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Science communicator | @ardc.edu.au research infrastructure advocate | parent | reader | traveller | Brisbanite | #scicomm

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Card reading "Announcing New ARDC-Sponsored Eureka Prize for Data Platforms" against a photo of a Eureka Prize trophy on a stage

Card reading "Announcing New ARDC-Sponsored Eureka Prize for Data Platforms" against a photo of a Eureka Prize trophy on a stage

πŸ“£We’re excited to announce a new ARDC-sponsored @eurekaprizes.bsky.social for Excellence in Data Platforms in 2026! This prize will celebrate the development and ongoing maintenance of a data platform that has enabled significant scientific research.

Learn more & apply > ardc.edu.au/article/anno...

10.02.2026 06:29 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ Calling researchers! We're seeking expressions of interest to improve ARDC's website.

πŸ”— Learn more and submit an EOI > https://ow.ly/WhcV50XZTLo #ECR #MCR #Academic

22.01.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join the ARDC team!
Research Data Specialist (AI/ML)
πŸ“ #Sydney
Close 26 Nov
πŸ”— https://ow.ly/EZwi50Xrrwo

Engagements Team Manager
πŸ“#Sydney
Close 26 Nov
πŸ”— https://ow.ly/oHwh50Xrrwm

Cloud Infrastructure and Services Architect
πŸ“#Melbourne
Close 1 Dec
πŸ”— https://ow.ly/FkxB50Xrrwk

#jobalert

14.11.2025 00:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 2026 | ARDC Learn hands-on digital skills, network and inspire new research outcomes at the fourth annual HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School.

Calling the #HASS & Indigenous research data community! Register now for our Summer School. Travel bursaries available.
πŸ“†3 - 4 Feb 2026, Ballarat
✍️ ardc.edu.au/event/hass-a...

w/ @sydney-crf.bsky.social @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social @internetobservatory.org.au @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au

30.10.2025 03:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Discover research training events and resources with Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA)

Discover research training events and resources with Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA)

DReSA makes it easy to find:
Workshops, webinars and conferences
Extensive training modules
Videos and tutorials on specific programs and databases
Short-form training material 
Frameworks to design effective independent training plans for research teams
Summaries of previous events and questionnaires 
And much more

DReSA makes it easy to find: Workshops, webinars and conferences Extensive training modules Videos and tutorials on specific programs and databases Short-form training material Frameworks to design effective independent training plans for research teams Summaries of previous events and questionnaires And much more

Looking for a quick & easy way to find events and resources that strengthen your digital research skills?
πŸ‘€ DReSA, a catalogue for digital research training. Learn Python, R, bioinformatics, ML, data skills + more
πŸ”— dresa.org.au
w/ @pawseycentre.bsky.social @nci-australia.bsky.social

08.07.2025 06:07 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
New Social Science Research Infrastructure Network to Enhance Research Capacity in Australia | 15 July 2025

Hot off the press: the latest ARDC Connect newsletter!
πŸŽ‰ #SocialScience Research Infrastructure Network
πŸŽ‰new national analytics infrastructure for #health research project
πŸ”† #RAiD is making projects more visible internationally
+ free events, resources, #jobs & more!

mailchi.mp/ardc.edu.au/...

15.07.2025 01:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Researchers on Tap at Fish Lane - World Science Festival Queensland

#Brisbane - join the local ASC branch for an informal gathering at the World Science Festival!
🍺 Researchers on Tap at Fish Lane
πŸ“…Sat 29 March, 5.30pm, Fish Lane (near the QLD Museum)
Let me know if you’re coming so we can save you a seat!
worldsciencefestival.com.au/events/resea...
#scicomm

28.03.2025 03:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Enhance your research collaborations with the ARDC BinderHub Service.

Enhance your research collaborations with the ARDC BinderHub Service.

BinderHub enables you to turn your code, data, and computational environments into shareable and executable packages.

BinderHub enables you to turn your code, data, and computational environments into shareable and executable packages.

β€œBinderHub is key to the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) because it makes our text analytics tools more accessible to researchers ... In the future, we aim to make ATAP a platform for collaboration, and BinderHub will be the key to that also.” – Dr Ben Foley, Applications and Training lead for ATAP at the University of Queensland.

β€œBinderHub is key to the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) because it makes our text analytics tools more accessible to researchers ... In the future, we aim to make ATAP a platform for collaboration, and BinderHub will be the key to that also.” – Dr Ben Foley, Applications and Training lead for ATAP at the University of Queensland.

ARDC BinderHub Service is free for Australian researchers - log in today! bit.ly/ardc-binder

ARDC BinderHub Service is free for Australian researchers - log in today! bit.ly/ardc-binder

Are you looking for a way to simplify collaborations and enhance the reproducibility of your research?

