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+title: Summer 2023 Newsletter
+editor: Robert Chisholm
+slug: 2023-07-21-newsletter
+date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z+0100
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+
+## The University of Sheffield Research Software Engineering Community Newsletter October 2023
+
+Welcome to the October 2023 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring
+news, opportunities, events and training for you.
+
+### News, Web & Blogs
+
+#### Web
+
++ **Pre-Print** [The Changing Role of RSEs over the Lifetime of Parsl](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11060)
++ [Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering : Summer of Testing
+  Playlist](https://www.youtube.com/@Helmholtz_Platform_for_RSE/playlists) a series of videos on continuous testing
+  using C++, Julia and Python.
++ [Shifting culture to promote collaborative mind-sets about
+  data](https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/2023/07/27/shifting-culture-promote-collaborative-mind-sets-about-data).
++ [Reproducibility and research integrity: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixth report - Science, Innovation and
+  Technology Committee](https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmsctech/1771/report.html).
++ [Tracking the environmental impact of research computing | Software Sustainability
+  Institute](https://software.ac.uk/blog/2023-08-15-tracking-environmental-impact-research-computing).
++ UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have vacancies on their [Science, Engineering and Technology Board and Strategic
+  Advisory
+  Teams](https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/work-for-us/join-an-advisory-committee-panel-or-network/science-engineering-and-technology-board-and-strategic-advisory-teams-vacancies/)
++ **Pre-Print** [Responsible data sharing: Identifying and remedying possible re-identification of human participants](https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/5m3cx/)
+
+#### RSE Advocacy
+
++ [Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme recruitment paused until September 2024](https://www.software.ac.uk/news/ssi-fellowship-programme-recruitment-paused-until-september-2024)
+
+#### MATLAB
+
++ [repliMAT blog - One small step for MATLAB. One giant leap for
+  reproducibility.](https://reproduciblematlab.github.io/blog/posts/2023-07-24-one-small-step/)
+
+#### Open Research
+
++ [Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1254282/timetable/#20230710) - videos and
+  slides from a four day conference held at CERN in Zurich 2023-07-10 to 2023-07-14 in collaboration with NASA
++ The [Open Scholarship Community Sheffield (OSC Sheffield)](https://osc-international.com/osc-sheffield/) launched at
+  [OpenFest2023](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/research/open-research/openfest2023). This aims to build a
+  community network of researchers to support each other in undertaking Open Research.
++ A series of factsheets from [FAIRsharing](https://fairsharing.org/) have been published.
+  + [FAIRsharing in a nutshell](https://zenodo.org/record/8191958)
+  + [FAIRsharing for you: funders](https://zenodo.org/record/8191958)
+  + [FAIRsharing content: databases overview](https://zenodo.org/record/8186961)
+  + [FAIRsharing for you: researchers](https://zenodo.org/record/8186952)
+  + [FAIRsharing for you: journal publishers](https://zenodo.org/record/8186640)
+
+#### Blogs
+
++ RSE team member Peter Heywood goes through in detail [Benchmarking FLAME GPU 2 on H100, A100 and V100
+  GPUs](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/blog/2023-08-18-benchmarking-flamegpu2-on-h100-a100-and-v100-gpus/).
++ RSE team member Neil Shephard continues his pre-commit evangelism with a blog post on [Pre-commit and R
+  Packaging](https://ns-rse.github.io/posts/pre-commit-r/).
++ [Teaching the tidyverse in 2023](https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/08/teach-tidyverse-23/) by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel.
++ From the rOpenSci blog [Attract Contributors with 'help wanted'
+  Issues](https://ropensci.org/blog/2023/09/19/help-wanted/) by Maëlle Salmon, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Steffi LaZerte.
