South Hub Social Cybersecurity Working Group
Thursday, March 5 | 11:00 a.m. - Noon ET | Virtual 

Presenter:
Lingfei Wu, University of Pittsburgh | The Wisdom of Debating Crowds: Science, Wikipedia, and Twitter

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Meeting ID: 556 168 986 

All Hub Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group
Friday, March 6 | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET | Virtual 

Presenters:
Sean Peisert, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Data Confidentiality and Privacy Needs in Scientific Computing
Jim Basney, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Melissa Cragin, San Diego Supercomputer Center | A Brief Update from the Trustworthy Data Working Group

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Meeting ID: 464 161 845 

Harnessing the Data Revolution Virtual “Microlab” Workshop
March 16, 2020 | 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET
The Big Data Innovation Hubs, funded by the NSF, are hosting a virtual microlab webinar for the Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) ecosystem. This activity seeks community feedback on the coherent emergence of a HDR ecosystem of interrelated activities. The microlab webinar is designed to facilitate discussions in small virtual breakout groups. This information will inform the need for a potential HDR coordinating activity. Register here.

DataUp Program 2020 Cohort Applications Due March 31
The South Big Data Innovation Hub is excited to host the 2020 DataUp Program. DataUp will offer hands-on training for instructor teams at minority-serving institutions, community colleges, or 4-year liberal arts colleges. Priority will be given to hosts who can demonstrate participation of faculty from diverse departments, or multiple institutions of the types listed above. Interested? Apply to the 2020 program now.

PEPI-G 2020 Fellowship is Open Now | Applications due April 1
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.

Our 2020 program partner is the Department of Homeland Security – Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Qualifying applicants must be: (1) a US CITIZEN, (2) an academic professional (i.e. faculty, post-doctoral researcher, research scientist, graduate student, or rising junior and senior undergraduates), (3) able to pass a DHS background check (suitability) and (4) able to live and work in Washington D.C. for the duration of the fellowship.

Applicants can request 3-6 months for the fellowship duration. Selected individuals will receive a stipend of $5000/month to off-set travel costs for relocating to Washington DC.

For questions, contact South Big Data Hub Program Coordinator, Kendra Lewis-Strickland. 

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION NOW! 

All Hubs Summit | Save the Date | May 26-28 | Columbus, OH 
Taking the place of our regional All Hands meetings every other year, this All Hubs Summit is a new opportunity to connect activities, programs, and initiatives at a national scale. Please save the date for May 26-28, 2020 in Columbus, OH. More information coming soon.

There's still time to share your opinions about the South Hub!
You are invited to participate in an online survey to understand your experiences, needs, and perspectives with regard to the South Big Data Hub. Take the survey here.

The New Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting from Federally Funded Research | Comments close March 6
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is seeking public comments on a draft set of desirable characteristics of data repositories used to locate, manage, share, and use data resulting from Federally funded research. The purpose of this effort is to identify and help Federal agencies provide more consistent information on desirable characteristics of data repositories for data subject to agency Public Access Plans and data management and sharing policies, whether those repositories are operated by government or non-governmental entities. Visit their website to comment.

Joining the Data Revolution: Big Data in Education and Social Science Research | Applications due March 15
Join IRIS this summer (June 9-12) for a week-long workshop on how to leverage big data resources and tools to advance your education and social science (ESS) research. In this hands-on class, participants will work in teams using large-scale datasets to achieve a better understanding of research questions that can be answered with big data. In addition to technical skills, participants will work with established investigators to develop and present ideas for projects that might be submitted to NSF grant competitions. Learn more at their website. 

Explore NEON R Coding Bootcamp | University of Tennessee Chattanooga | Application review begins March 15
This R-based coding bootcamp will allow participants to explore ecological data curated by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). A one-day preparatory bootcamp on May 20 will be offered to participants that need to learn basic R programming. Faculty from minority serving institutions, primarily undergraduate institutions, and community colleges are especially encouraged to apply. Travel support is available to a limited number of participants. Apply online or email bbdspoke@utc.edu for more information.

CSTE Public Health and Healthcare Analytics Webinar | March 26 | 1:00 ET
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists will host a webinar presentation from Chandni Jaggi, MPH, and Elizabeth Pembleton, MPH, on "Using AIDSVu to Visualize HIV Data and Service Providers." AIDSVu is a free, online, interactive website that maps the HIV epidemic across the United States. The data and maps on AIDSVu are downloadable and printable so users can perform their own analyses or use in presentations. AIDSVu aims to take HIV information and present it a way that makes it readily available, easily accessible, and understandable for everyone to use. Register for the webinar.  

CFP for IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Cyber Social Health: Promoting Good and Countering Harm on Social Media | Submissions due April 15
This special issue welcomes theoretical, analytical, and empirical contributions using any kind of research method, including experiments, primary data from social media logs, case studies, simulations, surveys, and so on. Submissions are encouraged to examine the nature of both harmful and social good intentional behaviors on social media towards understanding, detecting, and monitoring good communication while countering harmful communication, by employing computational social media analytics techniques. For more information, visit their website.

Southern Data Science Conference | April 16-17 | Atlanta, GA
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. 

Science of Team Science Conference | June 1-4 | Durham, NC
SciTS2020 is a forum for 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.

Early bird registration open for iRODS UGM | June 9-12 | Tucson, AZ
The 12th annual iRODS User Group Meeting will be held 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.

Atlanta University Center Consortium seeks instructional designer
The AUCC seeks an experienced instructional designer to research, develop, and present a comprehensive decision matrix outlining benchmarked Data Science courses and programs nationwide. The person hired in this newly created part-time, contract position will expand their repository of information about current, competitive data science programs and offerings. The Instructional Designer is responsible for supporting the AUCC Data Science Initiative’s Pathways that will be launched in 2020. For more information, read the full job posting.

Testers needed for prototype data sharing and use system
The ImPACT project at UNC-Chapel Hill's Renaissance Computing Institute is looking for researchers, data providers, and information technology professionals to participate in testing the prototype ImPACT system. The ImPACT system is designed to automate most of the data sharing and use process, making it easier, faster, and more secure. Check out their recent presentation to the All Hubs Cyberinfrastructure Working Group. You can also visit the ImPACT website for more information or contact Laura Christopherson to join the system.

Integrating Biological Big Data Research into Student Training and Education
Principal Investigator: Hong Qin, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
Co-Principal Investigators: Donald Adjeroh, West Virginia University Research Corporation; Mentewab Ayalew, Spelman College; Fan Wu, Tuskegee University

The project is a collaborative effort among the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Tuskegee University, Spelman College, and West Virginia University to integrate and automate biological big data into student training and education.

Leveraging the team’s expertise in computer science and ecology, the project will offer training workshops on using network models to integrate heterogeneous genomic big data and heterogeneous ecological big data to address life sciences questions. The team will engage faculty and students in developing a protocol to automate field data collection.

The team also will prototype automated methods to enhance plant digitization, leveraging the collection of digitized plant images and meta-information at the Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections, as well as the ecological datasets in collaboration with the Encyclopedia of Life.