Last chance to register for Nordic-RSE conference 2025!

Meet the Nordic Research Software Engineering community in Gothenburg, get inspired, and grow your network.

Schedule’s live: https://nordic-rse.org/nrse2025/#schedule

Register before April 30, noon CEST: https://nordic-rse.org/nrse2025/#registration

#RSEng #NRSE25

I was on a podcast! I had a fun, three-part chat with Peter from @code4thought about:

+ Leaving academia after 10+ years of postdocs
+ Studying volcanoes in Iceland and Mexico
+ Arguments to promote open source adoption in the organisation (portability; dealing with security concerns)

Follow the link to the podcast and links to related blog posts.

https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought/114380636478396753

#rseng #AcademicChatter #qgis #opensource #volcano #geology

I have been conceptualising and developing an R package {generatervis} which is useful to synthesise and visualise clinical data. This is the first blog in a series of blogs that I am planning to write about the processes that I am following from ideation to implementation.

Here's the blog link:
https://jyoti-bhogal.github.io/about-me/blog/2025-04-17_generatervis_blog_1/

Thank you, @rowlandm, for being such an amazing and thoughtful mentor!
@WEHI #RStats #RSEng

Image credit: Ixora red flowers clicked by me.

I got some unfortunate news earlier this month: #UniversityOfArizona has decided to defund the group I work for, @cct-datascience.bsky.social, amidst their continuing budget crisis.

https://datascience.cct.arizona.edu/news/data-science-team-seeking-new-projects-after-losing-funding

It super sucks and means I'll likely have to drop down to 50% in May and I'll be looking for new, better supported, #rseng or #datascience positions, ideally still working with biologists in #rstats in some capacity. Remote or in #Tucson.

Let me know if you know of anything!

Word of warning about using ChatGPT!

I spent about 2 hours with GPT help yesterday, without good results. And I found this amazing video, 1 minute of direct knowledge, resolve my problem. Good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37sEGybTRU

#ChatGPT #LLM #SoftwareEngineering #ResearchSoftware #RSEng #RSE

Investigating the Adoption of Research Software: From Success Factors to Challenges Faced by Brazilian Academic Researchers

journal page: https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jserd/article/view/3696

This DOI is what the journal advertises, but it doesn't work for me currently. https://doi.org/10.5753/jserd.2025.3696

#ResearchSoftware #RSEng

Over the past months, I spoke at the biannual Asia-Pacific Advanced Network meetings, online. I started a blog, however, it went on a backlog. This weekend, I finally completed it!

Here it is: https://tinyurl.com/2skrmbvu
 

#RSEng #OpenScience

Image credit: Mount Fuji, Japan, Photo by David Edelstein (https://tinyurl.com/3cfu7ecs) on Unsplash (https://tinyurl.com/2s4x7vju)