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Expert of the month

Cassandra Gould van Praag is Co-Founder and Executive Director of RCM Cooperative (http://rcmcooperative.com/). She has a PhD in Neuroscience (2014) and 6 years experience building data science communities at the Alan Turing Institute and University of Oxford, with a particular focus on embedding open research practices. With both qualitative and quantitative research expertise, she is a skilled analyst, strategist and creative problem solver. She aims for maximum transparency and reproducibility in her work, and prioritises inclusive and joyful participation. At RCM Cooperative, she is developing Research Community Management (RCM) training materials, mentoring RCMs, and facilitating research funding and performing organisations through professional community management practices. Cass is a contributor to The Turing Way handbook on reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science (https://book.the-turing-way.org), Co-Founder of Open Research Calendar (http://openresearchcalendar.org/), Co-Chair of the OHBM Open Science Room 2020 (https://ohbm.github.io/osr2020/), and a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (http://software.ac.uk/).

Seminar/Workshop

Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 3-5 pm EST

Virtual Event on Zoom (register for link)

Participants will be lead through interactive tutorials demonstrating how GitHub can be used to enable transparent and reproducible collaboration on more than just code. At the end of the workshop, participants will have collaborated on some materials hosted by The Turing Way, and be set up for success for use of this versatile tool across all their activities.

Part 1: What is Git & Github? Exercise 1: Finding an Issue and contributing to a project You will practice: Using issues to contribute and document decisions

Part 2: What is open source?

Part 3: Using GitHub online and in the terminal Exercise 2: Editing a file and making a Pull Request You will practice: Markdown; contributing, pull requests

Part 4: What can we make with Github? (Websites and Project Management) Exercise 3 (take home): Make your own website

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