Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Wrote a blog post to announce the travel awards #50

Open
wants to merge 2 commits into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Wrote a blog post to announce the travel awards #50

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
c472ff3
First stab at a blog post for the travel awards.
gaurav Sep 19, 2019
0bab70c
Improved blog post.
gaurav Sep 20, 2019
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions _posts/2019-09-19-travel-awards-fall-2019-and-spring-2020.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
---
layout: posts
title: "Travel Awards for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020"
date: 2019-09-19
excerpt: "We announce the winners of the Travel Awards for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020."
---

We are pleased to announce that Hao Ye, Simona Picardi and Sergio Marconi were awarded [travel awards](/awards/) for fall 2019 and spring 2019. Congratulations to all three of them!

Hao used his travel funds to attend the [2019 eLife Innovation Sprint](https://sprint.elifesciences.org/). He reports:

> I traveled to Cambridge, UK to participate in the 2019 eLife Innovation Sprint. eLife (the scientific journal/publisher) hosts this annual event to support and promote work on prototypes to improve scientific publishing, open access, etc.I worked as part of the "Equitable Preprints" team, whose goal was to improve visibility and equitability of preprints. Although preprints lower the barrier for scientists to share their work with the world, the social structures that filter and disseminate preprints still embody the same inequities of the peer-reviewed literature (e.g. reputation and prestige, social networks, geopolitical and gender biases). The prototype, [Hidden Preprints](https://hiddenpreprints.org), uses the Rxivist dataset to identify bioRxiv preprints in each bioRxiv category with low initial view counts.
>
> My travel to the sprint enabled me to meet and interact with a diverse range of people working in open science/open access across different domains and geographical regions. In addition to making valuable connections, I also had the opportunity to work on a project that is of both personal and professional interest to me. We are planning to continue updating and refining the tool, as well as publicize the issue of preprint equitability in various forms and places, which will document my contributions (for academic credit).
>
> The UF Carpentries Club, like the parent organization of The Carpentries, values inclusion and accessibility in its mission of teaching computational skills to researchers. Both the perspective of the organization, and the ways in which it is implemented (e.g. pedagogy that promotes empathy for users) were useful to me in participating in the sprint. My experiences on the board of the UF Carpentries Club also helped to prepare me for working with a diverse group to design and develop a working prototype in a limited time.

We would like to thank all applicants for their support -- please do apply again next year!