

Welcome to this special Spring 2025 issue of UC Berkeley's Research IT newsletter. Coinciding with Valentine’s Day, next week is Love Data Week
which is being celebrated across the UC campuses and the country. Love Data Week is a nationwide campaign designed to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and other research data services. Review the calendar of events running February 10-13, as well as the UC Berkeley workshops listed in the events section below, and register today. We hope you can find some time next week to learn about the different ways you can love your data.


- Learn how this chatbot is transforming research support
- Interact with the chatbot on the Research IT documentation website by clicking the blue circular logo on the bottom right of the screen

Feb 11, 11:00am - 12pm: GIS & Mapping: Where to Start
Feb 12, 1:00 - 2:00pm: Oral History Methodology for the Qualitative Researcher

Stay up to date with our upcoming trainings on our website and view recordings of our past trainings on our YouTube channel.

Women in High Performance Computing Bay Area Chapter
Women in High Performance Computing Bay Area Chapter
Join us! We are a group of women and allies based among Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and UC Berkeley. Our mission is to diversify the HPC profession to better represent the important work of women and other underrepresented groups.
As a Women in HPC chapter, our goals range from local, individual support to transforming the global HPC community for the better. We hope to bring together various communities of practice who have experience with not only HPC, but additional surrounding topics like data science, data storage and movement, web portals, skill-building, and any other topics of interest. Join our community by emailing whpc+subscribe@lbl.gov

Status & Service Updates
The best way to stay updated on the latest status and updates for the Research IT services is on the front page of the Research IT website. If you are having issues or unsure if one of our services is down, check there first before sending us a ticket. Virtual Office Hours
Research IT has a diverse team of expert consultants from across disciplines that can help with your data and computing questions related to your research.
Join us during our virtual office hours on Wednesdays from 1:30 - 3pm and Thursdays from 9:30 - 11am. You can also reach out to us anytime via email at research-it-consulting@berkeley.edu