Infusing-a-culture-of-open-science-within-the-community-of-researchers-at-the-Zuckerman-Institute

[ChiaraBertipaglia]

Project Lead: @ChiaraBertipaglia

Mentor: @mkuzak

Welcome to OLS-1! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program 🎉.

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Before Week 1 (Jan 20): Meet your mentor!

• Create an account on GitHub

• Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it to your mentor

  If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.

• Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

Before Week 2 (Jan 27): Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Create an issue on the OLS-1 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.

• Draft a brief vision statement using your goals

  This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful

• Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call

• Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

Before Week 3 (Feb 3): Meet your mentor!

• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
• Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
• Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
• Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
• Start your Roadmap
• Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
• Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1

Before Week 4 (Feb 10): Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

Week 5 and more

• Create a GitHub repository for your project
• Add the link to your repository in your issue
• Use your canvas to start writing a README.md file, or landing page, for your project
• Link to your README in a comment on this issue
• Add an open license to your repository as a file called LICENSE.md
• Add a Code of Conduct to your repository as a file called CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Invite new contributors to into your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-1 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

[ChiaraBertipaglia]

I am working with my mentor Mateusz Kusak and my Open Life Science cohort to create a document outlining the strategy to infuse a culture of open science within Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, so that its community of neuroscientists can thrive in a healthier, truly collaborative environment of openness and transparency that can lead to transformative science.
Link to my repository https://github.com/ChiaraBertipaglia/Infusing-a-culture-of-open-science-within-the-community-of-researchers-at-the-Zuck

[ChiaraBertipaglia]

Link to my open Canvas https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B94Nrr0puJvBnHZ9HQ95SYB9RdJdFnqTiActHJvPX8Q/edit?usp=sharing

[ChiaraBertipaglia]

Roadmap draft

Project title
Infusing a culture of open science within the community of researchers at the Zuckerman Institute

Vision Statement
I am working with my mentor Mateusz Kusak and my Open Life Science cohort to create a document outlining the strategy to infuse a culture of open science within Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute so that its community of neuroscientists can thrive in a healthier, truly collaborative environment of openness and transparency that can lead to transformative science.

Project output
Written document that outlines the open leadership strategy for infusing a a culture of open science within the community of researchers at the Zuckerman Institute (ZI).
Committed: by the end of this OLS program I will have developed a solid plan for the following milestones.
Stretched: by the end of this OLS program, milestone 1 will be complete and the survey will be ready to be circulated.

Milestone 1
Assessing the ZI climate: where we are, what we need and where we want to go with our open science practices and policies
Tasks
a) Find a good example of climate assessment survey about open science that might already exist:
-- ask Mateusz to connect me with Maria Cruz
-- retrieve old survey sent by eLife, although that was very preprints-centered
b) Draft survey. Aspect to survey:
-- inclination to deposit code/software openly
-- inclination to deposit datasets in open repositories
-- inclination to publish own manuscripts as preprints
-- consideration of other people’s preprints (do you red/cite/review them?)
-- inclination to publish own peer-reviewed manuscripts as open access
c) Socialize survey among the OLS cohort before survey is ready to be spread
d) In parallel: identify community members who are skeptical about preprints and/or open code and interview them. Have ~10 1:1 conversations to
-- to learn their motivations
-- to ask them how the ZI could further support them

Milestone 2
Identifying and engaging critical stakeholders among the ZI community of researchers and leadership who will be involved in this project (open leadership best practices)
Tasks
e) Identify who already publishes preprints and/or code openly and interview them. Have ~10 1:1 conversations
-- to learn what motivates them to adopt open science practices (mix of PIs and postdocs)
-- to ask them how the ZI could further support them
-- to ask them to be community champions for this cause by:
--- being consultants to create programmatic content (both events and communications)
--- helping us advertise events by signing email announcements; introducing events; etc
--- participating in events
f) present the vision for this project and data from c (survey), d and e (1:1 convos) to CEO to make the case for why we need to develop programmatic content around open science, and support in general, as an institute, an open science culture. Goal: obtain CEO’s buy-in, in the form of behavior modeling and funding

Milestone 3
Exploring pathways for open knowledge dissemination and selecting the most suitable one for my organization
Tasks
a) Find good examples of communities that have run engaging programs about open science:
-- ask Mateusz to connect me with Maria Cruz
-- connect more with Elisenda Bonet-Carne [OSCBa (Open Science Community Barcelona)|@bonetcarne], whose project vision is similar to mine
-- consult with community champions about creative ways to engage audiences about open science: move away from the lecture/presentation model and find someone who could lead workshops about several aspects of open science (case studies usually capture the imagination)
-- run a series of workshops

Metrics and Evaluation

• How do we evaluate if the community at ZI has actually embraced a culture of open science? Different individuals may embrace different aspect of openness at different times. To be able to track any behavior change in the form of data/code/manuscripts sharing, we would need to be able to conduct a benchmarking study that has access to the researchers’ data/code/manuscripts before and after this project
• ask other open science "practitioners" about how they measure culture change

[cassgvp]

Link to my open Canvas https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B94Nrr0puJvBnHZ9HQ95SYB9RdJdFnqTiActHJvPX8Q/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you for doing your canvas homework so quickly! I took some excellent inspiration for #15 😊. Look forward to working together with you on these projects where we can!

[bonetcarne]

It was really nice to meet you next week during the group call. I think our projects have lots in common, I look forward to share information and tips that will help our projects and the other community projects that @cassgvp #15 has spotted.
Here #16 . :)

[Karvovskaya]

Hi @ChiaraBertipaglia ! I think our projects have a lot in common, same as #4, #15 and #16 :-) I am very interested in the survey you are planning to use. I also need to develop something that I could use as a baseline. Lou Woodley has actually recommended me to contact you during our "virtual coffee"; I guess there is some similarity in our community management goals. I would love to talk more about your work

[SamGuay]

I thought it would be easier for you to keep track of comments from your official repo than here.

ps: I ❤️ the phrase Infusing a culture of OS.

[ChiaraBertipaglia]

Hi @Karvovskaya and @SamGuay (and #4 #6 #11 #15 #16 if you're interested) I'm moving the discussion on surveys to my official repo
#4 #6 #11 #15 #16

[christinerogers]

ps: I ❤️ the phrase Infusing a culture of OS.

Brilliantly simple! -- I'll take inspiration from this metaphor too @ChiaraBertipaglia
(Thanks @SamGuay for highlighting this)

[ChiaraBertipaglia]

after a lot of thinking and consulting with experts suggested by my mentor, I removed the survey from my roadmap, and replaced it with interviews of samples of community members, aimed at creating persona profiles. You're welcome to take a look at my project development plan and I'd love some feedback! ChiaraBertipaglia/Infusing-a-culture-of-open-science-within-the-community-of-the-Zuckerman-Institute#3

[yochannah]

Hi Project Leads,



This is your project report file:

https://hackmd.io/MXa-QqZKSpWQAmfZVO9WzA?both

Please start working on it for the final presentation. We will send more info in the weekly email.



Best,


OLS team