Welcome to the monthly newsletter for the Research Software Engineering Community at The University of Sheffield.
Why not come to a Code Clinic? We’re keen to hear from you.
Code Clinics are fortnightly supported sessions run by the RSE team and IT Services’ Research and Innovation IT (ITS R&I) team. They are open to anyone at TUOS writing code for research to get help with programming problems and general advice on best practices.
At each session, members of the RSE and/or ITS R&I teams will be available to review code, advise, troubleshoot, and suggest ways to improve your computational workflows.
LunchBytes are a monthly series of short talks from the research community on research software, data, and infrastructure.
In May’s edition of LunchBytes on the 19th of May, we’ll be getting together to show off our favourite tools that help with using git and GitHub. Think: command-line tools, IDE plugins, GitHub/Lab features, etc.
If you have a git tool you’d like to let others know about - get in touch with the host at d.wilby [at] sheffield.ac.uk
LunchBytes are organised by and for the research software community at The University of Sheffield. If you’d like to curate a session on a topic or present something, get in touch by emailing lunchbytes-organisers-group@sheffield.ac.uk - Or suggest topics on the jamboard.
Jupyter everywhere - Embed Jupyter notebooks in any web page with Jupyterlite.
What’s next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution - DeepMind software that can predict the 3D shape of proteins is already changing biology.
Linting - What is all the fluff about? - This blogpost is written by the newest member of the RSE team. If you’ve been dabbling in programming for a while you may have heard of “linting your code” which is a process of static code analysis to remove the “fluff” from your code.
RSECon22 - RSECon2022 will be held in the Frederick Douglass Centre at Newcastle University.
Archive of Tomorrow – Health (Mis)Information on the Web - Join The Archive of Tomorrow project for a half-day event exploring the issues involved in archiving online health information. Thursday, 28 April.
The Turing Way Project - Join our speakers to talk about the role of conferences in scientific collaboration, and the trade-offs involved in this shift back to in-person conferences. Friday, 29 April.
Git & GitHub through GitKraken workshop - from Zero to Hero! Visit the links below for more information and to register.
The Sheffield RSE Team aims to collaborate with you to help improve your research software. They can provide dedicated staff to ensure that you can deliver excellent research software engineering on your research projects.
The Sheffield RSE Team provides free Code Clinics (in collaboration with IT Services), plus paid services that allow us to collaborate longer term.
For queries relating to collaborating with the RSE team on projects: rse@sheffield.ac.uk
Information and access to JADE II and Bede.
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Queries regarding free research computing support/guidance should be raised via our Code clinic or directed to the University IT helpdesk.