Call for Proposals: URSSI Early-Career Fellows (Round 2)
Kyle Niemeyer and Nic Weber • July 2, 2025
The US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI) invites new applications for an Early-Career Fellowship program.
This fellowship offers funding support between $10,000 and $25,000 for research in one of the following areas: AI/ML Integration in Scientific Software Development, Scientific Software Sustainability, or Software Education Research.
The fellowship is open to PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research software engineers, and research scientists who are less than three years removed from their final degree or appointment.
Applications open for 2025 Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists Workshop
Matthew Feickert • June 27, 2025
Doing interesting research can be hard, and having to carefully curate a complex software stack of tools by hand or debug why your software environment broke when it worked two days ago can make it even harder. Luckily, we don’t have to make research harder than it needs to be!
Scientific researchers need reproducible software environments for complex applications that can run across heterogeneous computing platforms. We now have modern tools for creating fully reproducible hardware accelerated software environments for machine learning workflows (and other scientific applications that use CUDA) that use high level semantics aimed at researchers!
Applications open for 2025 Summer School in Open Science + Research Software Engineering
Madicken Munk, Joseph H. Kennedy • June 3, 2025
Do you want your science, research, and software to be open and accessible? Do you use or develop software in your research? Do you have some foundational skills and would like to build on and expand them?
If this sounds like you, then you might be interested in the upcoming Summer School in Open Science and Research Software Engineering. In August 2025 we will be hosting a five-day workshop on open science and research software engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and organized in collaboration with the Alaska Satellite Facility and the Geophysical Institute.
URSSI Welcomes First Early-Career Fellows
Nic Weber and Kyle Niemeyer • April 25, 2025
We’re thrilled to announce the first two recipients of the US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI) Early-Career Fellowship. This program supports emerging researchers to advance scientific software development practices.
Matthew Feickert will develop an open-source course on creating reproducible software environments for scientific and AI/ML applications. His project “Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists” will focus on using tools like Pixi to create version-controlled research environments with specialized hardware accelerator support. Matthew will organize a workshop for researchers across scientific domains and also host a tutorial on Pixi at the 2025 SciPy conference.
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