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Director of Research Engineering at the Alan Turing Institute, turning research into practice. Trustee at the Society of Research Software Engineering. He/him.
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Do you have an exciting announcement or news article that you would like to disseminate to the RSE community?
If so head to our news submission form and submit your news items by the 20th of November!
society-rse.org/calling-for-...
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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It's the Seasonal Reposting Competition! Repost this over the weekend, and on Sunday one lucky person will win a signed copy of one of my books. For you or the #crossword addict in your life: 50 fiendish @theguardian.com #puzzles and all the stories behind them:
boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...
Boatman - the first 50 reportedly makes a great present or holiday read, exemplified by this image of the book opened to show the story behind the Shipping Forecast puzzle, on display on Brighton beach. Reviewing Boatman - the first 50, Alan Connor (The Guardian's crossword editor and the brains behind many of BBC2’s quiz programs) says: "This is one to savour. Boatman's puzzles are witty and ingenious. It is an extraordinary pleasure to read how his unique mind works. The first 50 is a book I never knew I needed in my life. Gift it to yourself and to the word-lovers in yours". Hugh Stephenson (Alan’s predecessor at The Guardian) says: "This is a unique book of crosswords" and Henry Morris: "a Boatman crossword is like a theme park. Each daunting line is a rollercoaster ... He scares you witless. But you can't wait to do it all over again". Boatman - the second 50 contains another 50 puzzles from The Guardian, with five bonus puzzles previously only available online and including puzzles, solutions and the ideas and stories behind them, exemplified by this image of the book opened to show one of the stories, which is accompanied by a picture of a large cow. Reviewing Boatman - the second 50, Gyles Brandreth says: "If you want a fiendish crossword, you want the best - which means you want Boatman, because he is the best" and Brian Bilston: "Cracking crosswords - each puzzle a delightful daily workout for the brain and a welcome tonic for the soul".
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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softwaresaved.bsky.social
🌊 Do you have an idea for a mini-workshop, demo, or a lightning talk? This is your chance to take the stage and present your work at #CollabW26.
The deadline for applications is Friday 16 January 2026. We can't wait to see all your amazing proposals!
www.software.ac.uk/news/take-st...
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The DisCouRSE Network+ has launched its first Flexible Fund, offering up to £10,000 to support projects that strengthen leadership training and career pathways for digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs). Closing date for applications is the 14th Nov.
Funding Opportunity: Grow Leadership Skills within digital Research Technical Professions!
Are you committed to advancing leadership skills and careers within digital Research Technical Professions (dRTP)? Do you have a bold idea or an existing initiative that could make a real difference…
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October 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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society-rse.org
New blog post: The Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School took place at King’s College London earlier this year.

Read more: society-rse.org/digital-huma...
Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School - Society of Research Software Engineering
by Jonathan Blaney On possibly the hottest week of the summer, the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School took place between 30 June and 3 July, at King’s College London.…
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September 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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I also regularly report missed bin collections with no need to prove my identity. There may well be value in providing a "one stop" app for a lot of interactions with different parts of government but very few of those interactions would *require* verifying ID rather than e.g. an email address.
September 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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softwaresaved.bsky.social
🎯 The next International RSE Survey will launch in January 2026.

Building on the 2018 and 2022 surveys, this iteration will continue to capture the growth and diversity of the global RSE community.

Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/next-in...
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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society-rse.org
Have you enjoyed RSECon either this year or in the past?

Would you like to be involved in organising RSECon26 which is taking place 9-11th Sep 2026?

We have a call out for Committee Members, for details and application see

society-rse.org/rsecon26-com...

(Call closes 10th Oct 2025)

#rsecon26
RSECon26 Call for Conference Committee Members - Society of Research Software Engineering
RSECon26 Committee call is now open.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Slides from my #RSECon25 workshop "From Code to Contributions: Exploring Open Source in Academia" are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1709...

Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!
From Open Code to Open Contributions: Exploring Open Source Culture in Academia
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a code repository with an open source license must be in want of an extra maintainer." - Jane Austen, probably. While academic researchers and research tec...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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society-rse.org
Great closing quote from Graham Lee in this mornings Track A talk on Where do people come from?

"RSE is more than a technical discipline, its a social movement aiming to revolutionise how research engages with software." - Graham Lee

#RSECon25
September 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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esciencelab.org.uk
The eScience Lab is delighted to be here at #RSECon25, co-leading several activities such as:
- introduction to accessibility testing for RSEs
- introduction to the Digital Researcher Competencies Framework
- training and community satellite day esciencelab.org.uk/announcement...
RSECon25 sessions co-led with the eScience Lab
esciencelab.org.uk
September 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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society-rse.org
Great talk from Marion Weinzierl (Let's stop pretending to be unicorns!) about better management of expectations of RSEs

In case you wondered where the RSE unicorn came from there is the quote from Cristin who designed the logo.

