Research Computing in Pure
I often encounter researchers at the University who have not heard of Research Computing. Our team would like to improve our profile by ensuring our contributions to research are visible in Pure. Pure is the…
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Software Carpentry Workshop 19-20th May 2026: Shell, Git and Python
I’ve just posted over on the St Andrews Carpentries site about an upcoming Software Carpentry workshop being held in the Gateway on 19th and 20th May. If you’re interested in attending as a learner, or as a helper…
ScotRSE meeting
Yesterday (23 February 2026) saw the first in-person meeting of ScotRSE at the University of Dundee, bringing together about 30 Research Software Engineers from across Scotland. The meeting opened with a short talk…
uv Exposure
Look at the installation instructions for most Python packages and you will typically be told to run pip install
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…
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…