South Hub Social Cybersecurity Working Group
Thursday, June 4 | 11:00 a.m. - Noon ET | Virtual 

Presenter:
Dr. Deen Freelon, UNC-Chapel Hill | Black Trolls Matter and Other Conclusions from Analyzing State-Sponsored Disinformation

WebCast Connectivity:
JOIN THE MEETING | Join by phone: 1-877-853-5257
Meeting ID: 556 168 986 

All Hub Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group
Friday, June 5 | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET | Virtual 

Presenters:
Christine Kirkpatrick, San Diego Supercomputer Center | GO FAIR/VODAN presentation

WebCast Connectivity:
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Meeting ID: 464 161 845 

South Hub Seed Grant Program | Applications close September 1
The South Big Data Innovation Hub Seed Grant program is designed to promote collaboration and support the cross-pollination of tools, data, and ideas across disciplines and sectors including academia, industry, government, and communities. Seed grant awards must support the southern region and the Major Goals and Priority Areas of the South Hub. Applications for small grants (up to $10,000) will be accepted and awarded on a rolling basis until September 1. Applications for mid-size or group activities grants (up to $50,000) and large or multi-institutional grants (up to $100,000) will be accepted until September 1. Awards will be announced soon after. Learn more at our website.

All Hubs Summit COVID-19 Update
In light of COVID-19 and emerging guidance impacting our Hub coordinating institutions, we will be postponing our All Hubs Summit originally scheduled for May 2020. The Hubs and our local host partners in Columbus, Ohio are currently identifying future dates for this event, and we will be sharing updates through our newsletters, websites, and social media. We appreciate your continued enthusiasm for our inaugural Summit and look forward to ensuring a successful, albeit rescheduled, community event.

NSF RAPID COVID grant awarded for creation of COVID Information Commons
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $200,000 RAPID COVID grant to PI Jeanette Wing for the creation of a COVID Information Commons website to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration across various COVID research efforts, beginning with NSF-funded COVID Rapid Response Research (RAPID) projects. This is a collaborative effort led by the Northeast Hub in close collaboration with the Midwest, South and West Hubs. The COVID Information Commons will serve as a valuable resource for researchers as well as decision-makers from government, academia, not-for-profit and industry to ingest and digest the 300+ RAPID COVID awards information, enabling collaboration and acceleration of the most promising research to mitigate the broad societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more at their website.

Science of Team Science Conference is going virtual | June 1-4 | Online
SciTS 2020 will (virtually) bring together team science scholars, practitioners, and providers from a broad range of disciplines to share and advance the latest evidence-based methods in team collaboration, transdisciplinary knowledge-making and implementation science. Speakers and attendees will include investigators, administrators, students, funders, and policymakers. Anyone interested in improving collaborative research and discovery is welcome. Learn more at their website.

Virtual iRODS User Group Meeting 2020 | June 9-12 | Online
The 12th annual iRODS User Group Meeting will be held online this summer for current and interested users. iRODS is open source software used worldwide for data management through discovery, workflow automation, secure collaboration, and virtualization. See last year's agenda to learn more about the event or register for this year's UGM here.

Virtual Thursdays Webinar Series | June 11 & June 25 | 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. ET | Online
The Data Science Connect (DSC), the largest data science organization in the southeast, is hosting “Virtual Thursday,” a virtual event series on timely topics relevant to the data science community. Each Virtual Thursday event features presentations, a panel discussion and a Q&A session. The topics for the events are: “How Data Science Is Driving The Sharing Economy” on June 11, and “People Analytics: Aligning Your HR & Data Strategies” on June 25. Learn more at their website.

NSF Civic Innovation Challenge | Stage 1 Proposals Due July 1
In collaboration with the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Metrolab, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched the Civic Innovation Challenge; a $9 million research and action competition that aims to fund ready-to-implement, research-based pilot projects that have the potential for scalable, sustainable, and transferable impact on community-identified priorities. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, local governments, researchers, and community members across the country are collaborating to face new challenges and rebuild our cities and communities to be stronger and more resilient. The Civic Innovation Challenge seeks to aid this collaboration and provide a structure for research-driven impact in communities everywhere. The Civic Innovation Challenge offers two tracks: Communities & Mobility and Resilience to Natural Disasters. Learn more at their website.

Southern Data Science Conference postponed to Aug. 12-14 | Atlanta, GA
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, SDSC20 has been postponed to Aug. 12-14 at the same venue and with the same programming. SDSC is a special data science R&D conference that brings experts and researchers from the top data science companies and institutes to present their work and share their best practices in data science. The conference's attendees represent industry, academia, and government institutions across the US. Learn more at their website. 

Trustworthy Data Working Group Survey
The Trustworthy Data Working Group invites scientific researchers and the cyberinfrastructure professionals who support them to complete a short survey about scientific data security concerns and practices. Survey results, along with the analysis and applicable guidance, will be published by the Trustworthy Data Working Group as a freely available report by the end of 2020. Learn more at their website.

RStudio certification applications re-opened to support online teaching 
To help people who have had to move their teaching online on short notice, RStudio has reopened applications for its instructor training program and is putting on extra classes at reduced or zero cost. Learn more at their website. 

COVID-19 cyberinfrastructure consulting available
The NSF Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot, Trusted CI, and the Science Gateways Community Institute are all available to help the science community tackle research to address the COVID-19 outbreak. Expert cyberinfrastructure consulting is available in the following areas: data management and visualization; workflow management; use of cloud resources, high-performance clusters, or distributed resources; science gateway technology; cybersecurity; and compliance. To request assistance, please send an email to covid19@trustedci.org.

University of Georgia hiring postdoc to use machine learning  
Join Shannon Quinn and his interdisciplinary research group at University of Georgia and help develop spatiotemporal models of ciliary motion in order to detect and ultimately help diagnose ciliopathies in humans. One researcher with a background in statistical machine learning, computer vision, and/or biomedical imaging that also has strong skills in computer programming, statistics, and linear algebra will be accepted. Learn more.

University of Notre Dame seeks Director of Data & Society Institute  
The University of Notre Dame is looking for an Inaugural Director for their Data and Society Institute. Questions may be directed to Natalie Meyers, and you can apply online at their website.

RENCI hiring Postdoc Research Associate to assist with Obesity Hub  
RENCI at UNC Chapel-Hill is seeking a postdoctoral research associate to assist investigators on the Obesity Hub, which attempts to discover novel obesity biology through a variety of techniques, including integration of multi-omics data with prior information into a knowledge graph upon which novel analytic approaches can be developed. The ideal candidate will have experience in conducting GWAS (especially in heterogeneous cohorts), graph databases, Python (or other relevant programming languages), and statistics and machine learning. Learn more at their website.

2020 PEPI-G Fellows to be announced later this year
The Program to Empower Partnerships with Industry and Government (PEPI-G) supports data faculty members, research scientists, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students from across the country in working on high level problems for the federal government. Fellows will be encouraged to address challenges in the priority areas of disaster relief and human trafficking for the 2020 PEPI-G partner, the Department of Homeland Security – Advanced Research Projects Agency (HS-ARPA). 

Each applicant will be assessed based on merit, expected outcomes, and long-term impact on the individual project and/or institution. Fellows will be granted three to six months to achieve their goals and report on project outcomes.

2020 PEPI-G participants will be announced later this year. Learn more about the program here.