#rsecon25 #unicorns
September 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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uomresearchit.bsky.social
At #RSECon25 gently encouraging people to complete the Society survey.
There haven't been a huge number of responses yet and they are really keen to hear from members AND non-members alike.
So if you write software as part of your research and can spare 5 mins please fill it in!
Society of RSE Community Survey 2025 - Society of Research Software Engineering
As part of our ongoing review of Society activities, we are pleased to announce that our 2025 Community Survey is now live. We’re inviting everyone in this fantastic community to share their thoughts…
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September 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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society-rse.org
Next years #RSECon26 will be 9-11th September 2026 &co-located with the inaugural International Research Software Conference 7-8th September 2026 (www.researchsoft.org/irsc/ ) in Sheffield.

Want to help organise RSECon26 see society-rse.org/volunteer-at...

#RSECon25 #RSECon26 #IRSC26
Research Software Alliance
International Research Software Conference (IRSC)
www.researchsoft.org
September 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I spoke at the HPC RSE training and community session at #rsecon25 today. Introduced the Reasonable Performance Computing SIG and our “Python Profiling & Optimization” course first, then had good discussions on the panel afterwards!
Photo of me giving a talk. Title slide is visible in the background, saying “Python Profiling & Optimization … & Other Activities of the RPC SIG” Photo of me giving a talk. Slide is visible in the background, saying “You're not doing a PhD in astrophysics; you re doing a PhD in problem solving as applied to astrophysics.” and many examples of random bits of knowledge you might pick up during a PhD. A panel of five people sitting at the front of the room. I’m gesticulating, obvious in the middle of talking. The question up on screen in the background is “Do you have a view of how much of this change is discipline-specific? Some fleids have had large collaborations with many co-authors on each work for decades; others may still be stuck in the single-author model.”
September 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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@simonhettrick.bsky.social on the problems with the Research Excellence Framework in the UK. Software (and many other outputs) should be considered - but very few universities include them. 97.6% of submitted outputs were publications.
#RSEcon25
Simon Hettrick in front of a bar chart showing numbers of each REF output type. 97.6% are publications.
September 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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arielleb.bsky.social
kicking off day 2 of #RSECon25 with a fantastic keynote on the power of recognition - if you've ever needed three different metaphors for the difference in scale between publications and software submissions to REF, this talk is for you!

slides.com/simonhettric...
RSE Con 25
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September 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Ana Rodrigues Cavalcante from UCL hospitals on the challenges of managing clinical data in the Emerging Voices plenary #RSECon25
September 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Piper Fowler-Wright from the Rosalind Franklin Institute argues the case against skills specialisation as a research software engineer in the second Emerging Voices plenary 🤔 #RSECon25
September 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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📣 🎉 RSECon25 - Day 2 🎉 📣

Day two of RSECon starts with a keynote talk from Simon Hettrick.

- Programme on Oxford Abstracts virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75166/...
- Conference announcements @rseconbot
- RSECon25 Slack : rsecon25.slack.com
- Use #rsecon25 hashtag

#rsecon25 #conference #rse
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September 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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alleninstitute.org
Next week is #OpenScienceWeek! Here's how you can celebrate wherever you are. 🧵
September 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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society-rse.org
Solid walk-through of using GItHub Actions to undertake Continuous Integration in your repository from William Haese-Hill

Check out the template repository at github.com/haessar/rsec...

#rsecon25 #githubactions
September 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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iccscambridge.bsky.social
👋 Are you at #RSECon25 this week? Watch out for ICCS team members including Joe Wallwork, who spoke today about cross-cutting software tools. Come and say hi if you're in Warwick too!
Speaker standing in front of giant presentation screen, with text "Reflections on cross-cutting software tools borne out of project work"
September 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Great talk by Riva Quiroga on taking research data from >644000 papers with over ~5.5million rows and making it accessible and reusable. Take-away : they're not the same thing!

Thanks @rivaquiroga

rivaquiroga.cl

#rsecon25
September 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Great to hear from Alessandra Esposito about the work at Kings Digital Lab (kdl.kcl.ac.uk ) on improving and supporting digital research outputs so they are more widely recognised and align with REF.

Thanks Alessandra.

See...

zenodo.org/records/1514...
github.com/kingsdigital...

#rsecon25
September 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM