[IDEA] The Turing Way ... Course?

[srtee]

Summary

I would love to craft a course outline if I had my dream opportunity of teaching a course based on The Turing Way. A Turing Way course could:

• guide people through The Turing Way's content as it continues to grow wider and deeper, offering an opinionated sequence for tackling the different guides (but never dogmatically!)
• create a structured interface to foster uptake of The Turing Way's philosophy to institutions that mostly speak the language of "offering a course", especially universities and para-academic associations.

What needs to be done?

• [ ] Meta: decide on structure for each "session"; current draft:
  1. Topic Overview and Key Ideas ("overview")
  2. Nice Scriberia illustration ("picture")
  3. Links to Turing Way chapters, talks (!!!), and other resources ("links")
  4. Discussion and Reflection Questions ("questions")
  5. Action Ideas ("ideas")
• [ ] Meta: find a nice sandbox to work on these with interested collaborators!

1. Reproducible, Ethical and Collaborative Data Science
   • [ ] overview
     • defining "reproducible", "ethical", and "collaborative"
     • telling everyone's favourite campfire horror stories of repro or ethical failures in research ...
   • [ ] picture
   • [ ] links
   • [ ] questions
   • [ ] ideas
2. What's At Stake For Academia
   • [ ] overview
     • surveying inequities and stresses in modern academia
     • emphasising systemic problems -- no mere individual fixes!
     • intro to some key groups or orgs worth checking out
   • [ ] picture
   • [ ] links
   • [ ] questions
   • [ ] ideas
3. What's At Stake For Academics
   • [ ] overview
     • naming the pressures on academics, especially early career
     • encouraging academics that good science can be rewarding both personally and professionally
   • [ ] picture
   • [ ] links
   • [ ] questions
   • [ ] ideas
4. Better Research: Getting Started
   • [ ] overview
     • key ideas like FAIR and CARE, reproducibility, version control, universal design
   • [ ] picture
   • [ ] links
   • [ ] questions
   • [ ] ideas
5. Better Research: Preparation and Planning
   • [ ] overview
     • Before you start! Organisation, data registration plans ...
   • [ ] picture
   • [ ] links
   • [ ] questions
   • [ ] ideas
6. Better Research: Collaboration and Project Management
   • [ ] overview
     • simple intro to project management
     • useful because the relationship of advisor with PhD / postdoc is a formative context shaping lifelong reproducibility and ethical habits
   • [ ] picture
   • [ ] links
   • [ ] questions
   • [ ] ideas
7. Better Research: Storing, Analysing, and Sharing Data
   • [ ] overview
     • data storage and backups, scripting analyses with version control, data warehousing
   • [ ] picture
   • [ ] links
   • [ ] questions
   • [ ] ideas
8. Better Research: Publishing for Openness and Reproducibility
   • [ ] overview
     • open access and how to present reproducible data analyses
   • [ ] picture
   • [ ] links
   • [ ] questions
   • [ ] ideas
9. Healthy Communities: Seeds of Sustainable Change
   • [ ] overview
     • centering and celebrating healthy communities as how change begins, builds, and becomes normative!
     • primers on community participation, discussion moderation, and organising
   • [ ] picture
   • [ ] links
   • [ ] questions
   • [ ] ideas
10. Healthy Communities: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • [ ] overview
      • witnessing the harms and injustices of historical marginalisation
      • discussing importance and benefits of representation, how to be an ally, centering marginalised people while supporting them so they don't bear additional representation-organisation burdens (often as volunteers)
    • [ ] picture
    • [ ] links
    • [ ] questions
    • [ ] ideas
11. Healthy Communities: Accessibility and Localisation
    • [ ] overview
      • witnessing the harms and injustices of unequal access especially in terms of language, ability, or neurodiversity
      • discussing universal design and disability awareness, localisation, progress in the Global South
    • [ ] picture
    • [ ] links
    • [ ] questions
    • [ ] ideas
12. Healthy Communities: Recognition Beyond Authorship And Bibliometrics
    • [ ] overview
      • discussing recognition beyond authorship and areas like COPE, CRediT ...
      • Research Infrastructure Roles!!!
    • [ ] picture
    • [ ] links
    • [ ] questions
    • [ ] ideas
13. Healthy Communities: Public Science and Scientific Publics
    • [ ] overview
      • parsing relationships between public(s!) and science, especially in fraught areas like climate science, public health ...
      • appreciating citizen science, science in journalistic and cultural portrayals
    • [ ] picture
    • [ ] links
    • [ ] questions
    • [ ] ideas
14. Healthy Communities: Stories from The Turing Way and Elsewhere
    • [ ] overview
      • celebrating The Turing Way!!! And other orgs!!!!
    • [ ] picture
    • [ ] links
    • [ ] questions
    • [ ] ideas

Who can help?

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Updates

[EKaroune]

OMG - what a great idea but what alot of work! We probably have some of this already as training courses that you could reuse.

We have:

• Open communications - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10050030
• Open, reproducible and fair research - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7684733

We also have several versions of github training that include version control, open licenses, open source working, etc

• effective collaboration - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7181240
• opne source - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12802974