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Now you need to think about your next steps in Open Science. Write what Open Science actions you will take in one week, one month, and one year in the forum. Then copy and paste them into FutureMe to receive an email in a year, will you have achieved your goals?
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In one week I will:
Have a meeting with two other research support colleagues, in which we will overhaul our current RDM training, adapting it to reflect some of the new information I have gained from this course
In one month I will:
Have taught this new training at least once, and gathered feedback from attendees
In one year I will:
Assess and reflect on the impact of the changes to this training, and adapt it as necessary
It isn't much, but I don't have much else I could do in my position in the next year!
One week:
Tell my team I desire the publication of our meta-analysis to follow some of the Open Science procedures I learnt about on this course
One month:
Have decided which aspects of the Open Science process I plan to apply to the project
One year:
Have published the meta-analysis using the planned Open Science processes!
Very excited to get this on the go!
In one week I will: email my secondary school about possibly giving a lecture on how to go into a career in science and why researchers and open science is important.
In one month I will: Hopefully have my paper up to snuff enough to preprint it on Bio-arXiv!
In one year I will: have been to conferences where I discuss my open science plans for my data, and hopefully done one or two more Outreach programs.
In one week, I will have discussed the importance of open science with my research group and potential ways to carry it out.
In one month, I will have decided what aspects of open science I could effectively implement
In one year, I will have published some data on an open science database
Week : Talk in the lab about labfolder
Month: Discuss about Preprint Publication
Year: Talk about Metadata and how to openly access FAIR data
Open Science actions I will take in...
One week:
As a new graduate student, I will work on my first pre-print focused on suicide prevention in my hometown in Panama, Central America. I will also discuss Open Science and Scicommunication methods with my advisor.
One month:
I plan on developing the first community outreach activity.
One year:
I hope in one year I am working in Scicommunication and community empowerment in the US and Panama around my research topic: factors associated with suicide in American and Panamanian Youth.
In one week I will:
- Join the Pint of Science organising committee for Public Engagement
- Talk to my supervisor re: opening up my data under my funding body's regulations
In one month I will:
- Appear on CBBC sharing my lab's research on fat
- Present my research to local Fellows and Graduates across disciplines ranging from English to Geology to Law
- Begin a new study in collaboration with the Genome Institute of Singapore
In one year I will:
- Publish a preprint in bioRxiv
- Present my research in poster format at a national BHF conference
- Present my research as a 30 minute presentation to an audience of cardiovascular researchers at a local meeting
In a week: I will review everything seen in this course
In a month: I will send a newsletter to the researchers of the workplace with tools and tutorials so that they know better Open Science and can implement it in their work
In one year: I will manage an institutional repository with all Open Science publications
One Week:
In the next week, I will use some of the things that I learned in last week's Patient engagement module to help write a grant for a PPI initiative.
One Month:
I will continue to apply the data management principles to my research.
One Year:
I will engage with more open science publications and maybe try to publish something through them myself.
In the next week I will be visiting a large well establised university in Ireland which I will among other things to to them about Open science and what they are doing. I will bring this knowledge back to my Department of Research and Innovation and communicate further within my university.
Within a month I will help our researchers to explore how open science can be built into the research funding proposals that they will be submitting in the next months.
Within a year I will ensure that we have an open science information day to spread knowledge and information.
In one week, I will explain the importance of open science to the MSc student working with me for her project.
In one month, I will explain my peers what I learnt about open science in this course.
In one year, I will attempt to give an open access to some of my research data.
The first I want to learn about open software (RStudio, Python...) to analyse my own data. After that, I'd like to publish my first open paper.
Week: Actually not much...
Month: I will think about a plan if it's possible to implement open science concepts in my research.
Year: Send a manuscript to Biorxiv (also depends on my boss).
My next steps in Open Science:
One week (about my first registered report):
To finish the phase 1 of a registered report that I recently started and delivered it to an Open Science Journal.
Organize all the contents of my registered report and make them open too (details as figures, graphs, programming code, methodologies, so on)
One month:
To finish the first round of experiments related to the current registered report that we are writing..
Having completed the phase 1 the of a second registered report corresponding to the Phd that I am currently developing.
Define strategies to disseminate our work in the university community with the intention of involving other possible participants in the development of activities related to generation of products corresponding to our present work.
Choosing at least one workshop or congress, aligned with Open Science, in which to present our work.
One year:
Having completed my Phd and having achieved three publications and having published everything related to the three publications under the open science approach, understanding that this must have contemplated the different products associated (data, programming code, methodologies, documentation, videos, diagrams and any other product, that could emerge in the time to come)
Have participated in at least in two community activities that allow us to spread the work we are doing.
In week 1, I will re-visit each of the modules, to refresh my memory and learning!
In month 1, I will feed back to my team and share my learning.
In year 1, I will incorporate some of what I have learned into training sessions for our researchers and into my monthly updates....encouraging and supporting them to embrace Open Science!
Next week:
Be happy for having achieved this Open Science course and learned a lot :)
Next month:
To consider re-writing a co-creation grant application aiming to open "life of scientists" to society in the context of SciDF, a scientific organization that aims to Open Science.
Next year:
-I aim to execute this project mentioned above and get actively involved in open science initiatives.
- Upload my next publications as pre-prints/ in open access repositories.
In 1 week: I have arranged to meet my supervisors to discuss taking the lead and next steps for publishing my recent research.
In 1 month: My submitted abstract will hopefully be accepted and I will be presenting my research at the INDI research symposium in January 2020.
In 1 year: I will have presented my research at the ICO-ECO 2020 Obesity conference.
I think I'll go with small and acheivable steps here! I hope to do more than this, but I'm going to committ to:
one week: I will present an open science concept paper at journal club
one month: I will use the DMP tool to prepare my data management plan properly.
one year: I will upload all my publications to an open data repository
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