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Cover of the report, Shaping data and software policy in the arts and humanities research community, publication date July 2022.

Supporting digital skills of arts and humanities researchers

A new study shows the need to invest in digital, data and software skills and training infrastructure in the arts and humanities research community.

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Prenomics: Lowering barriers to participation

Last year, the first Genomics course was delivered, and Community Manager and FAIR coordinator, Evelyn Greeves, blogged about what we learned which included dividing the course into Prenomics and Genomics. Now Evelyn is back with another blog on how that went.
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Using citizen science and software to hunt for microplastics

Very little is known about the microfibres in the air in our homes: How many are there? Are they mostly plastic or other materials? What are the main sources?   The Homes Under the Microscope project aims to harness the power of citizen science to answer all these questions.
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News

Survey of academic MATLAB users open now

SSI Fellow, David Wilby, has recently opened a survey of academic MATLAB users with the aim of collecting data on the state of understanding of reproducibility concepts and tools and the appetite for training in this area.
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Registration is open for our Research Software Camp live sessions

As part of the Camp we will be running two live sessions - a panel discussion on ‘Managing stress in research software’, and a workshop on 'Befriending your inner critic'. Both sessions will be free, online, and open to anyone who is interested in the topic of mental health in research software. 
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We’re hiring! SSI Communications Officer vacancy open

The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) is looking for a Communications Officer to help deliver its tagline of “better software, better research”. 

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Events

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Collaborations Workshop 2023 (CW23)

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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Research Software Camp: Supporting Mental Health

Our autumn Research Software Camp will take place from 7 to 18 November 2022. This edition will explore the topic of mental health in research with a particular focus on 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