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Help Shape the Future of Centrally Provided Computational Resources

Robert Haines, 5 May 2021

The University is seeking to gain a better understanding of both existing and aspirational use of centrally provided computational resources, for both research and for teaching and learning.

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MacOS blocking you from installing your own apps?

Adrian Harwood, 29 Apr 2021

If you write your own MacOS apps and distribute them outside the Mac App Store then you will find your apps blocked by Apple’s Gatekeeper software if you run MacOS Catalina or later. Find out how the Mobile Development Service can help you with our Notarization Service.

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Teaching the Next Generation of Software Engineers

Peter Crowther, Suzanne Embury, 28 Apr 2021

Find out how our Research Software Engineers have been working with researchers from Computer Science to bring coding to the next generation.

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Want to Start Using Twitter Data in Your Research?

Peter Crowther, 23 Apr 2021

Want to find out more about using Twitter for Researchers? Joseph Allen from the School of Social Science has put together a short video lecture.

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CSF Procurement Now Open

Simon Hood, 20 Apr 2021

Find out how to contribute to the University's flagship HPC cluster and take advantage of the benefits that it brings.

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CORONET COVID-19 Risk in Oncology Evaluation Tool - Phase II

Louise Lever, 26 Mar 2021

In January 2021, our Research Software Engineers worked with the Digital Experimental Cancer Medicine Team (dECMT) to create a tool to support decisions regarding hospital admissions or discharge in cancer patients presenting with symptoms of COVID-19. The tool has been so successful that multiple improvements are now planned.

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Cyber Essentials Scheme Renewal

Mike Vale, 4 Mar 2021

IT Services has renewed the University’s Cyber Essentials compliance for the next year.

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Remote Advanced Scripting Workshop

Anja Le Blanc and Douglas Lowe, 1 Mar 2021

Research IT Research Software engineers, Anja Le Blanc and Douglas Lowe recently ran a five day scripting workshop for NERC funded Environmental Science PhD students. Find out more about the workshop and the challenges of running such a workshop online

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Mobile Service features in “Research On the Go”

Patricia Barnby and Adrian Harwood, 25 Feb 2021

Research Software Engineer (RSE) Patricia Barnby and Mobile Development Service (MDS) lead Adrian Harwood were recently guest panellists on the popular Society of Research Software Engineering webinar series where they discussed how RSE groups handle the growing demand for mobile apps from researchers.

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Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) Competition

Gillian Sinclair, 19 Feb 2021

If you have ever taken advantage of the help, support and code available from CoSeC, you might be eligible to take part in their annual competition.

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Analysing Tweets from Twitter

Peter Crowther, 9 Feb 2021

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.

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Announcing MATLAB Online

Anja Le Blanc, 2 Feb 2021

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

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