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#ResearchSoftwareEngineer at @RSGSoton, I work with @SoftwareSaved too! Astronomy PhD, outreach, my views are not my employers’. He/him. Personal: @T2Toaster

Southampton, England
Joined July 2018
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Time to celebrate the great work our community has been doing! 🌟🤩🚀 Claire Wyatt is presenting the Society Community Awards #RSECon24
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🧵We're running another hackathon! Join us in investigating representation in space by collecting data on diversity in space! 🚀 1/3
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We are excited to announce that we are gearing up to relaunch the PyData Southampton meetup in the very near future. In the meantime, if you'd be interested in speaking at one of our future meetups submit a talk proposal bit.ly/pydataSoton-talks
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We'd also like to say a huge thanks to our after-dinner speaker, Steve Mould (@MouldS), for joining us at such short notice and giving such an excellent talk (as well as a live demonstration of the Mould Effect!). #RSECon23
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Another #RSEng article published in Nature. We're mainstream now everyone! "Research software engineering accelerates the translation of biomedical research for health" nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
Research software engineering accelerates the translation of biomedical research for health, but its role is often undervalued and poorly understood. Read our new article in Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s41591-0… - explainer thread below 👇
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Here are the slides for my @PyDataLondon keynote on LLMs from prototype to production ✨ Including: ◾ visions for NLP in the age of LLMS ◾ a case for LLM pragmatism ◾ solutions for structured data ◾ @spacy_io LLM + prodi.gy speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/…
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First talk at the #pydatalondon parallel sessions by our organiser @AstroAdamH on @DataKind! How they helped @BrilliantClub pair PhD students with less advantaged school students to help them enter university.
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Some really great content today at first day of @pydatalondon 2023; amazing talks and engaged participants. Tomorrow two of the organisers of @pydatasoton will be at the conference. If you’re interested in the Southampton chapter find @AstroAdamH or @RSE_Sam #pydatalondon
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Unfortunately, the scaling makes it difficult to visualise my area: software
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How should I visualise the huge disparity in outputs submitted to the @REF_2021 in a way that communicates the scale of the difference? Do elephants and gorillas help?
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The DIAS Planetary group @DIASAstronomy is looking for a Research Computing Intern. Details here: dias.ie/2023/03/27/dias-rese… Contact me directly if you have any queries and please pass it on to any software fans. A chance to write/test/curate code for spacecraft data analysis!
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Anybody got a recommendation for a good, freelance event organiser who can organise conferences and workshops?
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📣 Get involved! Interested in helping shape the RSE community but don't have much time to commit? Join one of our working groups! Both the EDIA and Role Diversity groups are looking for new members to build a fairer, more inclusive community. Email: [email protected]
Come and work with me and @RSGsoton! We have 5 positions open: 2 RSEs and 3 Senior RSEs. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp… jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp… jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
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Release of a new #python tool to label radio emission features of interest on dynamic spectra. Led by Corentin Louis @DIASAstronomy with colleagues from @RSGsoton and @Obs_Paris pypi.org/project/SPACE-label…
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Mentoring Scheme is still open forms.gle/7PUSLkEWK87YmsTZ8 Starts late Jan 23. If interested in mentoring others or a current member interested in mentoring let us know! Express interest via form by 10 Nov and we'll send you a full application to join. We're keen to get more mentors.
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A few shots from our Formal Dinner at the Civic Centre last night. We hope you enjoyed the food and entertainment! #RSECon22 Photos by @TyneSightPhoto
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Do we have the right tools for research? software.ac.uk/panel-discuss… An amazing panel taking place on 5th Nov. Nine experts in tools from Python to spreadsheets. Ask them anything (especially if you're new to coding)! app.sli.do/event/qikkrkm9 @SoftwareSaved @ResearchSoftEng
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