Alys Brett

Head of Software Engineering Profession @ukaeaofficial, past president @ResearchSoftEng

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Ah, Parties were permitted when “morale is low”

Missed that in the guidelines.

That has proper pissed me off.

[Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SarahLudford]

"Less than decade ago, expectations of scrutiny a major policy bill of this sort would undergo..were radically different. 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"

[Karen Ingala Smith @DrK_IngalaSmith]

If you’re not already following this bot, do yourself some International Woman’s Day awareness raising and see what performative looks like.

[Alys Brett @alysbrett]

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

[Society of Research Software Engineering @ResearchSoftEng]

Huge CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Society's 'Outstanding Contribution Award' 🎉
🌟Alys Brett 🌟
🌟Paul Richmond 🌟
🌟Simon Hettrick 🌟
Awarded for their outstanding contribution to the RSE movement in a specific year - details below. #RSEng

[Met Office @metoffice]

Here are the highest temperatures across the country today 👇

At least 34 sites have exceeded the UK's previous national record of 38.7°C 🌡️

#heatwave2022 #heatwave

[US-RSE | @us_rse@fosstodon @us_rse]

Info interview template written by @nicholdav @ajheinlein @yulucliu @rafmudaf Zhiyong Zhang Claire Wyatt @sjh5000 @nasireisty @alysbrett Rinku Gupta @maimonecr and Jai Sachdev

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[Heidi Seibold @[email protected] @HeidiBaya]

So excited for this #RSEng event next week. Come and join in! 🥳🤓🤩

[Alys Brett @alysbrett]

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.

[Alys Brett @alysbrett]

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

[UK Atomic Energy Authority @UKAEAofficial]

Today is the 10th anniversary of a workshop where the term “Research Software Engineer” 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

[RSE Culham @RSECulham]

@UKAEAofficial @alysbrett No celebration would be complete without cake! Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream and sparklers 🎆️ courtesy of @mattasdata #RSE10years

[🐘 @[email protected] 🐘 @mattasdata]

@RSECulham @UKAEAofficial @alysbrett 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

[Alys Brett @alysbrett]

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

[🐘 @[email protected] 🐘 @mattasdata]

I'm excited to join celebrations of #RSE10Years! 🎉️ 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.

[Society of Research Software Engineering @ResearchSoftEng]

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.

🎉RSECon22 will be in Newcastle in Sept!!

#RSE10Years

[Research IT at the University of Manchester @UoM_eResearch]

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. https://t.co/ZQcxr3kgHZ

[Alys Brett @alysbrett]

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.

[Jonathan Amos @JCDAmos]

Making a mini-star on Earth. The @UKAEAofficial @FusionInCloseUp #JET reactor smashes its own world record for fusion energy output. https://t.co/ugktnA4ALW

[Alys Brett @alysbrett]

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!

[Alys Brett @alysbrett]

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

[UK Atomic Energy Authority @UKAEAofficial]

🥳Record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy at world-leading UKAEA’s Joint European Torus (JET) facility. Video shows the record pulse in action. Full story https://t.co/iShCGwlV9Y

#FusionIsComing #FusionEnergy #STEM #fusion @FusionInCloseUp @iterorg @beisgovuk

[Alys Brett @alysbrett]

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: https://t.co/XStjEmFWT0