<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>kind reminder of our AMA call about Open Life Science that starts today at 14.00 UTC/ 10.00 EDT.</div><div><br></div><div>Please find more information and subscribe <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/early-career-and-engagement-ig/event/ask-me-anything-call-open-life-science-empowering-0">here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to talking with you soon.</div><div><br></div><div>King Regards,</div><div>The RDA ECEIG co-chairs</div><div><br></div><div>Devan Ray Donaldson, Fotis Psomopoulos and Elli Papadopoulou</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 17:35, Elli Papadopoulou <<a href="mailto:elli.libd@gmail.com">elli.libd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_-4377339909997960929gmail-docs-internal-guid-6be73757-7fff-b8d9-4383-8f8453385b16"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,49,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello everyone,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We hope this email finds you well!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are writing to invite you to yet another </span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">RDA</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> ECEIG "</span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/early-career-and-engagement-ig/event/ask-me-anything-call-open-life-science-empowering" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ask me Anything</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">" meeting; the </span><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/early-career-and-engagement-ig" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG)</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> has been formed within RDA with a focus on connecting with and supporting early career professionals both within and outside RDA. The "Ask me Anything" meetings are hosted on a monthly basis, addressing topics that might be of general interest to ECRs - this month's AMA is dedicated to:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Life Science: Empowering communities with open* principles</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><div><img src="cid:ii_ka8ayy871" alt="ECEIG-OLS.png" width="452" height="226"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As scientists, we are provided training and guidance in how to conduct research in the lab, design algorithms, analyse data and publish them. However, scientists are rarely expected to apply important skills such as open science principles for tooling and road mapping their projects, planning reproducible workflows, involving others in their work, and leading an inclusive community. Modern bioinformatics communities stand in the interface of computational and biological research. This interdisciplinary position requires us to develop collaborative projects by implementing such “open by design” principles in our research projects systematically -- skills that aren’t necessarily taught at university or graduate school level. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This talk will </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">introduce the </span><a href="https://openlifesci.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Life Science</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (OLS) program and report important observations and outcomes from running the first cohort of the program. The talk will follow the same format as the cohort calls.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:11pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More about the Open Life Science and the cohort calls</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Life Science is a volunteer-driven training and mentoring program aimed at empowering early career researchers and potential academic leaders to become open science ambassadors. Participants join OLS with a proposal to work on an open science project and attend a series of one-on-one mentoring calls over 16 weeks, alternating with full cohort calls that provide training on specific open science and leadership skills. OLS’s work is underpinned by a community of over 50 mentors and expert guest speakers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cohort calls cover a broad spectrum of topics relevant to leading an open project, ranging from open science topics, community building, project and contribution management of GitHub repositories, and caring both for yourself and others in your community. Calls are designed to be interactive and engaging, utilising a mix of Zoom’s break-out room features to facilitate group discussion, collaborative document editing, and guest speakers from academia and industry giving short talks.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:11pt 0pt 8pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are interested in attending May’s AMA Call please note that registration is required! Please register here: </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-life-science-empowering-communities-with-open-principles-tickets-105531916804" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-life-science-empowering-communities-with-open-principles-tickets-105531916804</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Additional information:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The talk will be held online on </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, May 20th at 14:00-16:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 EDT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*Click </span><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=AMA+Call+on+Open+Life+Science&iso=20200520T10&p1=3723&ah=1" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here </span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to find out the time of the event in your time zone.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;padding:3pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Short bios of the speakers</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the </span><a href="https://galaxyproject.eu/freiburg/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Freiburg Galaxy Team</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via </span><a href="https://galaxyproject.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Galaxy</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the </span><a href="https://training.galaxyproject.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Galaxy Training Material project</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (</span><a href="https://www.denbi.de/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">de.NBI</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), a </span><a href="https://carpentries.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Software Carpentry instructor</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and a founder of </span><a href="https://streetscience.community/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Street Science Community</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, an outreach program. With Yo Yehudi and Malvika Sharan, she founded and organizes the Open Life Science program.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yo is a </span><a href="https://software.ac.uk/about/fellows/yo-yehudi" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Software Sustainability Institute Fellow</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, founder of </span><a href="http://www.codeisscience.com/manifesto" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Code is Science</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a href="https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/yochannah.yehudi-postgrad.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EngD student at the University of Manchester</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> studying the effects of community and usabilty on open source software, editor for the </span><a href="https://channels.plos.org/open-source-toolkit" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PLOS Open Source Toolkit</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, board member of the </span><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/board/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Bioinformatics Foundation</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called </span><a href="http://intermine.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">InterMine</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter handles</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:11pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Life Science: @openlifesci</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bérénice Batut </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">@bebatut</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yo Yehudi @yoyehudi</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Looking forward to talking with you!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG) co-chairs,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4087;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Devan Ray Donaldson, Fotis Psomopoulos and Elli Papadopoulou</span></p><div><br></div></span></div>
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