Planning our move away from Slack! Considering Discord or Zulip. Any pros/cons for either of those for us as a group working on open source software for biological data analysis?
Last chance to apply for the 2025 edition of the Sci.STEPS program! Don't miss your opportunity to get career advice and guidance from one of our experienced mentors.
How a #mentor can help your scientific career?π
Mentors help you avoid common pitfallsπ³οΈ, review your application materialsπ, share personal experiencesπ«Ά, guide to evaluate evaluate your skillsπ.
Together, you celebrate your milestones (big and small!)!
#ScientificCareer
Still more than a week to apply as a mentee to the Sci.STEPS program! Anyone in research welcome. Go check out the list of mentors and see if there is someone for you.
Dear friends, please reply if you know a neurosurgeon in Romania (or close contacts among medical doctors in Romania who may connect with neurosurgeons). This is for a medical emergency, not for academic research.
Join the 2025 season of the Sci.STEPS mentoring program! Anyone in any scientific field, doing anything science related can be a fantastic mentor. Please apply and help guide your junior colleagues to success in their careers.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
πJoin Us for the Season 2025 as a #Mentor!
We are looking for mentors from diverse paths and stages of their #scientific careers to guide and inspire our #mentees.
Want to become a mentor?
βοΈRegister here: tinyurl.com/sciSTEPS2025
π Deadline: 17.11.2024
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The Proteomics Platform at the FMI is seeking a skilled Proteomics Specialist who is passionate about cutting-edge technologies in multi-disciplinary projects.
Apply by November 30, 2024 atΒ fmi.ch/education-careers/posβ¦
Have you ever wondered about how the genomic position of regulatory elements impact their functional output? Check out our latest pre-print from the @bvanssteensellab. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/β¦
Struggling with Hi-C data? Meet hictk: a new toolkit revolutionizing working with .hic and .cool files! Seamless interoperability for a range of file formats, and blazing-fast performance, 3D genomics has just gotten a lot easier. Developer: @robomicsacademic.oup.com/bioinformatβ¦
Open2C, an international team of bioinformaticians including the group of Anton Goloborodko at IMBA, recently published three new open-source software tools for data analysis in 3D chromosome biology and genomics.
More about Open2C here: bit.ly/Open2C
π«We are thrilled to share that Sci.STEPS is assisting AI Safety Quest, to run their first mentoring program!
It is our way to share our experience and establish mentoring practices!
Register as a mentor now: bit.ly/3yYrm3y#mentoring#AI#opportunity#AISafety
Pairtools v1.1.0 is out on github and PyPI and will soon be released on bioconda!
This release fixes a few major bugs introduced into sort and dedup in recent versions and thus is highly recommended for upgrading!
Full release notes:
github.com/open2c/pairtools/β¦
A huge milestone for Sci.STEPS! We are now official :) Thanks a lot to Γnderwerk for hosting and dealing with the annoying things, so we don't have to!
β¬οΈBig newsβ¬οΈ
Sci.Steps is now officially a partner and a project of Γnderwerk (aenderwerk.de/).π
That essentially means that Sci.STEPS is a German non-profit now!βΊοΈ
Join us in celebrating this significant milestone in our journey π₯³
There's no "one-size-fits-all" #ScientificCareer choice or a right path.π€οΈ
Aiming to demystify how people navigate their scientific journeys, we're looking into our team's experiences.
π Here is a story on #sciChoices from our Operations lead Valya: scisteps.org/in-sights/sci-sβ¦