Robert (Bob) Turner
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If you were wondering what I thought about turning Research Software into SaaS, wonder no more and instead read this Software Sustainability Institute blog
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Complex pathogens like TB need research input from people with all kinds of expertise: meet some of our experts on bioinformatics, software engineering, lab sequencing, and clinical research who are working together to #EndTB
@OxfordBRC @_gpas_ @BashTheBug #YesWeCanEndTB
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The @RSE_Sheffield team @sheffielduni is looking for a new head of research software engineering:
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📢🚨 Exciting Job Alert 🚨📢 Our friends at @RSE_Sheffield are recruiting a new Research Software Engineer for Machine Learning and AI with a secondment at the @turinginst ! 🗓 Application deadline: 20th April https://t.co/k5PQzprT6r
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University of Sheffield Researchers: Python code giving different results on different computers? Trouble installing Python research software? This pilot course on Conda may help (and your feedback will help us!).
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How can we undertake research work in a consistent and reproducible computing environment?
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Do join us on 24 November 2022 - 12:00-13:00 for another edition of LunchBytes, this time a panel discussion on "Teaching Code". Should be good!
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As code and software become an ever bigger part of research (its likely that around 1/3 of researchers write code), coding and other digital skills become ever more important to researchers.
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.@nshephardRSE has also been blogging about using @pre_commit in your git repositories https://t.co/GNYX5I4ASk
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Pre-commit is a powerful tool for executing a range of hooks prior to making commits to your Git history. This is useful because it means you can automatically run a range of linting tools on your...
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Happy International RSE day to you all! To coincide with #IntlRSEday our @DrDavidWilby has blogged about how RSEs can bolster their career progression by gathering evidence to support the importance of their research outputs. https://t.co/wRQIqQk2am
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As research software engineers (RSEs) or researchers who develop software & code, at some point we will need to provide evidence that our software actually has some positive effect on the world....
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Nice vid @haipinglu ! Great points on testing "worry less, code more" and open source with private sector partners https://t.co/Jrv1wrXW2G cc @RSE_Sheffield
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This weekend, I'm going to binge-watch 13 hours of @RSE_Sheffield (and friends) LunchBytes sessions. Well, I'm not, but I could
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Registration now open! From the organisers: "Join us in the Diamond on 14th-15th September 2022 to explore ideas and practice around open research in this free, interdisciplinary event."
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Join us on 14th-15th September 2022 to explore ideas and practice around open research in this free, interdisciplinary in-person event.
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We're hiring: To coincide with advertising for an #AI / #MachineLearning #RSE we've written a blog post about how we do our interviews. Post and link to job ad here!
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We want to make our candidate selection process as open as possible. Generally we’re not trying to hire people who can solve software problems on the acute timescale and in the pressured situation of...
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LunchBytes: Workflow Managers - How can we get lots of software to work together reproducibly on different platforms? Join us on the 21st July at 13:30 to find out!
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Scientific workflows (for example in bioinformatics) often require several different scripts or pieces of software to be run and their outputs fed into each other. Ideally, we’d like to be able to...
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If you like research and you like writing code in #R, this may be the job for you!
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We have a job advert out for an RSE! Here are six reasons to apply: Varied projects. We work on research in areas such as astrophysics, healthcare, molecular biology, civil engineering and many more....
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We have a role available within the RSE team for someone with skills in R:
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Oh my gosh - another LunchBytes? https://t.co/PNydxMIXio "Software engineering in High Energy / Particle Physics" 17 March 2022 - 12:00-13:00 #bigdata, big collaborations, #versioncontrol, #ci, #threading, #tests - what more could you want?
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The University of Sheffield defines open research as the practice of making the processes and outputs of research transparent and freely available, whenever possible (see the University's statement...
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17/2/22 - 12:00-13:00 - If you find yourself running simulations that take days, struggling to fit datasets in your computer’s memory, training deep learning models or wish you had more computational resource for doing research, HPC might be the solution!
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If you find yourself running simulations that take days, struggling to fit datasets in your computer’s memory, training deep learning models or wish you had more computational resource for doing...
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Are you interested in joining a team to develop and facilitate reproducible software through collaborations across the whole spectrum of university research areas? Two new posts in our team.
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Are you interested in joining a team to develop and facilitate reproducible software through collaborations across the whole spectrum of university research areas?
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