Good afternoon everyone! Today I'll talk about some Open Science projects that are close to my heart.

I've already tangentially mentioned the amazing @turingway project in previous threads. But I think it deserves a proper shout-out! The Turing Way is an open source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science. https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome.html 

The goal of The Turing Way is to provide all the information that data scientists in academia, industry, government and the third sector need at the start of their projects to ensure that they are easy to reproduce and reuse at the end. Everything I wish I had during my PhD!

This is an open project, meaning that anyone can contribute with their knowledge and expertise. I have contributed by co-writing a chapter about science outreach and I'm also coordinating efforts to translate this very useful guide to Spanish.

It's also a super friendly and inclusive community!!! I encourage everyone reading this thread to check it out and contribute!

Inspired by @turingway, with some of folks from @turinghut23, UCL and Civil Service ( @DavidBeavan, @Kevinzhangxu and Sam Van Stroud) we created another project called Turing Data Stories ( @TuringDStories).

This is an open project that aims to inspire a community to harness the potential of open data by creating data stories. The data stories mix computer code , narrative , visuals and real-world data to document an insightful result.

These data stories are educational and relate to society in a way that people care about. They should have a high standard of openness and reproducibility and are approved by the community in a peer review process organised within the project.

The first steps of making @TuringDStories an open community project were developed thanks to the incredible @openlifesci program and the mentorship of the amazing @yoyehudi .

The @openlifesci program is 16-week long personal mentorship and cohort-based training, where participants learn how to create, lead, and sustain an Open Science project. We graduated from the second cohort last Dec. and I couldn't recommend it enough! https://openlifesci.org/ 

The @TuringDStories is still in its infancy, we've already published one story and are reviewing a second one. We're currently going through an ethical approval process within the institute that we want to finish before launching officially to the outside world.

I must clarify that this is a 100% voluntary project that has been developed using some allocated time we have in @turinghut23 to explore a develop our own ideas/projects but also a lot of our spare time.

I think I'll finish for today. Tomorrow I'll talk about projects related to science in Latinoamerica and how as a international researcher I have managed to stay connected with colleagues back home. Have a good evening everyone!