We're a research group at UC Santa Barbara that does basic science primarily with trapped atomic and molecular ions. You can read more about our research on our website.
We do what we can to make repos public that might be helpful - this takes extra effort to polish for public consumption. If a repo is useful, please star it. This gives us valuable feedback (and we'll likely put more time into the project).
We use Zulip for asynchronous communication, it's great.