24 January 2025

Hi subscriber,

We’re so excited to welcome you to the newest edition of the WDS ECR Newsletter for 2025. Thank you for being an avid reader and subscribing to our newsletter. WDS would like to introduce you to events, resources, and job openings for the beginning of 2025.

Scroll to find out important opportunities and calls from the ECR community.

Kind regards,

Meredith P. Goins

WDS Executive Director

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The World Data System’s International Program Office (WDS-IPO) is delighted to announce the appointments of Dr. Yuya Shibuya and Dr. Jing Zhao as the new Co-chairs for the World Data System Early Career Researcher Network (WDS-ECR Network), joining Dr. Claire Rye, the current Co-chair. Their expertise in Earth Observation and Data research will help reinforce the WDS-ECR Network’s vision and goals.

The WDS-ECR Network plays a pivotal role in fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among early-stage researchers from diverse disciplines across the globe. It serves as a platform for networking, sharing experiences, and exploring innovative approaches to data management and research practices.

To learn more about the World Data System Early Career Researcher Network and its current Co-chairs, please visit our website.

Please join us in congratulating our new Co-chairs, Dr. Shibuya and Dr. Zhao! We look forward to their contributions to advancing data-driven research within the ECR community.

WDS extends its gratitude to Maja Dolinar and Dr. Lianchong Zhang for their dedicated service and unwavering support of the Early Career Researcher community. Their contributions have greatly enriched our community, fostering collaboration and support for early career researchers around the globe.

Their efforts have strengthened the network and provided valuable opportunities for engagement and growth. We appreciate all they have contributed and look forward to future collaborations. Both will now join the ECR's advisory board, where they will continue to offer invaluable guidance and mentorship to emerging professionals in the field. WDS wishes you both continued success in your work!

Last chance for input! The call for participation in the RDA/WDS TRUST Principles Outreach & Adoption Working Group (WG) survey is still open. We invite you to take part in this 12-minute research survey to share how and why you use the TRUST Principles. 

Deadline: 31 January 2025

Contact Meredith Goins at mgoins2@utk.edu with any questions.

This webinar will provide an overview of the benefits of participating in the upcoming International Data Week (IDW) 2025. The three member organizations, CODATA, RDA, and WDS, will explain how they fit together under IDW. Each member will share details on their organizations and how you can apply to present your work at the event, including timelines and formats.  

Webinar participants will receive guidance on how to navigate the rich four-day IDW2025 program and learn what a ticket to IDW2025 will include. This webinar is open to all.

Date: 28 January 2025

Time: 15:00 – 16:00 UTC

On 14 and 15 January, this  workshop emphasized the importance of metadata used to describe data repositories, with a focus on the re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories, and the recommendations from the RDA Common Descriptive Attributes of Research Data Repositories. 

Visit the Webinar Archive Page to watch the recording or review the slides.

Join us in Brisbane for IDW 2025 and help shape the future of global data science. Register today and be part of something truly extraordinary!

There is still time to register at the early bird rate below.

This challenge invites participants to explore the GIRAI dataset and create visualizations that:

- Simplify complex data into impactful visuals that inform audiences - about Responsible AI challenges like governance gaps and human rights implications.

- Reveal global and regional trends in responsible AI, showcasing disparities and progress.

- Provide tools and insights for policymakers and stakeholders to drive change in AI governance practices.

Submission Deadline: 25 January 2025

Challenge Informational Webinar

Yet2, together with Freelancer and the National Institute of health (NIH), will be hosting an informational webinar to discuss the challenge and answer questions from the audience.

Date: 11 February 2025

Time: 17:00 UTC

Sign up for the webinar here.

Sense about Science is collaborating with Taylor & Francis to produce a Research Integrity (RI) toolkit aimed at equipping ECRs with explainers and guidance on key RI issues so that you can both embed RI into research design and also speak confidently about these issues in the public conversation about science and research. 

If you are an ECR who is interested in RI, we would like to invite you to an online workshop so that you can tell us what aspects of RI you most need help with. Please get in touch to express your interest. 

The Emerging Voices Network invites you to participate in an exciting initiative as part of the Horizon 2045 Nuclear Futures Fellowship. The capstone project from Declan Penrose, a policy fellow at BASIC, that aims to bridge disciplines by engaging early-career experts across various security fields—including climate, bio, and finance—to identify key drivers shaping the future of nuclear security.

The project has two key phases. The first phase invites you to complete a scanning survey, where your insights will help create a map developing connections between key drivers of nuclear security. In the second phase, a workshop will take place in April 2025, bringing together 12 selected participants to explore the survey results and develop future scenarios. Selected participants will receive a £100 honorarium for their contribution. The final scenarios will be published on the BASIC website and included in a report launched at an online event in June 2025.

The survey is open until 30 January 2025, and applicants for the workshop will be notified by the end of February 2025.

Any questions about the project can be sent to dpenrose@basicint.org.

