Miss Kiowa Scott-Hurley1, Liz Stokes2, Dr. Nisha Ghatak3,4, Aidan Wilson5, Ms Amanda Miotto6,7, Siobhann McCafferty2, Jana Makar3,1, Aditi Subramanya1,8, Sara King, Lesley Wyborn10,11
1WHPC+ AusNZ,, Australia, 2ARDC,,,Australia, 3REANZZ, ,, 4The Carpentries, ,,,Australia, 5Intersect Australia, , ,,Australia, 6ResBaz QLD, , Australia, 7Griffith University, , Australia, 8Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre , , Australia, 9AARNet, Adelaide, Australia, 10ANU, Canberra, Australia, 11ESIP , ,
Biography:
Kiowa Scott-Hurley is a Dja Dja Wurrung woman who spends her 9-5 leading a team of awesome Machine Learning engineers at the Defence Science and Technology Group. Her unique mix of skills across ML, Cybersec and HPC means you can always catch her grumbling something about GPU drivers. In her free time, you’ll find her covertly drawing comics during boring meetings, using LLMs for evil, and getting nerd-sniped by malware analysis.
Liz Stokes is a Skills Development Lead (Trainer Communities) in Skilled Workforce Development at the Australian Research Data Commons. They are an engaged advocate for The Carpentries in Australia, and lead national programs to build data and software skills among Australian researchers. As a professional boundary-spanner, Liz champions social infrastructure for facilitating communities of practice. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2973-5647
Nisha Ghatak, REANNZ / The Carpentries – Dr Nisha Ghatak is a Research Communities Advisor and Training Lead at REANNZ. She is also part of the Board of Directors of the Carpentries.
Aidan Wilson is Digital Research Services Manager at Intersect Australia, where he supervises a team of Digital Research Analysts, and manages Intersect’s researcher training program. Aidan has been heavily involved in training delivery and systems since he joined Intersect in 2015.
Prior to joining Intersect, Aidan was a linguistic researcher working in the field of Australia’s Indigenous Languages, focusing in particular on the verb morphology of Traditional Tiwi, and other languages from the top-end, one of the most linguistically diverse regions on Earth.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9858-5470
Amanda Miotto is an eResearch Analyst for Griffith University, with 15 years of experience in the industry. She started off in the field of Bioinformatics and learnt to appreciate the beauty of science before discovering the joys of coding. She aims to bring innovations and resources to researchers to help accelerate their research projects.
Siobhann is a Project Manager at the ARDC working in Persistent Identifier Services, nationally and globally. She is the Community moderator for the Identifiers for Instruments Australasia (i4iOZ) CoP. orcid.org/0000-0002-2491-0995
Jana loves turning ideas into action and bringing people together to build strong, connected communities in science and tech.
Aditi is driven by a passion for uniting communities, solving intricate problems, and forging connections between seemingly disparate concepts.
Sara is the Training and Engagement Lead for AARNet. She is focused on outreach within the research sector, developing communities of interest around training and skills development in eResearch.
Abstract:
Ever attended eResearch Australasia and found yourself agonising over which Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session to attend? So many fantastic communities, so little time!
Or maybe you’re part of a community of practice and find yourself in the same BoF each year, always wondering what’s going on in those other rooms and whether you’re missing out on collaboration opportunities.
Enter the BoF of BoFs – your chance to find out who’s who in the eResearch zoo, all in one fun, fast-paced session!
We’ll kick off with rapid-fire introductions from a range of eResearch communities of practice. Each group gets a few minutes to share who they are, what they’re about, and how you can join their community.
Then, the floor opens to attendees: if you’re part of a community, here’s your chance to give it a shoutout! We want to build a map to navigate the eResearch zoo. Finally, BoFs from the conference can provide a report back and we can surface the top challenges and opportunities for each community.
Hopefully, we’ll be able to share solutions, or plan where we can join forces to tackle challenges together. The BoF will produce a collaborative document.
Who should attend?
• eResearch community members who want to share their work and collaborate with other communities.
• Delegates who are curious about which communities are out there and how to get involved with them.
• Delegates who are interested in community leadership and looking for examples of how other groups manage communities of practice.