7⃣ Modelling the best interventions 📈 Researchers led by Ellie Sherrard-Smith & Tom Churcher of MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis created an open-access online tool using real-world data to help policymakers identify the most cost-effective interventions for their setting across sub-Saharan Africa

📢 The Research Software London and South East 2022 workshop is Next Monday (4th July) 📢 We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to South Kensington for a great line up of talks and posters. Last chance to register! rslondon.ac.uk/rslse2022/

📢Join the ARC #RSE team! We are looking for more Research Software Engineers to join us. If you have skills in web and mobile apps, machine learning or HPC, this could be the job for you. All the details can be found here: durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

We’re not talking enough about the espresso reproducibility crisis ☕️ cell.com/matter/fulltex…

Hot take, regex is a dominant language not because of its intrinsic qualities but because its programs are short enough to be conveniently pasted in any location

It's Friday. Have some history. So you know Hadrian's Wall? Well for over 1000 years everyone thought it was built by someone else. Until, in 1840, John Hodgson, an unknown Northumbrian clergyman published the LONGEST footnote in history. Read on... /1

OPPORTUNITY: Full-Stack Developer to help translate cutting-edge research into accessible web applications for the control of HIV and antimicrobial resistance MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis 💼Research Software Engineer 🗓️ 7 November deadline ✏️Find out more & apply imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti…

Any ideas on constructing a pilot #RSEng exchange programme that would allow RSEs to spend some time at different research or RSE Groups? Probably two week long exchanges. Any thoughts? Any thoughts on what it will need? cc Society of Research Software Engineering Software Sustainability Institute

Bus socks on! Ready to roll! I will be delay-tweeting my journey so you’ll see everywhere I go, just after I leave so I don’t get bombarded with route suggestions and, you know, safety and stuff. But time to catch some buses…

We welcome the publication of the government’s Future of Compute report, which recognises that compute is critical to modern research and recommends a co-ordinated, long-term investment in UK compute capability. 1/2 gov.uk/government/pub…

How neat. Researchers claim to have found, at long last, an "einstein" tile - a shape that tiles the plane in a pattern that never repeats. First two authors appear to have no academic affiliations. arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798

Made a new little playground this week: integer.exposed: a version of Bartosz Ciechanowski’s great float.exposed site, but for integers let me know if you notice any bugs!

Have you ever wanted to generate random but readable strings? Like for files or folders? Today's Friday #rstats fun is thanks to Rich FitzJohn for the ids package📦 and its wonderful `adjective_animal()` 😻function.

Implement a simple version of symbolic differentiation in a few lines of #rstats - new blog reside-ic.github.io/blog/symbolic-…

Very rare to see this level of tayloring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵 1!/n!

TIL package?packagename opens up some sort of help #rstats