The 2025 edition of this conference on interdisciplinary approaches to speech science and technology focuses on the theme ‘Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology’.

Deadline for submissions: 12 February 2025

Event Date: 17 - 21 August 2025

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands

In this Plan, the National Institute of Health (NIH) presents a combination of efforts that are already underway and planned efforts that will increase the findability of research outputs and promote transparency in the research process. For the full plan, click here.

Comments must be submitted electronically using the form link. Feedback can be added to this the form, uploaded as an attachment or both.

Feedback Deadline: 21 February 2025

The 2nd International Conference on Language Technologies for All (LT4All 2025) is next month. This event, organized by ELRA, SIGUL, and UNESCO within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL), highlights the need for inclusive language technologies, building on the first LT4All conference in 2019. LT4All 2.0 will bring together leaders in language technology to explore ways to advance linguistic diversity and multilingual accessibility, empowering communities.

Event Date: 24-26 February 2025

The 11th Contrastive Linguistics Conference 2025 (ICLC) promotes fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. They are inviting the research community to submit abstracts on a broad range of topics, including:

- Comparison of phenomena in two or more languages addressing topics from any area and level of linguistic analysis;

- Methodological challenges and solutions in cross-linguistic research;

- Contrastive linguistics in touch with related disciplines.

Submission Deadline: 24 February 2025

Event Date: 17-19 September 2025

For more information and for abstract submissions, click the button below.

The Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) is inviting submissions to the fifth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025), which brings together researchers from different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications.

Deadline for submissions: 6 March 2025

Event Date: 9-12 September 2025

Location: Naples, Italy

This CLARIN café is designed for anyone looking to enhance their project management workflows and skills in the Digital Humanities (DH) field. Guest speakers from academia, industry and research infrastructures will discuss their experience and approaches to project management and how some of the principles and methods can be incorporated into DH research and teaching to improve the collaboration and efficiency of DH project teams. 

Date: 10 March 2015

Time: 15:00 - 17:00 CET

Venue: Virtual Zoom meeting

The SDG Classifier Demonstrator is a tool designed to support publishers in aligning with the goals of the SDG Publishers Compact, which encourages categorizing published content to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The SDG Classifier uses a pre-configured algorithm to evaluate content against specific SDG targets, then returns the number and name of all SDGs that the text matches. Stakeholders and publishers are invited to test the tool with sample data and offer feedback.

Feedback Deadline: 30 March 2025

The FAIROS Program is accepting proposals for funding. It supports a broad range of transformative open science activities including but not limited to: 

1. Research, education, and socio-technical cyberinfrastructure development capacities that advance sustainable multi-disciplinary findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) research data management (RDM) and open science capabilities 

2. Piloting new models of scientific communication and publication that improve efficiency and accessibility 

3. Developing FAIROS data portals, research data commons, RDM as a national service 

4. Lowering barriers to accessing, curating, integrating, linking, managing, sharing, and storing data across many disciplinary domains, irrespective of data size. 

FAIROS proposals must select one of two tracks to focus on, either: 1) Disciplinary Improvements  to targeted scientific communities, or 2) Cross-Cutting Improvements that apply to many or most scientific disciplines.  

The FAIROS Program is undertaken in support of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Public Access Initiative 

Proposal submissions are due 9 April 2025. 

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The Humanities and cultural Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud (H2IOSC) Training Environment platform was developed to address the growing need for a structured and accessible system to manage and deliver educational content, particularly for modular and reusable digital learning resources. Students can enroll independently in open-access and restricted-access courses, the latter requiring a code provided by the instructor. Courses will be offered in Italian and English.  

The German Technical Information Library (TIB), Program Area A, Collection Development and Metadata, Collection Preservation and Long-Term Archiving Department, is looking for an Inventory Manager (m/f/d) in the Long-Term Archiving Project for the State of Lower Saxony.

The position is limited to the duration of the project - 5 years. The weekly working hours are 39.80 hours (full-time). The position is suitable for part-time work. If the personal requirements are met, the position will be classified in salary group 9b TV-L.

The Center for Data Science (CDS) is the focal point for New York University’s university-wide efforts in Data Science. Applicants must have a strong background in Data Science and a PhD in a related field such as computer science, statistics, quantitative neuroscience, and the like as well as experience in and knowledge about undergraduate and graduate teaching, learning, and curricular issues.

This Clinical Faculty position is not a tenured or tenured-track position. Data Science full-time clinical faculty hold renewable term contracts, initially for one year, and later three to five years in duration.

Applications received before 31 January 2025 will be given full consideration.

The Department of Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions starting in Fall 2025, with an emphasis in the following areas: 1. Natural Language Processing including LLMs, deep learning methods with text-only or multimodal data; and 2. Applied Machine Learning / Data Science with specific interests in applications to health informatics, medical informatics, or educational data mining. Candidates in other areas will also be considered.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree by Summer 2025.

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