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CHAOSScastEpisode 86: The Turing Institute: Using AI ethically with the power of Open SourceThank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 86
In this episode of CHAOSScast, co-hosts Alice Sowerby and Dawn Foster welcome guests Aida Mehonic, Malvika Sharan, and Kirstie Whittaker from The Alan Turing Institute. The discussion begins with delving into the Institute's strategic vision, focused on using data science and AI to address global challenges in environment, health, and security. They examine the role of open source contributions in enhancing the ethical, accessible, and impactful uses of AI. The episode highlights various projects, such as The Turing Way, an...2024-06-1344 min
Code for Thought[EN] Happy Birthday - The Turing Way Part 1The Turing Way was created 5 years ago and during the Collaborations Workshop 2024 at the University of Warwick, UK, we had a big birthday party to celebrate the occasion.In this episode, part 1 of 2 episodes on The Turing Way, I sit down with the founder of The Turing Way, Dr Kirstie Whitaker, who is also the Programme Director for Tools, Practices and Systems at the Turing Institute in the UK. You also hear a moment when a new chapter was merged into The Turing Way during this recording, done by Sophia Batchelor. https://book.the-turing-way.or...2024-06-0428 min
Open Science Talk#53 Research Assessment – Navigating Pitfalls and Promoting ChangePodcast version of the closing panel discussion at The 18th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing (Tromsø, Norway, 8–10 November 2023). The panel consisted of champions of research assessment reform (Yensi Flores Bueso, University of Washington / University College Cork; Kirstie Whitaker, The Alan Turing Institute) and university leaders (Hervé Dole, vice-president for arts, culture and society at Université Paris-Saclay; Jan-Gunnar Winther, pro-rector for research and development, UiT The Arctic University of Norway).
More details, including a transcript of the entire episode, can be found at https://doi.org/10.7557/19.7356.2023-12-191h 00
The Turing PodcastCareers in data science with AccentureThe latest episode of the Turing Podcast features a special roundtable discussion with our strategic partner Accenture about career options in the data science sector.
The latest episode of the Turing Podcast features a special roundtable discussion with our strategic partner Accenture about career options in the data science sector. Our hosts Jo Dungate and Bea Costa Gomes were joined by three influential figures in AI and data science - Henrietta Ridley (Data Science Manager at Accenture), Alice Aspinall (Senior Manager at Mudano), and Kirstie Whitaker (the Turing’s Director for the tools, practices and systems programme)....2021-11-2650 min
Physics World Stories PodcastFree and open-source software is driving physics forwards
In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast you will hear from scientists and software engineers at the vanguard of developing free and open-source software for physics research. Guests talk about the role of open software in astronomical imaging, the search for dark matter, medical physics and other fields. Software also plays a big role in the wider open-science movement but there are ongoing debates around how to provide suitable recognition to software developers who have contributed to scientific breakthroughs.
Featuring the following guests:
Kirstie Whitaker, director of the Tools, Practices and Systems research programme...2021-09-2244 min
How do you know?HDYK Episode 3: Remap with Kirstie WhitakerEpisode 3 is the place to be! After a brief hiatus to record a bunch more episodes (we're in post-production, baby!) the HDYK crew is back in the saddle and talking more data, and science, and data science. Stay tuned for much more quality content your dad will love! 2/3 of our dads agree, this is the best interdisciplinary data science podcast they’ve subscribed to!This week, we’re going to talk about open science.How do we ensure scientists are building on each other’s work, sharing data and information equitably, and ma...2021-07-2245 min
ReproducibiliTea PodcastEpisode 5 - Is The Crisis OverblownEpisode 5 - Is the replicability crisis overblown?
This week talked about Pashier & Harris’s (2012) “Is the replicability crisis overblown? Three arguments examined.” http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691612463401
Highlights:
[1:00] Reproducible, replicable, robust, or generalisable? Table taken from Kirstie Whitaker, shared by @RemiGau http://sx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4244996
[2:00] Argument 1: False Positive Rate
[3:00] False Positive Psychology - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797611417632
(which we mention more about in Episode 2)
[4:45] Dorothy Bishop on data simulation - http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2013/06/interpreting-unexpected-significant.html
[7:15] AMPPS paper Amy mentions - The Prior Odds of Testing a True Effect in Cognitive and Social Psychology
http://journals.sagepu...2018-08-1443 min
University of CambridgeExploring The Teenage BrainDr Kirstie Whitaker will take you on a journey "under the hood" to learn how researchers in Cambridge (and around the world) are studying the teenage brain. She will discuss what we can (and can not!) learn from brain scans in understanding this sensitive period of brain development.
Dr Kirstie Whitaker is a postdoctoral researcher in the Brain Mapping Unit of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. She is a 2016/17 Mozilla Fellow for Science and a passionate advocate for reproducible neuroimaging research. Dr Whitaker received her PhD in Neuroscience in 2012 from the University of California at Berkeley...2017-05-0255 min