🔵 The next EIDF Town Hall meeting will take place Tuesday, 5 May. The event is dedicated to showcasing how the Edinburgh International Data Facility's private research cloud infrastructure can support R&D activities. Find out more about it and how to register at
www.software.ac.uk/news/eidf-to...

🎯 In January 2026, #SSIFellow @mdsimpson.co.uk attended the first DisCouRSE network focus group, which aimed to explore different ideas and practices around leadership and team culture for Digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs). Find out more about it at www.software.ac.uk/blog/discour...

🔍️ Over the last decade, SSI and our international partners have gathered heaps of data. We shared this dataset and are now pleased to announce the three finalists from our RSE Data Competition. Voting is open from Wed 15 Apr to Wed 6 May. Find the finalists here:
www.software.ac.uk/news/voting-...

🗺️ The Software Sustainability Institute and Lingnan University, Hong Kong, are proud to jointly feature a webinar on AI world models. The event will take place online on Friday 17 April between 9 and 10.30 BST. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/ai-imag...

🌊 We are delighted to announce the final Gold Sponsor for #CollabW26, NI-HPC, a UK Tier-2 National HPC facility funded by EPSRC and jointly managed by Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/ni-hpc-...

🌊 We are delighted to announce that our second #CollabW26 gold sponsor is DataKind, a global nonprofit that builds and deploys AI and data science solutions for public benefit organisations. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/datakin...

🟨 The Reasonable Performance Computing Special Interest Group (SIG-RPC) was founded in September 2024, following feedback to a talk delivered by #SSIFellow Robert Chisholm at RSECon24. Read more about it in our latest blog post: www.software.ac.uk/blog/15-mont...

🐦‍⬛ In our latest blog pt #SSIFellow Jo Walsh tells us more about a workshop held at KWMC for people interested in finding out how to use technology to detect and identify nature. Read the full story at
www.software.ac.uk/blog/kwmc-li...

🧭 Submissions for two of the CHARTED flexible funds are now open. CHARTED aims to make the training landscape easier to navigate for both new and experienced digital Research Technical Professionals.
Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/call-su...

🎓 The Building Better Research Software workshop, which will take place from Tue 5 to Fri 8 May, aims to teach tools and practices for producing and sharing quality, sustainable and FAIR research software. Find out more and register at
www.software.ac.uk/news/buildin...

🌊 Final phase tickets for Collaborations Workshop 2026 will be available until 12 noon on Wednesday 8 April. If you have not done so already, hurry up and secure your spot at #CollabW26:
www.software.ac.uk/news/sale-en...

⌨️ The Intermediate Research Software Development Course will take place on 13 - 16 April 2026 at the University of Manchester and will be delivered by EPCC (Chris Wood and Evgenij Belikov) with the help from SSI and Manchester RIT. Find out more at
www.software.ac.uk/news/interme...

🔎 A reminder that the dRTP Training Landscape Survey 2026 will close next Tuesday, 31 March.
Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/shaping...

We are pleased to announce the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2026, taking place at the University of Manchester from Monday 29 June to Thursday 2 July 2026.
Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/dh-rse-...

🌊 The deadline to purchase General Admission (in-person) tickets for Collaborations Workshop 2026 is 11:59pm on 31 March. Hurry up an secure your spot now!

Find out more about the event and what is included in remote and in-person tickets at
www.software.ac.uk/news/last-ch...

🌊 We are happy to share that the Collaborations Workshop Mini-workshops have now been announced! Read the full list at www.software.ac.uk/news/cw26-mi...

For those that have not registered yet, hurry up and secure your spot at #CollabW26 at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collaborat...

Ahead of the 2026 survey, we have developed an interactive dashboard showcasing the data from previous RSE surveys. If you analyse the data and find out something interesting, we’d love to hear about it and there could be a prize in it for you!

- Find out more at lnkd.in/e9Qrh_Cd

🔍 The 2026 International RSE Survey will close in just a few days. If you haven't done so already, hurry up an have your say by Friday 20 March.

- Find out more about the survey and how to participate at lnkd.in/ejTXEsFY

🧑‍💻 In our latest blog post #SSIFellow and @ersilia.io co-founder Gemma Turon discusses her experience organising the 1st Latin American hands-on workshop on open source AI/ML guided drug discovery. Read the full article at www.software.ac.uk/blog/open-so...

🐍 #SSIFellow @jyoti-bhogal.bsky.social attended PyCon UK 2025 in Manchester and reported on her experience in our latest blog post. Read more about the event at www.software.ac.uk/blog/pycon-u...

📗 Find out more about Green continuous integration and continuous development practices in our latest blog post by Joe Wallwork, Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS): www.software.ac.uk/blog/green-c...

🌊 We are delighted to announce the full list of lightning talks that will be delivered at Collaborations Workshop 2026. Find out more at
www.software.ac.uk/news/cw26-fi...

And if you haven't registered yet, hurry up an secure your #CollabW26 spot now!

⭕ In November 2025, the Digital Arts and Humanities Research Software Engineers Midlands (@dahrse-midlands.bsky.social) community gathered online for its first meeting. Find out more about the event and outcomes in our latest blog post by #SSIFellow Godwin Yeboah:
www.software.ac.uk/blog/co-crea...

🏙️ Our most recent Research Software Camp, Careers and Skills in Research Software, was tailored to early-career professionals, recent graduates, and anyone looking to transition into research software roles. Find out more about the event, blogs, and sessions at www.software.ac.uk/blog/recap-r...

🔵 #SSIFellow @philreeddata.bsky.social had the opportunity to attended the launch of the CaSDaR Network+ platform last year. Find out more about it at www.software.ac.uk/blog/casdar-...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #SSI Fellow @jyoti-bhogal.bsky.social attended Open Data Camp 10 (ODC10), which took place at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Find out more about the event and her experience in our latest blog post: www.software.ac.uk/blog/time-sp...

For my fellowship with the @softwaresaved.bsky.social this year, I’ll be seeding connections between the worlds of creative computation and academic computing.

Please fill out this short form – and share it with others who might be interested too:
tinyurl.com/ssi-ac-art-c...

🧩 SSI 2026 Fellow Kevin Rue-Albrecht has been awarded a @biofair.bsky.social Pathfinder Project for his proposal, "Connecting Bioconductor, Galaxy, and nf-core: FAIR, AI-ready workflows and training for single-cell analysis." Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/ssi-fel...

Find out more about Round 2 of the RSMF:www.software.ac.uk/research-software-mainte...

🟥 The deadline for Expressions of Interest for Round 2 of the RSMF is next Wed, 25 Feb, 16:00 GMT. If you missed our live sessions, you can still get all the insights from our webinar recordings:

Webinar 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUha...
Webinar 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpC0...