Head of Software Engineering Profession @ukaeaofficial, past president @ResearchSoftEng
Joined April 2010
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Alys Brett retweeted
22 Mar 2023
Ah, Parties were permitted when โmorale is lowโ
Missed that in the guidelines.
That has proper pissed me off.
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Alys Brett retweeted
"Less than decade ago, expectations of scrutiny a major policy bill of this sort would undergo..were radically different.ย It was normal for this sort of legislation to be considered over a period of weeks with parliamentarians genuinely engaged in the detail of what was proposed"
13 Mar 2023
The Illegal Migration Bill highlights how expectations of legislative scrutiny have plummeted, says @DrHannahWhite
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Alys Brett retweeted
6 Mar 2023
If youโre not already following this bot, do yourself some International Womanโs Day awareness raising and see what performative looks like.
6 Mar 2023
Hello hello ๐ #IWD2023 is nearly here, and so are companies' cut-and-paste platitudes. And once again we're bringing you the data to see whose support for #InternationalWomensDay is genuine, and who's still got work to do.
Here's a reminder of how it works โฌ๏ธ (1/8)
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8 Sep 2022
I'm so grateful to receive this award for 2019/20 which was peak RSE intensity for me with the Society opening for membership & intense pandemic response RSE work. This community has been hugely important to me & I'm proud to have been part of building something with you all
Huge CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Society's 'Outstanding Contribution Award' ๐
๐Alys Brett ๐
๐Paul Richmond ๐
๐Simon Hettrick ๐
Awarded for their outstanding contribution to the RSE movement in a specific year - details below. #RSEng
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Alys Brett retweeted
19 Jul 2022
Here are the highest temperatures across the country today ๐
At least 34 sites have exceeded the UK's previous national record of 38.7ยฐC ๐ก๏ธ
#heatwave2022 #heatwave
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Alys Brett retweeted
22 Jun 2022
Info interview template written by @nicholdav @ajheinlein @yulucliu @rafmudaf Zhiyong Zhang Claire Wyatt @sjh5000 @nasireisty @alysbrett Rinku Gupta @maimonecr and Jai Sachdev
We'd love feedback! Link to join @us_rse and comment in the Slack channel is in this post ๐
22 Jun 2022
Thinking about forming your own #RSE group in an org, like a uni or nat'l lab?
Here's some questions to guide you as you talk with current group leaders:
us-rse.org/2022-06-04-info-iโฆ
Another blog post that came out of our 1st community workshop.
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Alys Brett retweeted
So excited for this #RSEng event next week. Come and join in! ๐ฅณ๐ค๐คฉ
4 May 2022
Join our webinars & community discussions for Africans in research settings spending a lot of time writing code or building data/computing infrastructure.
11 May @ 15:00 CAT - learn what RSEs are @HeidiBaya and Dr Kim Martin qkt.io/rsse-africa-2022
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26 Apr 2022
The long postponed first ever @us_rse in-person workshop is underway in Princeton. @IanCosden introducing and setting the scene and there's already a great buzz and new connections being made.
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12 Apr 2022
In Liverpool today for the IOP Plasma Physics conference. Delighted that Peter Hill @zed3 is running a whole satellite meeting on FAIR community data and code. I'll be speaking about data pipelines with three examples from JET, STEP and epidemiology
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Alys Brett retweeted
21 Mar 2022
Today is the 10th anniversary of a workshop where the term โResearch Software Engineerโ was coined! @UKAEAofficial's RSE team celebrated with a talk, 'A brief history of Research Software Engineering' from @alysbrett
#RSE10 #RSEng #RSE10Years @RSECulham #STEM #Engineer #Fusion
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Alys Brett retweeted
21 Mar 2022
No celebration would be complete without cake! Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream and sparklers ๐๏ธ courtesy of @mattasdata #RSE10years
ALT Some RSE Culham team members and friends stand behind a chocolate cake on a picnic table.
ALT A chocolate cake with buttercream frosting decorated with sparklers and sprinkles reading "10 Years of RSE"
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Alys Brett retweeted
21 Mar 2022
Here is @alysbrett the Head of the Software Engineering Group @UKAEAofficial and former President of @ResearchSoftEng delivering her presentation on the history of the #RSEng movement and how that fits into the history of our group! #RSE10years
ALT View from the back of the presentation room with Alys at the front and two screens showing slides. You can see the backs of about 13 audience members strewn across the room.
ALT Alys gesturing with her hands to explain her slide about what research software is and why it is so hard.
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21 Mar 2022
This thread perfectly represents the human side of #researchsofteng for me. The thing I'm proudest of in my career so far is helping to create a home for RSEs like @mattasdata in fusion and beyond, and seeing them paying it forward with such talent and energy #RSE10Years
21 Mar 2022
I'm excited to join celebrations of #RSE10Years! ๐๏ธ What does the Research Software Engineering #RSEng movement mean to me? In a sentence, it has helped me find a career after I had given up on an academic one. It is hard to overstate just how important that was.
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Alys Brett retweeted
In 2022 we have > 30 RSE groups in the UK, and many more internationally. Regional RSE networks are forming & gaining strength.
There are over 3000 people on the RSE slack channel & 550 members of the RSE Society.
๐RSECon22 will be in Newcastle in Sept!!
#RSE10Years
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Alys Brett retweeted
Are you an intermediate research software developer and would like to further develop your skills or train others? Join the @SoftwareSaved "Research Software Camp: Next steps in coding" in May. software.ac.uk/RSCamp-next-sโฆ
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9 Feb 2022
Different domains, different grand projects, many of the same computational challenges: to establish and increase confidence in results of modelling and analysis, and build tools that allow integrated and traceable workflows.
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Alys Brett retweeted
9 Feb 2022
Making a mini-star on Earth. The @UKAEAofficial @FusionInCloseUp #JET reactor smashes its own world record for fusion energy output. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envirโฆ
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9 Feb 2022
New fusion energy record from JET! Bringing everything together after decades of devoted and ingenious work. A testament to international and interdisciplinary collaboration and a validation of key design elements of the successor machine - ITER #fusionenergy
9 Feb 2022
๐ฅณRecord-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy at world-leading UKAEAโs Joint European Torus (JET) facility. Video shows the record pulse in action. Full story ccfe.ukaea.uk/
#FusionIsComing #FusionEnergy #STEM #fusion @FusionInCloseUp @iterorg @beisgovuk
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9 Feb 2022
The announcement event for the results has a really interesting and accessible mixture of talks telling the story of what has been achieved, how, why and what it means for the quest for fusion: youtube.com/watch?v=H99hvPlCโฆ
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9 Feb 2022
Congratulations to colleagues past and present who have contributed - the culmination of many careers and the launchpad for more! Scientists, engineers, technicians, operational & support teams, people who've made the politics, funding, planning, computers, software & data work!