We’re excited to welcome Mandy Moore as pyOpenSci’s new Communications and Community Lead!
Mandy brings 15+ years of experience in marketing, content strategy, podcast production, and community engagement.
Read her intro post: https://www.pyopensci.org/blog/mandy-moore-communications-lead.html
Exciting news—Eliot Robson is our new rotating Editor in Chief! 
A past package submitter and reviewer, Eliot brings experience and a collaborative spirit to guiding pyOpenSci’s peer review process—helping maintainers make scientific Python packages more robust, reusable, and sustainable.
Join us in congratulating him!
#OpenScience #Python #ResearchSoftware #PeerReview #pyOpenSci
Join us for the next webinar in our series (https://recursos.lareferencia.info/alianza-cienciaabierta/) with LA Referencia and @resdatall: The Role of Research Software in the Research Lifecycle
Hear from Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Riva Quiroga, and Yanina Bellini Saibene — in Spanish, with live translation to English and Portuguese.
20 August
14:00–15:30 UTC
Register here: https://redclara.zoom.us/meeting/register/zRo2mF3RSCi-UIiAD8uhwg#/registration
bei uns an der UB in #Frankfurt ist eine entfristete #DevOp-Stelle mit Schwerpunkt #DSpace und #Folio ausgeschrieben #GoetheUniversität https://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/ueber/stellen/28_2025%20DevOpsEngineer%20(E12)%20UB.pdf #job #forschungssoftware #researchsoftware
What’s getting in the way of maintaining and sharing your research software? 
At #SciPy2025 pyOpenSci hosted a Birds of a Feather (BoF) to ask that very question, and the community showed up with insight, vulnerability, and solutions.
From confusing packaging tools to cultural barriers in academia, we break down the biggest pain points and what we’re doing next.
https://www.pyopensci.org/blog/pyopensci-bof-community-scipy-2025.html
Connect and share with other research software folks at RSAA25, online from Sep 17-19.
Keynote, Assoc. Prof. Minh Bui from ANU will discuss their work on IQ-TREE, an open-source tool for evolutionary biology with genomics data, which won the 2023 ARDC Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software.
Join us in tackling the latest research software challenges and fostering community collaboration.
You don’t have to be a software engineer to contribute to scientific open source!
At pyOpenSci, we believe good science needs good software, and that means contributions of all kinds:
Code
Docs
Ideas
Reviews Encouragement
Whether you’re a researcher, educator, or someone just curious about open source, we have space for you. 
Learn how to get started: https://www.pyopensci.org/python-package-guide/
Just published our new work on federated random forests for privacy-preserving machine learning!
“A Federated Random Forest Solution for Secure Distributed Machine Learning”
IEEE: https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS65348.2025.00159
Supplementary slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16539345
We're advancing secure AI without sharing data. Feedback & collaborations welcome! 
#FederatedLearning #PrivacyPreservingAI #MachineLearning #OpenScience #IEEE #DataScience #Zenodo #ResearchSoftware #Reproducibility
Two weeks out from #SciPy2025 and we’re still buzzing 
Our packaging workshop with #Hatch + #UV made best practices feel doable
60+ joined our “Packaging Pain Points” BoF—real talk, real momentum 30+ PRs opened in one day—many from first-timers!
Lightning talks, #Pixi demos, and a SciPy Song shoutout!
More soon—including our Aug 7 event on peer review w/ Stanford #OSPO.
Read more: https://www.pyopensci.org/blog/pyopensci-at-scipy-2025
Working on a scientific paper and need to quickly insert a citation?
If you’ve used #JabRef before, you might know the “push to application” feature. Now, JabRef supports cite-as-you-write (CAYW)! (Also known as “cite while you write”)
In #TeXstudio, press c three times to open the citation dialog—no plugin needed.
Setup guide: https://blog.jabref.org/2025/07/25/cayw-endpoint/
Big thanks to @phlp for implementing this!
Event for the Stanford open source community!
Your research code matters. Let’s treat it that way.
On Aug 7, pyOpenSci + OpenSource@Stanford (#OSPO) will share how open peer review supports better tools, cleaner code, and academic credit.
Thursday, Aug 7
11AM MT / 10AM PT www.pyopensci.org/events/pyopensci-stanford-ospo-peer-review.html
[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/
𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮: 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼-𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁
We are committed to creating a safe, accessible and inclusive environment for all participants. To support this goal, we are offering:
𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲
𝗧𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗨𝗗 𝟱𝟬 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼-𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀, 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲
Scholarship eligibility will be determined by our commitment to prioritising and maximising inclusion and participation for individuals impacted by the cumulative effects of discrimination—across dimensions such as race, gender, disability, gender identity, financial status and their intersections. Accessibility micro-grant eligibility follows the same guiding principles, and is open to participants based in Asia and Australia.
𝗪𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.
Accessibility micro-grant applications close Wednesday 23 July, 12 pm UTC+10
Scholarship applications close Wednesday 11 September, 12 pm UTC+10
Apply now and help us build a more inclusive research software community across Asia and Australia at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN3rFvvGeleLwCcM3A1H5i_Nd3qEdCMJupVqwE1xTT9UqxsQ/viewform
GitLab 18.1 supports Orcid identifiers in user profiles: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/06/19/gitlab-18-1-released/#orcid-identifier-in-user-profile
#GitLab #Orcid #OpenResearch #ResearchSoftware
Soon the #OR2025 in #Chicago begins. I am very much looking forward to all the presentations, workshops and fruitful exchanges, especially #researchdata and #researchsoftware #GoetheTravels #Forschungsdaten #unifrankfurt
Weekend reads:
There’s a noticeable shift in scholarly #publishing: As researchers produce valuable #software and datasets, appropriate publication is becoming increasingly important to make them citable and accessible in the long-term. The latest NFDIxCS blog post provides a step-by-step guide for publishing #researchsoftware as supplementary material associated with scholarly articles, using improved submission systems offered by Schloss Dagstuhl.
https://nfdixcs.org/meldung/making-code-fair-connecting-software-with-publications
RSAA25 Call for Presentations – Deadline Extended to 22 June
Due to popular demand, and to give everyone a little extra time to prepare and submit your ideas, the deadline for the Research Software Asia Australia Conference 2025 (RSAA25) Call for Presentations has been extended to 22 June 2025. We warmly invite you to take advantage of this opportunity to contribute your insights and innovations in research software.
#RSAA25 – Call for Presentations Extended to 22 June
When & Where: 17–19 September 2025 · Online
Theme: Connecting with Community
Submit now - https://rseaa.org/call_for_presentations
RSAA25 is open to all career stages and domains, including science, humanities, infrastructure, and community-led work. Presenters do not need to identify as “RSEs” to participate, if your work involves research software, you’re welcome!
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
Dr Minh Bui, co-developer of the globally-used phylogenetics software IQ-TREE2 and winner of the inaugural ARDC Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software, will be delivering the #RSAA25 keynote!
Together with Professor Robert Lanfear (Australian National University), Dr Bui developed IQ-TREE2 – an open-source tool turning DNA data into evolutionary insights. It has been used to study everything from the origins of life to the spread of COVID-19.
We're thrilled to welcome the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator National Research Infrastructure (ACCESS-NRI) as a Gold Partner for the Research Software Asia Australia Conference (RSAA25), taking place online from 17–19 September 2025!
Their support helps us grow a vibrant, connected research software community across Asia and Australia and we can’t wait to share what’s in store.
@FrOSCon 