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Robert (Bob) Turner

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Joined February 2009
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If you were wondering what I thought about turning Research Software into SaaS, wonder no more and instead read this Software Sustainability Institute blog software.ac.uk/blog/how-make…
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ModMedMicro@ModMedMicro23 Mar 2024
Complex pathogens like TB need research input from people with all kinds of expertise: meet some of our experts on bioinformatics, software engineering, lab sequencing, and clinical research who are working together to #EndTB @OxfordBRC @_gpas_ @BashTheBug #YesWeCanEndTB
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📢🚨 Exciting Job Alert 🚨📢 Our friends at @RSE_Sheffield are recruiting a new Research Software Engineer for Machine Learning and AI with a secondment at the @turinginst ! 🗓 Application deadline: 20th April jobs.ac.uk/job/CYL522/resear…
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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield23 Feb 2023
University of Sheffield Researchers: Python code giving different results on different computers? Trouble installing Python research software? This pilot course on Conda may help (and your feedback will help us!). rse.shef.ac.uk/training/work…
[PILOT] Introduction to Conda for (Data) Scientists

[PILOT] Introduction to Conda for (Data) Scientists

How can we undertake research work in a consistent and reproducible computing environment?

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield9 Nov 2022
Do join us on 24 November 2022 - 12:00-13:00 for another edition of LunchBytes, this time a panel discussion on "Teaching Code". Should be good! rse.shef.ac.uk/events/lunchb…

LunchBytes Panel: Teaching Code

As code and software become an ever bigger part of research (its likely that around 1/3 of researchers write code), coding and other digital skills become ever more important to researchers.

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield13 Oct 2022
.@nshephardRSE has also been blogging about using @pre_commit in your git repositories rse.shef.ac.uk/blog/pre-comm…

pre-commit : Protecting your future self

Pre-commit is a powerful tool for executing a range of hooks prior to making commits to your Git history. This is useful because it means you can automatically run a range of linting tools on your...

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield13 Oct 2022
Happy International RSE day to you all! To coincide with #IntlRSEday our @DrDavidWilby has blogged about how RSEs can bolster their career progression by gathering evidence to support the importance of their research outputs. rse.shef.ac.uk/blog/2022-10-…
Demonstrating Importance and Value in Research Software

Demonstrating Importance and Value in Research Software

As research software engineers (RSEs) or researchers who develop software & code, at some point we will need to provide evidence that our software actually has some positive effect on the world....

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Nice vid @haipinglu ! Great points on testing "worry less, code more" and open source with private sector partners youtu.be/bHvw6sZp9vw cc @RSE_Sheffield
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This weekend, I'm going to binge-watch 13 hours of @RSE_Sheffield (and friends) LunchBytes sessions. Well, I'm not, but I could digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk…
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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield19 Jul 2022
Registration now open! From the organisers: "Join us in the Diamond on 14th-15th September 2022 to explore ideas and practice around open research in this free, interdisciplinary event." eventbrite.co.uk/e/openfest-…

OpenFest 2022

Join us on 14th-15th September 2022 to explore ideas and practice around open research in this free, interdisciplinary in-person event.

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield18 Jul 2022
We're hiring: To coincide with advertising for an #AI / #MachineLearning #RSE we've written a blog post about how we do our interviews. Post and link to job ad here! rse.shef.ac.uk/blog/2022-07-…
We're hiring - how do we assess candidates for RSE jobs?

We're hiring - how do we assess candidates for RSE jobs?

We want to make our candidate selection process as open as possible. Generally we’re not trying to hire people who can solve software problems on the acute timescale and in the pressured situation of...

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield8 Jul 2022
LunchBytes: Workflow Managers - How can we get lots of software to work together reproducibly on different platforms? Join us on the 21st July at 13:30 to find out! rse.shef.ac.uk/events/lunchb…
LunchBytes: Workflow Managers

LunchBytes: Workflow Managers

Scientific workflows (for example in bioinformatics) often require several different scripts or pieces of software to be run and their outputs fed into each other. Ideally, we’d like to be able to...

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield13 May 2022
If you like research and you like writing code in #R, this may be the job for you! rse.shef.ac.uk/blog/2022-05-…
Join our team!

Join our team!

We have a job advert out for an RSE! Here are six reasons to apply: Varied projects. We work on research in areas such as astrophysics, healthcare, molecular biology, civil engineering and many more....

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield29 Mar 2022
We have a role available within the RSE team for someone with skills in R: jobs.ac.uk/job/COK027/resear…
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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield18 Feb 2022
Oh my gosh - another LunchBytes? sites.google.com/sheffield.a… "Software engineering in High Energy / Particle Physics" 17 March 2022 - 12:00-13:00 #bigdata, big collaborations, #versioncontrol, #ci, #threading, #tests - what more could you want?
Sheffield ORWG

Sheffield ORWG

The University of Sheffield defines open research as the practice of making the processes and outputs of research transparent and freely available, whenever possible (see the University's statement...

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield16 Feb 2022
LunchBytes session on #HPC tomorrow at 12! rse.shef.ac.uk/events/lunchb…

LunchBytes: High Performance Computing (HPC) at Sheffield and Beyond

If you find yourself running simulations that take days, struggling to fit datasets in your computer’s memory, training deep learning models or wish you had more computational resource for doing...

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield10 Feb 2022
17/2/22 - 12:00-13:00 - If you find yourself running simulations that take days, struggling to fit datasets in your computer’s memory, training deep learning models or wish you had more computational resource for doing research, HPC might be the solution! rse.shef.ac.uk/events/lunchb…

LunchBytes: High Performance Computing (HPC) at Sheffield and Beyond

If you find yourself running simulations that take days, struggling to fit datasets in your computer’s memory, training deep learning models or wish you had more computational resource for doing...

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RSE@Sheffield@RSE_Sheffield15 Nov 2021
Are you interested in joining a team to develop and facilitate reproducible software through collaborations across the whole spectrum of university research areas? Two new posts in our team. rse.shef.ac.uk/blog/2021-11-…
We're hiring - A fixed term and open-ended Research Software Engineer

We're hiring - A fixed term and open-ended Research Software Engineer

Are you interested in joining a team to develop and facilitate reproducible software through collaborations across the whole spectrum of university research areas?

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annakrystalli@annakrystalli19 Oct 2021
Our brand new @ReproHack Hub is finally live!! And we can’t wait to celebrate with you! 🎉🥳🙌 ✨ reprohack.org ✨ Join us and @N8CIR on the 18th of November 2021 for our #ReproHackHub launch 🚀 bit.ly/reprohack-hub-launch
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