Welcome to the October 2026 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring news, opportunities, events and training for you.
| [RE#: High Performance Derivative-Based Regex Matching with Intersection, Complement, and Restricted Lookarounds | Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3704837) |
| [Code Quality Predicts Community Engagement not Citation Impact: Evidence from 508 Research Repositories | Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability](https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3820002.3828595) |
UKRI AI Anxiety and Creativity: Just finished your PhD? Working as a postdoc or early-career lecturer in the UK? This UKRI-funded study looks at how AI is shaping anxiety, creativity, and research practice among ECRs. Your responses will directly inform support design and wellbeing guidance for the research community.
REACT: Recommendations for Enhancing Adoption of Carbon-footprinting Tools This study seeks to understand the motivations and barriers associated with adoption of user carbon footprinting (UCF) tools by DRI facilities.
Sustainability Training in Research and Research Software Engineering Survey on awareness of, and training on, environmentally sustainable computing.
| [Future Knowledge | Open for Whom?](https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/open-for-whom) |
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 here to stay informed.
The next meeting is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday 11th November 2026.
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.
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.