August 3 - 17, 2015: Data Carpentry Funded, Citations, Improving Our Lessons, and Lab Data Management.

Details

• Rounds 14 and 15 of instructor debriefing were run in August. Some great pointers are given to improve learners' and instructors' experience.
• Did you know Software Carpentry material can be used to teach undergraduates too? Kunal Marwaha summarised their experience as instructors at a workshop specifically for undergraduates.
• Areej Alsheikh provided great feedback about DIPnet's recent workshop in Bali He gave interesting tips for teaching a mainly non-English speaking audience.
• Remi Emonet wrote two posts about workshops run at CERN. Read about the different experiences in his first and second workshops.
• Five workshops were run over the last two weeks. For full details on previous workshops please visit our website.
• Several workshops have been confirmed for the next few months. Upcoming workshops can be viewed on our website. Newly added workshops are indicated with "*".
• August: University of California, Davis*, Daejeon*, Vanderbijlt Unviversity, North Western University, Sloan-Kettering, University of Melbourne*, Stanford University, NeSI - Wellington Region, NERC / University of Leeds
• September: University of Michigan*, University of Surrey*, The University of Leeds - Advanced Research Computing, Universidade de São Paulo*, University of Chicago*, University of Queensland
• October: James Cook University*
• November: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Other events

• PyCon UK 2015 will be running a Science Track with a collaborative open science sprint on 19 - 21 September.