In October in Albuquerque at #USRSE24, I received my @us_rse Impact Award certificate, and there's now a photo to prove it 🙂 #RSEng
We wrote up a little bit about the great experience some of our group members had at the second annual @us_rse conference in October! 🎉 #rse #USRSE24 #rstats https://datascience.cct.arizona.edu/news/cct-ds-team-us-rse-24-conference
My notes and thoughts after attending the US Research Software Engineering 2024 conference in Albuquerque, NM:
https://hectorcorrea.com/blog/2024-11-04/us-research-software-engineering-24
Really enjoyed US-RSE'24 in ABQ! I'm glad I joined US-RSE and decided to attend the conference, despite its proximity to my PhD defense!
Thanks to Anshu Dubey from Argonne for introducing me to US-RSE, in response to a question I had about open data at AITHERM'23 (a niche workshop organized by Dr. Yoonjin Won at UC Irvine)!
I'm gradually going through my notes and following people I met at US-RSE'24, so if you get a random follow then maybe this post explains it!
Another gem from the lightning talks at #usrse24
“Every name is a chance to communicate” - Jeff Soules when talking about the value of choosing variable or function names in our code
I like the approach that Daniel Howard advocated on his lighting talk on mindful software development:
The software development process “can’t be perfect but it can be intentional”
Longer set of slides: https://neilernst.net/assets/sandia-TD.html #usrse24
Come see my rapid micro talk on tech debt starting in three minutes! Main ballroom! #usrse24
Slides of the first keynote of the #usrse24 conference.
RSE: where it started and where it's going
Simon Hettrick
Most honest slide at #usrse24
From session “Do good: strategies for leading an inclusive collaborative data science and RSE teams”
We had a good discussion on specific competencies for applied mathematics research software engineers. Anything we forgot?
Brad Richardson at NERSC discussing Fortran support at the department of energy. FUN! The Fortran user network. Controversial take is that Fortran is stable and easy to deploy on different architectures #usrse24
A big theme for me is the need to recognize and reward interdisciplinary work or as Reed Milewicz puts it, “encouraging strong interprofessional interests” #usrse24
Novel idea - add UIX experts to research software projects. Not just better looking UI but also more aware of user needs #usrse24
Lesson 4> Communities can be fragile. More here on persistent challenge of recognition of non-publication outputs. UK REF almost entirely “publications” which don't name people vital to the paper, like RSEs or librarians #usrse24
Out of 400 job postings in jobs.ac.uk with a strong software focus, there were almost 200 job titles! - Simon Hettrick at #usrse24
When talking about one of the big gains of having a unified term (Research Software Engineers) for the role.
Link to slides:
https://slides.com/simonhettrick/usrsecon24
Simon Hettrick on lessons learned growing RSE community - 1. Small changes can be powerful eg consistent job title #usrse24