[Blog Post] Open Science with a Latin American Identity: Meet the New Cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program

Introducing 10 new rOpenSci Champions — all from Latin America, representing diverse backgrounds and leading inspiring projects. Each of them is advancing #OpenScience from within their own communities.

By Ana Carolina Moreno, Diana García Cortés, PhD, Erick Isaac Navarro Delgado, Guadalupe Pascal, Juan camilo rojas hernandez, Lucía Inés Rodríguez Planes, Valentina Clavijo Mesa, Mauro Loprete, Monika A. Marquez, Soledad Araya Orrego and Yanina Bellini Saibene

Meet them https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/07/03/champions-2025/

Research software is increasingly recognised as a core research output, alongside publications and datasets.

Across OECD countries, targeted reforms are supporting its development, openness, and long-term sustainability. As AI-driven research grows, a robust research software ecosystem — supported by skilled individuals, strong communities, and reliable infrastructure — is more important than ever.

Following last year’s pledge by OECD members and partner countries to advance open science through improved data management and stewardship, the OECD’s Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP) is launching a 2025–26 project to assess progress and policy gaps in access to research software.

A key milestone will be the expert workshop:

Access to Research Software: Opportunities and Challenges

taking place on 8 September 2025 at the OECD headquarters in Paris.

Discussions will focus on governance, skills, infrastructure, sustainability, and public–private collaboration.

To participate or contribute, please contact alan.paic@oecd.org

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺?

𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲.

Join conversations with others in the same boat across Asia and Australia at Research Software Asia Australia 2025.

Connect, share, and build community together.

17–19 September 2025
Connecting with Community

https://rseaa.org/

#RSE #RSEng #ResearchSoftware #Research #ResearchSoftwareEngineer

alt-text: Picture of person in grey away from a group of people in a purple circe. Are you the only one working on research software in your team? Join the conversation with people in the same situation across Asia and Australia. Research Software Asia Australia 2025. Connecting with Community. 17th to 19th September. Logos of RSE AUNZ and RSE Asia.

ReSA’s May newsletter (https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/778129/emails/154958299495662880) includes:

- Research software community news
- Funding opportunities, including The Navigation Fund’s #OpenScience Meeting Fund 2025
- ReSA releases final 2025-2028 Strategic Plan
- New ReSA forums advance global #ResearchSoftware efforts
- ReSA membership update - @resdatall
- Community events, including #RSECon25, resources, and more!

Catch up or subscribe: https://www.researchsoft.org/news/

Report published: 6th Helmholtz Open Science Forum on Research Software
Focus: Software Quality Assurance at Helmholtz
https://doi.org/10.48440/OS.HELMHOLTZ.083
The program covered key topics such as the introduction and implementation of quality indicators for research software, hands-on sessions for issue identification and resolution, and updates on Helmholtz-wide software projects like JuRSE and HiRSE.

#ResearchSoftware #OpenScience (lmf)

#introductions I'm Stephan, originally an English Philologist and Linguist, now a #SoftwareEngineering researcher at the German Aerospace Center's (https://social.bund.de/@dlr) Institute of Software Technology in #Berlin.

I'm a 2018 Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (https://mastodon.social/@SoftwareSaved), founder and lead of the #CitationFileFormat (https://citation-file-format.github.io/) and co-founder of de-RSE (https://mastodon.social/@de_rse).

I work on #ResearchSoftware, #SoftwareCitation, #SoftwarePublication, #SoftwareIntelligence, #SoftwareSustainability, #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering.

#introduction I'm Dan Katz, Chief Scientist at NCSA (https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/) at U Illinois and Res Prof in CS and our iSchool. I'm also a co-founder of ReSA (https://www.researchsoft.org/), US-RSE (https://us-rse.org/), JOSS (https://joss.theoj.org/), and URSSI (https://urssi.us/). I work on #researchsoftware #softwaresustainability #softwarecitation #policy #RSEng #scholcomm #FAIR #FAIR4RS #FAIR4ML #cyberinfrastructure #HPC
Hobbies: #photography #birdphotography #reading #walks

Eric Jensen & I have a new paper out, based on a survey of research software funders, in a Sloan-funded research software policy project

E. A. Jensen, D. S. Katz, "Awareness of FAIR and FAIR4RS among international research software funders," Scientific Data, v.12, 627, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04820-4

I've finally finished a minor manifesto on how we're developing software infrastructure at BRIC, alongside with an announcement that the open-source tools and components that I've been developing for the past decade (and then some!) now lives under the BRIC non-profit umbrella.

#ResearchSoftware

https://bric.digital/newsletter/stone-soup-software-development/

If you think your codebase is old, I was talking to a team yesterday that just refactored out references to Hollerith cards (aka the reason why 80 characters is convention for line lengths) #researchsoftware

Is anyone aware of any #researchsoftware #training programs that have been tried that are longer than the common, relatively short 0.5-2 day workshops?

I'm thinking of more spread out training such as an hour/week over 3 months or something along those lines.

Specifically considering things like software best practice, git etc.

I'd like to learn from others whether this has been tried, whether it works and whether it's tenable in research.

@gvwilson @coderefinery #git #training #education

We are finally on Mastodon, time for a little #introduction !

Brian is a #FOSS simulator for biological #SpikingNeuralNetworks, for research in #ComputationalNeuroscience and beyond. It makes it easy to go from a high-level model description in Python, based on mathematical equations and physical units, to a simulation running efficiently on the CPU or GPU.

We have a friendly community and extensive documentation, links to everything on our homepage: https://briansimulator.org

This account will mostly announce news (releases, other notable events), but we're also looking forward to discussing with y'all

Has anyone been running into a lot of corrupted zip files recently?

It seems like a meaningful fraction of the zip files we're downloading from major scientific archive sites (e.g., Zenodo, OSF) are corrupted right now. Some we can fix (using combination of -F, -FF, -fz, rar) but some we can't.

Note that many of these zips are quite large because they hold remote sensing imagery.

This is the account of the Research Software Engineering Team at The University of Sheffield.

Most posts are automated but occasional posts and boosts are made.

.@emckiernan13 &co provide recommendations for policymakers to maximize research equity, transparency, & #reproducibility, ensuring that #ResearchSoftware is openly accessible & reusable @LorenaABarba @pebourne @eSayeed @danielskatz @bplale #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3Y2cBp9

Intro: I am #researchsoftware engineer. #RSEng. Working in academia since 2009. Research data management #RDM / #FDM and electronic lab notebook ##ELN support.

Is your organisation interested in establishing an #OpenSource Program Office (#OSPO)? Our blog explores the role of OSPOs in supporting open-source #researchsoftware in universities, govt etc @danielskatz https://www.researchsoft.org/blog/2023-06/

Following #FundResearchSoftware, we (@rvannieuwpoort and I) want to define the roles of #ResearchSoftware. We currently have the attached, and wonder what you might change or add. Please feel free to respond here, or DM me to get a google doc link where you can comment.