Research Software Alliance

📣The draft programme for the 25th #RDAPlenary (P25) taking place as part of International Data Week 2025 is ready!

Browse the draft programme to see the range of RDA Group sessions and Birds of a Feather (BoF) meetings scheduled to take place: www.rd-alliance.org/...

🚨The Research Data Alliance and ‪Microsoft‬ have released two white papers on #AI, High-Performance Computing (#HPC) and #QuantumComputing..

Read the outcomes:
✅ Data Readiness and Data-Centric AI: lnkd.in/eCj97tTa
✅From HPC to Quantum: lnkd.in/eQ9MhfVP

@kurapati.bsky.social

ReSA News | July 2025

🎉 ReSA welcomes @schmidtsciences.bsky.social as our newest Organisational Member! Schmidt Sciences aims to accelerate scientific knowledge and breakthroughs with the most promising, advanced tools. Read the full announcement: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7781...
@arfon.bsky.social

ReSA News | July 2025

ReSA’s July newsletter (preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7781...) includes:
- #ResearchSoftware community news
- ReSA's Community Leadership Forum: nominations open
- Join a Funders Forum WG
- ReSA membership update @schmidtsciences.bsky.social
- community events @us-rse.bsky.social US-RSE'25

CLF open nomination form: Representation of missing stakeholder groups The Research Software Community Leadership Forum (CLF) supports ReSA’s vision by serving as a forum for community leaders to collaborate, share insights, and advance the research software ecosystem. I...

🌍 ReSA launches the Community Leadership Forum (CLF)—a space for #ResearchSoftware leaders to connect, set shared priorities & represent the community globally.
🗳️ Nominations open!
📆 Deadline: Sept 5
📋 Apply: forms.gle/YavEEdpF3cNN...
Learn more: www.researchsoft.org/community-le...

✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨
TL;DR
🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
⏰ Approx 20 mins.
📅 Closes 30 September
🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)

NWO – Dutch Research Council - Software Heritage The Dutch Research council is a Software Heritage Bronze sponsor.

Great to see #NWO join #SoftwareHeritage, preserving research software for the future. At Open Science NL, we support open and sustainable research software as a key part of reproducible science: 'Software is a first-class research output.' Read the statement www.softwareheritage.org/2025/05/14/n...

Emily Richardson, Solution Architect Genomics, Amazon Web Services (AWS) presenting in Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship

🎤 Opening Keynote at UCL #ucldigifest:
✨ A Digital Survival Story: From research code to research infrastructure
Emily Richardson (AWS) shares her journey from postdoc scripts to cloud architectures for research.
🔗 buff.ly/jwUF8Uh
#ARC #Festival #research #UCL #AWS

🎉ReSA welcomes Microsoft Corporation as our newest Organisational Member! Microsoft develops AI-powered platforms & tools to empower people & orgs - guided by commitments to opportunity, trust, rights & sustainability.
Full announcement: www.researchsoft.org/news/2025-06/
@msftresearch.bsky.social

ReSA News | June 2025

ReSA’s June newsletter is out!
- news & funding opportunities: @navigation.org @opensciencenl.bsky.social
- @oecd-ocde.bsky.social on #ResearchSoftware access
- @researchdataall.bsky.social TIGER funding for PRO4RS
- @msftresearch.bsky.social joins ReSA

🔗 preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7781...

Research Software Is an Important Research Output. Let’s Act Like It. A powerful call to action from Jennifer Kemp in the latest Open Knowledge article in Katina Magazine.
katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

2+ years after publishing, have the FAIR Principles for Research Software (#FAIR4RS) been useful & usable? Learn about the results of a survey on this & to discuss next steps.

Webinars (1 July):
UTC 11:00-12:00 (unsw.zoom.us/meeting/regi...)
UTC 22:00-23:00 (unsw.zoom.us/meeting/regi...)

Discussions will focus on governance, skills, infrastructure, sustainability, and public–private collaboration. (5/5)

A key milestone will be the expert workshop:

Access to Research Software: Opportunities and Challenges

taking place on 8 September 2025 at the OECD headquarters in Paris.

