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eScience Lab @esciencelab.org.uk · 29d

The eScience Lab is delighted to be here at #RSECon25, co-leading several activities such as:
- introduction to accessibility testing for RSEs
- introduction to the Digital Researcher Competencies Framework
- training and community satellite day esciencelab.org.uk/announcement...

RSECon25 sessions co-led with the eScience Lab

esciencelab.org.uk

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FAIRDOM @fair-dom.org · Aug 11

📢 Join us for our next online FAIRDOM User Meeting on Tuesday, 16 September 2025 at 14:00 CEST.
Agenda and registration: fair-dom.org/events/2025-...

FAIRDOM

A Consortium of Services for Research Data Management and More

fair-dom.org

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Jul 31

Greetings from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada! I led a workshop here on Tuesday as part of ACM REP '25, and today is the last day of the conference. It is beautiful here, highly recommended.

Me stood by water feature with a big sign saying University of British Columbia, on a sunny day

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Jul 24

It was a great opportunity to present about RO-Crate at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025. Please send me any more questions you may have. Slides and poster: zenodo.org/records/1584...

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eScience Lab @esciencelab.org.uk · Jul 18

We are looking forward to presenting at @iscb.bsky.social @bosc.bsky.social next week in Liverpool. We are part of #BOSC2025, BOKR, Education & UK bioinformatics tracks. See details of our talk and poster times, or take a flyer at the @elixiruknode.org stand (15): esciencelab.org.uk/announcement...

Flyer about the presentations from the eScience Lab at the ISMB/ECCB conference

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Jun 13

Our chapter “Spicy Data Skills Open Science Program With Library Carpentry” has been published as an open access book by ACRL. Thank you to everyone involved, I hope people find it interesting and helpful when establishing or developing open research support at their public or academic library.

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · Jun 11

Our latest book - "The Open Science Cookbook," edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee - is a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research. bit.ly/3ZnmRKA #openscience

The Open Science Cookbook

ACRL announces the publication of The Open Science Cookbook, edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting ope...

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Jun 10

There are 24 hours left to complete my 3-question survey on skills needed in digital humanities research projects, link above. Your answer will help shape our @ukiedh.bsky.social workshop in Glasgow next week. Thank you.

Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · May 21

I am one of the organisers of the Bioschemas hackathon next month in Cologne. Come join us (online or in-person) if you want to help improve semantic markup of FAIR life sciences research data, tools and training... or if you want to flex your web or graphic design skills. We are very welcoming!

eScience Lab @esciencelab.org.uk · May 21

Register now for the @zbmed.bsky.social Bioschemas hackathon in Cologne, Germany, 25-27 June. Join us to help improve the Bioschemas experience, whether your skills are in code, accessible web design, infographics, or you want to improve markup of your materials. esciencelab.org.uk/hackathon/bi...

Invitations open for Bioschemas hackathon in Cologne, 25-27 June 2025

esciencelab.org.uk

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · May 16

That's the end of my first #CollabW25 Collaborations Workshop. Amazing week of work on research software community matters, great people and beautiful Stirling setting. Also the largest dosa I've ever ordered for myself, and more oystercatchers than any other conference.

Selfie with natural view out from a platform

Very large dosa (pancake) and surprise face

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · May 12

Crossing the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 border towards #CollabW25, beautiful train ride by the North Sea.

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · May 12

About Digital Research Competencies (DIRECT) Framework:
“Identify skills, define development pathways and progress your career in research software.”

Watch this short video clip bit.ly/direct1video (under 90s) where project lead Dave Horsfall describes the DIRECT Framework.

Dropbox

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · May 12

Your responses will help to improve the emerging DIRECT Framework. There are three questions about the skills needed in your most recently completed research project.
direct-framework.github.io/digital-rese...

2025 Annual Event | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association

digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org

Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · May 12

Please see my short survey about #digitalhumanities research skills for my @softwaresaved.bsky.social SSI Fellowship work. Closes 11 June. forms.gle/a6NuKVttpVHj...
I am leading a workshop about digital competencies and career development at the @ukiedh.bsky.social
annual event in Glasgow, 18 June.

