Lab life

Handbook

A guide to the OMNI Lab: our culture, our values, and how we work together. It is a living document that we update as we grow.

What’s inside

What we work on, and the values behind it: openness, collaboration and practical impact.

How we run the lab, and what students, early-career researchers and the PI can expect.

Work and wellbeing, workplace conduct, equality, diversity and inclusion, and good citizenship.

Careers, open and responsible research, use of AI, collaborations, travel and public engagement.

For lab members

Processes, resources and know-how. Connect to the University network or VPN, then open a tunnel to the wiki server:

ssh -fNT -L 8080:localhost:8080 wiki

Then open the wiki in your browser:

Trouble accessing the wiki?

Are you on the University network, or connected through the VPN?
Is another process already using port 8080 on your computer? See “Port busy” below.
Try restarting the wiki. See “Restart the wiki” below.
If nothing works, ask the lab’s web administrator .

Check whether port 8080 is in use:

lsof -i :8080

If it is, stop the process using it, then run the tunnel command again:

kill -9 $(lsof -ti:8080)

If you have access to the wiki server, log in and run the restart script:

ssh wiki
cd omni-wiki
./restart.sh