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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 22h

🎉 Happy International Research Software Engineers Day! 🎉

Today we celebrate the incredible work of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) who empower researchers through expert coding support, collaboration, and training.

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 22h

👇 Drop a comment or tag someone who’s made a difference.

#InternationalRSEDay #ResearchSoftware #OpenScience #ResearchCulture #RSE #CommunityOfPractice #UniversityOfLeeds

Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 22h

💬 We’d love to hear from you!

Are you an RSE? What’s your journey been like?

Have you worked with an RSE? How did they help transform your research?

Share your stories, shout out your collaborators, and let’s celebrate the power of research software together!

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 22h

RSEs are vital to building a more open, inclusive, and collaborative Research Culture. 💻🌍
Let’s celebrate their contributions today and every day! 🥳🙌

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 22h

...This led me to be quite 'closed' and uncollaborative in my work. One of the many valuable differences RSEs can make is in supporting PGRs to take that journey towards openness much earlier in their research careers, through a combination of technical upskilling and awareness building."

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 22h

We asked Sorrel to reflect on her journey and the value of RSEs:

"I'm proud to be an RSE supporting those doing computational research. When I began my PhD (a long time ago), I didn't know how to code and felt very self-conscious about my computational skills...

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 22h

And what better excuse to share this brilliant comic poster by Sorrel Harriet, created for our Research Culture Community of Practice event at the University of Leeds. It tells the story of Josie, a researcher who transforms from "code chaos" to "open science hero" - thanks to the support of RSEs.

A comic-style poster titled "From Code Chaos to Open Science Hero (Thanks Leeds RSEs!)" tells the story of Josie, a researcher at the University of Leeds. In six illustrated panels, it shows her journey from struggling with coding to becoming an advocate for open science. She receives help from Research Software Engineers (RSEs), attends training, collaborates on projects, makes her software open source and citable, and inspires others to share their research software. The final panel hints at ongoing impact with the phrase “THE END?”. The poster includes links to arc.leeds.ac.uk and bit.ly/arc-help, encouraging viewers to begin their own research software journey.

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 22h

🎉 Happy International Research Software Engineers Day! 🎉

Today we celebrate the incredible work of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) who empower researchers through expert coding support, collaboration, and training.

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Researcher Development @ Leeds @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social · 1d

🔩 Are you a member of research staff or academic staff at the University of Leeds? Join the ‘Navigating your role and responsibilities as a Principal Investigator’ (PI) workshop to reflect on the real-world issues of a PI.

✅ Register now uolr3.leeds.ac.uk/temcatsearch...

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Photograph of shiny silver nuts and bolts

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Dr Emily Ennis (she/they) @emilyennis.bsky.social · 1d

I found this an excellent way to end #HiddenREF2025 yesterday. While it's important we get diverse roles and outputs the recognition they deserve - i.e. through the REF - often the REF itself can feel anti-research culture. For me, REF is a competition, but research culture is about community.

Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 1d

In the final session of the day, Tim Newton, Dean of Research Culture at King's College London, reflects on the connection between research culture change and PCE:
"It's important to do what's right and good, and not necessarily what's pragmatic for REF."

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 1d

In the final session of the day, Tim Newton, Dean of Research Culture at King's College London, reflects on the connection between research culture change and PCE:
"It's important to do what's right and good, and not necessarily what's pragmatic for REF."

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 1d

You'll maybe hear us reflecting on the festival on video and podcast sound bites (don't worry, we'll *definitely* signpost these as they come out). But we've already got some ideas percolating on how to enhance research culture at Leeds with a focus on hidden roles and diverse outputs.

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 1d

In a way that feels very on brand for the idea of the #HiddenREF, there have been 4 of us from Leeds at the festival over the last two days and we didn't know we'd each be here. But that won't stop us collaborating on and coordinating our next steps!

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 2d

Holly Ranger from University of Sheffield asking us whether "non-traditional" outputs is itself biased: non-traditional to whom???

Of course, using the phrase "non-traditional" accidentally centres the structures we're attempting to dismantle ("traditional").

Holly Ranger from University of Sheffield standing in a lecture theatre with a slide behind her titled "beyond the research article".

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Tom Flint @tomflint.bsky.social · 2d

#HiddenREF #ResearchCulture #FieldNotesFromTheFront
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Tom Flint @tomflint.bsky.social · 2d

🪂 Our very own intrepid research culture wrangler and correspondent @emilyennis.bsky.social has parachuted into Hidden REF armed with nothing but a lanyard, a sharp eye for research culture, and a dangerously well-organised notebook.
Follow along for live sightings of academic value in the wild...

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 2d

Gareth Bish from Coherent Digital discussing how they are preserving materials at risk of being lost, including the data and resources being lost due to political censorship in the US and elsewhere (think, CDC content). coherentdigital.net

A true example of something simple and revolutionary.

Coherent Digital

coherentdigital.net

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Raysa Rocha delivered a lightning talk on generating actionable insights to support neurodivergent workers and their wellbeing. We at Leeds are having conversations on how to support neurodivergent people in the research community, so this is exciting!

Dr Raysa Rocha standing in a lecture theatre in front of a slide titled "Neurodivergent workers and wellbeing".

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 2d

Day 2 of ##Hiddenref2025 and a reminder that people are as important as outputs.

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 2d

We tried some thinking aloud with kpop, then traditional outputs. And now...non-traditional outputs from REF2021.

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 2d

First stop for thinking about the mechanics of evaluating non-traditional outputs: thinking aloud. This is where my (Emily’s) neurodivergence finally comes into its own 😎

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, it's a fancy word. But heuristics (our shortcuts for making decisions) are everywhere. But this is a problem for output evaluation! This is why recognising diverse outputs and understanding responsible use of research metrics are important. #HiddenREF

Photo showing a slide discussing anchor heuristics, which is our tendency to rely on initial or strongly held information when making decisions.

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Researcher Development @ Leeds @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social · 3d

AND:

UKRN Train the Trainer: accelerating the uptake of open research practices across academic disciplines research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/ukrn...

(Episode 129) UKRN Train the Trainer: accelerating the uptake of open research practices across academic disciplines - Research Culture Uncovered

This week Nick speaks with his Library colleague Kikachukwu Oluonye about the UKRN Train the Trainer programme.Like Nick, Kikachukwu is an Open Research...

research-culture.captivate.fm

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Researcher Development @ Leeds @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social · 3d

Quick plug for a couple of relevant podcasts:

Valuing Diverse Research Outputs: The Hidden REF and the 5% Manifesto with Simon Hettrick research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/valu...

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Research Culture Leeds @researchcultureuol.bsky.social · 3d

Guys??? I think we have a problem with recognising diverse output types??
"We're not asking [researchers] to stop writing journal articles, we're asking them to recognise what theyre already doing." - Natalie Wallis (Uni of Liverpool)

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