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We took part in an open roundtable on recognizing peer review within scientific evaluation systems, organized by PREreview and DORA.
Learn moreWe participate in regional and international events by organizing, delivering, and supporting workshops, panels, and talks that increase the visibility of Latin American perspectives on Open Science, strengthen collaboration networks, and build capacities from and for the region.
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We took part in an open roundtable on recognizing peer review within scientific evaluation systems, organized by PREreview and DORA.
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We joined Nerdearla 2026 as Community Partners, supporting its outreach and connecting with other technology communities.
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We presented an R workflow to publish open data following FAIR principles at the first international research software conference in Latin America.
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We delivered this seminar at the event organized by Estudiantes Investigadores UAI [UAI Student Researchers], the Centro de Altos Estudios en Desarrollo Humano y Psicología (CAEDHPSI) [Center for Advanced Studies in Human Development and Psychology], and PsicoUAI.
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We presented "Cultura abierta para la Ciencia" ["Open Culture for Science"], a lightning talk that explored principles and challenges shared by Free Software and Open Science.
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We delivered the talk "De aprender en comunidad a construir una ciencia más equitativa" ["From Learning in Community to Building a More Equitable Science"], exploring the impact of communities of practice on professional and personal development, and why networks are not an "extra" but infrastructure with the potential to level structural inequalities of access, visibility, and collaboration.
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We facilitated a free, open, Spanish-language course for people who teach (or want to teach) programming and data science.
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Jesica Formoso and María Nanton delivered a tutorial designed to strengthen reproducible workflows. They shared tools to automate the publishing and updating of R and Quarto projects using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages, the same technology we use at MetaDocencia for our Impact Measurement.
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We took part in the panel "Formación y trabajo en el futuro de la IA" ["Training and Work in the Future of AI"], where we discussed the main challenges that AI poses for career development, professional training, and jobs in data science.
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We shared the impact of our training through a poster and a video, and supported Magdalena Rocco, one of MetaDocencia's collaborators, as she presented two artistic pieces.
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We shared how we train researchers, strengthen infrastructure, and foster community around Open Science in a webinar organized by the Research Software Alliance (ReSA), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the Latin American Open Science Network (LA Referencia).
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We sponsored RICiFa 2025, an international meeting aimed at fostering integration and scientific exchange in an academic and social setting.
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We collaborated in organizing this workshop, which explored the use of open-source artificial intelligence and machine learning tools applied to drug discovery.
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We participated as a Partner Organization and delivered a workshop to improve opportunities for accessing research funding.
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We brought a Latin American perspective on research integrity and Open Science to the 14th OAI Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication.
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We took part in a Fireside Chat on good governance practices for the long-term health of open initiatives.
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We joined as Media Kit Community Partners and participated in lightning talks with other technology communities.
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Verónica Xhardez and Paola Castaño, MetaDocencia collaborators and participants in the contextualization of NASA's Open Science training for Latin America and in the 2024 ALTa Open Science cohorts, joined a dialogue on the challenges and opportunities of Open Science in the region.
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We organized the panel "Funding as a Tool for a Global and Equitable Open Science", together with representatives from Wellcome Trust, the Gates Foundation, and Schmidt Sciences.
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We presented "Prácticas de Ciencia Abierta: cambios en conocimiento e importancia percibida tras una capacitación virtual" ["Open Science Practices: changes in knowledge and perceived importance after a virtual training"] at a meeting organized by the Argentine Association of Behavioral Sciences at the Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
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María Ángela Petrizzo joined the launch of the book "Conocimiento como bien común. Aportes desde América Latina y el Caribe a la ciencia abierta: Premio Dominique Babini" ["Knowledge as a Common Good. Contributions from Latin America and the Caribbean to Open Science: Dominique Babini Prize"] as a panelist, representing MetaDocencia and sharing our experience reflected in the chapter "Justicia epistémica y ciencia abierta en América Latina y el Caribe: el caso de MetaDocencia" ["Epistemic Justice and Open Science in Latin America and the Caribbean: the case of MetaDocencia"].
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In the talk "Financiamiento creativo: tu plan B (o tu plan A) para conseguir fondos" ["Creative funding: your plan B (or your plan A) to secure funds"], we shared experiences and lessons learned on alternatives to traditional funding, such as foundations, philanthropy, international grants, and communities of practice.
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We collaborated in organizing the event and presented our community. In addition, current MetaDocencia collaborator Vanina Varni gave her talk "Empowerment through Inclusion".
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We joined the lightning talks session at the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival, sharing our experience doing Open Science in community.
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We shared lessons learned on how to search for and write proposals to access scientific funding.
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We took part in this webinar organized by the World Data System (WDS) on Open Data policies in Latin America, sharing reflections on Argentina's National System of Digital Repositories and Law 26.899.
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We joined discussions and helped create open educational resources together with people from 16 countries across 5 continents.
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We shared MetaDocencia's Open Science experiences in the poster session at Khipu AI 2025, the Latin American meeting on artificial intelligence.
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We joined day 2 of the event. We spoke about Open Science and introduced our training proposal.
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We took part in the webinar organized by NASA under the NASA TOPS initiative, aimed at the community of Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia.
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We joined the panel discussion organized by NASA TOPS to advance the Open Science agenda.

We presented our work at the Big Team Science Conference 2024, a meeting that gathers large-scale collaborative science projects.
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We took part in the First Latin American Open Science Forum with our presentation in the panel "Aspectos claves para la formación en Ciencia Abierta en contextos universitarios e investigativos" ["Key aspects for Open Science training in university and research contexts"].
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We participated in the 2024 Sustainable Development Goals Summit for Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by Springer Nature.
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We shared updates from our consultancy for the Latin America Bioimaging community in a participatory session on Governance and Sustainability.
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We won one of the scholarships to attend posit::conf 2024, the Data Science conference focused on Open Source software.
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We contributed to the workshop "Determining Climate Risks with NASA Earthdata Cloud" delivered by Dhavide Aruliah and Karthik Venkataramani.
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We joined as panelists in the eLife webinar devoted to promoting Open Science in and from the Global South.
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We joined as panelists in the NASA TOPS talk on insights and innovations in virtual training.
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We attended the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2024 Open Science Meeting, sharing our work with the global Open Science community.

We took part in the Iowa Health Care seminar with the talk "¿Tienen un momento para hablar sobre Ciencia Abierta?" ["Do you have a moment to talk about Open Science?"].
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We took part in the QUEST Center Summer School at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité, which brought together colleagues from many countries to discuss responsible research in global health and the perspectives of decolonial transformation.
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We joined the NASA TOPS Open Science Symposium, both in person and online.
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We took part in the "Teaching Programming to Non-Programmers" event delivered within the winter school of the University of Edinburgh.
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We took part in The Turing Way Book Dash, collaborating on accessibility content and generating guidelines for translation and localization.
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We took part in the CABANAnet Knowledge Exchange Meeting (KEM) 2023 with the talk "MetaDocencia y el enfoque comunitario hacia la ciencia y la educación abiertas" ["MetaDocencia and the community approach to open science and education"].
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We joined the QUEST Center for Reproducible Research seminar at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) on responsible research, as part of our collaboration on Decolonizing Global Health.
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We shared ideas, values, and challenges from our community at Co-Afina 2023, by invitation of LA-CoNGA Physics.
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We took part in the panel "Desafíos y estrategias en la creación de dataset en salud para herramientas de IA" ["Challenges and strategies in creating health datasets for AI tools"] at the Health Informatics Meetings JISHIBA.
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We presented a work on R base translation and a shiny app for the "Mapeo de comunidades, organizaciones y eventos de Ciencia Abierta en Latinoamérica" ["Mapping of Open Science communities, organizations, and events in Latin America"] at LatinR 2023.
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We met with colleagues from our Panal of Fellow Communities at the DISC Unconference, working together on projects aimed at fostering diversity and inclusion in computational sciences.
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We took part in the Open Science for Sustainability workshop within the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2023, together with Irene Ramos (CONABIO, Mexico) and Enrique González Lozada (Universidad Autónoma de México).
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We took part in The Turing Way Book Dash and continued working together on Spanish-language accessibility.
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We took part in the panel on trends and challenges for AI data in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by Data for Development Network, Datasphere Initiative, and The Global Index on Responsible AI.
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We co-facilitated the workshop "Communities of practice and the pursuit for Open Science on a global scale" together with Reina Camacho Toro (CNRS/CERN, LA-CoNGA Physics) and Camila Rangel Smith (The Alan Turing Institute). The hybrid workshop included discussions around the universality of current concepts and practices of Open Science.
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We hosted the "Accelerating Open Science in Latin America" workshop organized by the Open Science area of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, focused on needs and capacity building in Latin America.
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We took part in the keynote "Creación colectiva de Ciencia Abierta" ["Collective creation of Open Science"], presented a first approach to the analysis of "Comunidades de práctica en Latinoamérica y su influencia en la difusión de la ciencia abierta" ["Communities of practice in Latin America and their influence on the diffusion of open science"], and supported the talk "Co-creando The Turing Way con la comunidad global" ["Co-creating The Turing Way with the global community"]. We also launched the Panal of Fellow Communities.
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We took part as speakers in the "Ethics and Social Impacts in AI" session at Khipu 2023. In collaboration with Fundación Vía Libre, we also delivered the in-person workshop "Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence".
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Laura Ación joined the panel on artificial intelligence and public policy organized by Centro de Estudios Públicos Chile.
