Samantha Wittke

Come join us at the Nordic RSE Conference 2026, Tromsø, Norway, on June 9-10, 2026.

Keynote speakers:
* Dr Mihaela Duta, University of Oxford

* Assoc. Prof. Dr Elisabeth Wetzer, UiT

Registration and call for abstracts is now open!

For more details, visit: nordic-rse.org/nrse2026

We need your help! Over the last decade, the @softwaresaved.bsky.social and partners have collected heaps of data on the research software community. Now we want to know how you’d put that data to use. In fact, we’re so eager to know that we’re offering a prize for the best data analysis.

Webinar: From Quick Script to Reproducible Workflow: Small Research Software Engineering Habits, Big Impact (2026-02-17) Date: 17 February 2026 Time: 15:00 CET Registration Abstract Reproducible analysis pipelines sound great in theory, but what does that look like in the life of a busy researcher doing biomolecular sy...

⏰ Don't forget to register for our #webinar tomorrow, 17 February 2026, 15:00 CET
✍️ bioexcel.eu/7c2s

"From quick script to reproducible workflow"

#molecularsimulations #workflows #FAIR #SoftwareEngineering

@coderefinery.org

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Interested in best practices for creating and maintaining reproducible workflows for biomolecular simulations?

Join us for our #webinar

🗓️ 17 February 2026, 15:00 CET
✍️ bioexcel.eu/7c2s

#molecularsimulations #workflows #FAIR #SoftwareEngineering

@coderefinery.org

I learned so much through this event and it was a true pleasure to talk about our @coderefinery.org and @nordic-rse.bsky.social Zulip chat and share some tipps and tricks learned over the years!

Zulip Tools Trial Recap - Find out more about this open-source community platform! - CSCCE A recap of our Zulip Tools Trial which took place on Wednesday, 21 January 2026 - resources, recordings, and more!

Find out more about the open-source community platform Zulip in our latest blog post, a recap of the Tools Trial we held on Wednesday: www.cscce.org/2026/01/23/z...

Last chance to apply for travel funding for the meetup of Research Software Engineering Enthusiasts in Finland in February is tomorrow. Tell your friends! 🙌

Research Software Submissions Research Software Papers @RSECon26 1-Rationale As part of the RSECon26 conference vision, we are launching the RSECon26 research software submissions. The goal of this new submission is to encourage…

📣 New for #RSECon26! We’re launching a Research Software submission route! 🎉
Have software ready for publication? Submit to @joss-openjournals.bsky.social as part of RSECon26. Accepted or pre-reviewed papers get JOSS+RSECon26 branding and a 15-min talk. More info: tinyurl.com/rsecon26joss

🟥 We are pleased to announce that the call for Expressions of Interest for Round 2 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund will open on Wed 28 Jan 2026. This round will accept applications for grants up to £150k and a duration of up to 12 months. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/rsmf-ro...

Research software is important in driving scientific innovation. 💡
Join the #ELIXIR_STEERS policy event to discuss: 💪 challenges & opportunities in treating #researchsoftware as a first-class research output and 🙌 the impact of #FAIRprinciples.

🔗 https://loom.ly/eZL9Gkk

Big thanks to Aalto Scientific Computing, the Software Sustainability Institute and the Society of Research Software Engineering for supporting this event ♥️

More info, submission and registration: aaltoscicomp.github.io/NoBSC/

Flyer showing a summary of the RSE-FI meetup in text + Aalto Scientific Computing, Nordic-RSE, Society of RSE and Software Sustainability Institute in the bottom. Includes a QR code leading to the website which includes all information presented on they flyer and more: https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/NoBSC/

Are you involved in writing, maintaining or supporting research software and interested in sharing your work / experiences and networking with others like you?

Join us on Feb 2-3 2026 in Espoo! 🇫🇮

We have some travel funding available for people outside the capital region, apply now ♥️

#RSEng

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I wrote a long thread about contributing to base R, highlighting the resources and opportunities provided by the R Contribution Working Group.

contributor.r-project.org

#RStats

Save the date: The next CodeRefinery workshop is coming 17.-19. and 24.-26. of March 2026 !

We are now updating materials, gathering interest for instructors, helpers and local classroom hosts:
Wanna join? -> e-mail support@coderefinery.org

Diátaxis is an amazing resource that I recommend to everyone writing documentation or tutorials: diataxis.fr

I find myself returning to it every few weeks, and each time I learn something new.

#documentation

Dr. Heidi Seibold is speaking at TEDxTUM 2025! 🎤
She’s asking: How do we make science serve its purpose again?
If you care about Open Science & better research culture — this talk is for you.
📅 Nov 8, 2025
🎟️ Discounted tickets:
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#TEDxTUM #OpenScience #ResearchCulture

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

Logo of the S³ School – Sustainable Scientific Software School

🚀 Build sustainable, reproducible research software!

Learn principles & hands-on practices of open, high-quality, scientific software development at the S³ School 🗓️ 14–21 January 2026, #LAPP, Annecy🇫🇷

📅 Apply by 14 Nov: indico.in2p3.fr/event/36319

Supported by #EVERSE & @oscarsproject.bsky.social

Purple Nordic-RSE text under half a snowflake in pixel style surrounded by the sentence "happy international RSE day".

🎉 Happy international RSE day from the Nordics!

We have got some exciting events brewing for the future, including the Nordic Basic Scientific Computing days (No BS Computing) in Otaniemi, FI, in February and the 3rd Nordic-RSE conference in Tromsø, NO in June.

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Well deserved ! 👏

CodeRefinery workshop September/October 2025 Free workshop on git, testing, documentation, and more in a workshop - for researchers and scientists.

📣 Registration for the CodeRefinery workshop starting September 9th is still open.

🤝 Dive into Git and other tools for more reproducible research, with setup support and a shell crash course in the mix - designed for researchers, by researchers.

More info: coderefinery.github.io/2025-09-09-w...

🇸🇪 The second Nordic-RSE in-person conference took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the end of May. Find out more about the event through the words of #SSIFellow @samumantha.bsky.social in this blog originally posted on the Nordic RSE website: www.software.ac.uk/blog/nordic-...

Thank you for having me! It was an exciting visit and great pleasure to talk about @coderefinery.org and @nordic-rse.bsky.social and all the discussions around training, HPC and Research Software!

Great first day!
First Minisymposium on Research Software quality showed how work done within Elixir can reach beyond life science communities via projects like @eosc-everse.bsky.social ! Can't wait to see where this is going 🤩

JOSS re-evaluated as JUFO 1 in Finland, expands its definition - Nordic RSE We bring together the community of people writing and contributing to research software from Nordic universities, research institutes, companies and other organizations to share knowledge, to organize...

It's great to see that a national research evaluation organization, the Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO), has rated @joss-openjournals.bsky.social as level 1, recognizing its scholarly value

Frankie Robertson helped make this happen, with Nordic-RSE, & wrote about it: nordic-rse.org/blog/joss-ju...

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