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Kirstie Whitaker CA Office of Data and Innovation Community of Practice October 2025 Pronouns: she/her/hers GitHub: KirstieJane LinkedIn: KirstieWhitaker, BIDS BlueSky: KirstieJane, ucbids Slides, CC-BY: 10.5281/zenodo.17352972 Inspiring Culture Change through The Turing Way
● Executive director Berkeley Institute for Data Science (2025) ● Research Programme Director, Alan Turing Institute (2020-2024) ● Research Fellow, Alan Turing Institute (2017-2020) ● Mozilla Open Science Fellow (2016-2017) ● PostDoc in Psychiatry, University of Cambridge (2012-2016) ● PhD Neuroscience, UC Berkeley (2012) ● MSc Medical Physics, University of British Columbia (2007) ● BSc Physics, University of Bristol (2004) 10.5281/zenodo.17352972
10.5281/zenodo.17352972 https://book.the-turing-way.org https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way The Turing Way is an open source book project that involves and supports a diverse research community in ensuring that reproducible and ethical data science is accessible and comprehensible for everyone. “”
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10.5281/zenodo.17352972https://www.turing.ac.uk/about-us/impact/asg Personal experience of: ● File drawer effect ● Lack of reproducibility ● Imposter syndrome around coding ● Lonely ● Wasted time ● Hypocrisy of academia
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10.5281/zenodo.17352972https://benbyfax.substack.com/p/aliveness Let’s find ✨meaning✨ in creating things together
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10.5281/zenodo.17352972 UNESCO, Understanding open science, 2022. https://doi.org/10.54677/UTCD9302 “Opening science involves opening up the processes of creating, evaluating, sharing, exploring and storing scientific knowledge, practices and perspectives.” “All scientific disciplines and aspects of scholarly practices, including basic and applied sciences, natural and social sciences and the humanities, are included.”
