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Feeling stressed, overwhelmed, anxious? Did you know that journaling, writing down your feelings and thoughts, can help bring relief? Come and learn more about how you can write away some of your internal tensions, fears, and more at a Journaling for Emotional Well-Being Workshop, with presentations from the University Counseling Center and University Times writer and writing instructor Marty Levine.

You’ll have time to ask questions and do some journaling of your own – if you’d like. Give some time and attention to your personal well-being by attending this workshop. Journals and light refreshments will be provided.

The workshop is presented in collaboration with the University Counseling Center and hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Senate Library Committee with special funding from the Year of Emotional Well-Being Steering Committee.

BioRender will be hosting a webinar exclusively for the University of Pittsburgh on our top design tips for creating better posters. In this one-hour session, you'll learn some useful tips on poster design. We'll also be showing a new custom designed template we've been working on! This webinar will be led by Madison Knock, Customer Success Manager at BioRender. Can't attend? Register anyway to receive a recording of the session!

This is an encore presentation on NIH's new Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS Policy) that went into effect January 25, 2023. This Policy requires NIH-funded researchers to prospectively submit a plan outlining how scientific data from their research will be managed and shared. The Policy includes an expectation that researchers will maximize their data sharing within ethical, legal, or technical constraints, and explicitly encourages researchers to incorporate data sharing via deposit into a public repository into their standard research process.

This session will cover the data deposit process and explore these topics:

• How to write a good README, user manual, or data dictionary
• Assigning metadata to your data files to make it discoverable on the web
• Creating documentation templates to streamline the deposit process
• Understanding licenses and use restrictions in repositories

This is an encore presentation on NIH's new Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS Policy) that went into effect January 25, 2023. This Policy requires NIH-funded researchers to prospectively submit a plan outlining how scientific data from their research will be managed and shared. The Policy includes an expectation that researchers will maximize their data sharing within ethical, legal, or technical constraints, and explicitly encourages researchers to incorporate data sharing via deposit into a public repository into their standard research process. 

This session will cover the "where" of data sharing through the following topics:

• What is a repository? Repositories vs. data storage vs. data backup
• Choosing the right repository for your discipline, data format, and legal/ethical consideration
• Understanding potential costs for data sharing (and how to include them in a grant application
• Evaluating the robustness of a repository

This NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing, which went into effect on January 25, 2023, requires NIH-funded researchers to prospectively submit a plan outlining how scientific data from their research will be managed and shared. This session will cover the plan’s elements and allowable costs as well as tools to help with your own plan creation.

BioRender is a web-based program that helps you create scientific figures up to 50x faster than traditional tools. The tool combines a library of over 50,000 scientifically accurate, expert-validated life science icons and templates with intuitive drag-and- drop functionality. Create publication-quality figures in minutes - no drawing skills required!

In this one-hour webinar, learn actionable tips and techniques for designing science figures for your posters, presentations, publications and more! Including experimental methods and biological pathways, with an introduction to the BioRender software.

This webinar will be recorded and shared with registrants. 

Learning data science skills effectively requires a culture of compassion and psychological safety. However, this culture is not guaranteed within academia. In this talk, I will share effective strategies for building a culture of compassion, starting with yourself, and building up a safe learning environment for others. I will highlight this with examples on my own learning and teaching journey. I will show you strategies for learning, teaching, and building an inclusive learning environment for you and your peers.

This presentation is part of Love Data Week! Check out the entire lineup of Love Data Week 2023 at Pitt.

LabArchives Scheduler is a calendar and scheduling service for the management and scheduling of resources – from desks to lab space or from microscopes to flow cytometers; if you have a resource that you need to manage access to, Scheduler provides an easy and customizable solution for your team. Join us to learn how you can use Scheduler to upload resources, set reservation rules, invite users, and begin making reservations. 

For new users that want to learn how LabArchives Inventory streamlines the organization, tracking, and ordering of lab inventory. Whether you need to order inventory from a vendor or manage your in-lab created materials, LabArchives Inventory provides a simple and customizable solution for your physical inventory management needs. During the session we will show you how to customize inventory types and storage locations, add and manage lab inventory items, and use the ordering options to request and receive materials.

The LabArchives Research Notebook begins as a blank slate that is meant to be flexible so that you can customize the structure to complement current workflows. Join this session for a closer look at how you can use our built-in layouts or set up a notebook using other popular structures including: project and grant-based, individual researcher-based notebooks, date-based, or team notebooks to manage shared materials for reference purposes. We will also cover how you can add and manage your data, notebook access controls, collaboration tools, and export options.