Oscar Seip

@oscarseip
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Research software community officer at Software Sustainability Institute, based at the University of Manchester. Interested in the theatricalisation of early modern and contemporary information management. All views expressed are my own.
🟥 We are pleased to announce that the call for Expressions of Interest for Round 2 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund will open on Wednesday 28 January 2026. This round will accept applications for grants up to £150k and a duration of up to 12 months. Find out more at https://www.software.ac.uk/news/rsmf-round-2-announcing-key-updates-and-timeline
🇬🇷 Back in June, #SSIFellow Saskia Lawson-Tovey attended the ELIXIR All Hands meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece. Find out more about the event and her experience at https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/elixir-all-hands-2025

🌊 We are happy to announce that the first #CollabW26 Keynote will be delivered by @malvikasharan. Find out more about Malvika and have a look at the draft programme at
https://www.software.ac.uk/news/cw26-keynote-programme-announcement

Collaborations Workshop 2026 will take place as a hybrid event from Tuesday 28 April to Thursday 30 April 2026 at ICC Belfast.

Early bird tickets are still available, register now to secure your spot: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collaborations-workshop-2026-cw26-collabw26-tickets-1590550201469?aff=oddtdtcreator

🎙️ In latest episode of Code for Thought, Peter Schmidt talks to three SSI Fellows: Deborah Udoh, @jyoti_bhogal and Sangeeta Bathia. All three have ambitious goals for their fellowship ranging from training, building networks to public health. Find out more and listen to the episode at https://www.software.ac.uk/news/2025-ssi-fellows-code-thought-podcast-part-two
🧭 We are happy to announce our new #SSIFellows! Read more about this year's applications and the 2026 cohort at https://www.software.ac.uk/news/introducing-2026-fellowship-cohort-insights-and-celebrations
Adrian D'Alessandro, Alan O'Callaghan, André Piza, Anne Lee Steele, @ccamara, Cassandra Gould van Praag, Christian Gutschow, Christina Bremer, Gabriel Mateus Bernardo Harrington, Johanna Bayer, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Liam Pattinson, Mamoona Humayun, Michael Sparks, Nicole Whippey, @paocorrales, Precious Onyewuchi, @rgaiacs, Salma M. Thalji, Samantha Ahern, Sara Villa, Sarah Wyer, Sofía Miñano, Sophie Whittle, William Alexander Haese-Hill.
👨‍💻 The Understanding the dRTP Training Landscape Workshop will take place on Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 November 2025 at Bidborough House, UCL, London. The deadline for registrations is 5pm Thursday 23 October. Find out more about the event and how to register at:
https://www.software.ac.uk/news/understanding-drtp-training-landscape-workshop
💡The final instalment in our Fellows' Stories series is now available. Discover how the SSI Fellowship Programme supported Adrian in advocating for the role of software within research policy at https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/stories-ssis-fellowship-programme-adrian
🎓 We are pleased to share details of an upcoming hybrid series of short talks featuring #SSIFellow Hui Ling Wong, focusing on practical, research-oriented approaches to using Git.
This series of 15-minute talks will run every Tuesday from 14 October to 11 November. Find out more at
https://www.software.ac.uk/news/upcoming-event-git-researchers
@ultrazool @APC @amcewen @oshwassociation @SoftwareSaved dunno if you have seen the openflexure talk from fosdem this year... tis damn awesome (was the talk directly before mine so I was nervous!) Also I've written an article on openflexure in this months RPI magazine. https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4336-the-openflexure-microscope/
FOSDEM 2025 - The OpenFlexure Microscope