Welcome to the July 2024 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring news, opportunities, events and training for you.
We’re recruiting a Research Software Engineer on a permanent contract! Please help forward to anyone who may be interested! Closes: 4th August 2024.
Thank you to everyone who applied for the 2024 RSE collaboration call for proposals. This call is now closed. We had 25 applications! We will now review the applications and make decisions on the successful projects by the end of the month.
Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A legal milestone
Enhancing FAIR compliance: A controlled vocabulary for mapping Social Sciences survey variables
Survey on Refactoring Practices in the Development of Scientific Software
For more forthcoming RSE training events, keep an eye on our Training page and join our mailing list to hear about new events.
We’re recruiting a Research Software Engineer on a permanent contract! Please help forward to anyone who may be interested! Closes: 4th August 2024.
Check for advertised RSE and RSE-adjacent roles at the RSE society’s vacancies board
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.
You can join the google group here to stay informed.
The next meeting is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday 17th July 2024.
Sheffield’s Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) is funding 1 FTE of research engineering time, enabling RSE to provide AI/ML services without cost recovery. The CMI-RSE team primarily supports members of the University community by enabling, designing, implementing and refining AI streams in research projects.
If you have a project in mind that would benefit from CMI-RSE involvement, please have a look at the FAQ and complete the application form to register your interest and begin the conversation. Note: Due to the amount of projects received, this call is on hold until November 2024.
Why not come to a Code Clinic? We’re keen to help you.
Code Clinics are fortnightly supported sessions run by the RSE team and IT Services’ Research IT team. They are open to anyone at TUoS writing code for research to get help with programming problems and general advice on best practices.
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.
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.
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.
The Sheffield RSE Team aims to collaborate with you to help improve your research software. They can provide dedicated staff to ensure that you can deliver excellent research software engineering on your research projects.
Research IT 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.
Working with academics, our staff are embedded within research groups on both long and short term engagements.
For queries relating to collaborating with the RSE team on projects: rse@sheffield.ac.uk
Information and access to JADE II and Bede.
Join our mailing list so as to be notified when we advertise talks and workshops by subscribing to this Google Group.
Queries regarding free research computing support/guidance should be raised via our Code clinic or directed to the University IT helpdesk.