Research IT News
Research IT Christmas Holiday Arrangements
A short message about Research IT support over the Christmas period.
Top Ten Research IT Blog Posts of 2021
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 2021. In a year when many people returned to campus, working from home blog posts featured less but people were still keen to know how to access resources from home.
Further Investment in the Computational Shared Facility (CSF)
Continuing investment by the Faculty of Science and Engineering and University research groups is enabling further upgrades of our popular Computational Shared Facility (CSF).
Making Your Code Reproducible and Shareable
Research Software Engineer Ann Gledson recently gave a training tutorial to research collaboration involving several universities from across England on how to improve their code, the software release process, the use of DOIs and more.
HPC Pool PI and User Survey
If you are a PI of a project on the HPC Pool and/or a user of the HPC Pool then check your inboxes for your survey link! We need to hear from you to help secure future investment in HPC at the University.
Figshare+ and “Big Data” Publishing
Bill Ayres, Strategic Lead for Research Data Management, explains the difference between Figshare and the newly announced Figshare+.
Using Amazon Service Workbench for Remote Training
The pandemic has brought many challenges, not least conducting training. Our Training team have recently used Amazon Service Workbench to teach Python remotely online.
CORONET Nominated for NIHR Clinical Excellence Award
A tool created in conjunction with the Digital Experimental Cancer Medicine Team to support decisions regarding hospital admissions or discharge in cancer patients presenting with symptoms of COVID-19 has been selected for a NIHR Clinical Research Network award.
Improving REDCap Data Management Training at The University
A call from the Research Lifecycle Programme prompted researcher Saskia Lawson-Tovey to get in touch with us with an idea to improve REDCap data management training at UoM. This ultimately resulted in Saskia being awarded an Elixir fellowship.
Shiny App Pilot Service Launched
If you're an R user, Shiny lets you build interactive web apps to share your work with the world. Find out how we can help you do it with our new Shiny pilot service.
MATLAB Licence Update 2021
The University has renewed the license to allow the download and install of the full suite of MATLAB products on to both staff and students’ own, or University provided, computers.
Introducing Software Citation
In August, GitHub announced software citation support in GitHub repositories. Discover how Rob Haines, Head of Research IT, played an instrumental role in making this happen.