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RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
📢 We're delighted to welcome James Tripp to ARC as our newest Research Software Engineer! Wishing you a fantastic start—we're excited to have you on the team and look forward to working with you. Welcome aboard! 👋 #RSE #HPC #ARC ^YZ
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
🥇 Congratulations to Team The BEAR Metal Coders, the winner of #BEARChallenge2026! 🎉 Each team member will receive a tablet as their prize. A well-deserved victory! 🏆 #BEARChallenge2026 has successfully come to an end. Thank you to all participants and partners!👏^YZ
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
📣 New funding opportunity. Today, we're launching our inaugural call for proposals for open source software that underpins data-intensive research and AI-driven discovery in the life sciences. 1/
os4science.org/funding_oppor…
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
Experts at @unibirmingham have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving particles behave when they interact with electromagnetic waves in space:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/n… #BrumHour
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
Join Ella Kaye next Tuesday (31 March, 5pm) at the Posit Data Science Lab, where she’ll take you from “what even is base R?” to fixing a bug in the C source — live, in under an hour 👀 ^YZ
Register here: pos.it/dslab
#R #Data
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
Here’s a quick glimpse at what’s ahead this month …
▪️Free webinars
▪️2026 French Stata Conference
▪️AERA 2026 Annual Meeting
▪️And much more
Stay updated on all things Stata: stata.com/news
#Stata #StataCommunity
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
Next week: Final reminder to attend RSE Midlands 2026!
Travel support is available.
🎟 Register: pretix.eu/rsemidlands/2026/
📍 University of Nottingham
📅 Monday, 20 April
🕙 10:00–17:00
Join us for a full day of talks & networking.
ℹ️More details:
rse-midlands.github.io/docs/…
#RSeng
Next week: Final reminder to attend RSE Midlands 2026!
Travel support is available.
🎟 Register: pretix.eu/rsemidlands/2026/
📍 University of Nottingham
📅 Monday, 20 April
🕙 10:00–17:00
Join us for a full day of talks & networking.
ℹ️More details:
rse-midlands.github.io/docs/…
#RSeng
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
We’re hiring! 🚀 Advanced Research Computing at @unibirmingham is recruiting 4 new Grade 8 roles to help shape and support national-scale research computing, including Baskerville NCR. Join us in powering world-class research! 💻Apply now: blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2026/03… ^YZ
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
We’re delighted to welcome Ella Kaye to ARC as our new Senior Research Software Engineer! 🎉
An experienced R developer, Ella brings fantastic expertise to strengthen our research software support and community. #RSE #R ^YZ
📢 Tickets for RSE Midlands 2026 are now available!
Join us on 20 April in Nottingham for our annual event — with opportunities for both lightning talks and longer talks.
🎟️ Event details:
rse-midlands.github.io/docs/…
#RSEMidlands2026 #RSEng #ResearchSoftware #RSEMidlands
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
The #AdvancedResearchComputing team are excited to be hosting and providing support for researchers across the UK to access a GPU-based National Compute Resource, thanks to funding from @UKRI_News ^SEMT
The @unibirmingham has secured £18 million of funding to create a cutting-edge national computing centre that will help accelerate research and innovation across the UK:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/u…
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RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
We’re excited to welcome Heather Turner as our new Principal RSE! 🎉
She is an established Research Software Engineer in Statistics, specialising in R, with over 15 years’ experience across academia, industry and consultancy. ^YZ #research #rse
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
The 2026 International Research Software Engineering Survey, run by the Software Sustainability Institute, will produce valuable insight into the RSE community that can be used to advocate for the community with policymakers and funders.
Closes 20 March. edin.ac/49x1ax7
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🎟️ Tickets are now LIVE!
Don’t miss the next RSE Midlands Community Event on 20 April 2026 at the University of Nottingham. Join fellow RSEs/dRTPs for talks, discussions, and networking.
👉 Get your ticket: rse-midlands.github.io/docs/…
#RSEng #ResearchSoftware #RSEMidlands #network
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
ARCHER2 training: Data Analysis & Visualisation in Python (23–24 Feb).
Python is a general-purpose programming language that is useful for writing scripts to work effectively & reproducibly with data. This course requires no programming experience.
edin.ac/4sTLPhI
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RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
The call for Expressions of Interest for Round 2 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund is open until 25 February 2026, 16:00 GMT. The fund supports projects that improve sustainability, reduce technical debt, and enhance community engagement. edin.ac/4k1Uf2l
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📢 Save the date for RSE Midlands 2026!
🗓 20 April 2026
📍 University of Nottingham
Details coming soon—watch this space!
#RSEMidlands2026 #RSEng #Networking #Midlands
rse-midlands.github.io/
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
EPCC colleagues produce a range of high quality scientific visualisations. In this article, Sébastien Lemaire gives an overview of three recent examples, each to be presented at the #SC25 conference Art in HPC sessions. edin.ac/3WRk2Qd
@Supercomputing
RSE Midlands | @[email protected] retweeted
🎉 On 5 Nov 2025, we held our first DAHRSE Midlands meeting: “Co-Creating DAHRSE Midlands: Vision, Voices, and Next Steps.” A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible!
Here's a quick recap:
dahrse-midlands.github.io/po…
#DAHRSEMidlands #DigitalHumanities #RSEng #Midlands