London Scholarly Tech

Furthermore, @portablebrain will be moving to Product Management at the BBC, and that means that @altmetric is looking for a new Director of Product! Apply here: ow.ly/M1cK50ylE3a and let us know if you have any questions about the role!

⚠️ Some changes! We’re sad to announce that @portablebrain and @cperryhouts are stepping down as organizers of London Scholarly Tech. But we’re happy to say that Louise Ho and Emma Proudley from the @altmetric Product Team will be taking their places, so the Meetup will continue!

Excited to share our end of year video - the Digital Science Elements Song! Set to Tom Lehrer's iconic lyrics, with an additional verse added to include all 118 elements, what better way to celebrate #IYPT2019 and our amazing community! #DSElementsSong youtube.com/watch?v=qo1GBS…

💬Enjoyed our event on Tuesday? Don’t forget to join our Slack community to continue the great conversations online! londonscholarlytech.slack.com/join/shared_in…

Did you miss our talk at @ldnscholarly ? @jfine2358 wrote an informative blog post about the event. Read about LaTeX, accessibility on the web and going through a career change. ow.ly/FxiF50xmT3S

Missed last night’s event? Check out this fantastic blog post written by @jfine2358! jfine2358.github.io/post/2019/11/2… We’re honoured and delighted to see this great summary of the evening!

Loved taking part in @ldnscholarly with Roberta and Ali from @overleaf. ☺️👋 #londontech

@_econostat Hope to see you next time!

@ldnscholarly Sadly I missed it. Got out of the office late!!

Thanks to all who came to our Meetup tonight! We’re so pleased to be part of such a great community of brilliant scholarly product thinkers and makers, and we hope you had a great conversation with someone new today!

If you’d be interested in speaking at a future London Scholarly Tech event, please send us a DM. You can also reach out to one of our organizers: Jean @portablebrain, Charlotte @cperryhouts, Ian @IanMulvany, and Manchi @ManchiLondon!

We’d like to extend a HUGE thank you to our wonderful speakers tonight! Thank you to Jonathan @ResearcherApp, Roberta @larobby, and Ali @40_thieves for your amazing talks!

We’re now getting a cool demo from ⁦⁦@40_thieves⁩ of the aXe accessibility Chrome extension using the ⁦@overleaf⁩ website... with some contrast improvements identified! 😉

These are some great tips from Ali Smith @40_thieves at @overleaf about accessibility including a super simple change to Pull Request templates

Lots of practical, straightforward advice from @40_thieves on manually assessing accessibility: follow a checklist, try a screen reader, and try to access everything on the page without mouse!

What can be done to improve web accessibility of our products? @40_thieves recommends: first educate yourself and your team - there are so many resources online! At @overleaf, accessibility is considered when checking-in code.

Next up is Ali ⁦@40_thieves, Frontend Developer at ⁩ ⁦@overleaf⁩! He’s giving a great overview of why web accessibility is important and why we must strive to build a more inclusive web for our users.

Top 3 product career insights from @larobby, Senior Product Manager at @overleaf: Work out what you want, observe your environment (and get involved), and most importantly... look after your health!

@PubtechR @digitalsci Thanks! We look forward to seeing you at our next event in 2020!

@ldnscholarly @digitalsci Oopps knew there was somewhere I was supposed to be tonight.... Hope it goes well!

We’re getting ready for tonight’s Meetup! See you all soon for another great evening of networking and talks at the ⁦@digitalsci⁩ office!

We love the Pac Man theme in ⁦@larobby⁩’s presentation! She‘s talking about how product management courses helped her level up her career.

We’re now hearing from Roberta ⁦@larobby⁩ about her career path into product management from a background in marketing!