@buttondown.com Assume you get notified about 500 errors, but should I report any other way?

Last week I gave a lunch and learn talk on "Can others reproduce your conda results? Using 'pixi' in a Python data analysis project" showing how keeping track of package version using conda is hard and can go wrong if your developer use multiple platforms, and how pixi helps.

This may be minor and/or unrelated and/or not a problem, but it looks like you have a ~ character in your path that isn't being expanded to your home directory in the output lower down. If you're using ~ in the path that points to your python interpreter, you may need to use $HOME instead.

👀 TIL about the Wagtail and Django release timeline: github.com/orgs/wagtail...

Essential reading, alongside the Django and Wagtail release schedules:

www.djangoproject.com/download/#su...
github.com/wagtail/wagt...

Thanks for this @wagtail.org!

Tried out some live coding 😬 but it went ok!

The Lunch and Learns are part of our training in research software engineering and data science. More lunch and learns here: bristol-training.github.io/lunch-and-le... and our full training material is here: bristol-training.github.io/courses.html

To finish off the session, Will Chapman, Data Scientist at @jgibristol.bsky.social seeks wisdom from the room on the hidden challenges in reproducible health data research... how can we have an institutional memory of these, and not have to rediscover them with each new project?

Ben Elsworth, Lead Data Engineer at Our Future Health ourfuturehealth.org.uk talked about their recent developments. "(probably) the most efficient and advanced genetic data processing and release pipelines in the world" & "VCF vs Zarr" for data storage "Zarr chunks the data [and is] parallelisable"

Richard Welpton, Head of Data Service Infrastructure at Economic and Social Research Council @ukri.org spoke about the key lessons for improving researcher experiences when working inside Trusted Research Environments (TREs). "Researchers should work collaboratively - TREs should support this"

Fiona Booth, Data integrity & Quality Assurance Programme Director at @bristoluni.bsky.social outlined the differences in what is understood by 'reproducibility' between commercial and academic health research. The most popular word in the room: documentation.

Damon Chow, Business Data Analyst at HDR UK gave a live demo of the Health Data Research Gateway website healthdatagateway.org, demonstrating the search functionality and how you can find information on datasets, data custodians, and more.

Rachel Denholm, Senior Lecturer, @bristoluni.bsky.social Medical School, and Co-Director of Health Data Research UK South West, kicked off the event with an outline of where we are now with secure data environments (SDEs or TREs) and what people are working towards, including accessing compute.

More interesting talks coming up...

My colleague Pau Erola has organised a great workshop to share knowledge on securely using health data in research. Part of the Health Data Research Network #HDRN: hdrnet.github.io supported by @jgibristol.bsky.social & Research England Enhancing Research Culture funding via @bristoluni.bsky.social