+
+#### Publications
+
++ [Habits and perceptions regarding open science by researchers from Spanish institutions | PLOS
+  ONE](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0288313)
++ [Code sharing increases citations, but remains uncommon | Research
+  Square](https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3222221/v1)
+
+### Events
+
++ [NHS-R/NHS.pycom Conference 2023](http://bit.ly/nhs-r-community-conference-2023) -  in-person conference Tuesday
+  2023-10-17.
++ [UK HPC Advisory Council Conference 2023](https://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2023/uk-conference/index.php) in
+  Leicester 2023-10-18 to 2023-10-19.
++ [PackagingCon 2023](https://packaging-con.org/) a conference for packages, package tooling/ecosystem
+  developers/maintainers in Berlin 2023-10-26 to 2023-10-28.
++ [Nordic-RSE online unconference 2023 - Nordic RSE](https://nordic-rse.org/events/2023-online-unconference/) online
+  2023-10-25 to 2023-10-26.
++ [SheffledR User Group Reboot](https://www.meetup.com/sheffieldr-sheffield-r-users-group/events/296493587/rsvp/) the
+  local R User group sees a reboot where RSE team member Neil Shephard will be showing how to use a Quarto template to
+  produce slides as a website on GitHub Pages.
++ University of Sheffield Open Research Manager Jenni Adams has been busy organising the [Open Research Conversations -
+  autumn/winter
+  2023-24](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/events/open-research-conversations-autumnwinter-2023-24).
+
+### Training
+
+The new term sees the resumption of training. RSE training courses can be found [here](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/events/)
+and are normally announced to our mailing list, whereas Research IT courses can be found at
+[crs.shef.ac.uk](https://crs.shef.ac.uk).
+
+#### External Training
+
++ [The Turing Online Learning Platform](https://www.turing.ac.uk/courses) contains a number of courses, many of which
+  can be undertaken independently.
++ [4th OpenAIRE Open Science Train-the-Trainer
+  Bootcamp](https://www.openaire.eu/4th-openaire-open-science-train-the-trainer-bootcamp)
++ Health Data Research UK [Reproducible Analytical Pipelines
+  Webinar](https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/events/reproducible-analytical-pipelines-webinar-2/) online 2023-10-10.
+
+<!--#### Research IT Training-->
+
+<!--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).-->
+
+<!--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.-->
+
+### Opportunities
+
++ The Carpentries has a [Call for Candidates for The Carpentries Board of Directors](https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/09/board-of-directors-election-announcement/).
+
+#### Jobs
+
+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/).
+
++ [Interim IT and Computing Manager (Full-time, Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of
+  Cambridge](https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/42717/)
+
+### Digital Research Practice Support Community
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The next meeting is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday 9th August.
+
+### LunchBytes
+
+[LunchBytes](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/community/lunch-bytes/) are short talks from the research community on research
+software, data, and infrastructure.
+
++ [Making research software more visible and reusable: Open Source Software and
+  FAIR4RS](https://bit.ly/open-research-conversation-lunchbytes-fair4rs) in conjunction with Open Research Conversations
+  we look at the FAIR principles and how they apply to research software under the [FAIR for Research Softrware (FAIR4RS)
+  principles](https://zenodo.org/record/6623556#.YqCJTJNBwlw).
+
+#### LunchBytes needs YOU
+
+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/).
+
+### Support
+
+#### Code Clinics
+
+Why not come to a [Code
+Clinic](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGXS55qjU0D0Zcz-KHOVcNTahcr3YC3H0OpoKBo3lWXWED5A/viewform)? We're keen
+to help you.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+#### Research IT HPC Drop In
+
+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).
+
+#### Research IT Consultations
+
+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>.
+
+## Sheffield RSE Team
+
+The Sheffield RSE Team aims to [collaborate](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/collaboration/guide/) with you to help improve your
+research software.
+
+They can provide dedicated staff to ensure that you can deliver excellent research software engineering on your research
+projects.
+
+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.
+
+## Research IT
+
+[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.
+
+Working with academics, our staff are embedded within research groups on both long and short term engagements.
+
+[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/