It's been a busy week away from the office for our Director of Curriculum Toby Hodges who attended the #deRSE26 conference at the University of Stuttgart!

He presented a talk on the developments around the AI Carpentry project, and also co-led two HPC Carpentry-related sessions.

Toby's talk, "Training to Protect Research Integrity in the Age of AI-assisted Coding," explored some of the open questions surrounding the use of LLMs for coding in research, including: what role should RSEs take in an environment where it has never been easier for researchers to produce code? https://events.hifis.net/event/2945/contributions/21155/

The talk was very well attended and received lots of really positive feedback afterwards about the direction the AI Carpentry project is headed, giving us confidence that we are on the right track. Thanks everyone for your contributions to the project so far!

And thank you, Toby, for all that you do for The Carpentries and our curricula! 🙏💙

Today's Friday croissant+coffee features the newly acquired cup from #deRSE26

Thx for a 🥳 conference, incl networking opportunities with research software infrastructure projects funded by DFG, the national and international RSE community and of course discussions around research software and RSE within #NFDIrocks
I would also like to highlight the keynotes, on www.dealii.org and @swheritage which made clear that community and users are key to the success of such infrastructures #openscience

#deRSE26 For those dealing with delays on your trip back home, there is https://bahn.bet to humorously kill some of your 'extra' time :)

Morane Gruenpeter shared her #deRSE26 keynote slides on #DigitalSovereignty and the mission of Software Heritage to preserve this vital intellectual heritage. https://zenodo.org/records/18848442

Thanks for the organiser of the bird of fear "Developing the role and career pathways of RSEs in Germany: Current perspectives and future aims" during #deRSE26. The fish bowl 🐟🥣 structure was fabulous for the discussion.

I had the chance to present a poster about our HPC cluster BinAC 2 at #deRSE26

We're providing computational resources for researchers in Baden-Württemberg working in the fields of Bioinformatics, Astrophysics, Geosciences, Pharmacy and Medical Informatics:
https://wiki.bwhpc.de/e/BinAC2

If you're a researcher at an university in Baden-Württemberg from another field, check out the other HPC clusters bwHPC provides:
https://www.bwhpc.de/cluster.php

Poster on Zenodo:
https://zenodo.org/records/18860391

#hpc #bioinformatics #astrophysics #geosciences #bwhpc #lustre #Slurm

Keynote about #digitalsovereignty by @moranegg this morning at #deRSE26.

The knowledge is in the source code. #OpenScience is not possible without #OpenSource.

Second day of #deRSE26 starts with the keynote of Morane Gruenpeter from @swheritage: "Digital sovereignty in the age of software forges: why preserving source code matters".

@makis making the case, that software interfaces require documentation interfaces. Goal: take parts of documentation of your dependencies or social network to build a more concise documentation of a particular research software. #derse26

My previous experience was that software testing was a boring topic that few people were interested in. But the workshop "Beyond unit tests" by Anna-Lena Lamprecht and Sebastian Müller during #deRSE26 is fully packed. 😱

Excited for #deRSE26 this week. You can find me at our booth - proudly transported here by bike ;)

If you didn't attend #deRSE26, the keynote speaker wrote many of the themes of the presentation as blog posts. 🥰 Plenty of reading for thoughts.

Wolfgang Bangert from www.dealii.org highlighting issues with research software development at #derse26 .

"Software is about people."

It is time for the #deRSE26 opening keynote with Wolfgang Bangerth: "What it takes to run a large mathematical open source library".

If you are attending #deRSE26 today, visit my poster to learn more about #JupyterLite and how it runs #Python or #Rstats on the users device. #WebAssembly

@dfg_public funding will enable a German broad infrastructure for #ResearchSoftware

#ConnOSS would get the metadata, find.software could expose it in a catalogue, CORSES could use it to find expertise and experts. Domain-based projects scverse. CAES³AR, swmath will support specific communities.

#ConnOSS https://connoss-project.github.io @ZBMED @GESIS #UniOldenburg #ConnOSS ready to collaborate and help build this broad #RSE infrastructure!

Satellite event at #deRSE26

I had a great start at #deRSE26 with the workshop "Trainer, Tutor, Consultant, Developer: Investing in the Full and Sustainable RSE Spectrum" by Nicholas Del Grosso sharing the experience of iBOTS group with providing training. Check the iBOTS page for the projects they are doing: https://ibots-bonn.de/

@futursi Danke für die Info, wir sind sehr gespannt auf den Vortrag! #futursi #derse26 #derse

On my way to #derse26! Also I have two open positions in my group - one focusing on secure software architecture for complex and security relevant software and one about integration AI securely and smart info software development. If you are interested in one of those, let's chat!

Today is the first day of the 6th German Research Software Engineer Conference. ☺️ See all the attendees soon. #derse26