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| title: October 2024 Newsletter | ||
| editor: Robert Chisholm | ||
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| date: 2024-10-10T12:00:00Z+0100 | ||
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| ## The University of Sheffield Research Software Engineering Community Newsletter October 2024 | ||
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| Welcome to the October 2024 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring | ||
| news, opportunities, events and training for you. | ||
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| ### News | ||
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| - The University Library has collected [the experiences of staff involved in creating and using Open Educational Resources (OER)](http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/open-access/open-educational-resources/oer-case-studies) | ||
| - Users of BEDE and other EPSRC Large Scale Facilities (LSF) are encouraged to respond to [UKRIs LSF user survey](https://engagementhub.ukri.org/epsrc-researchinfrastructure/lsfusersurvey). | ||
| - [Recordings of sessions from OpenFest 2024](https://doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.c.7465654) are now available to watch back online. | ||
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| ### Events | ||
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| #### Upcoming Local Events | ||
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| - Fridays during October - SheffieldR User Group is hosting hybrid [weekly hackathons](https://sheffieldr.github.io/posts/2024-10/) for those participating in HacktoberFest 2024. | ||
| - Weds 16th Oct - [CMI Town Hall](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/machine-intelligence/events/shefai-community-meeting-8) Eighth CMI community and networking event. | ||
| - Open Access Week: Oct 21st-25th is International Open Access Week, and the university library is hosting a [programme of events](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/open-access/open-access-week-2024) to explore the value and possibilities of open access scholarship. | ||
| - Tues Oct 22nd 1-1.30pm - White Rose University Press - A bitesize introduction. [Book your place here](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/white-rose-university-press-a-bitesize-introduction-tickets-1029731543767) | ||
| - Open Research Conversation's [Autumn-Winter Schedule](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/events/open-research-conversations) has now been announced with 5 Wednesday lunchtime events from October through February. | ||
| - Weds Oct 23rd 12-1pm - Beyond open access: Democratising knowledge through accessible research outputs. [Book your place here](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-open-access-democratising-knowledge-through-accessible-outputs-tickets-1028028971327). | ||
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| #### Upcoming External Events | ||
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| - Until Nov 10th - [MATLAB Shorts Mini Hack](https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/contests/2024-matlab-mini-hack.html): Use upto 2,000 characters of MATLAB code to generate a MATLAB movie and win prizes. | ||
| - Thursday's 1pm - [Cambridge RSE Seminar series](https://rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars) (currently scheduled till Dec 5th) | ||
| - Thurs Oct 17th 1pm - [Open source research software project life cycles: understanding project maturity successes, and challenge events](https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/219982) | ||
| - Oct 29th - Nov 1st - [pyOpenSci Fall Festival 2024](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pyopensci-fall-festival-2024-registration-1000762657047): A week of events to empower scientists to write better code and share their outcomes openly. | ||
| - Nov 26-28th - [DiRAC GPU Hackathon, Durham University](https://dirac.ac.uk/training_events/dirac-nvidia-hackathon-2024/): **application deadline 12pm October 16th.** | ||
| - April 29-30th 2025 - [UK Technology Specialists Network Conference](https://itss.org.uk/uk-technology-specialists-network-conference-2025/) | ||
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| ### Articles, Blogs, Papers & Podcasts | ||
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| #### Articles & Blogs | ||
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| - [Dual licensing R packages with code and data](https://epiverse-trace.github.io/posts/data-licensing.html) | ||
| - [Technical Properties of Sustainable Software](https://bssw.io/blog_posts/technical-properties-of-sustainable-software) | ||
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| #### Papers | ||
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| - [2024] **Seminar Report** [Research Software Engineering: Bridging Knowledge Gaps](https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.14.4.42) | ||
| - [2024] [Understanding and effectively mitigating code review anxiety](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-024-10550-9) | ||
| - [2024] **Pre-print** [A Vision on Open Science for the Evolution of Software Engineering Research and Practice](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12132) | ||
| - [2024] [Just Enough Software Engineering for Domain Scientists in Research Software Development](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10603285) | ||
| - [2023] [The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes](https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-023-00003-2) | ||
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| #### Podcasts | ||
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| - Code for Thought - [Bonus: Green Computing at RSECon24](https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/episodes/15766448-en-bonus-green-computing-at-the-rse-conference-2024-in-newcastle) | ||
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| ### Training | ||
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| #### At Sheffield | ||
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| **FAIR<sup>2</sup>** | ||
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| The [FAIR<sup>2</sup> for Research Software Training Programme](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/training/fair4rs/) has been developed | ||
| by the RSE, Data Analytics Service and Library teams and will be launched in October. An introduction to the programme | ||
| will be given in a [LunchBytes session 2024-10-22](../events/lunchbytes-2024-10-22.html). The full syllabus is now live on [MyDevelopment](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/curriculum/06573f55-12e4-44f1-be4c-fac5ea9d6851) (requires login). | ||
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| **Sheffield Bioinformatics Core** | ||
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| The Sheffield Bioinformatics Core is pleased to announce a schedule of courses for the new academic year. These courses provide an introduction to the R programming language, Unix environment (required for the use of the University's High Performance Computing facilities) and also specific applications in RNA-sequencing. | ||
| You can now sign-up for these courses using myDevelopment (search for "bioinformatics"). Course charges still apply, and upon sign-up we will contact you for a valid grant code or cost centre. In-person attendance is encouraged, but online options are also available. | ||
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| - Oct 28th, 30th, Nov 1st 1-4pm - Data Manipulation and Visualization (£72 for students and £80 for staff) | ||
