Skytorial and Linkedtorial 2: Your Profile on GitHub

🧵 Skytorial | Linkedtorial 2 – Your profile on GitHub

🌟 The first thing on GitHub is your profile: your cover letter to the academic and scientific world. This is how colleagues, collaborators, and potential reviewers of your projects find you.

Let’s create it step by step 👇

📝 Open an account on GitHub:

• Go to 👉 github.com
• Click on Sign up
• Choose a short, recognizable, and professional username💡Tips: use the same username you have on other platforms. Many people just use their name.
• Enter a valid email address and password.
• Confirm your registration.

🖼️ Customize your profile:

• Once you have logged in, click on your avatar (top right) → Your Profile.
• Upload a clear photo (yes, it’s important!).
• Write a bio: briefly describe your research or academic role.
• Add your institutional affiliation.

📌 Link your work: In your profile, you can add:

• Your personal or laboratory page
• ORCID profile (highly recommended ✅)
• Academic LinkedIn/Bluesky/Mastodon

This makes it easier for others to connect your work in different places.

📂 Your profile README (optional but powerful):

• Your profile is a special repo!
• If you create a repo named exactly as your username, GitHub will display its README on your profile. 🤩
• There, you can tell people who you are, your interests, links, papers, CV, and anything else you want to highlight.

🔍 Tips for an attractive and useful profile:

• Be clear and concise.
• Showcase your research topics.
• Highlight your projects.
• Include contact details.
• Update it regularly (like your resume).

💡Extra Tip: look at other profiles to see what you like and how they showcase their work.

🌐 Follow other users: GitHub is also a social network. You can:

👀 Follow colleagues, labs, and groups. ⭐ Star repositories that you find useful. 🍴Create forks of projects (make your own copy).

This way, your profile will reflect your interests.

🎉 That’s all for this linkedtorial!

Now you have:

• Your GitHub account
• A profile that reflects your academic identity
• A way to connect with other users
• Optional: a README to introduce yourself 👉 Do you already have a GitHub profile, or are you going to create 1 right now?

Next 👉 Repositories!