Giving a Digital Humanities voice: Digital Research Competencies Framework mini survey for UK-Ireland DHA Annual Event 2025

Do you use digital research skills in a social science, arts or humanities subject area? We are running a workshop about digital competencies and career development at the UK-Ireland Digital Humanitie...

forms.gle

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Mar 20

This might be the first feature that actually encourages me to upgrade to Windows 11: layers in Paint. Everything else I've seen looks better/same in Windows 10. (Change my mind!)

Microsoft Paint screenshot highlighting the new layers feature

Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Mar 14

Happy to make some review comments and suggestions today for @galaxytraining.bsky.social. Thanks for asking, GTN. training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...

Contributing to the Galaxy Training Material / Contributing the Galaxy Training Network with GitHub / Hands-on: Contributing the Galaxy Training Network with GitHub

Galaxy is a great solution to train the bioinformatics concepts: numerous bioinformatics tools are available (more than 7,000 in the ToolShed), it can be used by people without any computer science sk...

training.galaxyproject.org

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Mar 6

Nice! Will there be a new/updated slide template with the Bluesky link?

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thank you for sharing our poster, PSDI. Here is an updated version, better explaining the services that @elixiruknode.org provides which are of most interest to physical sciences. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... See you at my talk tomorrow.

ELIXIR and the Physical Sciences: shared tools and services

Poster for PSDI Research Data Forum 5-6 March 2025, Research Data in the Physical Sciences: A Forum for Librarians and Research Support Professionals. The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI)...

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Feb 19

A productive few days of hacking in Köln (Cologne) to work on Bioschemas. Thanks to ELIXIR and ZB MED. On my way home now... I was not prepared for just how big the cathedral is!

Stood in front of shop with sign saying I heart Köln

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Feb 14

I really enjoyed being part of this work, thanks for organising. Lots of transferable skills and experience.

Group photo where everyone is holding Spock hands.

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Saskia Hiltemann 🍍 @shiltemann.bsky.social · Feb 14

Great GTN & Galaxy Hackathon by the SPOC community and ELIXIR-UK! Thanks to @nomadscientist.bsky.social for leading the effort!

@elixiruknode.org @galaxyproject.bsky.social #galaxyproject

Statistics about the event. 3 new contributors, 19 Pull requests made, 8 tutorials updated, 9 issues raised, and more!

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Feb 12

Me too, on the first train now. Fingers crossed for British trains performing well today for everybody 🤞

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Feb 11

1900-day streak, not too shabby. #duolingo #ThatBloodyGreenOwl

(Surtout 🇫🇷, + 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 🇨🇿 no hay bandera para el catalàn, aprendiendo del español)

I'm on a 1900 day learning streak, from Duolingo, with orange owl celebrating

Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Jan 30

I've written about my experiences at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany in November 2024. "UK activity blooms at European ‘CarpentryConnect’ community event"
@carpentries.carpentries.org
@softwaresaved.bsky.social www.software.ac.uk/blog/uk-acti...

Panorama of Heidelberg castle and old town.

Photos of EMBL campus and Heidelberg city.

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eScience Lab @esciencelab.org.uk · Jan 21

We are delighted to share the news that eScience Lab co-lead @soilandreyes.bsky.social successfully defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam last week. Congratulations, Dr Stian Soiland-Reyes! esciencelab.org.uk/announcement...

Crowd of smartly dressed people in old building, including Stian holding his award.

Stian presenting his PhD dissertation ‘FAIR Research Objects and Computational Workflows – A Linked Data Approach’ stood in front of a lectern.

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Phil Reed @philreeddata.bsky.social · Jan 16

I've been using this feature when transferring from Google Docs to GitHub/Markdown, it is very welcome.

Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Jan 15

Google Docs pro tip: Tools --> Preferences --> check Enable Markdown. You can write **markdown** inline with `code` chunks etc and it'll format automatically. Bonus, copy to markdown and paste from markdown.