| - Tues Nov 12th 1-4pm - Introduction to RNA-seq analysis (£32 for students and £40 for staff) | ||
| - Weds Nov 27th 1-4pm - Introduction to the Command-Line for Bioinformatics (£32 for students and £80 for staff) | ||
| - Dec 1st, 3rd, 5th 1-4pm - Introduction to RNA-seq analysis in R (£72 for students and £80 for staff) | ||
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| Where multiple dates are listed, you will need to attend all dates. You can also find more information on these course on their website (https://sbc.shef.ac.uk) | ||
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| #### Outside Sheffield | ||
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| - [SSI Software Practices in the Social Sciences programme](https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/ssi-announces-research-software-practices-social-sciences-programme) - A new programme of 1-hour workshops covering topics such as Relational Databases, Reproducible Analysis and Data Cleanup for Social Scientists. | ||
| - [UK Data Service](https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/) provide access to a wide range of reusable social sciene data, and training to enable researchers to make the most of it. | ||
| - Mon Oct 14th 10am - [Introduction to synthetic data for longitudinal data managers](https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-synthetic-data-for-longitudinal-data-managers/) | ||
| - Mon Oct 14th 10am - [Safe Researcher Training](https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/safe-researcher-training-67/) | ||
| - [and more...](https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/training-events/) | ||
| - with recordings of past trainings available on their [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/ukdataservice) | ||
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| ### Funding Opportunities | ||
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| - [FAIR-IMPACT's 3rd call](https://fair-impact.eu/3rd-open-call-route-2-support-opens-30-sept), deadline 4th Dec, hopes to fund applicants in four areas | ||
| - Managing data types, schemas and vocabularies and crosswalks for FAIR researcher related metadata (in partnership with FAIRCORE4EOSC) | ||
| - Creating EOSC compliant interoperability policies based on the EOSC Interoperability Framework (IF) | ||
| - Testing the trustworthy and FAIR-enabling repositories prototype | ||
| - Implementation of a shared API for semantic catalogues | ||
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| #### Jobs | ||
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| Check for advertised RSE and RSE-adjacent roles at the [RSE society's vacancies | ||
| board](https://society-rse.org/careers/vacancies/). | ||
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| ### Community | ||
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| #### Digital Research Practice Support Community | ||
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| The DRPS community is a group for people that support researchers in carrying out research in the digital age. Meetings | ||
| are held monthly, with discussions around events, training and opportunities related to the field. | ||
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| You can join the google group | ||
| [here](https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/sheffield.ac.uk/g/digital-research-practice-support-community-group/about) to | ||
| stay informed. | ||
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| The next meeting is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday 6th November 2024. | ||
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| #### LunchBytes | ||
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| [LunchBytes](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/community/lunch-bytes/) are short talks from the research community on research | ||
| software, data, and infrastructure. | ||
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| Due to capacity within the RSE team, there was very limited LunchBytes content over the past academic year. | ||
| This should be changing soon, a new co-ordinator for LunchBytes has been found (Research IT's Farhad Allian), with a plan to reboot these lunchtime seminars in the spring semester. | ||
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| More information will be coming out over the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled if you'd like to learn more about research software and associated practices, or share what you know! | ||
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| ### Support | ||
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| #### Code Clinics | ||
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| Why not come to a [Code Clinic](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/support/code-clinic/)? We're keen to help you. | ||
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| Code Clinics are fortnightly supported sessions run by the RSE team and IT Services’ [Research | ||
| IT](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research) team. They are open to anyone at TUoS writing code for research to | ||
| get help with programming problems and general advice on best practices. | ||
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| At each session, members of the RSE and/or Research IT teams will be available to review code, advise, troubleshoot, and | ||
| suggest ways to improve your computational workflows. | ||
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| #### Research IT HPC Drop In | ||
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| HPC Drop-In sessions are providing assistance with HPC related user issues such as challenges in scaling an application | ||
| from desktop to supercomputer. We are considering extending the number of our sessions to two or three weekly. These | ||
| interactive sessions could provide a better interface with our users than our non-interactive ticketing system. These | ||
| sessions are advertised on the [HPC mailing list](https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/sheffield.ac.uk/g/hpc). | ||
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| #### Research IT Consultations | ||
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| Alongside the HPC Drop-In sessions, Research IT are also running one to one consultations to solve in depth user | ||
| specific problems. These consultations can be booked via our webpage. If you are interested please visit the following | ||
| link: <https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research>. | ||
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| ## Sheffield RSE Team | ||
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| The Sheffield RSE Team aims to [collaborate](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/collaboration/) with you to help improve your | ||
| research software. They can [provide dedicated staff](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/collaboration/provision/) to ensure that | ||
| you can deliver excellent research software engineering on your research projects. | ||
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| ## Research IT | ||
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| [Research IT](https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research) directly supports research, both academic and | ||
| commercial. We provide large scale HPC systems, advice on everything from statistics to ML to data pipelines and | ||
| training for both students and staff. | ||
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| Working with academics, our staff are embedded within research groups on both long and short term engagements. |