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| title: December 2023 Newsletter | ||
| editor: Dan Brady | ||
| slug: 2023-12-04-newsletter | ||
| date: 2023-12-04T00:00:00Z+0100 | ||
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| ## The University of Sheffield Research Software Engineering Community Newsletter December 2023 | ||
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| Welcome to the December 2023 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring | ||
| news, opportunities, events and training for you. | ||
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| ### News, Web & Blogs | ||
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| #### News | ||
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| - [Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form the High Performance Software Foundation](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-intent-to-form-high-performance-software-foundation-hpsf) | ||
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| - [British Library hack: Customer data offered for sale on dark web](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67544504) | ||
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| - [Announcement for the location and theme of the SSI Collaboration Workshops 2024](https://www.software.ac.uk/news/announcing-theme-and-location-collaborations-workshop-2024) - 30 April to 02 May 2024 at the University of Warwick. | ||
| Themes encompass: Environmental Sustainability, AI/ML tools for science, and Citizen science | ||
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| - [43 UK institutions reforming recruitment and promotion](https://www.ukrn.org/2023/11/20/43-uk-institutions-reforming-recruitment-and-promotion/) | ||
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| - [NVIDIA Is A New Sponsor Of The Scikit-Learn consortium at the Inria Foundation](https://blog.scikit-learn.org/funding/nvidia-is-a-new-sponsor/) | ||
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| - PyPi has completed its first security audit, you can read about what was audited, what was found, and how it was remediated in three parts ([Part 1](https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-11-14-1-pypi-completes-first-security-audit/), [Part 2](https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-11-14-2-security-audit-remediation-warehouse/), [Part 3](https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-11-14-3-security-audit-remediation-cabotage/)) | ||
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| - [Research Software Alliance newsletter - November 2023](https://preview.mailerlite.com/c3q9q5c5p3/2354512809695386395/k7l2/) | ||
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| #### RSE Advocacy | ||
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| - [US-RSE and the IEEE Computer Society are pleased to announce the publication of "Research Software Engineers: Creating a Career Path—and a Career"](https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10073232) | ||
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| - [Foundational Competencies and Responsibilities of a Research Software Engineer (pre-print)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11457) | ||
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| #### Open Research | ||
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| - [UK research needs to open up to keep up](https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-views-of-the-uk-2023-11-uk-research-needs-to-open-up-to-keep-up/) | ||
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| - [SoFAIR: The Open University to coordinate new international project to facilitate the reproducibility of research studies](https://blog.core.ac.uk/2023/11/07/sofair-the-open-university-to-coordinate-new-international-project-to-facilitate-the-reproducibility-of-research-studies/) | ||
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| - [CORE - The world's largest collection of Open Access Research papers](https://core.ac.uk/) | ||
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| - [UKRN Open Research Resources](https://www.ukrn.org/open-research-resources/) - Animations, Primers, Videos and Training Materials to Support Open Research | ||
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| - [Ouvrir la science](https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/software-and-source-codes-college/) - Useful resources from French government funded open science initiative | ||
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| - From Ouvrir la science: [Higher Education and Research Forges in France - Definition, uses, limitations encountered and needs analysis](https://hal-lara.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-04208924) | ||
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| #### Web | ||
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| - [Royal Statistical Society - Best Practices for Data Visualisation: Insights, advice, and examples (with code) to make data outputs more readable, accessible, and impactful](https://royal-statistical-society.github.io/datavisguide/) | ||
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| - [Research Dream Team Toolkit](https://research-dream-team-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) - A resource intended to make it as easy as possible to organise a workshop aimed at raising awareness of and facilitating discussion around the diversity of roles that contribute to research. | ||
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| - [Presentation and linked notes from a recent workshop by CiteSoftware group.](https://zenodo.org/records/8356278) Their aim is to drive the adoption of a common research software preservation and citation guidance website for the research community | ||
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| #### Blogs | ||
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| - [Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community](https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/navigating-research-software-policies-insights-from-the-dutch-research-community-1157b05d22bd) | ||
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| - Interesting piece on code complexity and software sustainability: [The sustainability doughnut of scientific software](https://science-in-the-digital-era.khinsen.net/#The%20sustainability%20doughnut%20of%20scientific%20software) | ||
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| - [The low-hanging fruit in computational reproducibility](http://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2023/11/30/The-low-hanging-fruit-in-computational-reproducibility.html) | ||
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| #### Publications | ||
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| - [Retracted articles use less free and open-source software and cite it worse](https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/doi/10.1162/qss_a_00275/118074/Retracted-articles-use-less-free-and-open-source) | ||
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| - [A Comparative Study of Code Generation using ChatGPT 3.5 across 10 Programming Languages (pre-print)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04477) | ||
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| - [The Luck of the Draw: Wellcome's Institutional Fund for Research Culture](https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-525/v1) | ||
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| ### Events | ||
