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We will be retiring this account at the start of 2025. To keep up-to-date on our free courses, exciting events, or general happenings at the Digital Research Academy. Follow us on 🟦 linkedin.com/company/digita… 🐘 @digiresacademy@mastodon.social 🦋 digiresacademy.bsky.social

We hope everyone has a great start to the new year! 🎉 Just a reminder that we‘ll no longer be posting to this account starting tomorrow in 2025. Come find us on our other SM channels! 😘

To us, this is a wish come true, so we would like to invite you to also share your wishes: ✨ What would you like to see from DRA in 2025? ✨

🎄 Final day (24) of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Thanks to all who helped make the dream of the Digital Research Academy become a reality in 2024 💜 Together we trained over 500 people in Open Science, Data Literacy, RSE and didactics in 2024! 🤩

🎄 Day 23 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 We love the Code for Thought podcast by Peter Schmidt. 💜 It's about software in research and the people behind it all. One of the episodes is about the Digital Research Academy 🤩 codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/episod…

Topics include: - Overview of R and RStudio - Downloading and Installing R and RStudio - Navigating the R and RStudio interfaces - Managing your files and data - Basic arithmetic, arithmetic operators, and variables - Importing data and saving analysis outputs

🎄 Day 22 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Are you interested in learning R and don't know where to begin? Check out our free email course from William Okech! #rstats heidiseibold.kit.com/d949a4d18c

🎄 Day 21 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Can training materials be reproducible and FAIR? Yes! DRA trainers Esther Plomp and Lennart Wittkuhn made amazing slides how to do it using Quarto. lennartwittkuhn.com/dra-fair-teach…

🎄 Day 20 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Dive into this fantastic slide deck on self-awareness, communication, learner motivation, team dynamics, and psychological safety by Anne-Lise Ducournau, Laura Carter and Jez Cope. zenodo.org/records/143095…

🎄 Day 19 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Want to make your research reproducible? We've got an amazing self-learning resource for you! Go through this booklet and you'll be well on your way! berd-nfdi.github.io/BERD-reproduci…

🎄 Day 18 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 We’re sharing slides from @joyceykao and Carolina Natel de Moura on learning outcomes and flipped classrooms, which were a key part of their DRA Train-the-Trainer journey! 🎓✨ Check out the slides here: osf.io/rxk26

🎄 Day 17 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Today, we’re excited to feature DRA Trainer Fritjof Lammers's materials on Shell, Git, and Docker! 🐚✨ Learn how to use these essential tools to enhance your productivity and collaboration. Materials here: mobilegenome.github.io/dra-docker-tra…

🎄 Day 16 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Comprehensive slides for a 3 hour workshop on Data Version Control, Computational Reproducibility, Good Coding Practices, and Open Platforms by DRA Trainer, Johanna Bayer! 💻✨ Check out Johanna’s slides here: zenodo.org/records/142684…

🎄 Day 15 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Check out this brand new email course on #AgileMethodologies for research, created by DRA Co-Founder @joyceykao! 📧✨ Doing research is unpredictable and agile methods help navigate the unknown. Sign up here: heidiseibold.kit.com/dra-agile-cour…

🎄 Day 14 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Today, check out this podcast episode from Risky Conversations! 🎙️✨ DRA Co-founders Heidi and Joyce discuss betting on themselves in #SocialEntreprenuership with Executive Coach, Jamie Lee. Tune in: buzzsprout.com/2033808/episod…

Effective Podcasting for Researchers Workshop 🗓️ Date: Feb 18-19, 2025 📍 Location: Cologne, DE Sneak Peek: listen to our free podcast on getting started in podcasting. open.spotify.com/show/5lmkVt26K… Register today and start your podcasting journey with us! events.digital-research.academy/e/NFDI4Healthp…

🎄 Day 13 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Upcoming workshop on Effective Podcasting for Researchers with NFDI4Health and DRA! 🎙️✨ Perfect for researchers looking to amplify their voice and share their work with a wider audience. ⬇️ Sign up details below ⬇️

@openlifesci To find out more about the OSPARK bootcamp 📗 Read about it here: we-are-ols.org/posts/2024/12/… 🎥 Watch this short video: youtu.be/qMN0zPF653Y?si… OSPARK is funded by OSCARS 🇪🇺

🎄 Day 12 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 📣 📣 📣 DRA is partnering with OLS (@openlifesci) on the Open Science Promotion and Advocacy for Research Knowledge (OSPARK) project to build a bootcamp on upskilling communication skills for promoting research services & findings.

🎄 Day 11 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 @RiedlLydia's Introduction to Open Science presentation for the @OpenScienceUM Initiative at Uni Marburg and part of her Train-the-Trainer journey to become a DRA Trainer. 🌟✨ Check out Lydia’s slides: zenodo.org/records/141992…

Join us for an inspiring retreat dedicated to advancing Open Science. Connect with a diverse community, share ideas, and recharge in stunning Swiss landscape. Special thanks goes out to our local co-organizers, @crsuzh and @openlifescience!

🎄 Day 10 of our DRAdvent Calendar! 🎄 Applications are NOW OPEN for the Open Science Retreat 2025 in beautiful Beatenberg, Switzerland, April 13-17, 2025! 🌄✨ events.digital-research.academy/e/OSR25CH #OpenScience #Retreat #Reboot #OSRCH25