<p><img src="cid:0__=0FBB0E20DFAE4F698f9e8a93df9386909@cso.ie" width="604" height="302"></p><p></p><p><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">Hello everyone,</font></p><p><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"><br>We hope this email finds you well!</font><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">We are writing to invite you to yet another "</font><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/early-career-and-engagement-ig-early-career-networking-group/event/november-ama-call" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0082BF" face="Arial"><u>Ask me Anything</u></font></a><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">" meeting, this time dedicated to</font></p><p><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"><br><b> Understanding the "reproducibility crisis" and funding opportunities for ECRs.</b></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"><b><br></b>Mohammad Akhlaghi from Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will talk about a template produced within RDA activities providing a solution to the computational/analytical aspect of the "</font><a href="https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=17268&d=v4LO3YfiNqYI-eeBr5YDBzM32AJCkxIqAJNivmGR0g&s=204&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2enature%2ecom%2fnews%2f1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1%2e19970" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0062E1" face="Arial"><u>reproducibility crisis</u></font></a><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">". The template contains human, and machine-readable, instructions on how to automatically reproduce the results of a project that uses it: download the inputs (necessary software source code and data, and build the software), do the analysis to produce the output (run the input software on the input data to any level of complexity) and produce the narrative PDF (for example a published paper providing context and qualitative analysis with figures).  </font><font size="2" color="#37605E" face="Arial"><b><i>As part of the RDA grant Mohammad and his colleagues have funding to invite several researchers from outside of astronomy/astrophysics (academia or industry) to the IAC (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) for a week to help in adopting this template for their research (all costs will be covered).</i></b></font><font size="2" color="#37605E" face="Arial"><b>  </b></font><br><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">If you are interested in attending </font><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"><b><u>please note that registration is required</u></b></font><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"><b>: </b></font><font size="2" color="#0062E1" face="Arial"><b> </b></font><a href="https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=17268&d=v4LO3YfiNqYI-eeBr5YDBzM32AJCkxIqAJo0uzea2g&s=204&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2eeventbrite%2eco%2euk%2fe%2fnovember-ama-call-understanding-the-reproducibility-crisis-and-funding-opportunities-for-ecrs-tickets-81869408605" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0082BF" face="Arial"><b><u>https://www.eventbr<wbr>ite.co.uk/e/november-ama-call-<wbr>understanding-the-reproducibil<wbr>ity-crisis-and-funding-opportu<wbr>nities-for-ecrs-tickets-<wbr>81869408605</u></b></font></a><font size="2" color="#0062E1" face="Arial"><b> </b></font><br><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">Additional information:</font><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">The talk will be held</font><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"><b> </b></font><a href="https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=17268&d=v4LO3YfiNqYI-eeBr5YDBzM32AJCkxIqAJ44v2LH1Q&s=204&u=https%3a%2f%2fiu%2ezoom%2eus%2fj%2f6703697984" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#009F82" face="Arial"><b><u>online</u></b></font></a><font size="2" color="#4181C0" face="Arial"><b> </b></font><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">on </font><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F" face="Arial"><b><u>Wednesday, November 20th at 15:00-16:00 UTC</u></b></font><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F" face="Arial"><b> </b></font><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"><b>(10:00-11:00 EDT)</b></font><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">*Click  </font><a href="https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=17268&d=v4LO3YfiNqYI-eeBr5YDBzM32AJCkxIqAMk5vGOQhQ&s=204&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2etimeanddate%2ecom%2fworldclock%2ffixedtime%2ehtml%3fmsg%3dAsk%2bMe%2bAnything%2bCall%2bon%2bReproducibility%2bWednesday%2cNovember%2b20th%2bat%2b15%3a00-16%3a00%2bUTC%2b%2810%3a00-11%3a00%2bEDT%29%26iso%3d20191120T10%26p1%3d3723%26ah%3d1" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0082BF" face="Arial"><u>here</u></font></a><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"> to find out the time of the event in your time zone.</font><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">Some short information about the speaker:</font><br><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"><u>Short bio</u></font><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">Mohammad Akhlaghi[1] is a Big Data Astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)[3], Spain. He is the founder of a reproducible paper template project that was awarded an RDA-Europe adoption grant[2] (2019), and is also the founder of GNU Astronomy Utilities[4] (a collection of free software programs and libraries for astronomical data analysis). He received his PhD in astronomy from Tohoku University (Japan) and prior to coming to the IAC was CNRS postdoctoral fellow in Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL, France).</font></p><p><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"><br>[1] </font><a href="https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=17268&d=v4LO3YfiNqYI-eeBr5YDBzM32AJCkxIqAM437zLG2g&s=204&u=https%3a%2f%2fakhlaghi%2eorg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0082BF" face="Arial"><u>https://akhlaghi.org</u></font></a><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">[2] </font><a href="https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=17268&d=v4LO3YfiNqYI-eeBr5YDBzM32AJCkxIqAM83vGHFhg&s=204&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2eiac%2ees%2fen" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0082BF" face="Arial"><u>https://www.iac.es/en</u></font></a><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">[3] </font><a href="https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=17268&d=v4LO3YfiNqYI-eeBr5YDBzM32AJCkxIqAJ1mvzPH1w&s=204&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2erd-alliance%2eorg%2fblogs%2fadoption-grant-introductions-template-reproducible-shareable-and-archivable-data-analysis%2ehtml" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0082BF" face="Arial"><u>https://www.rd-alliance.or<wbr>g/blogs/adoption-grant-introdu<wbr>ctions-template-reproducible-s<wbr>hareable-and-archivable-data-a<wbr>nalysis.html</u></font></a><br><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">[4] </font><font size="2" color="#0082BF" face="Arial"><u><a href="https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=17268&d=v4LO3YfiNqYI-eeBr5YDBzM32AJCkxIqAMs1tWGQ0w&s=204&u=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2egnu%2eorg%2fsoftware%2fgnuastro" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/softwa<wbr>re/gnuastro</a></u></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#0082BF" face="Arial"><u></u></font><font color="#0082bf" face="Arial" size="2"><u><br></u></font><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial">Looking forward to talking with you!</font></p><p><font color="#212100" face="Arial" size="2"><br></font><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F" face="Arial">Mervyn O Luing</font></p><p><font color="#2f2f2f" face="Arial" size="2"><br></font><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F" face="Arial">Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG)</font><font size="2" color="#212100" face="Arial"> </font></p><p></p><ul style="padding-left:0pt"><br></ul>