Danny Garside
Community Manager at Digital Research Academy
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDanny Garside is a community manager and colour vision researcher with nine years’ experience bridging academic research and public engagement. He holds a PhD on museum lighting, colour constancy and melanopsin from UCL and has held postdoctoral roles at the NIH and University of Sussex, working on psychophysics and visual diet data. Now based in London, he applies scientific rigor to community building at the Digital Research Academy while advocating for open science and novel co-operative models in research. His background in photographic science and practical studio work gives him a hands-on perspective on instrumentation and data quality that complements his analytical skills. Colleagues value him for translating complex perceptual science into accessible community initiatives and for exploring how alternative organisational structures could reshape academic publishing.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Photography and Digital Imaging, Photographic Science and Scientific Photography, 1st Class Honours, BSc Photography and Digital Imaging, Photographic Science and Scientific Photography, 1st Class Honours at University of WestminsterUniversity College London
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
octave10
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data-science10
neuroscience10
cognitive-science10
linguistics10
privacy10
psychology10
clojurescript10
python10
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Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
da5nsy/da5nsy.github.io
Feb 2018 - Jun 2026
My website
Contributions:4 PRs, 123 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 5 months
NEI-LSR/MacaqueColorCategories
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 release, 246 pushes, 180 branches in 1 year
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