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Stuck Writing Software Documentation? Focus on One Good Tutorial

March 13, 2026

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Topics: Documentation, Software Process Improvement

Best Practices for HPC Software Developers Webinar Series

February 25, 2026

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Topics: Online Learning

If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?

February 25, 2026

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Topics: AI for Better Development, Software Process Improvement, Software Engineering, Development Tools

Workshop: Policies for Research Software in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

February 21, 2026

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Software Engineering, Research Software Engineers

International Research Software Conference (IRSC) 2026

February 21, 2026

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Software Engineering, Research Software Engineers

Improving Scientific Software Conference 2026: Maintaining the Joy of Software Development

February 21, 2026

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Software Engineering

2026 International RSE Survey

February 21, 2026

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Topics: Strategies for More Effective Teams

Introducing the 2026 BSSw Fellows

February 17, 2026

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Topics: Projects and Organizations

Research Software Quality Kit (RSQKit)

February 12, 2026

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Topics: Research Software Engineers, Software Engineering, Software Sustainability, Release and Deployment, Testing

Reflecting on Our Community: The SC25 BoF on Scientific Software and the People Who Make It Happen: Building Our Communities and Practices

February 10, 2026

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Software Engineering, Research Software Engineers

INTERSECT Bootcamp '26

February 9, 2026

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Topics: In-Person Learning, Software Engineering, Design, Strategies for More Effective Teams, Testing, Continuous Integration Testing, Release and Deployment

AI4Dev and LLM4HPC Workshops: Leveraging AI for Productive HPC Software Development

January 27, 2026

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, AI for Better Development

Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC 2026)

January 26, 2026

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Topics: In-Person Learning, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Performance at Leadership Computing Facilities

2026 National Laboratories Sustainable Scientific Software Conference (NLS³C)

January 26, 2026

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Software Sustainability

Survey: Engineers Want to Code, but Spend All Day on Tech Debt

January 25, 2026

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Topics: Software Process Improvement, Software Engineering, Development Tools, Strategies for More Effective Teams, Software Sustainability

CASS BoF Days 2026

January 21, 2026

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Topics: Projects and Organizations

Better Scientific Software: 2025 Highlights

January 9, 2026

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Topics: Projects and Organizations

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What is AI for Better Software Development?

January 8, 2026

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Topics: AI for Better Development

The Better Scientific Software Fellowship at US-RSE'25

December 16, 2025

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Topics: Funding Sources and Programs, Projects and Organizations, Conferences and Workshops

Design Systems To Help Amplify Development of Usable Scientific Software Interfaces

December 12, 2025

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Topics: User Experience Design, Software Process Improvement, Documentation

AI Tools Enable New Modes of Scientific Software Engagement

December 11, 2025

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Topics: AI for Better Development, scientific software ecosystems, Documentation

Evaluation of Research Software: The CDUR Procedure

November 25, 2025

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Topics: Software Process Improvement, Software Engineering, Software Sustainability

Give Thanks!

November 20, 2025

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Topics: Strategies for More Effective Teams

USRSE'25 Conference Recap: Code, Practices, and People

November 11, 2025

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops

Sustaining MPICH: 30+ Years of High-Performance Computing Software

October 28, 2025

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Topics: Software Engineering, Software Sustainability

AI Tools Cause Shift in Which Skills are Important

October 24, 2025

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Topics: AI for Better Development, Software Process Improvement, Software Engineering, Design

Survey on Teamwork, Software, and AI in Scientific Computing

October 21, 2025

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Topics: Strategies for More Effective Teams

Tutorial: Rigor and Reasoning in Research Software (R3Sw)

October 9, 2025

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Topics: Online Learning, In-Person Learning, Reproducibility, Testing, Conferences and Workshops

Lasting Efficiencies and Lifelong Learning

October 7, 2025

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Topics: Funding Sources and Programs, Projects and Organizations

User Experience Engineering in the Lifecycle of Scientific Software

October 2, 2025

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Topics: User Experience Design, Software Process Improvement

Bridging the Language Gap Between RSEs and SERs

September 26, 2025

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Topics: Research Software Engineers

SC25 Software-Related Events

September 26, 2025

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops

Is AI the New Rubber Duck and Will It Replace Human Coders

September 26, 2025

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Topics: Software Process Improvement, Software Engineering, Development Tools, Strategies for More Effective Teams

Smarter Software Development

September 23, 2025

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Topics: Funding Sources and Programs, Projects and Organizations

Building Better Proposals, Enabling Best Research

September 9, 2025

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Topics: Funding Sources and Programs, Projects and Organizations

Practical Reproducibility: Report from the Community Workshop

September 4, 2025

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Topics: Reproducibility, Conferences and Workshops

BSSw Fellowship Program 2026

August 28, 2025

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Topics: Funding Sources and Programs

Reducing Code Review Anxiety in Open Sourcing

August 26, 2025

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Topics: Funding Sources and Programs, Projects and Organizations

