Dear all,

Please find below an opportunity to work with a really wonderful group of people!  I've worked with them from here at UTAS for many years and I have always found Australian BioCommons full of passionate, smart, awesome folk.  Also it sounds like a really interesting challenge. 😄

Michael Charleston
 
Funded PhD project available in machine learning
Phylomania #17: November 19-21, 2025
Specialty Chief Editor in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution - Coevolution
Mathematical Biology Group
Professor in Bioinformatics
Coordinator, Dean's Summer Research Programme
School of Natural Sciences
University of Tasmania
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 3 6226 2444
From: Melissa Burke <melissa@biocommons.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2025 3:24 PM
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Subject: Job opportunity for sharing - AI in Research Training Lead
 
Good afternoon training community,

Australian BioCommons and the Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney have just opened a new role for an AI in Research Training Lead. 

This role will collaboratively design and deliver a national training program to equip life science researchers with practical knowledge and hands-on skills on AI methods for text and code generation, data analysis, and literature synthesis and more.

As people with a passion for training we'd love your help spreading the word about this.

Could you please:
  • Reshare this LinkedIn post
  • Post about it in your local Slack groups etc (suggested text below).

Please feel free to reach out to me or Georgie Samaha (CC'd here) if you need more context or have questions.

Thank you!

Melissa

Text for Slack etc

Join Australian BioCommons and the Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney as the AI in Research Training Lead!

This collaborative role will equip life science researchers with practical knowledge and hands-on skills on AI methods for text and code generation, data analysis, and literature synthesis and more.

  • Work at the intersection of AI, training pedagogy, and life science research
  • Collaboratively design and deliver a national program on the effective and responsible use of AI tools
  • Salary: HEO8 $126,065 p.a. + 17% super
⭐Apply here before 26 Oct⭐
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Melissa Burke, PhD (she/her)

Training Manager

Australian BioCommons

The University of Queensland

M: +61 (0)460 641 328

W: biocommons.org.au


My position is funded by Bioplatforms Australia and hosted at QCIF and RCC at The University of Queensland

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