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+title: November 2023 Newsletter
+editor: Matthew Leach
+slug: 2023-11-06-newsletter
+date: 2023-11-06T00:00:00Z+0100
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+
+## The University of Sheffield Research Software Engineering Community Newsletter November 2023
+
+Welcome to the November 2023 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring
+news, opportunities, events and training for you.
+
+### News, Web & Blogs
+
+#### Web
+- A [call for applications](https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/facilities-and-resources/using-epsrc-facilities-and-resources/apply-for-access-to-high-performance-computing-facilities/) for access to ARCHER2 and certain Tier 2 HPC systems is now open.
+- Edinburgh University will be [hosting the UK's first exascale supercomputer](https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/whats-happening/articles/edinburgh-lead-new-era-uk-supercomputing).
+- [Guiding principles for conducting code reviews](https://code-review.tidyverse.org/).
+- Participate in the [2024 State of Open Soruce](https://www.research.net/r/OPEN-SOURCE-INITIATIVE) survey.
+- The Society of Research Software Engineering have published their [latest newsletter](https://society-rse.org/newsletter-october-2023/).
+- rOpenSci, who promote open and reproducible research have published their [latest newsletter](https://ropensci.org/blog/2023/10/20/news-october-2023/).
+- The University of Sheffield is hosting a [series of bitesize seminars](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/events/how-share-seminar-series) on how best to share different types of research data.
+
+#### MATLAB
+- MATLAB R2023b includes updated support for [gate-based quantum computing](https://blogs.mathworks.com/matlab/2023/10/17/quantum-computing-in-matlab-r2023b-on-the-desktop-and-in-the-cloud/)
+
+
+#### Open Research
+- Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) published a [short explainer video on free software](https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/9gYSyoEYggsqBExLWjRejL).
++ A series of factsheets from [FAIRsharing](https://fairsharing.org/) have been published.
+  + [FAIRsharing in a nutshell](https://zenodo.org/record/8191958)
+  + [FAIRsharing for you: funders](https://zenodo.org/record/8191958)
+  + [FAIRsharing content: databases overview](https://zenodo.org/record/8186961)
+  + [FAIRsharing for you: researchers](https://zenodo.org/record/8186952)
+  + [FAIRsharing for you: journal publishers](https://zenodo.org/record/8186640)
+
+#### Blogs
+- Eric Jensen and Daniel Katz write on [What we learned about research software careers from a recent international workshop](https://urssi.us/blog/2023/10/24/what-we-learned-about-research-software-careers-from-a-recent-international-workshop/).
+- Julia Evans presents a talk titled [Making Hard Things Easy](https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/06/new-talk--making-hard-things-easy/), exploring how we can better tackle learning difficult to grasp technologies.
+
+
+#### Publications
+
+
+### Events
+- The N8 CIR are hosting a [half-day event](https://n8cir.org.uk/events/data-access-for-digital-health/) on the 8th November 2023 to discuss the challenges of data access in the field of digital health and what organisations and researchers are doing to overcome this challenge.
+- NVIDIA are hosting a free [AI and Data Science Virtual Summit](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/events/ai-data-science-virtual-summit/) on the 8th November 2023.
+- The N8 CIR are hosting [an event on Synthetic Data Generation](https://n8cir.org.uk/events/synthetic-data-generation-event/) on the 28th November 2023.
+- The [PyLadies Conference](https://conference.pyladies.com/) will be running from 30th November to 3rd December 2023.
+- The Alan Turing Institute is hosting the UK’s national showcase of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) (19th - 24th March 2024), [AI UK 2024](https://ai-uk.turing.ac.uk/). Tickets are now available.
+- The University of Sheffield will be hosting its [Annual Open Research Lecture](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch/events/annual-open-research-lecture) on the 6th December 2023.
+- You can now apply for the [Open Science Retreat](https://openscienceretreat.eu/) (25th - 29th March 2024). This event brings people together to share their experiences of and best practices for open science.
