Research Software Alliance

ReSA's November newsletter (https://lnkd.in/g-shzvuQ) includes: * Research software community news, including Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's award to rOpenSci * Funding opportunities, including the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program * ReSA membership update - The Kavli Foundation * New ReSA Task Force: FAIR for Research Software (#FAIR4RS) Principles 2-year review * Resources on how to create a research software engineering (#RSEng) group (within an organisation) or association (national, etc) * Games of Horror for Open Science Training (#GHOST) * Opportunities to get involved with community initiatives, including the Open Source Science Initiative (OSSci) * Resources * Community events, including FOSDEM 2025 For previous newsletters or to subscribe, visit ReSA News: https://lnkd.in/giCmMMia. To suggest items for inclusion in ReSA news, please contact [email protected].

Seats are filling up fast for the EGI Side Event at ICRI 2024! Register now! Don't miss out on this hybrid session exploring how digital tools and collaborative solutions transform Research Infrastructures for global scientific impact: https://go.egi.eu/4fTR8 ?? When: Monday, 2 December 2024 ? Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM AEST ?? Where: Brisbane, Australia & Online #ICRI2024 #ENVRIHubNEXT ENVRI community iMagine PHENET SAEON Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Research Software Alliance

?? Exciting news! We’ve received support from the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund to explore how community health frameworks can drive investment in and adoption of open infrastructure for research. ???? This research will examine frameworks like POSI, FOREST, and CHAOSS, engaging diverse stakeholders to identify shared health measures that align with values of openness, inclusivity, and sustainability. Together, we aim to strengthen the resilience of open infrastructure and its critical role in accelerating research globally. Learn more about our project and how you can get involved: https://lnkd.in/dknYvC_3

We're really looking forward to the outcomes of this work, and very exciting to see some early insights in the new brief.

?? Thank you for joining the #FAIR #NationalRoadshow in #Greece! ?? https://lnkd.in/ddRjtJ6i ?? A special thanks to our #speakers for sharing their valuable insights on strengthening #OpenScience practices and advancing #FAIRdata principles across Europe. ?? Vasso Kalaitzi, DANS ?? Themis Zamani and Kostas Koumantaros, GRNET - Greek Research & Technology Network ?? Zisis Simeoforidis, HEAL-Link (Hellenic Academic Libraries Link) ?? Theodora Karaiskou, Library of the University of Patras ?? Fotis Psomopoulos, EOSC-EVERSE project ?? Elli Papadopoulou, Athena Research Center & OpenAIRE AMKE ?? Alexandra Kokkinaki, NOC-British Oceanographic Data Centre ?? Fotis Mystakopoulos, OPERAS Research Infrastructure ?? Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Trust-IT Services ?? See you at our next event in February 2025: #FAIRfest – Celebrating advancements in #FAIR #solutions within #EOSC! Register here ?? https://lnkd.in/dSB_YiBD

How do different jurisdictions around the world support the people who support research software? Founded in 2010 on the principles of? “Better Software, Better Research”, the United Kingdom’s Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) claims the honour of being the first organisation in the world dedicated to improving research software. https://lnkd.in/gCvs4BSc The SSI supports future leaders through a long running fellowship program. The program offers the 200 participants financial support, networking opportunities, and professional guidance to support their efforts to sustain research software in their respective disciplines and institutions. The Institute also supports the wider RSE community in the UK through outreach and engagement with national and international software engineering communities. And the SSI provides advocacy and policy advice on software in research through input to instruments such as the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) - a national assessment framework for research, which undervalues non-traditional research outputs like software.? Now in its fourth phase, the SSI uses a model based on 'Theory of Change' to identify targeted impacts. The phase 4 impacts the Institute hopes to achieve are : 1. Evidence-Driven Research Software Policy and Guidance 2. Capable Research Communities 3. Widespread Adoption of Research Software Best Practice 4. Broadened Access and Contributions to the Research Software Community Software is critical to research but is not often given the same importance as computing, data and networking. A range of different strategies are required to build and grow national capability which supports research software.?

Software is recognised as critical research infrastructure in Australia, but not given the same importance as computing, data and networking. In the Netherlands, the Netherlands eScience Center is part of a recognition that researchers need access to the digital capabilities in both hardware and software to for efficient and effective research. https://lnkd.in/g3HetVNv The eScience Center’s engineers have expertise in machine learning and visualisation, manipulating sensor data and optimising software for High-Performance Computing (HPC). Researchers in the Netherlands can apply for in-kind engineering support on their projects through regular competitive calls for proposals. Recent projects include: – a complex computational study of “photonic nanostructures” in crystals (typically used in optic fibre communications),? – an ongoing program to develop advanced methods to protect utilities from state-sponsored cyber attack – a project to improve the scalability of performance of a biological computation package (HADDOCK) which is used by more than 26000 users worldwide,? – development of a digital tool for mapping the assessment of ‘democratic quality’ and the ‘backsliding’ into authoritarianism occurring in democracies around the world (BackDem) Established in 2011 as an independent foundation and financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and SURF (the Netherlands IT cooperative for education and research) the Center has helped to deliver software for more than 300 research projects.? The Center engages in skills and capability building in the research community through training and workshops focused on open source programming and advanced digital technologies. The Center also encourages improvements in software quality, sustainability and reusability through a range of programs. All eScience Center projects are required to connect with communities around the research software, so as to encourage software sustainability and reusability. The Netherlands eScience Center exists because of a recognition that research software is highly complex and sophisticated and that specific software engineering expertise is crucial. A number of equivalent entities operate around Australia, but none operate at a national scale in the Dutch model. What sovereign software capability does Australia need to achieve its research agenda? https://lnkd.in/g3HetVNv

