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…
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[…]…
Getting started with GitLab
The University has a GitLab instance [VPN], which researchers can use to host Git repositories. It also provides other features to complement this core function, which I’ll touch on below. First of all, a few…
Working From Home
We’re all working from home at the moment. Obviously, the regular routine is disrupted and there are more, or at least different, distractions to deal with, especially if you’ve got primary school-age children like I…
Attending SSI Collaborations Workshop remotely
Like most other people, the Research Computing team is now working from home. However, last week I took remote working a step further by attending a conference from my home office. The Software Sustainability…
The hidden REF
The Software Sustainability Institute announced this morning the launch of The hidden REF, a competition designed to recognise “all research outputs and every role which makes research possible”. 97% of outputs in the…
Software Sustainability Institute Collaborations Workshop 2020
The Software Sustainability Institute‘s (SSI) annual Collaborations Workshop is being held this year in Belfast (my hometown) on 31 March – 2 April. The SSI is funded by all seven of the UK Research Councils to with a…
Events for Love Data week
The Research Data Management team have organised several events for Love Data week 2020 (10-14 February). Modern practices of sharing computational research by Alexander Konovalov (School of Computer Science). Tuesday…