When your PhD student knows her audience of both supervisor and department
Way to go Marisa!

Marisa Loach - 2nd year PhD student at The Open University, and indeed she received her BSc from The Open University as well!

Marisa Loach leading the single cell training and highlighting our favourite reasons for reusing public data!

Followed by an incredible talk from this brilliant user turned contributor who found Galaxy 2 years ago and refuses to leave!
Way to go Julia!!!! Enabling users to use buttons and slowly move into coding environments! Bridge that gap!

Morgan Howells, soon-to-be Open University computer science graduate, presenting his amazing journey through learning biology to addressing user needs and enabling public data reuse for single cell biologists.
Way to go Morgan!

Had to reschedule/cancel 2 group meetings lately, so ran a poll for my busy 2nd years on their feelings on our group meetings.
I would like to be able to submit stuff like this for promotion criteria, rather than "supervised x numbers of students to completion"

I made students feel inspired and supported. I told them to take breaks when I saw them over-doing it. I make targeted, innovative and interactive team meetings rather than repetitive project presentations.

That should be what matters

A gift from the group's first member (other than me!)
Yep, we're the matching mugs group
In 2024, we move onto t-shirts

So proud of the amazing Julia!
Read her exciting news story on Galaxy support for medicinal chemistry research!
https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2023/12/18/medchem-user.html?utm_source=matrix&utm_medium=newsbot&utm_campaign=matrix-news

In a world of actual relentless competition
One of my fav things is entirely trivial and often untrue science banter
"We've done great things since we divorced from transcriptomics, those guys were totes holding us back"
It's like judging a title wherein they missed a pun opportunity
Entirely unnecessary and totally joyous

📣 #PhdStudentship projects available in:

Heart Failure
&
#Bioinformatics

✍🏽Deadlines from Jan 25
Find out more!
👉🏾https://t.co/lUc0pGsXEU

📣 PhD studentship available for UK-based student!
Leveraging public single cell data for bench biologists
Great for Computer Scientists wanting to pursue fun research for a good cause
🗓️ Application deadline: Jan 25, 2024
👉🏾 https://www5.open.ac.uk/stem/life-health-chemical-sciences/sites/www.open.ac.uk.stem.life-health-chemical-sciences/files/files/2024_Bacon_EPSRC-DTP.pdf
Infinite directions to go, space for your brain to play
Biggest benefit? Extremely supportive supervisor, a deeply caring environment, and a hybrid working culture.
Come to my group to spread your research wings
@gtn

@karinlag no, but this is such a true statement and something I'm working on with colleagues intensely as they don't actually know what could ask/hypothesise because they have no concept of what bioinfo can do
So basically, if you wanted to chase this down as a research q, I could bring you people to interview...

I just finished a teaching demo session in Spanish for @thecarpentries.

We will have even more instructors that can teach in Spanish. 😃 ✨

I am so frustrated that @thecarpentries is laying off 7 talented people - 4 with PhDs - mostly #research #software #engineers - because of financial constraints.

The Carpentries train researchers in digital and coding skills - allowing them to use computational methods, because universities often aren't placed to do this themselves.

In a time when the only organisations that can train huge models are those that can afford the compute time, we need more people with the skills to evaluate them and find their weaknesses.

We need to find a way to fund the Carpentries or we will have a generation of researchers who won't have the computational research skills needed to keep Big Tech accountable.

https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/12/saying-farewell-to-seven-carpentries-core-team-members/

All of us united at last!!!
Took nearly a year but we finally got everyone together
#remoteresearchisawesome
Happy holidays from the 🥓 Bacon Brigade core!

Just used the phrase "I just need to grab something from my office"
I've had my own office about 2 years and it still feels surprising and glorious

Any academic answering emails or editing text and NOT listening to the Grinch soundtrack is missing a trick

📣 The ELIXIR Board has appointed Tim Hubbard as the next ELIXIR Director. Tim brings a wealth of scientific, technical and management experience and will take up his position in March 2024.

Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/_mM2e6w

PhD student killing it in analysis using Galaxy AND in Bake-your-research days

What started as an idea
Turned into a conversation
and a group
and today a record number of academics, professionals, practitioners & coaches attend a project update meeting on all the creative work we're doing
These are the moments I love being an academic
https://better-martial-arts.org