Lab rat. Programmer. Cyclist. Climber. Interested in #OpenData and #OpenScience. Mastodon: @penguinoops@fosstodon.org
Dundee, UK
Joined March 2007
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Simon Li retweeted
🆕 New blog post! 🆕
Building trust and collaboration: A closer look at the SATRE project’s public involvement and engagement (PIE) journey
SATRE is one of the #DAREUK Phase 1 Driver Projects led by researchers at @dundeeuni.
Read here 👇
bit.ly/3OvPOie
If you work with #SensitiveData in a #TrustedResearchEnvironment/#DataSafeHaven/#SecureDataEnvironment or similar please let us know what features should/shouldn't go into an open community standard: dundee.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/s…
#trustedresearch #securedata #openscience
Do you work with Trusted Research Environments (compute environments where researchers work with sensitive data)? I'm helping build an #openstandard for common features. Please fill in the survey! dundee.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/s…
#trustedresearch #securedata #openscience #datasafehaven
Simon Li retweeted
Since Elon Musk refuses to stop talking about free speech, let’s look at his actual record on the topic.
Thread 🧵
Simon Li retweeted
Students are the last thing you want to ban. Everyone gets richer when talent and ideas travel across borders.
Another opportunity for Europe to win the race for young people eager to shape the future !
bbc.com/news/uk-politics-637…
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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
What's worse, the implosion of @Twitter or the recent collapse of the UK @Conservatives Government
“One engineering manager was approached by Mr. Musk’s advisers… with a list of hundreds of people he had to let go. He vomited into a trash can near his feet.”
Just one of the many alarming insights in this @nytimes article (gifted)
nytimes.com/2022/11/11/techn…
My @github notifications will be a lot quieter, it's now possible to disable @dependabot updates on forks!
github.blog/changelog/2022-1…
Simon Li retweeted
In the fourth in our blog series 📝 showcasing the DARE UK Sprint Exemplar Projects, @drchriscole & @penguinoops from @UoDMedicine discuss the TREEHOOSE project & development of an open-source platform to securely analyse sensitive #data 👇 @dataonamission bit.ly/3D5yQjS
"In the past 30 years, the British economy chose finance over industry, Britain’s government chose austerity over investment, and British voters chose a closed and poorer economy over an open and richer one."
theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
Have you ever wanted to run #Windows95 on @ProjectJupyter #mybinder? Now you can! (thanks to github.com/felixrieseberg/wi…)
github.com/manics/jupyter-wi…
#jupyter #virtualdesktop #notsurewhy #whosideawasthis
Is this real or is it a Chris Morris The Day Today parody
As openings to major news bulletins go, this takes the biscuit, the cake and the whole bloody patisserie, @ITVNews nitter.gq/notinaboyband/status/1…
UK right now: someone mentions a Government U-turn and you've no idea whether they're referring to yesterday's U-turn, a new U-turn today, or a U-turn on a U-turn (an O-turn?)
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Simon Li retweeted
... GitHub repo: Event reports, community & project updates and TRE developments will be shared via website (rse-tre-community.readthedoc…) which is generated from this GitHub repo (github.com/rse-tre/community). If you have thoughts about how to structure this, please get involved! end 🧵