Hey there, everyone! It's been a while since I last posted here. Rest assured that I haven't abandoned this blog.

What I have been doing is adjusting to a new job! I haven't talked about it yet because this adjustment process takes time, and I needed space to do this process at my own pace. While I'm still adjusting and will be for some time, I'm now at a point where I feel comfortable to share with everyone what I've been up to.

My job title is Experimental Officer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hull - the same place as I've been doing my PhD (as is listed on the homepage of this site). I started this in January 2023.

This is an academic position, and it consists of academic teaching support (ie supporting lecturers in the delivery of their course content) combined with systems administration and managing the use of specialist equipment.

This role feels ideal for me at this time, as its a mix of academicy teaching support stuff and a technical role. It also has some teaching on the side, which is something I have very limited experience with, so it's a great chance to learn.

I'm doing this role part time at the moment while I finish my PhD.

In practical effects for this blog, it means that my posting frequency will be somewhat lower than it has been in times past, as you may have been noticing in the months leading up to my three month break. I'm going to personally aim for a blog post every 2 weeks, but it might be longer or shorter than that depending on how much energy I have to write posts and whether there's something I really want to talk about without waiting.

Given that I've been posting here since June 2014 (~9 years!), this blog is important to me, and so I thought it would be fitting to let you who read this blog know first about this news. I'll also continue to document my journey through the world of computer science into the future.

This will include a continuing to blog about my research post-PhD (no, I still haven't had enough of it :P) in some sort of sequel series to my PhD update blog posts that I've been writing. It will also include the random blog posts you've surely come to expect from me about neat things I've discovered and interesting things I've done.

Another milestone I am about to hit soon is my first published journal article! It has been accepted for publication, so I'm currently working through that process. The title will be "Real-time social media sentiment analysis for rapid impact assessment of floods", and will definitely be posting here as soon as it's published.

I'd like to thank everyone who has supported me in this journey so far up until this point. I really appreciate it!

I hope you'll continue to stick around here with me as I move forwards into this new era!