Research Computing Teams #110, 19 Feb 2022
Hi! I won’t lie; when I started offboarding myself from my current job a few weeks ago I was a little anxious. I was pretty sure that team members would step...
Research Computing Teams #109, 11 Feb 2022
Hi! A slightly short newsletter today, as I finally claw my way back onto the Friday schedule. One community update from last week - there was a fair amount...
Research Computing Teams #108, 5 Feb 2022
Hi, everyone: Several readers responded about their version of the challenges I described last week - most teams are still working remote; some had reduced-...
Research Computing Teams #107, 29 Jan 2022
I’ve had great conversations with research computing and data team managers this week. And while the the discussions were great, they weren’t all sunshine...
Research Computing Teams #106, 22 Jan 2022
Hi! As you can see from this issue again being late (but less late!), here at RCT HQ I’m still getting into the rhythm of the new year. I hope you and your...
Research Computing Teams #105, 16 Jan 2022
Hi everyone - Happy New Year! Here at RCT HQ, we’re slowly getting back into the swing of things after a long and relaxing holiday break - I hope it was...
Research Computing Teams #104, 11 Dec 2021
Hi! There seems to be something in the air - in the past week I’ve had or heard a number of conversations around leadership and managmement. Leadership vs...
# Research Computing Teams #103, 4 Dec 2021
Hi! It’s a busy time of year, as we try to get things closed out before the holidays. For a lot of us, outlines of opportunities and connections for the next...
Research Computing Teams #102, 27 Nov 2021
Hi! If you follow HPC twitter at all, you will have seen a heartfelt thread by a well-known research software developer, one who was a key contributor to the...
Research Computing Teams #101, 19 Nov 2021
Hi! A reader from a U15 research institution [Canadian research-intensive universities; think Russell Group in the UK, or R1 universities in the US] writes...
Research Computing Teams #100, 12 Nov 2021
Hi, everyone: It’s been a good week here at RCT world headquarters. First, our team finally published our paper describing our v1 platform at a high level -...
Research Computing Teams #99, 5 Nov 2021
Hi, research computing team managers and leaders: In our team there's been a lot of passages lately - a paper for our original work is (finally!) coming out,...
Research Computing Teams #98, 29 Oct 2021
Hi! At least one other research group has also taken to providing some interview questions ahead of time. In response to the discussion in last issue, Titus...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 22 Oct 2021
Hi! So, two final aspects of our recent hiring situation that I haven’t had room to mention earlier: we’re giving out interview questions ahead of time, and...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 15 Oct 2021
Hi! I wanted to give you an update on the co-op hiring mini-fiasco from last week. Even with the chaos, we still managed to get 3 of our top 4 candidates,...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 8 Oct 2021
Let me tell you about a mini-fiasco this week that was entirely my own doing. In our team, we routinely hire students for semester-long co-op positions. It...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 1 Oct 2021
Happy October! There’s a couple of articles in the roundup this week on professional development and career paths for those in research computing & data -...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 24 Sept 2021
Hi - I hope your week has gone well! I’ve been prompted by a few things to think about activity versus accomplishing lately. Falling into a trap of doing...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 17 Sept 2021
Hi! We’ve talked here in several issues about the “great resignation” that many companies are seeing as the pandemic starts to wane a bit. I think this is...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 10 Sept 2021
Research computing and data is increasingly a single discipline, a single area of practice. It’s a complex one, too; one which includes the support of first...
