Twitter has just announced a new programme to allow researchers to interact with Twitter to extract data for research purposes. In this blog Peter Crowther, a Research Software Engineer in Research IT, gives an introduction to interacting with Twitter programmatically and what these latest changes mean for researchers.

MATLAB Online is now available to University staff and students and provides an alternative for occasional use or use on a fairly low powered laptop or tablet computer

All CSF3 users should now be using the new scratch file system and ready for the turn off of the old one on the 17th February 2021.

Research software engineer Patricia Barnby describes the Mobile Development Service (MDS) 3-tier service model to help support the wide range of researcher needs around mobile apps.

“Missing the Village? We all do. Researchers at University of Manchester are looking to hear about your experiences of the Manchester Village and what you want it to be in the future. You can share them anonymously on the new Manchester Village Stories website and make your views heard about the Village. #MCRVillageStories. ”

Douglas Lowe and Ann Gledson, Research Software Engineers from Research IT, recently presented an online poster updating on the work they have been doing for an Alan Turing Institute funded project led by David Topping (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Caroline Jay (School of Computer Science).

Cancer patients are at increased risk of severe COVID-19. Decision-making tools for hospital admission, severity prediction and increased monitoring for early intervention are critical. The objective of this project was to identify features of COVID-19 in cancer patients predicting severe disease and build a decision-support online tool - COVID-19 Risk in Oncology Evaluation Tool (CORONET).

Did you know that the Mobile Development Service (MDS) can deploy your apps to run on Windows 10 and MacOS? We can also develop apps for your smart watch!

Bede, the N8’s new high performance computing platform, is now open for users from across N8.

As it’s approaching the end of the term, it seems like a good time to look back on our most popular blog posts of 2020. Unsurprisingly several of the top ten posts are related to working from home and the challenges that it brought!

Microsoft have recently launched a new community for Research Software Engineers (RSEs), Data Scientists, Data Stewards and System Administrators.

For those with long term, constant and often debilitating pain, taking part in a study requiring multiple questionnaires on levels of pain to be completed would be difficult, if not impossible. Research Software Engineers have developed an app for mobile devices to make this a much easier prospect.