Year in review - January 2022!
2022 has been a really productive year for us! We featured a lot of it on Twitter, but you know how that goes. :P
As we were starting 2022, we were very excitedly riding a wave of all sorts of progress from 2021 - technical, talent, financial, outreach, community, and so many other great signs of growth. (And, I'm happy to say, 2022 has turned out to be even better!)
So, let's rewind and go through it together from the top! As it turns out, we post a newsletter every month, covering a lot of the things we're up to. Our January 2022 newsletter was a big one, coming to almost 6 pages.
You can read our newsletter here.
The lead article was written by yours truly. It reviewed a lot of the happenings in 2021 and commentary about our longer-term trajectory.
In reviewing 2021, I talked about how the research projects - Integument Review, Enhanced Tail, and Anatomy Re-engineering Framework (then called 3D Anatomy project) - fit into our strategy, and moreover how the Technical Roadmap project is being used to steer our research strategy. We also discussed with a lot of heavy-hitters in outreach terms: Hugh Herr, Liz Parrish, and Max More among others - people who are well positioned to influence others throughout science and perhaps even policy. These are just some of the results we've been delivering.
Looking into the future, a lot of the strategy is similar to what we've already been practicing. Research and outreach. Growing our talent base and the community. Earning additional financial growth. And, in the coming years, getting some products/services out there, and a few years further along, performing select body modifications (whether in-house or via outside partners or subsidiaries).
Other articles in the newsletter included:
A compliance update by Atha on jurisdictions we were working with in some way as of January 2022.
A preview for 2022 by yours truly again. As with any plan, we had hits and misses! Overall, we did well, especially in Integument Review, Tail Project, and Gender Resources! We've also added two fantastic new moderators and hosted many community events since January. We didn't do as well with educational lectures or presentations, or with extruding (so to speak) the Technical Roadmap from our brains into written words. (We reached some important conclusions with the Technical Roadmap, in terms of things that impact decisions, but it's still not as far along as we'd like).
Some smaller articles about recruitment for volunteer openings at the time, Atha moving to the US from the UK, and a new podcast getting released.
Introduction for a new-at-the-time volunteer, Bleddyn, team lead for the Tail Project!
The full January newsletter is on our website.
There's plenty more where that came from! On our next post, we'll review February of this year, including some more specific coverage about projects, guest interviews, and more. Stay tuned!
