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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards
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Senior Research Data Steward at UCL's Advanced Research Computing department @ucl-arc.bsky.social, sometime clinical trial conduct methodologist, palaeopathologist, archaeologist, & food historian | #DataSharing #OpenScience #HealthcareSystemsData
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A great start to the Health Data Research UK Conference in Glasgow. Really enjoying Gerrit Meijer's presentation about the European Health Data Environment #HDRUK 🧪📊
Photograph of stage of auditorium, showing Gerrit Meijer and his slide of oneliners. I particularly liked his oneliner "Researchers and research infrastructure developers often seem to be living in parallel universes". The rest on the slide are: "Infrastructure is not a goal in itself, but a means to an end"; "The most useful infrastructure is the one that is actually being used" and "The better is the enemy of the good"
October 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Day 4 at #CAA2025 and kicking off with a session on Digital Fieldwork Documentation in Archaeology: innovation, challenges and standards. Really feel for our first speaker as last night was the conference dinner and it's only 8.30am! 🏺
Photograph of the stage showing a slide saying: "Key questions of the session: How to collect accurate and standardized data? How to integrate all types of data? How to make them sustainable? How to train and share these issues?"
May 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Kicking off #CAA2025. This year's theme is "Digital Horizons: embracing heritage in an evolving world" 🏺@caaint.bsky.social #archaeology
Photograph of the main conference stage with a big slide up saying in shades of red and black "CAA2025 5-9 May University of West Attica, Athens, Greece"
May 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Great start to my week at #CAA2025 in Athens: a morning at the Ancient Agora, an afternoon at an ArcheoViz workshop, and an evening of welcome drinks at the University of West Attica. #archaeology 🏺
A photograph of the Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Agora in Athens. The photo is taken from below, with the (astonishingly complete) temple peaking over the bushes and trees. There are more ruins in front.
May 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Oh, and there will be tastings..... 😋 #history #Skystorians #Ancientbluesky
Image of the cover of the book: "Sally Grainger, Roman Recipes for Modern Cooks. Illustrated by Joana Avillez. apartemento."
January 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Really looking forward to the book launch of food historian, archaeologist, & chef, Sally Grainger. Come along to the launch of her "Roman Recipes for Modern Cooks" on Wednesday 22nd January 2025 4-6pm at Books for Cooks in Notting Hill, London! www.booksforcooks.com
🗃️ 🏺 #food #FoodHistory
Flyer advertising a book launch, saying: "Sally Grainger's Roman Recipes for Modern Cooks. London Book Launch and Signing! We're kicking off the year with the launch of Roman Recipes for Modern Cooks by acclaimed food historian Sally Grainger. Join us at Books for Cooks for this special event to meet the author, discover her fascinating culinary insights, and have your copy personally signed! Wednesday, January 22 4-6pm Books for Cooks 4 Blenheim Crescent, London W11 1NN" Publisher: apartemento
January 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Here's the relevant text from the advert.
Screenshot of part of the text of the advert, with a paragraph about the library and it's importance, followed by a sentence which has been highlighted, about the "competitive salary". It states: "As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present, we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere. In return, we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits."
January 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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At Juan Santamaria Airport after a fantastic trip to Costa Rica for the #RDAPlenary. Wish I'd been able to see more while I was here, but after a great morning in the Jade Museum, the Banco Central Museum & lunch at the National Theatre, in San José, I really can't complain! #Archaeology #History
One of the beautifully designed galleries of the Jade Museum in San José, Costa Rica, showing the way the floor looks like a river and it's banks, and the cases of archaeological artifacts all reflecting the biodiversity of the region, with their depictions of it's creatures.
November 16, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Now a 'fireside chat', talking about the outputs of the Research Data Alliance and their impact, starting with Shalini Kurapati and Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General of the RDA
Photo of the main RDA stage with Shalini Kurapati introducing the session and Hilary Hanahoe, the RDA Secretary General waiting to chat
November 12, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Looking forward to the 1st day of the #RDAPlenary in Costa Rica! Kicking off with a session on 'Sustainable Science: Responsible Data in the Scientific Era‘. 🧪📊 #ResearchData #OpenScience #AcademicSky #FAIR_Data
Photo of the stage of the Aula Magna at the University of Costa Rica in San José, showing the conference's sloth symbol beamed onto the back of the stage and the conference theme "sustainable science"
November 12, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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I'm pretty sure we're not experiencing winds of 3508 mph at the moment..... And thankfully the BBC has finally noticed and agrees 🤦 #BBCWeather 📊
Screenshot of webpage for BBC weather forecast for London, showing winds of 3508mph all day today, and a weather summary of "Hurricane force winds". There is a small banner saying "We're experiencing issues with our forecast data. We're working to resolve it".
October 10, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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Are you at UCL & do you write data management plans, collect/ clean data, script data transformations or prepare data for sharing? If so, you're a Data Steward!
Join the new Research Data Stewardship Community!
forms.office.com/e/pC1qdjSqFL 🧪📊 #DataSteward #ResearchData #DataManagement #metasci
Set of coloured hexagons containing the following text: Research Data Stewardship Community What do we do? Support research data across the lifecycle and advocate open and FAIR data. Who are we? People from across UCL engaged in Research Data Stewardship Let's build networks, share knowledge & resources, & break down silos
September 6, 2024 at 7:53 AM