?? ReSA is delighted to welcome The Kavli Foundation (Amy Bernard, Stephanie Albin, PhD) as our latest Organisational Member. ReSA Organisational Members support us to bring #researchsoftware communities together to collaborate on the advancement of the research software ecosystem. The Kavli Foundation (https://lnkd.in/eUJRe2-P) was established by Fred Kavli in 2000 with a vision to advance science for the benefit of humanity. The Kavli Foundation’s mission is to stimulate basic research in astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience and theoretical physics; strengthen the relationship between science and society; and honour scientific discoveries with The Kavli Prize.

More than a year ago I began a collaboration with Jonathan Schwabish and the #DoNoHarm Project team (co-editors Wesley Jenkins and Shubhangi Kumari) at the Urban Institute on their research report, Do No Harm Guide: Global Perspectives on Equity in Research and Data. I am very excited to share that this work was published last month featuring four essays: https://lnkd.in/euF4aeS5. In my essay, Aligning Open Science with “Do No Harm”, I share an #ethical framework to incorporate “do no harm” principles into #OpenScience practices by: ??? Protecting the rights of all affected by open science, ?? Facilitating community functioning and positive relationships, ?? Aiding the local economy of researchers, and ?? Addressing the broader environmental/contextual impact. While open science (such as in #research, #data and #AI) promises knowledge equity, many of us working in the field have, for years, raised concerns and actively worked to counter the power imbalances and social stratification that persist within the global research ecosystem. Aiming to build accountability into open science initiatives more broadly (beyond individuals), this framework guides researchers, teams and organisations (across sectors) in identifying and mitigating potential negative impacts of their work. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/eJijzdqv I have presented this work previously in a keynote at 2nd International Research Software Funders Workshop in Montreal by Research Software Alliance: https://lnkd.in/eyvy3hbS, and OpenUK State of Open Con 2024: https://lnkd.in/ef6U_mWk. Thanks to everyone who shared feedback, listened and encouraged this work.

RSSE Africa's October Newsletter should be in your inbox this morning if you are subscribed! Read it here: https://lnkd.in/duH7YRq2 Subscribe today: https://lnkd.in/dptXY4Aw This month we found it really difficult to keep it at a readable length with so much happening on the continent! Our bittersweet news for this month is the departure of one of our organising team members, Richard Dushime who has taken the lead on translating newsletters and spotlights to French this year. Richard was accepted at the University of Messina, Sicily, for a Masters in Data Science and has already started this new chapter of his life. We're super excited for you Richard! Of course, we're sad to see yet another talented African leaving the continent. - We start off by sharing more about our collaboration with Talarify RSE Asia Association Research Software Alliance and African Reproducibility Network on a six-part Community Conversation Series on "ENABLING OPEN SCIENCE THROUGH RESEARCH CODE". ?? Register for episode 2 "ENABLING REPRODUCIBILITY THROUGH RESEARCH CODE" - 14 November 2024 @ 8:30 UTC online - https://lnkd.in/dARhyyVk. - The 3rd International Research Software Funders workshop took place in September in Sweden. More than 50 funders and research software experts joined the conversation. Thanks so much to SciLifeLab Data Centre and Research Software Alliance for hosting us! Where are the Africans? We need you in these conversations! - The Annual African BioImaging Consortium Community Meeting will take place on December 2–3, 2024, in Abidjan, C?te d'Ivoire. - Have you noticed how often a PyCon event takes place on the African continent? PyCon Uganda ran in October. Look out for the 2025 edition that will run from 6-10 Aug 2025! - RSSE Africa hosts an international calendar of events at https://rsse.africa/events. Would you like to list your event on the calendar? Get in touch at [email protected]. - We have TWO community spotlights this month! Welcome to Herman Randriamanantena, an Astronomy and Astrophysics MSc student from Madagascar, and Chioma Onyido, a Bioinformatics Research Assistant from Nigeria! Read about their work, learning journeys, challenges and ideas. Sneak preview... Chioma Onyido will join us at the 3rd Episode of the community conversations where we will explore opening up research software/code! She promised to share experiences from her work with Bioconductor both as code contributor and user. - As always we share 2 #OpenAccess publications and 2 #OpenEducationalResources in the newsletter. - The Research Software Alliance is hosting community consultation sessions to get input on designing the FIRST INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SOFTWARE EVENT. There are 4 ways to contribute input! https://lnkd.in/dS6mMgZB Huge thanks to Mireille Grobbelaar our newsletter lead!