Welcome to the August 2025 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring news, opportunities, events and training for you.
Open Research Prize 2025 - The winners of the University of Sheffield’s 2025 Open Research Prize have now been announced.
Bessemer HPC will cease service on the 31st October 2025. What do you need to do to prepare?
Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure Showcase - Wednesday, 17th September 2025, The Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Birmingham B1 2ND.
OpenSourceAI Fellowship Call - The Alan Turing Institute is seeking exceptional researchers and technologists with an interest and expertise in Specialised AI Model Development and Secure Systems Engineering to spend 12 months as a Fellow with The Alan Turing Institute and be embedded within a team at the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to develop high profile open-source use cases for the UK Government. Closing date 12:00 - 18 August 2025.
For more forthcoming RSE training events, keep an eye on our Training page and join our mailing list to hear about new events.
Check for advertised RSE and RSE-adjacent roles at the RSE society’s vacancies board.
The DRPS community is a group for people that support researchers in carrying out research in the digital age. Meetings are held monthly, with discussions around events, training and opportunities related to the field. You can join the google group to stay informed. Next meeting: Wednesday 13th August 2025 at 2pm.
LunchBytes are short talks from the research community on research software, data, and infrastructure.
More information on future LunchBytes will be coming out over the coming months, so sign up to the RSE mailing list if you’d like to learn more about research software and associated practices, or get in contact with Farhad if you would like to share what you know at an upcoming session!
Why not come to a Code Clinic? We’re keen to help you.
Code Clinics are fortnightly supported sessions run by the RSE team and IT Services’ Research IT 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 Research IT teams will be available to review code, advise, troubleshoot, and suggest ways to improve your computational workflows.
HPC Drop-In sessions are providing assistance with HPC related user issues such as challenges in scaling an application from desktop to supercomputer. We are considering extending the number of our sessions to two or three weekly. These interactive sessions could provide a better interface with our users than our non-interactive ticketing system. These sessions are advertised on the HPC mailing list.
Alongside the HPC Drop-In sessions, Research IT are also running one to one consultations to solve in depth user specific problems. These consultations can be booked via our webpage. If you are interested please visit the following link: https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research.
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.
Research IT directly supports research, both academic and commercial. We provide large scale HPC systems, advice on everything from statistics to ML to data pipelines and training for both students and staff.
Working with academics, our staff are embedded within research groups on both long and short term engagements.
For queries relating to collaborating with the RSE team on projects: rse@sheffield.ac.uk
Information and access to Bede.
Join our mailing list so as to be notified when we advertise talks and workshops by subscribing to this Google Group.
Queries regarding free research computing support/guidance should be raised via our Code clinic or directed to the University IT helpdesk.