Mastodawn

📣 CAKE is extraordinarily excited to announce the first cohort of DRI Knowledge Exchange Fellows!

Starting from January, our new fellows Joe Wallwork, Louise Chisholm and Lewis Sampson will be championing knowledge exchange in their communities.

Read more about their plans at https://www.cake.ac.uk/ke-fellowships/cohort1

DRI Knowledge Exchange Fellowships

The CAKE Network+ facilitates knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities.

CAKE

Marion Dec 10

Daniel S. Katz Dec 9

I've collected a set of papers and articles that discuss errors in research due to software errors, in a GitHub repo: https://github.com/danielskatz/errors-due-to-research-software. I think this could be a useful resource for many purposes, and additional contributions are welcome.

GitHub - danielskatz/errors-due-to-research-software: This repo is a list of papers that discuss errors in research due to software errors

This repo is a list of papers that discuss errors in research due to software errors - danielskatz/errors-due-to-research-software

GitHub

Marion Dec 8

🎉 Registrations have opened for the Durham HPC Days 15-19 June 2026, Durham, UK!

https://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/

The call for session proposals is also open and closes January 31, 2026. An open call for talks will open early 2026.

Durham HPC Days

Durham HPC Days website

Durham HPC Days

Marion Dec 2

SSI Dec 2

◾ The first DisCouRSE Focus Group on Team Culture and Leadership in dRTP contexts will be held on Monday, 19 January at King’s College London. The session will explore how leadership can influence a healthy team culture in a dRTP context, aiming to establish shared language, document effective practices aligned with community values, and inform future refinements to the DIRECT competencies framework and training activities. Find out more and register at:
https://www.software.ac.uk/news/discourse-focus-group-team-culture-and-leadership-drtp-contexts

Marion Nov 28

Karl Voit

Nov 28

Bist du in Deutschland und magst #OpenSource? Dann solltest du das unterschreiben:

"Open-Source-Entwickler fordern Gleichstellung mit Vereinsarbeit:
Eine #Petition fordert, ehrenamtliche Arbeit an Open-Source-Software rechtlich wie klassisches #Ehrenamt zu behandeln – mit steuerlichen Vorteilen."
https://www.heise.de/news/Petition-Open-Source-Arbeit-soll-als-Ehrenamt-gelten-11094436.html

Edit: Direktlink zur Petition:
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main

#Ehrenamt #Steuern #FOSS #Linux #LibreOffice #KDE ...

Open-Source-Entwickler fordern Gleichstellung mit Vereinsarbeit

Eine Petition fordert, ehrenamtliche Arbeit an Open-Source-Software rechtlich wie klassisches Ehrenamt zu behandeln – mit steuerlichen Vorteilen.

heise online

Marion Nov 24

SSI Nov 24

🌲 The Green RSE Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to embed sustainability more deeply into research software practice. One year after its launch, the Green RSE SIG returned to RSECon to share their progress and discuss new challenges. Find out more about it at
https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/rses-can-lead-sustainable-research-we-cant-just-rely-their-goodwill

Marion Nov 20

SSI Nov 20

🏙️ Last week a session titled Building Sustainable Outreach: Reuse, Repurpose, Reinvent took place at the Research Software Camps. Find out more about it and what we can learn about sustainable outreach in our latest blog post: https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/building-sustainable-outreach-reuse-repurpose-reinvent

Marion Nov 20

Da_Gut Oct 15, 2023

A favorite of mine. It came around years ago on the Twitter website. I've long lost who to credit.

Thanks to detective work by those more talented than I, it appears to belong to "Ally M Hennessy", used in one of her workshops…

#networking #career #life #advice #meme

Marion Nov 19

SSI Nov 19

🌊 We are delighted to announce that applications for the #CollabW26 Emerging Voices Financial Support Scheme are now open! If you'd like to attend Collaborations Workshop 2026 but need extra help to make it possible, have a look at the scheme details and apply by Fri 16 Jan 2026: https://www.software.ac.uk/news/collaborations-workshop-2026-emerging-voices-financial-assistance

Marion Nov 18

SSI Nov 18

🏙️ We're well into the second week of the Research Software Camp and here is the fourth blog in the series. Find out more about the environmental cost of digital research tools and best practices at
https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/green-skills-and-training-digital-researchers