Our values

[NatalieZelenka]

Some ideas for values you might share:

• [ ] EDI: we want everyone to contribute to science, it will make science stronger: all religions, all countries, neurodiverse, trans people, disabled people, black people and people from all races, religions, countries, and immigration status.
  • [ ] We have a lab code of conduct (which counts on and offline) with obvious reporting structures, and we make sure there is one for all events that we organise.
  • [ ] We won't speak on all male/all white panels.
  • [ ] Our research and teaching embodies these principles (decolonising)
• [ ] Rigour (we do not do bad science). Quality over speed, but knowing when to let go and ship it.
• [ ] Kindness: four social rules.
• [ ] Openness (e.g. Open Source/Open Science)
  • [ ] We work openly, we welcome criticism, we work iteratively.
• [ ] Team work
  • [ ] Co-working
  • [ ] Problem "clinic"
  • [ ] Practice talks
  • [ ] Journal club
• [ ] Valuing all contributions (inside and outside our team, and making sure that our own work is credited, too), and sharing less favoured tasks (i.e. no one person is stuck doing all the sys admin or all the room booking).
• [ ] Freedom/flexibility (i.e. working from home, choice of tools, side projects, fridays free for fun projects)
• [ ] Communication
• [ ] Mental health is important (link to another section). No bullying, harrassment, etc. Take your holidays! Take frequent breaks! Communicate the state of your to-do list and practice keeping boundaries.

We encourage you to set your own values. Long lists are difficult to remember, so we recommend choosing no more than 5 (although they can be umbrella terms).

Pledges:

• [ ] The Zen of Very Good Science
• [ ] In this lab, we believe: https://sammykatta.com/pledge (e.g. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5900d1173a041127105a4e78/t/5ee053844df10d4bc294c40a/1591759748146/LabPoster_vDNA.pdf)

We bake these values into our work wherever we can, we take responsibility for doing this, and we do our best to continue to make improvements.

If you feel a member of the group, an event we have organised, or a project we are commited to, has worked against these values (or continues to), please contact the person directly if you feel comfortable to do so, and if not please contact the line manager of this person. You can find this information in the our team section, everyone's line manager is listed (including the PIs/group leader).

[lauren-cadwallader]

Some other potential commitments to include are:

• PLOS' open science commitments (https://plos.org/commit-to-openness/) - these are not just for those publishing in PLOS journals!
• Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) (https://sfdora.org/read/) - there is a specific section for researchers.
• For those who want to go full open science, this is a template that could be used: https://emckiernan.wordpress.com/pledge/