03 Cohort Call Digest [ CSS ]

[erinmr]

Hi @Openscapes/css-cohort ,

Thanks for another great session last Friday. Below is a light digest of Call 3, where the focus was on future us - data, coding and team culture.

It is hard to believe that we are coming to our final call on Friday, June 18. We know that this 2 month session is a short learning period and we liken it to finding your trailhead. Your task for our next session is to prepare to share your pathway with the cohort on this call. Each team will have about 3 minutes to present and 2 minutes for questions. We are looking forward to hearing how your thinking has evolved and where your team is planning to go.

If you have questions/comments/concerns feel free to reach out to us through Slack or in an issue on Github or email either of us.

Thank you so much for your dedication and work!

Cheers,

Julie and Erin

Digest: [ CSS ] Cohort Call 3

Archive folder containing video recordings and agendas

Goals: We discussed data, coding, and team culture strategies for future us

Your tasks for next time

1. Have a Seaside Chat with your broader research group
2. Discuss 2 short slide decks: Team Culture & Code of Conduct
   1. Consider adopting (or creating) a CoC for your research group, posting publicly (on your website, on GitHub)
3. Complete your Pathway
   2. Pathways spreadsheet
   3. Share in PathwayShare Folder before June 18
4. Prepare 3-min presentation on June 18 (3 min present + 2 min questions)
   4. Communicate what you’ve identified as some next steps for team practices, connect more with our Cohort
   5. Can talk/walk through your pathway, make slides, whatever helps you \

Slide Decks:

• Metadata (slides) – Jessica Couture
  • Our “data strategies” slides differed between cohorts. Julie presented ‘Data strategies for Future Us’ (slides) to the CSU-COAST cohort and they are worth checking out too.
• Coding Strategies for Future Us (slides)
• Psychological safety (slides)

A few lines from the Agenda doc:

• Seaside chats seem like they are going well! AND building confidence with Github. Here are just a few of the awesome items from this part of the doc.
  • Pretty good. We introduced the ideas around Openscapes and got everyone on Github and on a repository so that we can practice opening issues and troubleshooting problems. I feel a bit unprepared to go much further.
  • It was great to learn together. We got to laugh, which is always best
  • It was good! We talked about how we can expand our seaside chats to a larger group on campus. Thinking about potentially forming a tidytuesday group where we can all come together, talk about code, do some pair programming, and have fun!
  • I learned how to push my local code to share with my collaborators and use commits to keep changes and updates organized. Feeling much more confident about Github this week than I did last meeting!
• The Metadata talk from Dr. Jessica Couture shed light on the importance of data documentation
  • Afraid we’re missing a lot of information because there's not a place for it. Traditional ecological knowledge. Missing so much bc through stories
  • Unwritten “secrets” of the data that isn’t explicit in the metadata or data
    • +1000
• Coding Strategies highlighted many RStudio users :-)
  • In awe of how incredibly helpful this is and how this is not a conversation I’ve ever had with all the groups I’m in. I’ve heard metadata mentioned before but this is like a first day of orientation kind of thing.
• Psychological Safety Tips:
  • Make a habit of including early career people in discussions all along the way so that they feel more like equals so that they feel more comfortable speaking up when things are high stakes
  • Normalizing failure, highlighting when you’ve done something wrong
  • Really important about the culture of a research group. Things don’t get done if the teams don’t work well (YES!!!)
  • Hearing from people “higher up in the hierarchy” that they are learning from their students and willing and able to learn from me
• A few links and notes from the share out section:
  • Frances Frei: How to build (and rebuild) trust - TED talk
  • Turing Way
    • https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome