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Yesterday (23 February 2026) saw the first in-person meeting of ScotRSE at the University of Dundee, bringing together about 30 Research…

Date Tuesday February 24, 2026
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Look at the installation instructions for most Python packages and you will typically be told to run pip install . pip is…

Date Friday February 13, 2026
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We’ve been running regular Software Carpentry workshops at St Andrews for a number of years, and they’ve generally been well received (and…

Date Thursday January 19, 2023
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Software Carpentry Workshop 19-20 October 2022

We’re running an in-person Software Carpentry workshop in Parliament Hall on 19th and 20th October 2022. We’ll be covering working with the Unix Shell, Programming with Python and Version Control with Git. Full details…

FAIR Principles for Research Software Released

Via the Software Sustainability Institute. The FAIR4S Working Group has released version 1.0 of the FAIR Principles for Research Software. The working group was jointly convened by the Research Data Alliance, the…

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Coding Club is moving R workshops online

The Coding Club at the University of Edinburgh is moving its free R workshops online. As per their website, Coding Club “[wants] to replace statistics anxiety and code fear with inspiration and motivation to learn[…]…