Submitted by Dr Marion Weinzierl, Senior Research Software Engineer, ICCS University of Cambridge This year at RSECon24 we celebrated the 3rd meeting of the HPC RSE community, with members joining from the UK and internationally. We took this chance to discuss recent developments and topics in our space, share experiences and best practices, and...
Welcome to the Society’s newsletter for October 2024. We’ve got some Society news, a chance to get involved with RSECon25 and updates from some community projects in Scotland.
Authors: Marion Weinzierl1, Jack Atkinson1, David Wilby2, Emma Hogan3, Kirsty Pringle4,5, Mark Richardson6, Helen Burns6, Sadie Bartholomew7,8, Colin Sauze9 (affiliations below) Introduction “Weather and climate research is an exciting and important field, today and for the future. Research software engineers play a crucial part in building and maintaining the large simulation models at numerous...
On Thursday 10th October 2024, we are celebrating International RSE Day! The International RSE Day is to celebrate Research Software Engineers around the world and raise awareness for the increasingly relevant discipline of Research Software Engineering. The International Council encourages national and local RSE associations to hold regular or special events on this day,...
By Liz Hare with contributions from Anne Lee Steele and Malvika Sharan The Society of Research Software Engineering recently sponsored a Fireside Chat onaccessibility and inclusion as part of The Turing Way‘s June Book Dash. I’m a co-lead of the Accessibility Working Group with The Turing Way, as well as a member of the...
The 2024 Annual General Meeting of the Society of Research Software Engineering will be held at 17:15 – 18:15 on Wednesday 4th September 2024 in G.41, Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle University, UK as part of RSECon24. Purpose The purpose of the AGM is for the trustees to update the Society’s members on what we...
by Pip Grylls, University of Warwick The Research Software Engineering (RSE) Midlands 2024 Annual Conference was heldat the University of Warwick on March 7, 2024. Generous support from the Society ofResearch Software Engineering and the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology,based in Warwick’s Department of Statistics, enabled us to welcome over 40 delegatesfrom across...
The nominations for the 2024 RSE Society Trustee elections have now closed. We have two candidates applying to join the board and, as there are five vacancies, there is no need for a competitive election this year. The two candidates will be presented at the AGM, which will take place at RSECon24 in Newcastle...
by Jonathan Blaney, Cambridge Digital Humanities Our Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School (https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/DHRSE-Summer-School-2024/Programme) took place in Edinburgh this July with invaluable funding from the Society of RSE. Twenty-two attendees from Scotland, the rest of the UK, and even further afield, gathered for four days of talks, discussions, workshops and social activities....
The 2024 Society Trustee elections are well underway, with nominations still open until Friday 12th July. We have hosted two Zoom Q&A sessions, have fielded questions via the #elections-2024 Slack channel and Social media, and have been talking to RSEs in our teams up and down the country. In this blog post update, with...