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:::{profile} Mahwish Mohammad
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roles: |
    Book Dash Participant (2022)
github: Rainiefantasy
bio: |
    I am a Data Wrangler based at The Alan Turing Institute.
highlights: |
    It's been a wonderful experience contributing to The Turing Way while meeting inspiring people from diverse backgrounds along the way.
    I really enjoyed the opportunity to work closely with my colleague Rachael Stickland to reflect and encapsulate our image of a 'Data Wrangler' in our own [Data Wranglers Overview](https://book.the-turing-way.org/collaboration/research-infrastructure-roles/data-wrangler.html) sub-chapter.
    These Book Dashes are a great way to encourage open collaboration, sharing ideas and working on helpful tools to make things such as open science and reproducibility more practical and friendlier for the wider community.
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:::{profile} Malvika Sharan
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roles: |
    Steering Committee Member;
    Data Science Without Border Representative (2024-2025);
    Co-lead Investigator, Project Delivery Team member (2021-2025);
    Book Dash Organiser: 2020-2023
github: malvikasharan
orcid: 0000-0001-6619-7369
bio: |
    I am a co-lead of The Turing Way, which is part of my responsibility as a TPS Senior Researcher. I also lead a team of Research Community Managers at the Turing.
    I was previously a community manager (2019-2021).
    I co-founded the [OLS (previously Open Life Science)](https://openlifesci.org/) training and mentoring program in 2019 to help enhance access to Open Leadership tools for individuals interested in building communities around their open projects.
    I am a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute. I have several current and previous advisory appointments across different open science initiatives including NASA-TOPS, Code for Science and Society, The Carpentries, Society of RSE, Open Bioinformatics Foundation and MetaDocencia.
highlights: |
    I love working with the open science community. Over the years, I have worked to establish *The Turing Way* as a place to convene, build cross-community collaborations and highlight practices and resources from different sectors through the work of our community members.
    Through my research, community engagements, talks, panels and workshops, I like to interact with members across different research domains, whom I otherwise will never get a chance to meet.
    Besides connecting with members from diverse perspectives, my highlights in _The Turing Way_ are establishing collaborative spaces including Book Dash, Fireside Chat and Coworking Calls.
    Among many chapters I have written across different guides, I am very proud of setting our [Community Handbook](#ch) and co-developing resources on community governance, acknowledgement processes and various community opportunities.
    I enjoy designing training and skill building opportunities alongside *The Turing Way* book to enable their adoption by individuals and organisations effectively.
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:::{profile} Margaret Wanjiku
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roles: |
    Book Dash Participant (2021)
github: Megmugure
orcid: 0000-0003-2275-2134
bio: |
    Margaret graduated with an MSc in bioinformatics in July 2021. She is a project lead at the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya Initiative (BHKi), a training and networking platform for aspiring and established bioinformaticians. Its goal is to empower researchers with skills and tools in open science and bioinformatics. In addition to capacity development, she is also interested in genomics and big data analysis. Margaret dabbles in writing stories too!
highlights: |
    This was my first time contributing to TTW! I enjoyed listening to and reading what fellow participants were working on as I made my contribution. I learnt more about GitHub and research data management as I conducted my research.
more: |
    I look forward to making more contributions to TTW soon, including but not limited to updating the documentation and metadata subsection.
quote: |
    Creativity is intelligence having fun!
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:::{profile} María Nanton
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roles: |
    Book Dash Participant (2021)
github: mcnanton
orcid: 0000-0003-0426-2879
bio: |
    I'm a Data Analyst with a social communications background experienced in data analysis, reporting, and dashboarding in marketing, social and health data. I'm currently a Data Analyst at the Health Information and Statistics Office, part of the Ministry of Health of the Buenos Aires City Government. I'm also a TA at the University of Buenos Aires, a RLadies Buenos Aires organizer, and a social data analytics and data visualization instructor at EANT.
highlights: |
    It was great to work on chapter 3 of the Guide of Communications and also manage to solve some Issues and review simple PRs related to other chapters along the way.
quote: |
    This was my first Book Dash and I can't imagine a better environment to do some serious, challenging, and fun collaborative work. I'm immensely grateful to everyone I encountered this week, and I can't wait to share the tools I've learned with coworkers and members of data and research communities in Argentina.
