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Following the RSECon23 conference, on Friday 8 September at Swansea University Bay Campus there will be a satellite event looking at the training RSEs provide to the research community. 

This event is aimed at RSEs who provide training to the research community or are interested in starting to provide training.

In this latest episode of Code For Thought, SSI Fellow Peter Schmidt speaks with Teresa Gomez-Diaz from Université Paris Gustav-Eiffel, east of Paris, France. For a long time Teresa has been promoting Open Science and last year she talked on this show about the need for licences in research software.

In this episode of Code For Thought, SSI Fellow Peter Schmidt talks with data scientist and entrepreneur Nick Radcliffe about the importance of testing your data. Test driven development is a familiar concept to research software engineers. Test driven data analysis puts the same emphasis on validating and testing data for your AI app. They also dive into the Python library of the same name, tdda.

In this latest episode of Code For Thought, SSI Fellow Peter Schmidt speaks with UK RSE Conference organising committee members Sam Mangham and Ed Bennett. The conversation sheds light on what happens behind the scenes and what it takes to organise and run a conference. It also explores how participants can contribute to the success of this UK RSE Conference and future events.

RSECon23 takes place on the campus of Swansea University, UK and runs from 5-7 September. There are…

Today marks the last day of the Research Software Camp: FAIR Software.

We’re very proud to announce our 2023 Mentorship Programme cohort will be graduating today (28th June 2023) at 12:00 BST. Our mentees will be sharing their projects, experiences and future plans in lightning talks with brief space for questions. 

We’re into week 2 of the Research Software Camp: FAIR software. Today, we kick-off the week with a panel discussion on “Approaches to FAIR software: opportunities and barriers.” You can register until 11:30am BST. 

In the latest Code For Though episode, SSI Fellow Peter Schmidt speaks about his experience at JupyterCon 2023, the conference on all things Jupyter which was held in Paris between 10-12 May 2023, followed by 2 days of hands-on "sprints". 

Jupyter is a very popular open source platform with tools such as Jupyter notebook/lab and driven by a very active community. There were a number of excellent talks on a range of different subjects. Peter had the opportunity to speak with several…

Today, the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) launches its much-anticipated Research Software Camp: FAIR Software.

The last episode of Code For Thought in the ByteSized RSE season discusses README file. Peter Schmidt meets with Julian Lenz from the University of Swansea, who takes us through the importance of READMEs, what should go into them and at what stage should they be created.