+- The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) have announced their next collaborations workshop, to be held 30th April - 2nd May 2024. You can now [register your interest](https://software.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=628ee3fc74b8ef3497e3a7b66&id=9616c70676)
+
+### Training
+
+#### R
+
+* [R for Statistics and Data Visualisation](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/943cfaf5-cb85-4b58-9af7-16064ae8752b) 2023-11-09 (fully booked, 5 people on waiting list)
+
+#### Python
+
+* [Python for Data Science I](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/653bbdfb-ab61-451b-894f-c38de64f7dbc) 2023-21-05 (fully booked, 5 people on waiting list)
+* [Python Programming 1](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/d2c02e5b-4b2e-43dd-9860-07ccca5c0400) 2023-11-27 (39 places available) 2023-12-11 (fully booked, 2 people on waiting list).
+* [Python Programming 2](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/8ebd2c6f-2c1b-499f-9866-9c78ae625172) 2023-12-01 (65 places available) 2023-12-12 (3 places available).
+* [Python Programming 3](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/d54e003f-6948-4e89-b245-57e4a1b5b587) 2023-12-04 (65 places available) 2024-01-16 (2 places available).
+* [Supervised Machine Learning 1](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/184a44dc-acdd-4908-8246-3d9897492f06) 2023-11-17 (14 places available) 2023-11-30 (91 spaces available) 2023-12-14 (7 spaces available) 2024-01-12 (13 spaces available) 2024-02-02 (13 spaces available)
+* [Supervised Machine Learning 2](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/87c9ec1e-648a-4d60-8a99-0a7eccf53577) 2024-01-15 (fully booked, 2 people on waiting list) 2024-01-29 (10 spaces available)
+*  [Temporal Analysis in Python](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/31ad16b9-5d28-48cf-8a46-1437e2248c8c) 2023-11-24 (4 places available) 2024-01-19 (6 spaces available)
+
+#### Matlab
+
+* [Introduction to Matlab 1](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/d96972b1-cb9e-475e-b680-a83d3fa57972) 2023-11-09 (1 place available)
+* [Introduction to Matlab 2](https://mydevelopment.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/0746d395-7a7d-45b9-9cee-3f7220e28202) 2023-11-30 (9 places available)
+
+#### External Training
+
++ [The Turing Online Learning Platform](https://www.turing.ac.uk/courses) contains a number of courses, many of which
+  can be undertaken independently.
++ [4th OpenAIRE Open Science Train-the-Trainer
+  Bootcamp](https://www.openaire.eu/4th-openaire-open-science-train-the-trainer-bootcamp)
+- Durham University are hosting a [workshop series on debugging, testing and correctness](https://scicomp.webspace.durham.ac.uk/teaching/professional-development/debugging-testing-and-correctness-workshop-series-2023/) for massively parallel codes
+<!--#### Research IT Training-->
+
+<!--Research IT courses have adopted a hybrid approach. The team will be providing their courses both online and in -->
+<!--person for the first time since March 2020. The team provides a place for beginners or advanced users to expand -->
+<!--their knowledge of HPC and different programming languages. The courses are part of the Doctoral Development -->
+<!--Programme. For more information please visit our training registration web page (via VPN): -->
+<!--[crs.shef.ac.uk](https://crs.shef.ac.uk).-->
+
+<!--If a course is "sold out" please join the wait list by signing up - we regularly email people to encourage those -->
+<!--that can no longer attend to cancel. Those on the wait list get early notification when the courses are run -->
+<!--again.-->
+
+### Opportunities
+
+#### Jobs
+
+You can always check for advertised RSE and RSE-adjacent roles over at the [RSE society's vacancies
+board](https://society-rse.org/careers/vacancies/).
+
+- Grade 9 [Principal Research Infrastructure](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=6263&nPostingTargetId=16767&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=extHi) Developer at UCL. Applications close 23rd November.
+- The University of Sheffield are offering a [PhD in the School of Biosciences](https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/bis-01-mesnage-mass-xplorer-a-transformative-web-based-software-platform-for-peptidoglycomics-a-new-discipline-to-explore-antimicrobial-resistance-and-bacterial-population-dynamics/?p163266), with the aim of developing a web-based software platform for peptidoglycomics, a new discipline to explore antimicrobial resistance and bacterial population dynamics.
+
+#### Volunteer Positions
+
+- The [US RSECon](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxkbo-6eF2NENsrWwb44_Bb32UNCzgP2d6-z3Hq8HxbYCWYA/viewform) is looking for volunteers for its organising committee.  
