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The benefits of in-person training

SSI Fellow Luke Abraham, National Centre for Atmospheric Science and University of Cambridge, speaks about the benefits of in-person training and his experience organising a course on the United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols model in December 2022 at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry’s Computer Lab.

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Speedrunning a Workshop on Reproducibility for Machine Learning in Science

SSI Fellow Jesper Dramsch speaks up about their experience hosting a workshop on Reproducibility for Machine Learning in Science at Pydata Global.
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DPC supports digital preservation activities around the world through program of translations

Over the years, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has produced many guides and reports which have supported the development of digital preservation tools and standards, as well as the professional community engaged in digital preservation. As part of its program of translations the DPC has recently released the German translation of Core requirements for a digital preservation system.
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News

Professor Carole Goble named among Best Scientists in the field of Computer Science

We are glad to announce that SSI co-investigator and professor of computer science at the University of Manchester Carole Goble has been included in Research.com's Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Computer Science and received the Computer Science Leader Award for 2023.
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US-RSE Workshop: Research Software Engineers in eScience

This year's IEEE eScience 2023 conference will take place in person in Limassol, Cyprus between October 9 and 13. As part of this conference, US-RSE is organizing a workshop, RSEs in eScience, on 9 October about sustainable RSE ecosystems.
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Byte-sized RSE Session on Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

The next Byte-sized RSE session, covering Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), will take place on Tuesday 28th March, 13:00-14:30 GMT.

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Events

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Research Software Camp

The next Research Software Camp (RSC) will run for two weeks from 19th to 30th June 2023. The topic will be announced soon.

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Collaborations Workshop 2023 (CW23)

The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, policy makers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.

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"It adds development time, doing things right, but it's worth it. Our code is miles away from where it was. [The work has] really made a profound change to the way we do coding, even down to the way I write lines of code. We now understand the complexity involved in making things run smoothly – it's really been a very good learning experience"

- Prashant Valluri, TPLS