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We took part in the Einstein Foundation symposium on Global Dynamics in Responsible Research with the talk "Co-creating and Teaching Open Science from the Global South", which addressed the asymmetry of power and privilege between Latin America and high-income regions.
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We represented MetaDocencia at the First Ibero-American Open Science Congress, a space for Ibero-American dialogue between academia, the State, and civil society on the right to science and the importance of promoting transformations in how science is understood from an inclusive, open, participatory, and responsible perspective.
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We presented the work carried out during MetaDocencia's first two years at ICOTS-11, the international conference on statistics teaching.
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We took part in the panel on actions to promote Open Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2022 Open Science Annual Meeting.
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We delivered the live talk "Buenas Prácticas para Enseñar Programación Online" ["Good Practices for Teaching Programming Online"] at the SciPy Latin America Conference.
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We shared the talk "Sustainable language and geographical diversity in Open Science" at the Francis Crick Institute bioimage analysis symposium.
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We took part in the panel "El desafío de enseñar en datos e inteligencia artificial" ["The challenge of teaching data and artificial intelligence"] at the 16th Health Informatics Meetings organized by HIBA.
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We delivered the talk "MetaDocencia: teaching how to teach technology together" at the 11th Argentine Congress of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
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We presented "Un conjunto de paquetes para generar tutoriales interactivos para enseñar R" ["A set of packages to generate interactive tutorials for teaching R"] at the LatinR conference.
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We shared the talk "Sustainable Language and Geographical Diversity in Open Science: My Experience in Latin America" at the Essential Open Source Software (EOSS) annual meeting of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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We presented the talk "Enseñando a enseñar sin perder a nadie en el camino" ["Teaching how to teach without leaving anyone behind"] at the 50 JAIIO. We also delivered an edition of our course "Introducción al ABC para enseñar online" ["Introduction to the ABCs of teaching online"] within the congress.
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We presented the talk "Buenas prácticas para enseñar programación online" ["Good practices for teaching programming online"] with live questions and follow-up through a dedicated Discord server.
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We delivered the plenary talk "Enseñando a enseñar sin perder a nadie en el camino" ["Teaching how to teach without leaving anyone behind"] at the useR! 2021 conference.
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We shared our experience in the "Buenas prácticas para enseñar" ["Good practices for teaching"] webinar of the Data Latam community.
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We took part in the session "Tracking Impact and Measuring Success in Data Education Events" together with other communities, including Code for Science & Society.
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We delivered the talk "Sobre programar, enseñar y armar tutoriales interactivos con {learnr}" ["On programming, teaching, and building interactive tutorials with {learnr}"], the first talk in Spanish at an RStudio conference.
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We presented the talk "MetaDocencia. Volunteer Community Building for Teaching in Spanish, Online, and on Short Notice".
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We shared the talk "Una experiencia en comunidades de práctica de Software, Ciencia y Datos" ["An experience in communities of practice in Software, Science, and Data"], in which we told the story of creating MetaDocencia.
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Paloma Rojas-Saunero presented MetaDocencia in her talk "Comunidades internacionales para el avance de la ciencia de datos de salud en América Latina" ["International communities for the advancement of health data science in Latin America"], shared with Jesica Formoso and with the assistance of Laura Ación.
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We presented MetaDocencia with the talk "Educational Communities of Practice for an Inclusive Artificial Intelligence" at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.
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We presented MetaDocencia with the talk "Comunidades de práctica para I+D y T+E: R y colegas" ["Communities of practice for R&D and T&E: R and colleagues"] at the INTA Statistical Assistance Platform and the INTAJoven Network.
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We delivered the workshop "Generando tutoriales interactivos con el paquete learnr" ["Creating interactive tutorials with the learnr package"] at LatinR 2020.
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We presented "MetaDocencia. MetaTeaching: Teaching to Teach in Spanish" at the Open-source Community Call co-organized by Dryad, FORCE11, and eLife.
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We presented MetaDocencia within the FAMAF - UNC Applied Mathematics Seminars, with the talk "Ciencias de Datos en el sector agropecuario" ["Data Science in the agricultural sector"].
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Kate Hertweck mentioned MetaDocencia in her talk "From Novice to Expert: Supporting All Levels of Computational Expertise in Reproducible Research Methods", also published as an article in ACM.
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We took part in the panel "Carpentries Instructors' Experiences from Teaching Online" during CarpentryCon 2020.
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We shared MetaDocencia's experience in the panel "Supporting diversity in the R community" at useR! 2020.
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We took part in the panel "Comunidades de práctica en Latinoamérica" ["Communities of practice in Latin America"] at useR! 2020.
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We delivered the talk "Cómo hacer una reunión virtual inolvidable (sin morir en el intento)" ["How to run an unforgettable virtual meeting (without dying trying)"] at the R-Ladies MetaMeetup, which brought together 19 R-Ladies chapters from 8 countries with over 100 attendees.
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