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:::{profile} Mariana Vivas
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roles: |
    Book Dash Participant (2021)
github: marianaiv
bio: |
    I'm an undergrad physics student at the Central University of Venezuela. Working on my thesis and trying to make it reproducible.
highlights: |
    Working on the introductory chapter for the Project Design Guide was incredible. I really enjoyed collaborating with Malvika in writing it.  I'm also very happy to have an illustration made specifically for the chapter.
quote: |
    This Book Dash was my first time doing collaborative work. I enjoyed meeting everyone - such a welcoming environment, I really appreciate it! I enjoyed collaborating with a chapter for The Turing Way, and couldn't be happier!
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:::{profile} Marta Mangiarulo
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roles: |
    Book Dash Participant/Helper (2020-2021)
github: Marta-MM
orcid: 0000-0001-7995-3717
bio: |
    I am a teaching fellow/Research Assistant in the School of Psychology at the University of Leicester. Before moving to the UK, I earned an MSc in Social Psychology and a PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences. I am interested in reasoning, judgment, and decision-making topics and passionate about scientific communication and outreach.
highlights: |
    In the **November 2020 book dash**, I used GitHub for the first time! I helped fix some small bugs (grammar and syntax, typos, formatting) and, I proposed two chapters on data visualisation and on study pre-registration.
    I started familiarising myself with the GitHub environment and learned how to collaborate through it to provide valuable contributions to the project. My work during these 5 days has mostly been individual, but I would love to collaborate with others to work on the two chapters I suggested!
    In the **May 2021 book dash**, I was very happy to start where I had left off in the previous book dash. I believe I made small but relevant contributions and I have a clear idea of where I would like to go next which is much more than what I was hoping for!
    In the **November 2021 Book Dash** (my third one!), I was invited to lead a discussion on data visualisation, which sparked a very interesting conversation. I also started a dedicated section in the book and I am looking forward to developing it!
    On November 25th, I will talk about my experience with The Turing Way during one of the Leicester [ReproducibiliTEA](https://reproducibilitea.org/) meetings!
more: |
    I am passionate about science communication and research dissemination and interested in replicability, open science issues, and the interface between cognitive and social aspects in social psychology topics like intergroup relations and impression formation. At the moment I am particularly fascinated by data visualisation and infographics.
quote: |
    I loved taking part in the book dash, it is such a rewarding experience above and beyond its material outputs.
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:::{profile} Martin O'Reilly
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roles: |
    Project Delivery Team Member (2019)
github: martintoreilly
bio: |
    I'm a Principal Research Software Engineer and Deputy Head of the Research Engineering Group at the Alan Turing Institute.
    My focus is on using good software engineering practices to increase the impact of research software by making it reusable, reliable and robust
    I also have a strong interest in reproducible research and am working to improve the tools and working practices at the Turing to make it easier for our researchers to work reproducibly
    I've moved back and forth between industry and academia over the years, gaining an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience along the way.
more: |
    I feel strongly that researchers have a responsibility to ensure that the outcomes of their research are made available to all - researchers, practitioners and the public.
    These outcomes should be made available in a way that allows others not just to reproduce them, but also to reuse and build upon them.
    An awful lot of researcher and practitioner time is spent getting to the point where they can usefully evaluate whether some research is of use to them, or in re-discovering unpublished negative results.
    This seems extremely wasteful and I'm convinced we can and should do better.
    In particular, I feel a lot can be done to improve the effective reuse of data produced by research projects.
    While there has been significant progress in recent years in the amount of data published alongside research articles, there is still a wide gulf between open data and reusable data.
    In terms of research areas, I'm fascinated by the brain and especially the approach of understanding the brain by "faking it" (through modelling and simulation).
    I'm particularly interested in robots as a way of embodying these models in the real world.
    I believe the Turing Way can impact positively in both these areas.
    By providing recommended working practices and guidance on associated tooling, we can make it easy for researchers to do the right thing.
    By publishing this with the weight of the Turing brand, we can apply social pressure for the adoption of these practices as new norms in the research communities we operate.