To participate or contribute, please contact alan.paic@oecd.org (4/5)

Following last year’s pledge by OECD members & partner countries to advance open science via improved data management & stewardship, OECD’s Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP) is launching a 2025–26 project to assess progress & policy gaps in access to research software. (3/5)

Across OECD countries, targeted reforms are supporting its development, openness, and long-term sustainability. As AI-driven research grows, a robust research software ecosystem — supported by skilled individuals, strong communities, and reliable infrastructure — is more important than ever. (2/5)

Research software is increasingly recognised as a core research output, alongside publications and datasets. (1/5)

#OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #OpenSource

Mentorship Training and Orientation. rOpenSci Champions Program | Yanina Bellini Saibene By Yanina Bellini Saibene in Workshop Education English Community

🌱 Learn the foundations of effective mentorship in open science. This orientation supports community members as they become inclusive and impactful mentors. It was designed for the #rOpenSci Champions Program

🔗 Mentorship Training and Orientation yabellini.netlify.app/courses/rope...

🟥 The call for Expressions of Interest for the first round of the Research Software Maintenance Fund has officially closed with an incredible 361 applications received! A huge thank you to everyone who applied.
Find out more about the RSFM at www.software.ac.uk/programmes/r...

🎉 ReSA's delighted to welcome @researchdataall.bsky.social as our latest Organisational Member! We're excited to strengthen our partnership as we collaborate to support #ResearchSoftware, #ResearchData, and #OpenScience on a global scale.

🔗 Read the full blog post: www.researchsoft.org/blog/2025-05

ReSA’s 2025–2028 Strategic Plan is here! 🌍 Built with community input, the plan outlines ReSA’s commitment to strengthening the global #ResearchSoftware ecosystem through improvements in people, policy, and infrastructure. Thanks to all who contributed!

🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

ReSA News | May 2025

ReSA’s May newsletter (preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7781...) includes:
- news from @softwareheritage.org
- funding opportunities from @navigation.org
- ReSA’s 2025-28 Strategic Plan & new forums
- ReSA membership update @researchdataall.bsky.social
- community events @society-rse.org #RSECon25

Call for Newsletter Submissions - Society of Research Software Engineering Our regular newsletter announces new Society initiatives, and gathers RSE news, events, blogs, papers and anything interesting and relevant together in one place. We are keen to feature content from…

If you have any RSE news, events, blogs, papers and or anything else interesting and relevant to the RSE community, submit it for inclusion in our monthly newsletter!
Deadline 23rd of May

Call for Mentors - RSECon25 Join us for the ninth annual Research Software Engineering conference RSECon25, at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, from 9–11 September 2025. Learn, share, and build connections across the…

📣 RSECon25 Call for Mentors 📣

Do you have experience of presenting? Want to help early-career RSEs?

Guide & support by sharing your knowledge & experience with those preparing to present at RSECon25.

Find out more at rsecon25.society-rse.org/call-for-men...

Deadline is 2025-06-14

#rsecon25

🚀 Just a few days to go until #NRSE25!

We're excited to see what Research Software Engineers across the Nordics have been working on.

Check out the full schedule and get ready to be inspired: nordic-rse.org/nrse2025/ 👥💻🌍

#RSEng

A new ReSA & RDA PRO4RS WG report: "Identifying Gaps in Research Software Policy” (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) defines a common framework for research software policy & identifies areas where policies are lacking. It concludes that there is no single solution that covers all necessary policy aspects.

Funding for Open-Source Development to Advance OSF Integrations The Center for Open Science (COS) is seeking proposals for open-source development projects that will improve usability, interoperability, and research workflows on the Open Science Framework (OSF)—a free, open-source platform maintained by COS to support researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle.

🛠️ Calling all open source developers!

COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF).

Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you.

Proposals due: May 14th, 2025.

🔗 http://cos.io/pose

#DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience

Looking forward a lot to this year's #SIPS2025 and and organizing one of the hackathons there! ✨ #OpenScience

✴️ Request for proposals! ✴️

@navigation.org is funding focused gatherings to tackle key challenges in Open Science. We support meetings that define solvable problems and quickly move ideas toward implementation.

Deadline: June 15, 2025

os.nav.fund/meeting-fund

#OpenScience

A photo of Mike Simpson, next to the words "supporting mental health in the research software community" and the SSI logo

I realise I forgot to promote this. I wrote a blog post that gives a bit more context to my SSI fellowship (and links to my other blog post). #MentalHealth #RSEng

mdsimpson.co.uk/2025/03/my-s...