Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter This month, we enjoyed meeting and speaking to over 200 staff members at the Staff Benefits Fair about the various BEAR services available, welcome to those who have joined our mailing list! November’s newsletter looks a little different as we’ve added some sections to help with navigation, do let us know if you have … Continue reading “November 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
Author: Yajie Zhang
October 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter It’s been great to meet so many new PhD students at various college and school inductions over the last few weeks, and to see so much interest in the new training workshops that we are providing. To help spread the word about the many ways that BEAR services can help … Continue reading “October 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
September 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter We kicked off September with a BEAR Champion meetup, celebrating all the help that our expanding team of volunteers have given over the past academic year and going on a data centre tour to meet our supercomputer, BlueBEAR. As we head into the new academic year, we have updated our training homepage to accommodate … Continue reading “September 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
July 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter July sees us nearing the end of a busy training, events, and conference season – we look forward to meeting new members of staff at the central induction event on Monday 21 July in the Great Hall. Three members of the team attended STEP-UP RSLondon last week, including myself, who … Continue reading “July 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
High-Resolution Soil Hydrology Analysis Enabled by BlueBEAR
In this case study, we hear from Guilin Luo, a PhD student in the School of Geography, who has been harnessing BEAR’s advanced computing resources to investigate how temperate forest soils respond to climatic change. By integrating high-resolution environmental monitoring data from the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) site, and using workflows in R … Continue reading “High-Resolution Soil Hydrology Analysis Enabled by BlueBEAR”
June 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter Whilst June has seen several of the team head out to conferences and events, including ISC High Performance 2025, we are busy preparing for our own event next week to welcome 15 teams of taught students to the heavily oversubscribed BEAR Challenge 2025, part of the UoB Xtra series of events. … Continue reading “June 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
May 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter As we head into summer, we have a busy events season starting this week with the HPC-SIG in Cambridge, the Thesis Submission event for PGRs, and the BEAR Conference. Hopefully you will have seen that our summer programme of BEAR training workshops (being held online) has now been released, and you can … Continue reading “May 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
Utilising BEAR workshops for Multimodal Analysis in Cognitive Translation Research
In this case study, we hear from Mingjie Zhang, a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music (LCAHM), who has been leveraging BEAR workshops to apply digital humanities methods in her project “Translating between Minds: Cognitive Insights of the Dao De Jing.” By integrating tools such as R, Python, Matlab, and GitHub—learned … Continue reading “Utilising BEAR workshops for Multimodal Analysis in Cognitive Translation Research”
April 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter Earlier this month, members of the Research Software Group led the RSE Midlands 2025 meeting at The Exchange featuring a wide range of talks showcasing research software, from Research Software Engineers (RSEs) through to researchers – we will provide a summary of the event in a future newsletter. Yesterday was … Continue reading “April 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
March 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter This month we reached our 1500th publication logged where BEAR services have been used during the research, congratulations to Aaron Scott from the Department of Inflammation and Ageing! We will be featuring a case study on his research in a future newsletter. In team news this week, we were … Continue reading “March 2025 BEAR Newsletter”