Bay Area Open Science Group 2023-24 ReflectionAuthors: Sam Teplitzky (0000-0001-7071-332X), Ariel Deardorff (0000-0001-8930-6089), Kristen Greenland (0000-0002-7491-5372)
Date: June 2024
The Bay Area Open Science Group (BAOSG) is a collaborative community for San Francisco Bay Area academics and researchers interested in incorporating open science into their research, teaching, and learning. In June we completed our third year of programming, offering 8 sessions to our community members in the 2023-24 academic year with an average attendance of 18 people per session. This summary reflects on the themes and lessons that emerged from this year’s conversations and serves as a model for other growing communities of practice in open science.
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Title |
Date |
Presenter |
Summary |
Attendees |
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Journal club: Teaching open and reproducible scholarship |
9/26/2023 |
BAOSG Co-convenors |
Discussion of the paper “Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes” |
16 |
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Building your Open Science Career |
10/24/2023 |
Hao Ye, Community for Rigor, U of Pennsylvania and Virginia Scarlett, HHMI Janelia |
Panel discussion on job searching and career pathways in open science. |
16 |
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UCSF Industry Documents Library |
11/28/2023 |
Kate Tasker and Rebecca Tang, UCSF Industry Documents Library |
Discussion of the UCSF Industry Documents Library, a free online archive of corporate documents affecting public health, and its use in research, litigation, journalism, and policymaking. |
14 |
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Citizen Science for health research |
1/23/2024 |
Shamsi Soltani, Stanford |
Use of citizen scientist-collected data from Bay Area communities along with aggregate epidemiologic and population-level data sets to illustrate barriers to, and facilitators of, physical activity in low-income aging adults. |
22 |
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Reproducibility in the UCSF Decision Lab |
2/27/2024 |
Winston Chiong, Clara Sanches, Pongpat Putthinun, and Brandon Leggins, UCSF Decision Lab |
Incorporating reproducibility into neuroethics and decision neuroscience research, showcasing practices and values from their lab handbook. |
15 |
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SCOAP3 10th Anniversary |
3/19/2024 |
Kamran Naim and Anne Gentil-Beccot - CERN |
10th anniversary of the SCOAP3 model (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), accomplishments and plans for the future, and highlighted data from participating US institutions. |
29 |
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Supporting an Open Source Software Journal: Strategies for Effective Editing and Engagement |
4/23/2024 |
Kelly Rowland, NERSC/LBNL |
Experience as editor for JOSS, a journal dedicated to publishing articles about open source research software across domains. |
22 |
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Will teamwork make the dream work? Promoting open science practices via big team science |
5/28/2024 |
Nicholas Coles and Heidi Baumgartner, Stanford |
Discussion of the Stanford Big Team Science Lab (BiTS) and how to promote open science practices through large-scale collaboration. |
13 |
Here are the key themes that emerged from our collaborative meeting notes and discussions:
This year we heard from several researchers and teams advancing open science in their work. The UCSF Decision Lab emphasizes reproducibility through their onboarding and authorship practices, as well as clear documentation and code sharing. Nicholas and Heidi from Stanford shared how open science practices are baked into their big Team Science projects through the use of data sharing, collaboration agreements, and registered reports. They also emphasized the importance of documentation, transparency, addressing disagreements, and even sparking adversarial collaboration within team science projects. Shamsi from Stanford described how collaborating with members of the public on her mapping research made her projects more open and accessible. Finally, Kelly discussed how the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) uses transparent editorial workflows and open publishing to document key research software packages.
Hao and Virginia shared their paths from academia to careers in open science, highlighting the importance of networking and looking for opportunities that align with personal values. For folks interested in this path they recommended looking into careers in open data, data management, grant writing, and research evaluation. Tips were compiled and co-edited in a shared doc available at: http://ucberk.li/open-science-careers. Nicholas from Stanford also shared that in his most recent faculty job search his interviewers had been excited to talk about his open science work and that he felt it was as valued as research contributions.
We also heard about the power of large scale initiatives to promote open science. The team behind SCOAP3 discussed how their partnership of 3000+ libraries redirects subscription funds to support open access publishing. SCOAP3 has funded 62,000 articles in its first 10 years, and is now expanding into an open science ecosystem by incorporating transparent peer review, dataset linking, and motivating publishers with assessment metrics based on their open practices. At UCSF, the Industry Documents Library (a large archive consisting of 18 million documents, primarily from the tobacco and opioid industries,) has become a treasure trove of well-curated data that has been used in court cases and led to initiatives such as the US Family Smoking and Tobacco Control Act.
We successfully hosted 8 events this academic year with an average attendance of 18 attendees. Most sessions featured active participation in Zoom chat, a lively discussion, and to a lesser extent participation in our running collaborative notes doc and asynchronously through Slack.
If you are interested in presenting at a future meeting, or know of an open science advocate who you would like to nominate (especially if they are early career) please contact us.
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