South Hub Social Cybersecurity Working Group
Thursday, August 6 | 11:00 a.m. - Noon ET | Virtual 

Presenter:
Richard Boyd, Tanjo Machine Learning Inc. | How to use human machine learning and data exhaust for good

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Data Science Education and Workforce Working Group |
Speaker nominations close August 15
The Data Science Education and Workforce Working Group is an open monthly professional working group for data science educators and program leaders to talk and hear from other programs around the country, as well as learn about resources for connecting with data, tools, industry partners, and research. Prior to the Fall 2020 relaunch on September 4, the team is seeking speakers to give 20-minute presentations on funded data science education projects, programs, and resources; best practices for project-based courses & teaching approaches; and experiences with assessment or evaluation approaches for data science teaching or programs. Nominate yourself or a colleague here.

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 on our website.

Facilitating collaboration through the COVID Information Commons
The COVID Information Commons (CIC) is an open website to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration across various COVID research efforts, initiated by the NSF Convergence Accelerator. The initial focus of the CIC website is on NSF-funded COVID Rapid Response Research (RAPID) projects. The CIC serves as a resource for researchers, students and decision-makers from academia, government, not-for-profits and industry to identify collaboration opportunities, to leverage each other's research findings, and to accelerate the most promising research to mitigate the broad societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a collaborative effort led by the Northeast Hub in close collaboration with the Midwest, South and West Hubs. Learn more on their website.

NSF Civic Innovation Challenge | Stage 1 Proposals Due August 3
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. This $11 million research and action competition aims to fund ready-to-implement, research-based pilot projects that have the potential for scalable, sustainable, and transferable impact on community-identified priorities. The Civic Innovation Challenge offers two tracks: Communities & Mobility and Resilience to Natural Disasters. Learn more on their website.

FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute | August 3-13 | Virtual
Registration is open for FSCI 2020. The focus this year is on the theme of FAIR Data principles. The theme includes an array of courses and plenaries in innovative publishing practices, policy implementation, and other aspects of scholarly communication -- all delivered virtually. Learn more on their website.

Southern Data Science Conference | August 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 on their website.

Conference on Truth and Trust Online | October 16-17 | Virtual |
Proposals due August 15
The annual Conference for Truth and Trust Online is organized as a unique collaboration between practitioners, technologists, academics and platforms, to share, discuss, and collaborate on useful technical innovations and research in the space. The team invites submissions of both technical papers and talk proposals on technical solutions for addressing current challenges facing social media platforms. Learn more on their website.

USAID's Intelligent Forecasting Challenge | Proposals Due September 8
The USAID seeks to identify and test more accurate methods of predicting future contraceptive use at health service delivery sites. Their team will award $25K in prizes to innovators who develop an intelligent forecasting model—using the data it provides and methods such as artificial intelligence (AI)—to predict the consumption of contraceptives over three months. The team will also award a Field Implementation Grant of approximately $100K to $200K to customize and test a high-performing intelligent forecasting model in Côte d’Ivoire. Learn more on their website.

2020 ADSA Annual Meeting | October 14-16 | Virtual
The Virtual 2020 ADSA Annual Meeting will bring together data science methodologists and domain researchers from all disciplines and career stages to share breakthroughs and new approaches in data science research and education, with a strong emphasis on responsible data science. Their team is encouraging new, untested ideas to promote brainstorming for innovation and promote collaborative feedback and engaging discussions. Learn more on their website.

Indiana University hiring postdoc to research misinformation
The Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) at Indiana University is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work at the intersection of computing, network, data, and media sciences with a focus on (mis/dis)information diffusion and the detection and countering of online manipulation. Learn more on their website.

USAID hiring Democracy, Data, and Technology Specialist
The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is seeking offers from qualified persons to provide personal services under contract in the position of Democracy, Data, and Technology Specialist. The incumbent will be a subject matter expert regarding global development issues relating to democratic trends, data, and technology and related effects on the work of the CSM Division and the DRG Center. Learn more on 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 on their website.

Accelerating the pace of big data through NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) initiative
he National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) is a $30 million initiative aimed at realizing the potential of Big Data. Projects funded by this initiative are doing everything from improving our chances of detecting dark matter to resolving the tree of life. Coordinating the building of a national data infrastructure, sharing best practices and identifying gaps that need to be addressed by the community is no small effort. In April, 160 researchers — all of whom are Principal Investigators on HDR-funded projects — gathered online for the KI-facilitated 2020 HDR All-hands Meeting. Learn more about this initiative on our website.