href=\"https:\/\/mozillascience.org\/instructor-hangouts-beta-test\/\" target=\"_blank\">roundup<\/a>, and don&#8217;t forget to give us feedback and jump on the schedule for the next round, on September 26!<\/p>\n<p>Also of note this week and a project to watch &#8211; check out the awesome work being done by <a title=\"mattJones\" href=\"http:\/\/matt.magisa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Jones<\/a> et al on <a title=\"codeAsResearch\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mbjones\/codemeta\/\" target=\"_blank\">Code as a Research Object<\/a>, a project to produce metadata schemes for scientific software. The lab&#8217;s own <a title=\"@abbycabs\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abbycabs\" target=\"_blank\">Abby Cabunoc<\/a> is involved in this project, so watch here for future updates!<\/p>\n<h2>Reading List<\/h2>\n<p>Lab meeting week is always a big week for the reading list &#8211; things of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Examination of the <a title=\"challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/firstmonday.org\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/5381\/4110\" target=\"_blank\">challenge of putting open science into practice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"plos\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/articlemetrics\/alm-report\" target=\"_blank\">PLOS ALM Reports<\/a> is now open source.<\/li>\n<li>Blog post on the <a title=\"cost\" href=\"http:\/\/brunalab.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/the-opportunity-cost-of-my-openscience-was-35-hours-690\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opportunity cost of Open Science.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How to perform <a title=\"codeReview\" href=\"http:\/\/zonca.github.io\/2014\/08\/code-review-for-scientific-computing.html\" target=\"_blank\">code review<\/a> for scientific software.<\/li>\n<li>AirMozilla <a title=\"airmoz\" href=\"https:\/\/air.mozilla.org\/the-science-of-teaching-scientists-scientific-software-development-for-science-and-data-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">talk<\/a> on teaching software development to scientists.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"rmarkdown\" href=\"http:\/\/babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.ca\/2014\/09\/sharing-research-using-rmarkdown.html\" target=\"_blank\">Positive experiences<\/a> working with rMarkdown for rerunning analyses.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"docker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nextflow.io\/blog\/2014\/nextflow-meets-docker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nextflow w\/ Docker<\/a> for reproducible science (thx W. King).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ubuntu\" href=\"http:\/\/ubuntusense.com\/2014\/09\/10\/open-science-improving-collaboration-between-researchers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roundup of open science work<\/a> (thx Svetlana Belkin).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"persistentIdentifiers\" href=\"http:\/\/aaroc.github.io\/chain-reds\/AAROC-APHRC-PID\/\" target=\"_blank\">Persistent Identifiers and social science data<\/a> in Africa.<\/li>\n<li>National Science Communication Institute &#8220;<a title=\"NSC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/10C0B49AAAB22A1FF2-open1\" target=\"_blank\">Open Science Initiative<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 (NOTE access code = OSI-2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/mozilla-science-lab-week-in-review-sept-8-14\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290376],"tags":[418233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}