“Software giant #Atlassian has announced it is #LayingOff about 10% of its #workforce, or roughly 1,600 positions, and replacing its chief technology officer as it restructures to invest further in #ArtificialIntelligence.

More than 900 affected positions were involved in #SoftwareResearch and development, a spokesperson said. Most of Atlassian’s #employees work in #SoftwareEngineering and #design, accounting for over 50% of its 13,813 full-time workforce in June 2025.

About 640 affected employees are in #NorthAmerica, 480 in #Australia and 250 in #india with the remainder spread across #Japan, the #Philippines, #Europe, the #MiddleEast and #Africa, according to the spokesperson.”

A reminder this company was created in #java by a bunch of “Blub programmers” 🤪😣🤣

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #Entrepreneurs / #Straya / #AI / #SaaS / #software <https://theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/12/atlassian-layoffs-software-technology-ai-push-mike-cannon-brookes-asx>

🏆 Saarbrücken now houses 11 ACM Fellows — about 1/3 of all ACM Fellows in Germany — highest of any location nationwide. This year, only 3 new Fellows in Germany were named, and Saarland University software engineering professor Sven Apel was one!

Congrats, Prof. Apel! 👏

🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/apel

#SIC #saarlandinformaticscampus #UdS #saarlanduniversity #softwareengineering #associationforcomputingmachinery #ACMfellowship #research #computerscience #softwareresearch #topingermany

The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-silent-scientist-when-software-research-fails-to-reach-its-audience/

#HackerNews #SilentScientist #SoftwareResearch #Outreach #Failures #ScienceCommunication

📰 This week at #SIC: Prof. Dr. Sven Apel, Chair of Software Engineering, and Dr. Marvin Wyrich, software engineering researcher at Saarland University, highlight the importance of science communication in November’s CACM issue!

📰 Read: https://sic.link/silentscientist
📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs

#SoftwareEngineering #ScienceCommunications #AcademicResearch #SoftwareResearch #ResearchCommunity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #STEM #SoftwareDevelopment #SIC #SaarlandUniversity #UdS

As a Developer Success Lab alumna, I still get to collaborate with my favorite scientists now and again 😍Including on the Developer Science Review.

We just released our second volume, and in my contribution, I provide my thoughts on the need to evaluate ideas proposed by thought leaders. https://dsl.pubpub.org/pub/think-big-scrutinize/release/3?readingCollection=265f6d02

#DeveloperExperience #SoftwareResearch #ContinuousIntegration