πŸ“’With the ARDC #BinderHub Service, flexible and shareable computing environments are easier to access than ever. It's free for Australian researchers.

Learn moreπŸ”— bit.ly/ardc-binder

27.03.2025 03:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Eyes in the Sky: Using Drones and AI to Understand Beach Use on the Gold Coast | ARDC By using drones, AI and the ARDC’s Nectar Research Cloud, researchers are transforming how we monitor and manage Australia’s beaches.

How many people really use Australia’s Gold Coast #beaches each year? πŸ–οΈ

Thanks to #drones, #AI and the ARDC’s Nectar Research Cloud, researchers now have the answer: 34 million people!

Read how this tech is shaping coastal management: ardc.edu.au/case-study/e...

#NCRISimpact #GoldCoast

19.03.2025 04:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Access national research computing resources directly from your home or office with the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud.

Access national research computing resources directly from your home or office with the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud.

Nectar gives researchers access to:
GPUs and large memory machines
virtual desktops or Jupyter Notebooks
workflows and platforms 
software tools and data.

Nectar gives researchers access to: GPUs and large memory machines virtual desktops or Jupyter Notebooks workflows and platforms software tools and data.

ARDC Nectar Research Cloud
Unlock the power of Nectar today 
bit.ly/ardc-nectar

ARDC Nectar Research Cloud Unlock the power of Nectar today bit.ly/ardc-nectar

Are you looking for powerful computing tools to support your research? With the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud, advanced computational infrastructure is just a click away.

Unlock the power of Nectar today: bit.ly/ardc-nectar

#TipTuesday #Cloudcomputing #compute #data #science #research

10.03.2025 22:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’Join workshops to help co-design new capabilities for HASS & Indigenous research in:
πŸ“°Public docs
πŸ’»Collections
πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»Research Software Engineering
πŸ”§RO-Crate
πŸ‘©β€πŸ«Digitised docs
Register now > lnkd.in/gRCjKkNU
@uq-rcc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social @internetobservatory.org.au @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social

26.02.2025 00:50 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome 🌊

28.02.2025 03:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ARDC Community Data Lab Co-design Workshop: Curated Collections for Enduring HASS and Indigenous Data | ARDC Join us to co-design a new national service to publish HASS and Indigenous data collections as websites

πŸ“£Curated Collections for Enduring HASS and Indigenous Data: a co-design workshop
πŸ“† Tues 4 March 12 noon AEDT
✍️Learn more and register ardc.edu.au/event/ardc-c...
w/ Sydney Informatics Hub
@humanitiesau.bsky.social
#HASS #researchdata #FAIRdata

27.02.2025 01:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#scicom job opportunity at ACCESS-NRI in Canberra! Take a look πŸ‘‡
#jobalert

27.02.2025 03:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Using the Power of Sound to Tackle Australia’s Biodiversity Crisis | ARDC Discover how the Open Ecoacoustics platform is helping researchers monitor biodiversity in Australia through the power of sound, AI and open data to protect wildlife and ecosystems.

Australia’s bushland has a voice. But as #biodiversity continues to decline, nature’s voice is changing.
Discover how #researchers use sound to monitor Australia's native #wildlife w/ @openecoacoustics.bsky.social
πŸ”‰Read the case study: ow.ly/Ca8n50UZWU8
@charlessturtuni.bsky.social
#ecoacoustics

17.02.2025 01:40 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Help Shape the ARDC Community Data Lab for HASS and Indigenous Research | ARDC The ARDC Community Data Lab (CDL), initiated by the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons, offers diverse tools, datasets, analysis environments, and collaboration options for humanities, art...

Help shape the ARDC Community Data Lab to support #HASS and #Indigenous #research
πŸ“† 18 Feb, online
✍️Learn more and register ardc.edu.au/event/help-s...

31.01.2025 00:19 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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EcoCommons Australia: A Powerful New Tool for Ecological Modelling | ARDC The newly published article in Environmental Modelling and Software highlights the groundbreaking work of EcoCommons Australia, an ecological modelling platform that is transforming biodiversity prote...

Excited to see the new journal paper about EcoCommons Australia! Huge thanks to the team for their fantastic effort during the photoshoot + to the paper authors for their contributions to the article - take a look πŸ‘€
ardc.edu.au/article/ecoc...
#ecology #data #research

03.12.2024 06:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

πŸ“£Register now for the ARDC Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass at Summer School 2025
πŸ“†3 Feb 2025
πŸ“State Library of Queensland + travel bursaries available
πŸ™‹πŸ½β€β™€οΈFor researchers + custodians of Indigenous data based in Australia
✍️Spots are limited! bit.ly/idg-mastercl...

03.12.2024 06:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My heart. In a few years time my kids will be old enough to read the new. I can't imagine the sadness they will have to face as our environment declines more rapidly πŸ˜”

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