+
+#### Funding
+- The University of Sheffield's [Unleash your Data and Software competition](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/research-data-management/unleash-your-data-2023-24) has launched! PGRs and staff can apply for an award of up to £5,000 for a project. The deadline is 1st December, with two drop-in sessions for people to talk through their potential applications on 15th November, and 21st November
+- The Open Bioinformatics Foundation have opened a call for applications for the [OBF Event Fellowship](https://www.open-bio.org/2023/10/19/event-fellowship-2023-3/) which aims to increase diversity in attendance of events promoting open-source bionformatics or open science. The deadline is the 1st December.
+
+
+### Digital Research Practice Support Community
+
+The DRPS community is a group for people that support researchers in carrying out research in the digital age. Meetings
+are held monthly, with discussions around events, training and opportunities related to the field.
+
+You can join the google group
+[here](https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/sheffield.ac.uk/g/digital-research-practice-support-community-group/about) to
+stay informed.
+
+The next meeting is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday 8th November.
+
+### LunchBytes
+
+[LunchBytes](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/community/lunch-bytes/) are short talks from the research community on research
+software, data, and infrastructure.
+
++ [Making research software more visible and reusable: Open Source Software and
+  FAIR4RS](https://bit.ly/open-research-conversation-lunchbytes-fair4rs) (6th December 12:00 - 13:00) in conjunction with Open Research Conversations
+  we look at the FAIR principles and how they apply to research software under the [FAIR for Research Softrware (FAIR4RS)
+  principles](https://zenodo.org/record/6623556#.YqCJTJNBwlw).
+
+#### LunchBytes needs YOU
+
+LunchBytes are organised by and for the research software community at The University of Sheffield. If you'd like to
+curate a session on a topic or present something, get in touch by emailing
+[lunchbytes-organisers-group@sheffield.ac.uk](mailto:lunchbytes-organisers-group@sheffield.ac.uk) - Or suggest topics
+[on the jamboard](https://jamboard.google.com/d/1-51cRf0pwZl8O10CnLeJGAqKcnbww-QGaYjszFK-H38/).
+
+## Support
+
+### Code Clinics
+
+Why not come to a [Code
+Clinic](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGXS55qjU0D0Zcz-KHOVcNTahcr3YC3H0OpoKBo3lWXWED5A/viewform)? We're keen
+to help you.
+
+Code Clinics are fortnightly supported sessions run by the RSE team and IT Services’ [Research
+IT](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research) team. They are open to anyone at TUoS writing code for research to
+get help with programming problems and general advice on best practices.
+
+At each session, members of the RSE and/or Research IT teams will be available to review code, advise, troubleshoot, and
+suggest ways to improve your computational workflows.
+
+### Research IT HPC Drop In
+
+HPC Drop-In sessions are providing assistance with HPC related user issues such as challenges in scaling an application
+from desktop to supercomputer. We are considering extending the number of our sessions to two or three weekly. These
+interactive sessions could provide a better interface with our users than our non-interactive ticketing system. These
+sessions are advertised on the [HPC mailing list](https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/sheffield.ac.uk/g/hpc).
+
+### Research IT Consultations
+
+Alongside the HPC Drop-In sessions, Research IT are also running one to one consultations to solve in depth user
+specific problems. These consultations can be booked via our webpage. If you are interested please visit the following
+link: <https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research>.
+
+## Sheffield RSE Team
+
+The Sheffield RSE Team aims to [collaborate](https://rse.shef.ac.uk/collaboration/guide/) with you to help improve your
+research software.
+
+They can provide dedicated staff to ensure that you can deliver excellent research software engineering on your research
+projects.
+
+The Sheffield RSE Team provides free [Code Clinics][CCs] (in collaboration with [IT Services][its-res-it]), plus [paid
+services][rse-service] that allow us to collaborate longer term.
+
+## Research IT
+
+[Research IT](https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research) directly supports research, both academic and commercial.
+We provide large scale HPC systems, advice on everything from statistics to ML to data pipelines and training for both
+students and staff.
+
+Working with academics, our staff are embedded within research groups on both long and short term engagements.
+
+[CCs]: https://rse.shef.ac.uk/support/code-clinic/
+[its-res-it]: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research/
+[rse-service]: https://rse.shef.ac.uk/collaboration/