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R dev day Satellite Event will start in 5 minutes at 09:00:00 in Space 11, Scarman Conference Centre

#RSECon25

Thank you to everyone who came to my talk at #RSECon25, and all the others over the last few months. It's been amazing to hear all the kind words and to see all the support for better #MentalHealth in our community.

Let's keep the conversation going: https://mdsimpson42.github.io/converse/join-the-conversation

Our September newsletter is out now! Check it out for highlights from #RSECon25, updates on RSECon26 (and IRSC26), as well as updates from the community, including International RSE Day 2025, which is happening on the 9th October.

https://society-rse.org/september-2025-newsletter/

I really enjoyed being on the #RSECon25 committee this year & look forward to doing it again next year. Care to join me?
https://mastodon.social/@ResearchSoftEng/115247770931160379

Supporting material is on-line:
https://rt-santenum.inria.fr/guix-workshop

#RSECon25 #Guix

I came back from #RSECon25 with Covid. Not the nicest of swag to bring back home. But today my medicine arrived. And for those of you who are not originally from South Africa ... it is biltong. And, biltong fixes everything. So I should be up and about again soon.

This year we had a new award for Green RSE sponsored by the SSI and recognising individuals making substantial contribution to environmental sustainability.

The winner of the inaugral Green RSE award was

Andy Turner 🎉

Congratulations Andy 👏

#RSECon25

6/6

The Impact award goes to an individual who has made a significant impact on any part of the RSE community. The shortlisted nominees were...

Lukas Johannes Breitwieser
Jeremy Cohen
Dhruva Juloori

...and the winner was...

Lukas Johannes Breitwieser 🎉

Congratulations Lukas 👏

#RSECon25

5/6

The Training Award goes to some who excelled at training and education. The shortlisted nominees were...

Samantha Ahern
Liam Berrisford
Aman Goel

...and the winner was...

Samantha Ahern 🎉

Congratulations Samantha 👏

#RSECon25

4/6

The Rising Star award acknowledges contributions from early career researchers or those new to the RSE community. The shortlisted nominees were

Amna Batool
Romain Thomas
Florian Sihler

...and the winner was...

Florian Sihler 🎉

Congratulations Florian :👏

#RSECon25

3/6

The winner of the Claire Wyatt Outsanding Contribution to RSE Community was...

🎉 Lyndsey Ballantyne 🎉

Who has done a fantastic job managing the RSE community and organising RSECon over the last few years.

Thank you for all your hard work Lyndsey ♥️

#RSECon25

2/6

#RSECon25 has been and gone.

It wouldn't have been possible without the support of our sponsors so a big thank you.

https://rsecon25.society-rse.org/about-our-sponsors/

Bristol Center for Supercomputing (BriCS) / AIRR
Methods and Microsoft
Nuvolos
The Alan Turing Institute
The International Interactive Computing Collaboration (2I2C)
AWE
EPCC
HDRUK / DAREU UK
Met Office
Oxford Quantum Circuits
Software Sustainability Institute
Tokamak Energy
UCL Grand Challenges
UKRI

Hope you've found my toots useful and sorry about the duplicates and minor mistakes (there is a limit of only being able to schedule ~20 posts at a time).

We hope to be back next year for #RSECon26 which will be in Sheffield 9-11th September 2026

Keep an eye out for the videos which will appear on the RSECon channel in due course https://www.youtube.com/@SocRSE

(attendees can view the archived videos already via Zoom)

#rsecon25 #rse #rsecon26

The Cambridge Dawn lion is welcomed into the gang. :D

#RSECon25 #HPC

I missed Mike Simpson’s talk about mental health at #RSECon25, but ConveRSE sounds like a resource that is much needed.

https://mdsimpson42.github.io/converse/

✨ What a week at #RSECon25 at the University of Warwick! ✨

I got to meet and connect with three communities close to my heart:
💜 #RLadies
💻 #RSEng
📚 #TheCarpentries

This year I wasn’t just attending—I also volunteered 🪄. Such a joy to give back and be part of the buzz.

Next year it’s #RSECon26 in Sheffield 🎉 — who’s coming? Drop a 🐧 if you’ll be there!

#ResearchSoftware #Community

If you want to organise a women-to-men speed date for N/2 women and N/2 men, it's quite easy to write down all pairs of discussions. This gets much more complicated if you want to have an all-to-all setup, where everybody talks exactly once with everybody else.

This is the _RSE Coffee_ problem, proposed during #RSECon25 by Sam Tygier:

https://c4dt.github.io/rse_nerd_snipe/

Is there an easier way to do this? I didn't dare asking GooglePT yet :)

For anyone who's been talking about GenAI at #RSECon25, I find @simon's blog a reliable source for level-headed analysis of recent developments:

https://simonwillison.net/

⚡ talks continues with
- Colin (#ESCES) Training for env scientists, multiple levels and bring your data sessions.
- Shoaib ( @SoftwareSaved ) RSQKit improve the quality, sustainability and reusability of #researchSoftware.
- Debs (#NuRSE) pre-seeds, teaching looking for writers, reviewers,designers, developers
#RSECon25 #RSEConTCD25

⚡ talks at #RSECon25 #RSEConTCD25
- Oscar (@SoftwareSaved ) exploring cohort-based and peer learning as part of the #SSIFellowship.
- Sara (#OLS) filling the gaps with human connection - 16 weeks programme with mentoring.
- Dirk (#CNRS) Teaching #RSEs in France.
- Jeremy (#Imperial) understanding the dRTP landscape (a meta project on top of Charted, DisCouRSE, Scale-Up)