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April 4-10, 2022

Greetings Scholars!

Did you know that the Ronin Institute has a YouTube channel? We often put recordings there of presentations that Scholars give at Ronin. We can also add any videos that you've done of your work outside of Ronin. Just share it on #achievements_announcements on Slack and we'll get it on there.

The community meetings for this week are the Infrastructure Working Group (WG) meeting where we'll tackle fun topics like our Ronin email approach and our upcoming membership management platform. In the Governance WG meeting we'll review how everything is going at the Ronin Institute overall and continue streamlining how things work around here. All are welcome at these WG meetings!

Have a great week!

- Arika

All events are on our Ronin calendar (add the Google Calendar). If you want to add something to this Weekly Update that you think Ronin Scholars would be interested in, please reach out via weekly.update@ronininstitute.org.

Ronin YouTube channel

If you want to give a Lightning Talk, here's the sign up sheet!

Have you seen some of our most recent videos from the Lightning Talks Tag series? Here is a sample:

Active Neutralization of Celeritous Impacts by Lateral Expulsion by John LaRocco
Save Cantonese: A Project to Preserve Cantonese in the West by Keith Tse
Conceptualisation of Weather as a Career Metaphor by Will Donald

And check out Kristin Parker's "Preserving Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis: Social Media's Role" below.

"Preserving Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis: Social Media's Role" by Kristin Parker

Community meetings this week

These meetings are open and welcome for any Research Scholar to attend. Working Groups (WGs) focus on key elements of the Ronin Institute. Interest Groups (IGs) are self-organized groups of Scholars that focus on topics of interest; their goal is to stimulate discussion and enhance collaboration.

TUESDAY
#watercooler chat
Scope: Catch up with your colleagues in an informal Slack chat by the "watercooler".
Dates/Times: Every Tuesday at 12:00-1:00 PM US ET / 16:00-17:00 UTC (local time)
Location: #watercooler slack channel. If you can't make the specified time, you can always contribute to the chat conversation at anytime in the Slack channel.

IG+ Center for Advancing Mathematics and Physics (CAMP) (Slack channel #ig-math-physics)
Scope: Come join the conversation about Math and Physics, where the group shares information about research, educates each other, and provides advice.
Date/Time: Every Tuesday at 12:30-1:30 PM US ET / 16:30-17:30 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar. If there is a presentation (announced via #ig-math-physics), the meeting begins at 12:00PM US ET with the presentation at 12:30PM US ET. An extension of the meeting may also occur at 5:00 PM US ET / 21:00 UTC.
Location: www.kumospace.com/ronin_institute (Room: IG+ CAMP)

WEDNESDAY
Infrastructure WG (Slack channel #wg-infrastructure)
Scope: Coordinates and makes recommendations about the technical aspects of Ronin
Date/Time: April 5 at 1:00-2:30 PM US ET / 17:00-18:30 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar
Location: Join the Zoom meeting (pswd: RONIN)

Governance WG (Slack channel #wg-governance)
Scope: Coordinates across all Working Groups & creates decision-making structure for the Ronin Community. It's the best meeting to attend, if you want an overview of what the Institute is up to.
Date/Time: April 6 at 2:00-3:30 PM US ET / 18:00-19:30 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar
Location: Join the Zoom meeting (pswd: RONIN)

THURSDAY
Office hours with Jon & Arika
Scope: Answer any questions you have related to the Ronin Institute.
Date/Time: Thursday at 10:30 AM -11:30 AM US ET / 14:30-15:30 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar
Location: https://www.kumospace.com/ronin_institute

If you want to know more about Ronin WGs, email or join us at "Office hours with Jon & Arika"

Upcoming events

Things to look forward to around the Ronin Institute

Ronin Orientation
Summary: Prospective, new, and seasoned scholars are welcome to attend to get in intro into how the Ronin Institute works, and how they can get involved.
Date: April 26, 2022
Time: 1 PM - 2 PM US ET / 17:00-18:00 UTC (local time) (add to your calendar)
Meeting link: www.kumospace.com/ronin_institute