Don't Package Your Libraries, Write Packageable Libraries

August 25, 2025

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Topics: Configuration and Builds, Release and Deployment, Software Interoperability, Software Sustainability

Applications Open for the 2026 BSSw Fellowship Program

August 14, 2025

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Topics: Funding Sources and Programs, Projects and Organizations

SSI Fellowship Programme 2026

August 12, 2025

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Topics: Funding Sources and Programs

AI Coding Agents: What Works and What Doesn't

July 30, 2025

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Topics: AI for Better Development, Documentation, Development Tools, Refactoring, Testing, Peer Code Review

User Experience Design (UXD) in the Lifecycle of Scientific Software

July 28, 2025

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Topics: User Experience Design, Software Process Improvement

Ten Simple Rules for RSE–SE Researcher Collaboration

July 18, 2025

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Topics: Research Software Engineers

2024 BSSw Fellows: Projects and Perspectives

July 13, 2025

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Topics: Projects and Organizations

Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) High Performance Computing (HPC) Tutorials (2025)

July 7, 2025

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Topics: Online Learning, Development Tools, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Performance Portability

Why We Need Research on Research Software Engineering

June 26, 2025

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Topics: Research Software Engineers

2nd Workshop on Correctness and Reproducibility for Earth System Software

June 26, 2025

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Research Software Engineers

Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2024): A Summary of the SC24 Workshop

June 23, 2025

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Research Software Engineers

Sunsetting Open Source Projects: Dos and Don’ts

June 19, 2025

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Topics: Software Process Improvement, Software Engineering, Software Sustainability

Reproducibility in the Age of Approximate Computing

June 11, 2025

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Topics: Reproducibility, Requirements, Design, High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Conscious Reviewing: A Commitment to Our Community

May 28, 2025

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Topics: Strategies for More Effective Teams, Software Publishing and Citation

What's in a Browser?

May 15, 2025

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Topics: Software Engineering, Projects and Organizations

Team Learning for Better Scientific Software

May 9, 2025

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Topics: Strategies for More Effective Teams

21st IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience'25)

May 8, 2025

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops

MPI Performance Guidelines

April 28, 2025

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Topics: High-Performance Computing (HPC), Performance at Leadership Computing Facilities

Technical Credit

April 28, 2025

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Topics: Software Engineering, Software Process Improvement, Projects and Organizations, Requirements, Design, Software Sustainability

Applying the FAIR Principles to Computational Workflows

April 24, 2025

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Topics: Reproducibility, Design, Requirements, Big Data

Growing Resilient Scientific Software Ecosystems: Introducing the Software Gardening Almanack

April 16, 2025

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Topics: Software Process Improvement, Software Engineering, Software Sustainability

2nd SciCodes Collaboration Workshop

March 28, 2025

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Software Publishing and Citation

United States Research Software Engineer Association Conference 2025 (US-RSE'25)

March 26, 2025

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Research Software Engineers

Reflecting on Our Community: The SC24 BoF on Scientific Software and the People Who Make it Happen: Building Communities of Practice

March 23, 2025

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Software Engineering, Research Software Engineers

Software Engineers and Scientific Software

March 12, 2025

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Topics: Software Engineering, Strategies for More Effective Teams

Ethical Source Licensing

March 4, 2025

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Topics: Licensing

Best Practices for Multi-Project Continuous Integration and Deployment

February 26, 2025

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Topics: Continuous Integration Testing

Creating An Offboarding Checklist for Technical Projects

February 24, 2025

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Topics: Software Process Improvement, Strategies for More Effective Teams

INTERSECT Bootcamp '25

February 20, 2025

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Topics: In-Person Learning, Software Engineering, Design, Strategies for More Effective Teams, Testing, Continuous Integration Testing, Release and Deployment

Developing Coding Standards and Practices for Sustainable Software Development

February 13, 2025

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Topics: Software Process Improvement, Software Engineering, Requirements, Software Sustainability, Design, Documentation, Testing, Continuous Integration Testing, Peer Code Review, Strategies for More Effective Teams

Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC 2025)

January 30, 2025

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Topics: In-Person Learning, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Performance at Leadership Computing Facilities

How Investing in Documentation Makes Even a Single-Developer Project Better

January 29, 2025

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Topics: Documentation, Software Process Improvement

Five Selfish Reasons to Work Reproducibly

January 24, 2025

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Topics: Reproducibility, Personal Productivity and Sustainability

Sustainable Scientific Software Conference (S3C) 2025

January 17, 2025

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Topics: Conferences and Workshops, Software Sustainability

Byte-sized RSE: The value of User Experience (UX) design

January 17, 2025

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Topics: Online Learning, User Experience Design

Building and Sustaining a Community Resource for Best Practices in Scientific Software: The Story of BSSw.io

January 13, 2025

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Topics: Projects and Organizations

Better Scientific Software: 2024 Highlights

January 13, 2025

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Topics: Projects and Organizations