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Help us create a more effective and fairer assessment of research success

By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director, Software Sustainability Institute.

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The benefits of in-person training

SSI Fellow Luke Abraham, National Centre for Atmospheric Science and University of Cambridge, speaks about the benefits of in-person training and his experience organising a course on the United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols model in December 2022 at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry’s Computer Lab.
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Speedrunning a Workshop on Reproducibility for Machine Learning in Science

SSI Fellow Jesper Dramsch speaks up about their experience hosting a workshop on Reproducibility for Machine Learning in Science at Pydata Global.
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News

Byte-sized RSE Session on Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

The next Byte-sized RSE session, covering Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), will take place on Tuesday 28th March, 13:00-14:30 GMT.
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Professor Carole Goble named among Best Scientists in the field of Computer Science

We are glad to announce that SSI co-investigator and professor of computer science at the University of Manchester Carole Goble has been included in Research.com's Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Computer Science and received the Computer Science Leader Award for 2023.
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Announcing the full CW23 programme

Collaborations Workshop 2023 (CW23) will take place as a hybrid event in Manchester, UK, from Tuesday, 2 May to Thursday, 4 May 2023 and the full agenda - including keynote speakers, lightning talks, and mini-workshop sessions - is now available!

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Events

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Research Software Camp

The next Research Software Camp (RSC) will run for two weeks from 19th to 30th June 2023. The topic will be announced soon.

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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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"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