Early Career Scholars WG Meeting Minutes

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2025-12-10 08:00 GMT+1

Takuya provided a recap of the recent meeting.

Pedro is interested in co-leading the event.

Zhu Zhiyi offered to help with preparation, though she is unlikely to attend in person.
Funding for Pedro to attend is currently uncertain (see Action Items).
Planning will primarily take place via the online document to facilitate asynchronous collaboration. If specific planning meetings are required, Tati can assist in setting them up.

A link to the “Awesome List” will be added to the minutes to encourage collaboration. Please add to the list any interesting and helpful material you have crossed paths with.
Awesome Modeling Practices
Pedro will lead (with Tati’s assistance) a new section in the Awesome List dedicated to AI-guided science, envisioning a “How-To” guide with a focus on coding.
Tati will provide AI Lecture material to kick-start this section.
There is a need to clarify how these materials are included on the official website (see Action Items).

Proposed for the end of March 2026.

8:00 AM CET was agreed upon as a suitable time by those present.
Tati will circulate a Doodle poll. If you wish to join but this time is problematic, please contact Tati directly.

HACKATHON - Tati: Check with Charlotte whether OMF can support funding for Pedro to attend.
MINUTES - Tati: Send minutes including a Hackathon section and the Awesome List link: Awesome Modeling Practices
WEBSITE - Tati: Ask Charlotte and Allen about including the Awesome List on the website (for example under Resources) and define the update workflow.
AWESOME LIST - Tati: Provide AI lecture material to kick-start the AI-guided science section.
AWESOME LIST - Pedro: Lead creation of the AI-guided science section.
RESOURCES - Tati: Upload material for the Scientific Programming and Reproducible Workflow Workshop.
NEXT MEETING - Tati: Send the Doodle poll for the end of March.

Interesting upcoming conferences:
- iEMS 2026: conference.iemss.org (if anyone is interested in helping out, please reach out to Takuya)
- MODSIM2025: mssanz.org.au/modsim2025
Introducing Jonas Letschert:
- Works on ABMs in fisheries and bio-economic models.
- In this context, there is a lot of available fish-catch data.
- In their ABMs, agents are fishers, parameterized from theory and available literature.
Caroline Rosello would like to see more discussion aligning perspectives with model and tool purpose.
Discussed paper status at Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling:
- “Good enough” model reproducibility: A practical guide for Early Career Scholars in Socio-Environmental Modelling (see Action Items).
Revisited ideas from the previous meeting and assigned leads for initiatives (see Action Items).
Summer Course at TU Dresden on Scientific Programming and Workflow (offered by Tati):
- Focused on TU Dresden students but open to OMF members.
- Registration: forms.gle/N8BbFoYLFY7xPNvs9
Vitor suggested building Awesome Lists (for example, packages developed or used by OMF members) in OMF GitHub resources.
Hackathon at iEMS (Dublin, July 2026).
How to circulate meeting minutes:
- Google Docs can be problematic for colleagues in China.
- Posting minutes on the OMF website is preferred (check with Allen; see Action Items).

PAPER - Takuya: Send reviewer comments. Interested parties can contact him directly.
EVENTS - Takuya (Pedro offered support): Ask iEMSs Office for workshop hosting requirements. Question sent and awaiting answer.
MINUTES - Tati and Takuya: Coordinate and send meeting minutes by email. Working document: Google Doc
WEBSITE - Tati: Talk to Charlotte about hosting a reproducibility-information repository on the OMF website. Question sent and awaiting answer.