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Testing in Research Software: Review of ICCS 2021 and SeptembRSE

SSI Fellow Matthew Bluteau reviews ICCS 2021 and SeptembRSE.

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The SSI staff's feelgood favourites

As we come to the end of 2021, the staff at the Software Sustainability Institute reflect on the things they watched, read or listened to over the last year that have made them feel good!
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Research software highlights from 2021

As we come to the end of the year we’re taking a look back at some of the success stories in research software from 2021.
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News

Merry Christmas from the Software Sustainability Institute

We wish you all a happy and relaxing Christmas break!
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A review of Cloud-SPAN’s Genomics course

Cloud-SPAN aims to upskill bioscience researchers in the specialised analyses for Environmental Biotechnology with Cloud-based High Performance Computing. Community Manager and FAIR coordinator, Evelyn Greeves writes about the learnings from the first Genomics course.
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Applications open for Open Life Science mentoring program

Open Life Science is a 16-week mentoring and training program that upskills individuals in open and reproducible research and empowers them to become open science ambassadors in their communities. The call is open for applications for the next cohort which will take place from February to June 2022. The application deadline is 15 January, 2022.

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Events

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Collaborations Workshop 2022 (CW22)

Collaborations Workshop 2022 (CW22) will take place online from Monday, 4 April to Thursday, 7 April 2022. 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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"We are in a position to fundamentally reorganise the heart of the software. By doing so, this will enable us to maintain the software into the future and facilitate the process of adding new functionality to the software ... SSI can assist in having software usable by others not just for a few months or a year, but rather for a much longer software lifetime"

- Eric Rexstad, Distance