Phil Reed

Thank you very much for having me on, it was a pleasure!

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...

FAIRDOM A Consortium of Services for Research Data Management and More

📢 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-...

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

Sun rise at the beach

First nation monument

Sun set

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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.

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!

Night landscape of a lake

Selfie with natural view out from a platform

Oystercatcher

Very large dosa (pancake) and surprise face

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.

Railway tracks, fields and seaside

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

Microsoft Paint screenshot highlighting the new layers feature

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!)

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

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

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.

Stood in front of shop with sign saying I heart Köln

Four people at table in restaurant

Stood in front of cathedral

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!

Group photo where everyone is holding Spock hands.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Panorama of Heidelberg castle and old town.

Photos of EMBL campus and Heidelberg city.

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...

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.

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...

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

Smartly dressed drummer in historical wooden ornate building

I really enjoyed playing and singing with a range of choirs today at the Univeristy of Manchester Christmas performance. Here I am on my custom mini drum kit during rehearsal. 🎅 🥁 🎶

Yes, you can use ChatGPT to help you draft a cover letter. But you have to realize that the person reading the letters will then see the same phrases over and over. 🙄

"particularly within the X and Y projects" at the end of the 1st paragraph is the catchphrase that I've read over 5 times already

Graphic showing the faces of all the new SSI Fellows

Delighted to share the news that I am part of the 2025 SSI Fellowship programme! What a wonderful collection of research engineers and other data professionals. My project is to grow a competencies toolkit for humanities, exchanging knowledge with life sciences. www.software.ac.uk/news/introdu...

@bsky.app Is there a way to request features? Suggest that your Android app has the option to auto play videos when on WiFi only. Thanks!