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Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) is a suite of services for researchers (staff and students) including secure data storage, compute power, training, support and Research Software Engineers (RSEs). Oh and we love bears!

UoB Advanced Research Computing delivering BEAR services

🥇 Congratulations to Team The BEAR Metal Coders, the winner of #BEARChallenge2026! 🎉 Each team member will receive a tablet as their prize. A well-deserved victory! 🏆 #BEARChallenge2026 has successfully come to an end. Thank you to all participants and partners!👏^YZ

🥈 Congratulations to Team Four Cores One Queue for finishing in 2nd place at #BEARChallenge2026! The team demonstrated outstanding teamwork and problem-solving throughout the competition and will receive Lenovo goodie bags. Fantastic work! 🎉 ^YZ

🥉 Congratulations to Team BEARly Third Class for securing 3rd place in #BEARChallenge2026! A fantastic performance across all challenges. As a reward, the team will receive ARC goodie bags. Well done on an excellent achievement! 🎉

Participants are hearing from Simon Thompson, the Director Server Portfolio & Strategy from @LenovoHPC about career opportunities, industry insights, and what it's like to work at the forefront of technology and innovation. ^YZ #BEARChallenge2026

🏆We're honoured to welcome Adam Tickell, the Vice-Chancellor of the @unibirmingham.bsky.social to #BEARChallenge2026. The Vice-Chancellor gives a short talk after presenting prizes to our teams and ARC staff, celebrating their achievements over these three days. ^YZ

We're delighted to welcome Professor Andrew Morris, Director of Baskerville NCR, Chair of the RCMC, and Professor of Computational Physics. Andrew delivered a fascinating talk on lLLMs and coding, exploring how AI is transforming software development and research workflows. #BEARChallenge2026 ^YZ

❓ Quiz Time! A fun break from the challenges as teams put their knowledge to the test in our BEAR Challenge quiz. Plenty of laughs, friendly competition, and surprising answers along the way! ^YZ #BEARChallenge2026 🐻🎉

🚨 FINAL 20-MINUTE COUNTDOWN! 🚨 Challenge 5, the final challenge of #BEARChallenge2026, will close in just 20 minutes. This is the last opportunity to earn points, refine your solutions, and make your mark on this year's competition! 🐻

🍕 Lunch time at #BEARChallenge2026! Teams are enjoying a well-earned break with plenty of pizza before the final stretch of the competition. A huge thank you to Intel and Lenovo for sponsoring today's lunch and supporting the event! 🚀^YZ

🖥️ Participants at #BEARChallenge2026 are taking a virtual tour of the Park Grange HPC Data Centre and hearing from AIS staff about careers in research computing. A fantastic opportunity to explore the technology and people behind ARC at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social. ^YZ

UoB Advanced Research Computing delivering BEAR services