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| - [Digital Research Academy Train-the-Trainer program #3](https://events.digital-research.academy/event/32/) - Starting in January 2024, Applications are open until December 15th 2023. | ||
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| - [4th conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany](https://events.hifis.net/event/994/) - 05-07 March 2024 | ||
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| - [International Research Software Engineering Research (IRSER) Community Meetup](https://www.software.ac.uk/news/international-research-software-engineering-research-irser-community-meetup) - Online (UK time), 16-17 January 2024 | ||
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| ### Training | ||
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| #### External Training | ||
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| - [Genomics: Learn data management and analytical skills for genomics research - 15-24 January 2024 (online, UK time)](https://cloud-span.york.ac.uk/upcoming/Genomics/) | ||
| <!--#### Research IT Training--> | ||
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| <!--Research IT courses have adopted a hybrid approach. The team will be providing their courses both online and in --> | ||
| <!--person for the first time since March 2020. The team provides a place for beginners or advanced users to expand --> | ||
| <!--their knowledge of HPC and different programming languages. The courses are part of the Doctoral Development --> | ||
| <!--Programme. For more information please visit our training registration web page (via VPN): --> | ||
| <!--[crs.shef.ac.uk](https://crs.shef.ac.uk).--> | ||
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| <!--If a course is "sold out" please join the wait list by signing up - we regularly email people to encourage those --> | ||
| <!--that can no longer attend to cancel. Those on the wait list get early notification when the courses are run --> | ||
| <!--again.--> | ||
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| ### Opportunities | ||
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| #### Jobs | ||
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| - [Senior Research Software Engineer (Research Objects/FAIR Digital Objects) - Closes 8th Dec](https://society-rse.org/job/the-university-of-manchester-escience-laboratory-senior-research-software-engineer-research-objects-fair-digital-objects-sae-023829/) | ||
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| - [Senior Research Software Engineer (Trusted Research Environments) - Closes 14th Dec](https://society-rse.org/job/the-university-of-manchester-escience-laboratory-senior-research-software-engineer-trusted-research-environments-sae-023829/) | ||
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| You can always check for advertised RSE and RSE-adjacent roles over at the [RSE society's vacancies | ||
| board](https://society-rse.org/careers/vacancies/). | ||
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| ### Digital Research Practice Support Community | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| You can join the google group | ||
| [here](https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/sheffield.ac.uk/g/digital-research-practice-support-community-group/about) to | ||
| stay informed. | ||
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| The next meeting is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday 6th December. | ||
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| ### LunchBytes | ||
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| [LunchBytes](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/community/lunch-bytes/) are short talks from the research community on research | ||
| software, data, and infrastructure. | ||
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| - [Making research software more visible and reusable: Open Source Software and | ||
| FAIR4RS](https://bit.ly/open-research-conversation-lunchbytes-fair4rs) (6th December 12:00 - 13:00) in conjunction with Open Research Conversations | ||
| we look at the FAIR principles and how they apply to research software under the [FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) | ||
| principles](https://zenodo.org/record/6623556#.YqCJTJNBwlw). | ||
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| #### LunchBytes needs YOU | ||
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| LunchBytes are organised by and for the research software community at The University of Sheffield. If you'd like to | ||
| curate a session on a topic or present something, get in touch by emailing | ||
| [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) - Or suggest topics | ||
| [on the jamboard](https://jamboard.google.com/d/1-51cRf0pwZl8O10CnLeJGAqKcnbww-QGaYjszFK-H38/). | ||
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| ## Support | ||
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| ### Code Clinics | ||
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| Why not come to a [Code | ||
| Clinic](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGXS55qjU0D0Zcz-KHOVcNTahcr3YC3H0OpoKBo3lWXWED5A/viewform)? We're keen | ||
| to help you. | ||
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| Code Clinics are fortnightly supported sessions run by the RSE team and IT Services’ [Research | ||
| IT](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research) team. They are open to anyone at TUoS writing code for research to | ||
| get help with programming problems and general advice on best practices. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| ### Research IT HPC Drop In | ||
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| 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](https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/sheffield.ac.uk/g/hpc). | ||
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| ### Research IT Consultations | ||
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| 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>. | ||
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| ## Sheffield RSE Team | ||
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| The Sheffield RSE Team aims to [collaborate](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/collaboration/guide/) with you to help improve your | ||
| research software. | ||
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| They can provide dedicated staff to ensure that you can deliver excellent research software engineering on your research | ||
| projects. | ||
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| The Sheffield RSE Team provides free [Code Clinics][CCs] (in collaboration with [IT Services][its-res-it]), plus [paid | ||
| services][rse-service] that allow us to collaborate longer term. | ||
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| ## Research IT | ||
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| [Research IT](https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research) 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. | ||
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| Working with academics, our staff are embedded within research groups on both long and short term engagements. | ||
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| [CCs]: https://rse.shef.ac.uk/support/code-clinic/ | ||
| [its-res-it]: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research/ | ||
| [rse-service]: https://rse.shef.ac.uk/collaboration/ |