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NRF Weekly Update August 4

Our Fall Semester Welcome

We have our Fall Semester welcome planned and on our calendar. This year we will be hosting cookies and coffee in the NRF lobby on August 19, 20 and 21. If your lab has any incoming researchers, or you know of any new Gators that may want a drop in tour of our facility, or just a quick hello and a snack, please send them our way. Staff will be available for tours upon request (proper footwear required), and we are always happy to discuss your research, academic plans and goals, or any other topic you care to toss at our staff.

 

Upcoming NRF Events

  • NRF Welcome Back - free cookies and coffee in the lobby August 19-21
  • Game Night Thursday August 20th, 5-8pm, NRF 115 Click to RSVP
  • The Great Data Purge - Starts August 24th - see our July 14th weekly update for details (the archive is available on Teams)
  • Users Advisory Committee August 27th, Noon - NRF 115 or Zoom
  • Labor Day Monday Sep 7th - UF holiday - NRF is AHA only
  • Ongoing: Do you feel like you need some practice time on a tool before you start paying to use it? Email us and ask about scheduling a subsidized extended training practice session.
  • Ongoing: New publication? Data collected at the NRF? Click to tell us!
  • Still writing? Check out our new easy acknowledgement templates.
  • Miss something from a previous week? You can find our weekly update archive on our Microsoft teams channel. Click to Join us on Teams!

Safety Side Note

Be mindful of the time, all NRF users have access to our facility from 8am-5pm on business days. These are the hours the front building door is unlocked, and your FOB (mobile or physical gator one) will open the interior doors. AHA have access to the facility 7am-10pm, 7 days week but MUST use the e-buddy hourly check-in system while working outside of building hours. Failure to comply with the requirements of your access level will result in an infraction on your profile and may result in revocation of your access to the facility. The end time of your access level is firm, and must be observed to continue to access the facility. Users are responsible for planning work sessions such that they are able to wrap up, clean up and exit the facility buy the end time for their access level.

NRF Weekly Update July 28

A Summer Availability Notice

A reminder, during the summer you may notice a reduced availability from our staff, or occasional delay in replies to messages and inquiries. In addition to the desire to decompress on a summer vacation, our staff will also attend conferences during the summer months. In some cases these plans overlap and you may experience a delay in availability from our staff team. We would like to remind you that if you have a general question or need a quicker reply you should email our entire team rather than an individual staff member. Sending the inquiry to the team means even if one particular staff member is out of the office, another member of the team can reply back. Even if we can't solve a problem for you right away, we can let you know when the lead engineer will be back to assist you.

 

Upcoming NRF Events

  • Game Night Thursday August 20th, 5-8pm, NRF 115 Click to RSVP
  • The Great Data Purge - Starts August 24th - see our July 14th weekly update for details (the archive is available on Teams)
  • Users Advisory Committee August 27th, Noon - NRF 115 or Zoom
  • Labor Day Monday Sep 7th - UF holiday - NRF is AHA only
  • Ongoing: Do you feel like you need some practice time on a tool before you start paying to use it? Email us and ask about scheduling a subsidized extended training practice session.
  • Ongoing: New publication? Data collected at the NRF? Click to tell us!
  • Still writing? Check out our new easy acknowledgement templates.
  • Miss something from a previous week? You can find our weekly update archive on our Microsoft teams channel. Click to Join us on Teams!

Safety Side Note

AHA users, we have noticed an uptick in ebuddy malpractice. Please remember in order to maintain your AHA to the facility you MUST adhere to the full e-buddy rules and contact schedule. If you were trained a while ago and need a refresher before your next after hours session, please check out our slides. The e-buddy slides have not yet been transferred to our new website, but you can find the most recent version of these slides (including the full list of lab landline phone numbers) in the shared folder for our general teams channel. Noncompliance with e-buddy rules can result in the immediate loss of After Hours Access.

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