Since my postdoctoral position ended in 2022, I have transitioned to a career in research scholarship, specifically in working with researchers to promote best practices around sharing of research materials (usually but not always in association with scholarly works like journal articles or preprints). I blend my first-hand experience with generating, analyzing, sharing, and reusing data and code with a growing foundation in scholarship and information science to support researchers across many disparate disciplines, institutions, and career stages.
UT Austin (2024 – present)
I am currently the Research Data Coordinator (Librarian rank) at the University of Texas Libraries, based in the Perry-Castañeda Library (see banner image) at the Austin campus. In this role, I broadly support researchers at UT with developing, managing, and publishing/sharing their research data and software under the umbrella of Research Data Services. I also review and curate materials submitted to the Texas Digital Repository.
Conference presentations
- Shensky, M., Mumma, C., Sare, L., Kalescky, R. Weber, M., Gee, B. 2025. Scaling Up: Expanding Data Repository Support for Growth in Large Datasets. Open Repositories Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL. (talk)
- Shensky, M., Mumma, C., Sare, L., Kalescky, R. Weber, M., Gee, B. 2025. We're gonna need a bigger boat. Scaling up repository support for large data. International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) Annual Meeting; Bristol, U.K. (talk)
- Chan-Park, C., Gee, B., Mumma, C., Shensky, M., Thompson, S., & Weber, M. 2025. Data then, data now, and data" forever": Approaching a decade of the Texas Data Repository. Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) Annual Meeting; Austin, TX. (panel; slides)
- Gee, B., Shensky, M. 2025. Institutional Research Impact: Automating Discovery & Assessment of Research Data & Software; Milwaukee, WI. [talk] [recording]
- Gee, B.M. 2025. Development of an open, automated workflow for gaining bibliometric insights into university research data publishing. Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Annual Meeting; virtual. [talk] [slides]
- Shensky, M., Gee, B. 2024. Generating institutional level open science metrics with scripted processes for tracking publication of research data and software. Southeast Data Librarian Symposium (SEDLS) Annual Meeting; virtual. [poster] [PDF of poster]
If you are a UT community member and want to connect with me, please refer to my library staff page.
Dryad (2022 – 2024)
I was previously a Data Curator and then a Senior Data Curator at the Dryad Digital Repository, a generalist repository with more than 50,000 published datasets. An integral part of Dryad that sets it apart from other generalist platforms is that each dataset has to undergo review by a Dryad curator before it is released (published) online; curators check for basic functionality of submitted materials (e.g., do files open, can they be accessed through a non-proprietary software) and perform other quality checks (e.g., informative metadata like titles and abstracts, documentation in the form of a README) to ensure that datasets meet the international FAIR principles. While at Dryad, I handled more than 6,000 unique datasets encompassing topics across the natural and social sciences and worked with thousands of unique researchers from all types of institutions and career stage. I also collaborated with stakeholders like research librarians, journal editors, and other data scholars to promote best practices for data and software sharing through avenues such as blogs, webinars, and social media.
Blog posts
- 2023: "For data creators: Top 5 reasons we can’t publish your dataset (yet)” (co-authored with senior curator Laura Bowman)
- 2023: "Good data practices: Removing barriers to data reuse with CC0 licensing”
