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Slack#

Daily intra-lab communications are done via Slack. We recommend using your BHKLab Gmail as your Slack e-mail as that will allow you to easily integrate with other lab tools such as the shared calendar.

General Rules#

Your communications on Slack should be professional. In particular what you post should comply with the Slack Terms of Service as well as the code of conduct of your institution.

Being a jerk is strongly discouraged.

Additionally, the lab Slack workspace is divided in to channels. Please use the channels for their intended purposes and following the guidelines below.

Channels#

The Slack has four main channels - #general, #random, #publications, and #conferences-workshops. We give guidelines for posting in each of these below. The rules for posting in #publications are specific and require special attention.

General#

The #general channel is where most lab-wide notices are posted. The content of #general is confined to the professional functioning of the BHK Lab and will contain things like:

  • Deadline reminders (such as those for the Summary of Work)
  • Scientific talks that may be of interest to lab members.
  • Scheduling of lab-wide events (e.g., lab retreats, hackathons, etc.)
  • Group food orders.

For team-specific posting please use the proper channel (#pharmacogenomics or #radiomics).

Random#

#random is, as the name suggests, a catch-all channel for content that may be of interest to the whole lab but is not related to the professional activities. Examples of the kinds of things that get posted here are:

  • Links to artistic events or side projects
  • Events that may be of interest (e.g., food festivals, concerts.)

Publications#

We use the #publications channel exclusively to share publications and (briefly) discuss those that are shared. Publications should in one of the following categories:

  1. Papers related to ongoing BHK Lab projects.
  2. Papers of interest to the research areas of the BHK Lab and our collaborators.

These categories can be interpretedly broadly. For example, if you have a computational method paper that you think could be useful for a pharmacogenomics or radiomics problem, feel free to share it. If you suspect the connection between the paper and BHK Lab research is non-obvious, you should include a comment explaining how you see a connection. Conversely, posting links to papers from math.AG, for example, without comment is unwise.

Links to publications must follow the formatting guidelines below.

Posting to Publications#

If you have a paper that you wish to share with the lab you must post it as a hyperlink where the text of the link is the title of the paper. Simply posting the link is Very Not Good and you'll be asked to fix it.

Example

Suppose you wanted to share this paper.

A proper post to #publications would be:

Efficient Evolutionary Models with Digraphons

Posting https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12748 or Efficient Evolutionary Models with Digraphons https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12748 will result in someone (usually Ben) asking you to correct it.

Slack Shortcut for Links

Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + U will open the "Add Link" menu.

Additional Requirements - Threads

  • If the publication you link has restricted access, reply to your post in a thread with a PDF of the paper attached.

  • If you want to comment on or discuss a paper posted by a lab member, respond in a thread. We want to keep the channel as just a list of publications to the extent possible.

Conferences And Workshops#

The #conferences-workshops channel exists for posting links to upcoming conferences and workshops which might be of interest for BHK Lab Members.