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I’ve just posted over on the St Andrews Carpentries site about an upcoming Software Carpentry workshop being held in the Gateway on 19th…

Date Friday March 13, 2026
Category Carpentries

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
Category Community

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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Beyond Software Carpentry

We’ve been running regular Software Carpentry workshops at St Andrews for a number of years, and they’ve generally been well received (and we’ve enjoyed delivering them). However, we haven’t offered any of the other…

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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…