diff --git a/_posts/blog/2021-05-13-lab-meeting.md b/_posts/blog/2021-05-13-lab-meeting.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c360f24 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/blog/2021-05-13-lab-meeting.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# Lab Meeting on 13th March 2021 + +This week's lab meeting focused on **Sarah** running us through building a blog with Hugo and GitHub pages. +This was part of Sarah's wonderful efforts to update the Whitaker Lab blog to a new layout and ensure our updates are going out regularly. +Sarah did a tour de force through her instructions for setting up a blog using Hugo anfd GitHub pages from scratch. +If you are interested in setting up your own blog, Sarah's instructions are available on her own blog as a [Carpentries style lesson](https://sgibson91.github.io/blogging-with-hugo-and-github-pages/). + +# Celebrations and cool things to share +The week for most lab members was about getting many smaller tasks done while taking care of yourself. +**Malvika** prepared the wonderful Turing Way book dash and onboarded new contributors. +**Arielle** helped by mentoring contributors. +**Laura** made good progress on her PhD chapter and sent that off to her supervisors. +**Ismael** ran a Research Ethics Committees workshop. +**Lotty** facilitated her first AutSPACEs meet up. + +## Recommendations for movies and reading +* **Lotty** recommends everyone to watch 'Promising Young Woman' +* **Malvika** highlighted this resource to dig into git and GitHub nicely: https://learngitbranching.js.org/ + +# Things we are thinking about