UoB Advanced Research Computing delivering BEAR services

Whoop whoop 🎉 This Thursday our #DPConnect session will be hosted by Jarvis Gray, Digital Archivist at Glasgow University Archives and Special Collections. Join us, you are very welcome for 30 minutes of informal #digitalpreservation chats and questions (+ […]

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Today is the start of the 5th Analysing Microbial Genomic Data course at @unibirmingham.bsky.social #AMGDMar26 - in the last three years we’ve trained nearly 80 attendees from six countries and multiple UK universities

We’re excited to welcome Heather Turner as our new Principal RSE! 🎉
An established RSE in Statistics, specialising in R, with over 15 years’ experience across academia, industry and consultancy, she has supported research spanning social science, bioinformatics and agriculture. ^YZ #research #rse

Thrilled to see @unibirmingham.bsky.social secure £18M to host the Baskerville National Compute Resource 🚀 Funded by @ukri.org , NCR will accelerate data-intensive discovery. Proud that ARC is playing a central role in delivering this major national infrastructure! #HPC #Research ^YZ
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Not quite the whole team, just three quarters!

A rare moment when the whole ARC team are in the same room 📸
Proud to support research across @unibirmingham through HPC, research software and training. ^YZ
#HPC #Research #SoftwareEngineer

Got questions about using the supercomputer, handling your research data, or getting software support? Come along to our drop-in on 4 Feb at first floor of Staff House from 11:30am–12:30pm. 🐻The BEAR team will be there to chat and help out! ^YZ #HPC #ResearchSupport

Welcome to the Advanced Research Computing team! 🎉
We’re delighted to welcome Kenny Gillen as a new starter in AIS. Kenny joins us from Dundee University and takes on the role of Security Lead for AIS. Great to have you with us! ^YZ

Welcome to the Advanced Research Computing team! 🎉
We’re delighted to welcome Kenny Gillen as a new starter in AIS. Kenny joins us from Dundee University and takes on the role of Security Lead for AIS. Great to have you with us! ^YZ

🐻 Spring Training from BEAR
The Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (@uob-bear.bsky.social) also has a packed schedule for spring, including brand new topics!

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We're recruiting a new #RSE in the @uob_bear team at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Come and work with cutting-edge technology on innovative research projects at a world-class uni: blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2026/01...

🐻 Need advice on using the supercomputer, managing your research data, or software support? Drop by our session TODAY at Café Aroma, Staff House, 11:30–12:30pm. Bring your questions and chat with the BEAR team! ^YZ #HPC #ResearchSupport

Interested in how HPC is tackling real-world challenges? 🔍EuroHPC is hosting Global Challenges and Built Environments: 4 HPC Applications & Use Cases on 12 January.
A great opportunity to explore practical HPC workflows and real applications across engineering.
Registration: shorturl.at/oj2Ib
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Got questions about using the supercomputer, handling your research data, or getting software support? Come along to our drop-in TODAY at Café Aroma (Staff House) from 1:30–2:30pm. 🐻The BEAR team will be there to chat and help out! ^YZ #HPC #ResearchSupport

🎉 Happy World Computer Literacy Day! From HPC training to GPU computing, from Python to Git, we’re here to help staff and students build the skills that unlock discovery on BEAR. ^YZ
#WorldComputerLiteracyDay #hpc #Research #UoB

Validating nuclear data for future fusion & neutron facilities: My PhD uses MC40 Cyclotron measurements + Monte Carlo simulations accelerated by @unibirmingham.bsky.social's #BlueBEAR HPC.From weeks to hours—HPC makes it possible! #NuclearEngineering #HPC #PhDResearch blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/12...

Meet the Trustees 2025 - Society of Research Software Engineering The Society of RSE is a registered charity, and all of our activities are overseen by the board of trustees. Every year, at least one-third of the trustees step down to make way for new members to…

Meet the Trustees

Now that the new trustees are settling into their roles, we thought we’d introduce you to them, and say a huge thank you to our colleagues who stood down this year.

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Our researchers are decoding the ALT process—used by 10–15% of cancers to survive. With @unibirmingham.bsky.social #BlueBEAR HPC, long-read sequencing & deep learning, we aim to uncover therapeutic targets & biomarkers. #CancerResearch #Genomics #HPC blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/11...

Two other UoB research groups were shortlisted for awards - find out more here: blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/11...

Congratulations to researchers Luisa Orsini and Jiarui Zhou for winning the international award #HPCwireRCA25 for their pioneering research using AI and HPC (on BlueBEAR) to tackle biodiversity loss and environmental pollution: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/un... ^SEMT

🎉Celebrate 25 years of #JPEG2000 with us! 🎉On 19 Nov (2-4pm UTC) the #DPC is hosting an open event exploring the standard’s past, present, and future. With keynote speaker Dr Robert Buckley and case studies from Wellcome, Harvard, and the Internet Archive […]

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Can we reliably link ion mobility signals to molecular structures? This PhD project uses MD simulations & CCS calculations to find out blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/11... powered by @unibirmingham.bsky.social BlueBEAR supercomputing. #MassSpec #MolecularDynamics #ComputationalChemistry #PhDLife

Beyond the Vault: 1Password’s Strategic Pivot to Extended Access Management The enterprise IT perimeter dissolved years ago, taking with it any illusion that security teams can dictate which applications employees use or which

The enterprise IT perimeter is dead. @1Password knows it. Their Extended Access Management secures the messy reality of modern work.
My new piece explores their strategic pivot: from "the people of no" to enabling productivity.
securityboulevard.co...
#Cybersecurity #IdentitySecurity #EAM #XFD14

🐻 Need advice on using the supercomputer, managing your research data, or software support? Drop by our session TODAY at Café Aroma, Staff House, 1:30–2:30pm. Bring your questions and chat with the BEAR team! ^YZ #HPC #ResearchSupport

🧠 The N8 Data Stewards Network launched on 23 October with its first meeting: Working with and Managing Sensitive Research Data.

📑 Slides now available—recordings coming soon!

n8cir.org.uk/training-and...

@n8research.bsky.social

#DataStewardship #FAIRData #GenAI #FiveSafes #OpenScience #TREs

If you're not from the University of Birmingham, please vote for my research group, using our HPC-systems #BlueBEAR and #Baskerville for high-impact research in the 2025 #HPCWireAwards

Vote by Friday 3 October: hpcwire.com/2025-hpcwire...

Exploring the future of #EnergyData: tackling challenges in governance & security,unlocking opportunities for #Innovation & #Sustainability. Dive into the BEAR blog blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/10... #DataScience #EnergyTransition #SmartEnergy

🔬 Exploring nanoscale protein patterns with Nano-org, developed by Prof. Dylan Owen’s lab and powered by BlueBEAR compute & storage, with software engineering support from BEAR RSEs Helen, Afraz & Adrian.
Read more: blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/10...
#HPC #storage ^YZ

💡 Today we celebrate #AdaLovelaceDay — honouring Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, and all the women who’ve shaped science, technology, engineering, and maths. 👩‍💻Their creativity and determination continue to inspire innovation. ^YZ #WomenInSTEM #Software #WomenInTech #STEM

🎉 Happy #InternationalRSEDay 2025!
Today we celebrate our amazing Research Software Engineers — the creative minds turning code into discovery and innovation. 💻
Thank you for powering research across every discipline and helping ideas become impact! 🔬
#RSEDay #RSE ^YZ