And @malvikasharan 's last lesson:
- connection inspires change
- example of EchoEight workshop - arts for social science where people dance first alone, then I'm small groups then all together and reflect.
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Continuing with @malvikasharan 's lessons
- clarity is kindness
- #FoMo is not a strategy, you need to ask questions
- setting clear roles
- recognising all contributors (e.g., all contributors tool)
- Open leadership & collaboration
- many ways of taking on roles with leadership
- Matrix of engagement
- let's then come back
- pursue growth & honor your needs
- small is good, small is all
- invite people to work with you
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The final #stepup2025 keynote is by @malvikasharan on shaping research (culture) through communities - lessons from #OpenScience
Communities should center human perspectives.
Few lessons:
- mentorship and intentional inclusion
- open science for equity
- but open science is not open by default
- #OLS is dedicated to capacity building and diversifying leadership
- volunteering & importance of showing up
- as Comm mng: we need to respect their paths and provide paths for them
Last talk of #stepup2025 parallel session is by our Krishna on Towards a declarative, reproducible, homogeneous, cross-platform command-line
environment across remote HPC machines.
He's a terminal enthusiast and he's telling us how that's the best way towards reproducibility.
Get your dot files (like GNU stew), manage the system (like ansible), plus installers. His solution his own tool plus Pico, mise and topgrade.
Very cool live demo and text based slides!!
The #RSE group at #imperial have been offering a free service to try to reproduce your #ResearchSoftware... but nobody has attended any of their weekly sessions (why?? are they scared? Are they perfect?)
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/ict/self-service/research-support/rcs/service-offering/research-software-engineering/
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Diego (#Imperial) shows a python guide for reproducibility.
It's the researchers' responsibility to ensure reproducibility. (Not optional)
But there's a lot of terminology and tools to learn and #dRTPs are here to help!!
Researchers need a practical and simple guide to follow.
Here are the steps:
1. Indicate the dependencies
2. Say where you are running the tool
3. Explain how to install it
4. Upload the tool to #zenodo
5. Ask a friend to try reproduce it (unsupervised)
6. Iterate
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Last session of the #stepup2025, now I've jumped to the #software track.
Starting with Two more tiny Python packages for scientific computing: mpi-pytest and petsctools by Connor Ward
Both of these tools have been created within #firedrake
mpi-pytest looks cool
We are now with: No Secrets, Just Trust: Securely Deploying Infrastructure Without Persistent Credentials by
Brian Maher (#UCL #ARC)
Secrets are evil!! It's difficult to manage them, update, audit its use...
What if we use trust anchors?
We can use ssh certificates that are automatically generated by our vault.
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A colder talk now at #stepup2025? ❄️ FRIDGE - Harnessing the power of AIRR supercomputers for trusted research by @JimMadge

#TRE are environments that allow working with sensitive data, but some of that research needs HPC, but #TRE are not HPCs, they are normally on-premise and scaling could be very expensive. And similarly the opposite is true.

#FRIDGE helps to sort out this problem. Provides a platform to manage users as well as manage the tenancy. They don't know how manage job submissions.

First afternoon #stepup2025 talk is about Building a Production-Ready Barts Health Secure Data Environment: Tooling, Access Control, and Cost Governance by Idowu Samuel Bioku
They've managed so far to get custom Cams tailored for different needs, secure data connection to research workspaces, cost management tooling to help manage research budgets, RBAC integration, and more being produced.