Understanding The "Reproducibility Crisis" And Funding Opportunities For ECRs

This month's Ask Me Anything focuses on computational/analytical aspect of the "reproducibility crisis" in the sciences.

Dr Mohammad Akhlaghi from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will present the output of an RDA activity that concerns designing reproducible workflows by tracking provenance from linking research outputs to code. He will provide instructions on how to automatically do a full research project: download the inputs (necessary software and data), do the analysis (run the software on the data) and produce the narrative PDF (for example published paper providing context and qualitative analysis with figures, the project contains the LaTeX source of the PDF).

As part of the RDA grant Mohammad and his colleagues have funding to invite several researchers from outside of astronomy/astrophysics (academia or industry) to the IAC (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) for a week to help in adopting this template for their research (all costs will be covered).  Mohammad will discuss the funding opportunities for Early Career Researchers who would be willing to adopt this RDA output.

Short bio

Mohammad Akhlaghi[1] is a Big Data Astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)[3], Spain. He is the founder of a reproducible paper template project that was awarded an RDA-Europe adoption grant[2] (2019), and is also the founder of GNU Astronomy Utilities[4] (a collection of free software programs and libraries for astronomical data analysis). He received his PhD in astronomy from Tohoku University (Japan) and prior to coming to the IAC was CNRS postdoctoral fellow in Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL, France).

[1] https://akhlaghi.org

[2] https://www.iac.es/en

[3] https://www.rd-alliance.org/blogs/adoption-grant-introductions-template-reproducible-shareable-and-archivable-data-analysis.html

[4] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro

Register to join here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/november-ama-call-understanding-the-reproducibility-crisis-and-funding-opportunities-for-ecrs-tickets-81869408605

Please connect here: https://iu.zoom.us/j/6703697984 

Click  here to find out the time of the event in your time zone.