agenda

• finalize data/non-data club proposal
• students to mentor undergraduate students, as part of the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain
• discuss open science proposal
• feedback from Ana, Hugo and Joaquin about SWC/GCNU lab meetings
• comment from Joaquin about SWC/GCNU joint mentoring from postodcs/PhD

steve west’s thoughts on protocols

• protocols – can we write these up?
• put protocols on the wiki – links on slack channels?
• which of these can be standardized?
• everyone agrees its a good thing to do
• have a meeting to make a game plan

gatsby/swc club update

• goal: more joint activities
• problem is e.g. gatsby students –> discussing work of swc students without the swc student present
• we have lots of separate meetings, lets make at least one a month shared
• is this journal club or data club?
  • this is internal work!
  • our work, our papers, ideas, etc
• stress that this is informal, conceptual, discussion-oriented
• up to two people
• basically:
  • swc will have 4x building-wide lab meetings per month
  • 1 of these meetings per month is joint with gatsby, shared rota unknowns:
• gatsbyers must decide if they want an extra meeting (probably not) or how they can make one of their existing meetings once we know where gatsby:
• make a shared rota for this? (one rota to rule them all?)

swc lab meeting

• being able to bring lunch / eat it while watching is a necessary incentive
• we’re all pro-zoom for the talks, to make it more available
• options for meeting structures
  • per month : 1 long meeting per month, 2 swc split meetings, 1 gatsby/swc split meeting
  • the rota is organized by lab, and the lab decides what they want to do (split or long or whatever)

simons collab mentoring

• joaquin sends this on slack

open science

• PIs need a conversation about how they will endorse this
• generate a policy for how this is accepted by the institute
• instead of forcing from top-down – emphasize the importance of this from top-down, but encourage rather than demand
• joaquin speaks to faculty meeting: “we as a building encourage this, it’s important, can you give a supportive word to your phds and postdocs about these courses, trainings”