1-15 November, 2016: Research in Action, The Jackson Laboratory, Reproducability of Research, Announcement List, RStudio.

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

##Highlights

• Listen to the postcast about Research in Action by Dr. Tracy Teal, Executive Director of Data Carpentry.

##Jobs

• The Carter Lab at The Jackson Laboratory is seeking a Postdocoral fellow in Computational Genetics.
• The Carter Lab at The Jackson Laboratory is seeking an Associate Research Scientist in the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease.
• The Churchill Lab at The Jackson Laboratory is seeking a Postdortoral fellow in systems biology.
• The Jackson Laboraty has a scientific sofgtware engineer position avalable.

##Tweets

• We have a low volume announcement list, please sign up.
• A semester-long datacarpentry course for biologists by Jabberwocky Ecology.
• Because we video conference a lot we have saved $440,000 in travel costs adding up to 3,000,000 airline miles.
• Slides on the for best practices in Bioinformatics Training as presented by Harriet Dashnow.

##General

• Some key papers on the reproducibility of research has just been posted by Prof. Lorena Barba.

• If you want to be added as a trainer and consultant for RStudio, please contact Garett Grolemund.

• 29 workshops were run over the past 30 days. For more information about past workshops, please visit our website.

• Upcoming Workhshops:

  • November: Scion Research and NeSI, QUT.

  • December: Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Oxford University Department of Biochemistry, University of Victoria, University of California, San Francisco.

  • 2017:

  • January 229th AAS Meeting, NERC / The University of Bristol,LCG-Aula 1-2, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, UNAM, NERC / The University of Bristol.

  • February AMOS / MSNZ Conference.