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“Beware: results may vary” - openness as a means of enhancing research quality

By Andrew Stewart, Software Sustainability Institute Fellow 

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FAIR Software at the 2019 eScience Symposium

FAIR data has been on everybody’s lips for a while. Many think that FAIR software will become “the next big thing” in eScience. Reasons enough to devote a session at the National eScience Symposium to the discussion of FAIR and its meaning for research software.
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Sustainable modelling software for large scale physics experiments

By Software Sustainability Institute Fellow Leandro Liborio
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News

Collaborations Workshop 2020 (CW20) - registration open!

The Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2020 (CW20) will take place from Tuesday 31 March to Thursday 2 April 2020 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and registration is now open.
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Vacancy: Research Software Engineer, Imperial College London

Imperial College London is recruiting a developer to join its Research Computing Service (RCS) as a Research Software Engineer (RSE).
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Archer

Archer courses announced

Two free Archer courses have been announced, running at EPCC in Edinburgh in early January 2020:

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Events

Collaborations Workshop 2020 location: Belfast

Collaborations Workshop 2020

Collaborations Workshop 2020 (CW20) takes place from Tuesday, 31st March to Wednesday, 1st April 2020 at Queen's University, Belfast. The CW20 Hack Day takes place on the evening of Wednesday, 1st of April to end of the working day Thursday, 2nd of April at Ulster University, Belfast. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.

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CarpentryConnect Manchester 2019

In affiliation with The Carpentries, The Software Sustainability Institute is organising the first European CarpentryConnect event in Manchester from 25th to 27th June 2019.
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Collaborations Workshop 2019

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) will take place from Monday 1st to Wednesday 3rd April 2019 at Loughborough University in the West Park Teaching Hub. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.
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"It adds development time, doing things right, but it's worth it. Our code is miles away from where it was. [The work has] really made a profound change to the way we do coding, even down to the way I write lines of code. We now understand the complexity involved in making things run smoothly – it's really been a very good learning experience"

- Prashant Valluri, TPLS