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:::{profile} Martina G. Vilas
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roles: |
    Core Member, Infrastructure Maintainer (2020-2021);
    Book Dash Participant/Mentor (2020)
github: martinagvilas
orcid: 0000-0002-1097-8534
bio: |
    I'm currently finishing my PhD in Neuroscience at the Max-Planck-Institute AE in Frankfurt, Germany.
    I study how the brain processes conceptual knowledge by analyzing neural recordings with computational modelling techniques.
    As an advocate of open research, I also work on improving the reproducibility of neuroscientific analyses and enjoy contributing to open-source software projects.
highlights: |
    Since the Book Dash in February 2020, I have helped with the maintenance of The Turing Way infrastructure and its reliance on Jupyter Book. The Turing Way is not only a great guide for conducting reproducible research, but it also provides a wonderful entry point into open-source contribution in general and connects you to a variety of open data science communities.
    I'm also a mentor at the [OLS-2](https://openlifesci.org/ols-2) program and I have also worked with the [pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/) core contributors in guiding people from underrepresented groups in technology on making their first open-source contribution.
    I have co-led and developed the tutorial on [Creating a Jupyter Book with The Turing Way](https://cfp.jupytercon.com/2020/schedule/presentation/225/creating-a-jupyter-book-with-the-turing-way/) ([Github repo](https://github.com/martinagvilas/tutorial-jupyterbook-with-turing-way)).
    During the Book Dash (November 2020), I worked with \@BatoolMM on the upgrade of the Jupyter Book that allows for annotation (PR #1516). I facilitated mentored contributions _(in Spanish as well 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 )_
    I also gave a talk about The Turing Way and computational reproducibility at the [Brainhack Donostia 2020](https://brainhack-donostia.github.io/) (slides [here](https://zenodo.org/record/4269795#.X7glTlNKitg))
more: |
    More information about me can be read on my [website](https://martinagvilas.github.io/).
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:::{profile} Mateusz Kuzak
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roles: |
    eScience Center Representative (2020-2021);
    Book Dash Participant/Helper (2020)
github: mkuzak
orcid: 0000-0003-0087-6021
bio: |
    Mateusz obtained his master's degree in Biotechnology with a specialization in Biophysics, at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. In September 2019 Mateusz joined the Netherlands eScience Center in the role of Community Officer with a focus on communities and training around Research Software Engineering, software best practices and sustainability, and the role of software in open science and reproducible research. Since 2015, Mateusz has been involved in the Carpentries community, first as an instructor, later contributor, mentor, Executive Council member and instructor trainer. He is also leading the Dutch chapter of the Carpentries and is on the core team of the nl-RSE community.
highlights: |
    I have personally contributed to _The Turing Way_ by drafting chapters in the guide for Reproducible Research, reviewing other contributors' Pull Requests and mentoring contributions from the Netherlands eScience Center.
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:::{profile} Maya Anderson Gonzalez
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roles: |
    Book Dash May 2023 participant
github: MayaAndersonGonzalez
orcid: 0000-0002-6275-6626
bio: |
    I am currently an independent social sciences and humanities researcher working on community building in Open Research through narrative practices, in favour of greater diversity, inclusion, and citizen participation in open science on the fringe of academia.
highlights: |
    I worked on the Data Feminism chapter with \@gigikenneth at the May 2023 Book Dash.
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:::{profile} Mishka Nemes
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roles: |
    Book Dash participant (2024);
    Book Dash Organising Committee member (June 2024);
    GitHub upskilling co-facilitator June 2024
github: mishkanemes
bio: |
    I am a researcher working at the intersection of AI & Skills, developing products, programmes and opportunities for folks to learn about AI. I am interested in open science and responsible AI, as well as community building.
highlights: |
    I enjoyed my first book dash as I wore many hats and I could experience it both backend and frontend, so to speak! Whilst we are on track with achieving some set goals around development of new resources for AI educators, I also learnt how to run such collaborative sprints and I feel the knowledge gained from latter is particularly useful as it can be replicated.
quote: |
    I particularly cherished the opportunity to peripherally learn what other contributors are up to and to continuously identify opportunities to synergise and collaborate, whilst also having a dedicated space for quiet co-working. And who knew how difficult is to define openness?! Maybe many folks here, I just started asking more questions as I delve deeper, and it's a fun and challenging process.
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