How to get involved with REG

Our main communication is via our Slack channel, #bristol-reg, on the UK RSE Slack instance.

Join our Slack channel

To join:

  1. Sign up to the UK RSE Slack instance.
  2. Once you have signed up, email us for an invite to the #bristol-reg channel.

We’d like to encourage use of the Slack for peer-to-peer support (and cat photos!)

The UK RSE slack also brings together the UK-wide RSE and friends community. If you’re new, then there are lots of helpful channels on this Slack instance and it’s a very active community.

Other ways to get involved

  • Group meetings hybrid in Royal Fort House on the last Tuesday of every month, usually 3-4pm.

  • Mailing list grp-ResearchEngineering which also has a group calendar for our meetings (and somewhere to store all the documents linked to below). We’ll add you to this at the same time as the Slack channel.

  • Research computing training for data science and RSE. Self-led courses on GitHub plus we run in-person and online courses during the year. Volunteer helpers welcome!

  • Reading group - every month we review and discuss an article voted on by the group. These sessions are usually hybrid.

  • Today I Learned (TIL) GitHub repo – for making interesting things we talk about on Slack more permanent, with minimal fuss. See the ‘contributing TILs’ for instructions.

  • Data Science Handbook GitHub website – in development and contributions welcome!

Also of interest

  • Data Ethics Club online journal club about doing data science ethically, every two weeks.

  • Alan Turing Institute liaison academics linking the University of Bristol to the wider Turing network and interest groups, for example.