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Seb Bacon<p>Come and join the Bennett Institute at the University of Oxford, led by Ben Goldacre! We built OpenSAFELY, a revolutionary open source platform for secure clinical research.</p><p>We&#39;re hiring at all levels for software engineers and product managers.</p><p>This blog post gives you the facts. But to give you a flavour of what we think passes as a good time, we&#39;re talking things like:</p><p>🍩 Making meetings non-terrible<br />🐙 Extreme keyboard customisation<br />🍝 Formatting, linting, and building all our code consistently, wherever it is<br />🐦 Talking to our users<br />🪄 Automating All The Things with custom slack bots<br />🦄 Audaciously/foolishly designing new query languages<br />🍌 Puns<br />🎨 Emoji-driven metric collection<br />🕵️‍♂️ TFW generative testing finds obscure bugs in third party libraries<br />🐑 Knitting<br />🌈 Meeting IRL and doing (board games|music|esoteric talks|just chatting)<br />🔍 Looking everywhere for more excuses to use sqlite</p><p>Let nobody say we don&#39;t know how to have fun.</p><p><a href="https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/opensafely-software-engineering-vacancies/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/</span><span class="invisible">opensafely-software-engineering-vacancies/</span></a></p>
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Seb Bacon<p>⏰ Exciting news! ⏰ </p><p>Following extensive work with our colleagues at NHS England, OpenSAFELY&#39;s future is now firmly established as core NHS infrastructure. </p><p>It&#39;s important as a method to analyse patient records without harming privacy...</p><p>But what excites me most is the the &quot;trojan horse&quot; that it enforces open science methods. Every single time real patient data is accessed, it&#39;s logged IN PUBLIC along with the exact, reproducible code that was run...</p><p><a href="https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/11/the-future-of-opensafely-an-important-announcement-from-nhs-england-dhsc-and-the-bennett-institute-at-oxford/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/11/</span><span class="invisible">the-future-of-opensafely-an-important-announcement-from-nhs-england-dhsc-and-the-bennett-institute-at-oxford/</span></a></p>
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Seb Bacon<p>Im just a guy hanging out enjoying reading the Google Maps reviews of the place where you can find the hill in the Windows XP wallpaper <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/B4RpjbtJY2CbJbiDA?g_st=ic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">maps.app.goo.gl/B4RpjbtJY2CbJb</span><span class="invisible">iDA?g_st=ic</span></a></p>
Seb Bacon<p><a href="https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/02/were-hiring/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/02/</span><span class="invisible">were-hiring/</span></a></p><p>WE ARE HIRING!</p><p>A prestigious fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford<br /> working with us on your own projects around epidemiology, open science, research software engineering and all our usual obsessions.</p>
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Seb Bacon<p>It&#39;s enormously entertaining watching people attempt to solve our treasure hunt (<a href="https://pablosath.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pablosath.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)</p><p>We&#39;re living their joys and frustrations in real time. It&#39;s intense!</p>