Daniel S. Katz

At #pidfest26, there are two breakout sessions in the same room, using headphones that you can switch between the two channels/speakers/talks (shown by blue vs green lights on the headphones). This is new to me.

If you have experience with AI-assisted research software engineering #RSEng in an HPC context that you want to share, our BoF on the Thur at #SC26 (www.ucl.ac.uk/research-inn...) still has some room for a few more 3-minute lightning talks - sign up with a 100-word abstract on the web page.

🟢 The inaugural International Research Software Conference (IRSC26) took place in September 2026, co-located with RSECon26 in Sheffield. It was delivered by the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) in partnership with the Institute for Research Software.

My slides: "Research software engineering and research software engineers: Successes and challenges" doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

"Agency as a New Organizing Abstraction for Computer Science" in CACM cacm.acm.org/opinion/agen... and expanded in Arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2610.17410

We’re collaborating with ReSA for our next webinar in the EVERSE Network webinar series, where we’ll be sharing practical guidance for research software managers and open science team leaders. Register for the webinar and join us online: indico.cern.ch/e/EVERSE_ReS...

I'm looking forward to speaking Thursday at UC Santa Cruz at CruzCon: Open Source for Research & Innovation ucsc-ospo.github.io/event/202610...

My first Black-bellied Whistling-Duck in Illinois and also my first in the US, in the Beringer Commons Subdivision in Urbana, IL (with thanks to eBird for the alert) #Birds #BirdPhotography

I've realized that when I read communication that feels AI-generated, I don't know if I can trust it. For human-written messages, I think I give the writer the benefit of the doubt and tend to trust them unless there's a reason not to, but with AI-generated messages, I think I lean the other way.

It's nice to see that the new @ukri.org research data policy (www.ukri.org/publications...) includes s#ResearchSoftware

Eurasian Kestrel at De Nieuwe Driemanspolder, Zoetermeer, Netherlands #Birds #BirdPhotography

🌍 Research software is essential to research, but sustaining it requires global coordination. Our blog explores how #IRSC26 brought together leaders and decision-makers to address shared challenges and shape the future of #ResearchSoftware in the age of GenAI. 🔗 www.researchsoft.org/blog/2026-10/

I gave a talk about AI & research software today at @esciencecenter.bsky.social with some of my experiences and a lot of other people's, with lots of questions & few answers, but perhaps some useful ways of thinking about how to get to answers doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #AI #ResearchSoftware #RSEng

We’re organizing a “birds of a feather” on AI-assisted research software engineering #RSE #RSEng for #HPC at #SC26. www.ucl.ac.uk/research-inn... @society-rse.org @us-rse.bsky.social

There's a concept that GenAI makes producing content cheaper and shifts work to proving that the content is correct/useful. This is discussed in Relocating Rigor (aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mbrvhyye4k2e). What are other examples of this, in math, science, etc.?

I began #RDAPlenary27 at the #Oval yesterday with a series of pre-meeting events that included an evening reception. In the next couple of days, I'll be giving a short talk in the Software Source Code Interest Group session and helping with the #FAIR4ML session.

European Robin, Rickmansworth Aquadrome, England #Birds #BirdPhotography

A few photos from just before the opening reception of #eScience2026 #eScience26 last night in Naples, with Mt. Vesuvius in the background.

do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do

ReSA’s Sept newsletter is here! preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7781... - Community news: SSI becomes the Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social - Funding: BSSw Fellowship Program - IRSC26 keynote recordings - Events: @us-rse.bsky.social USRSE’26 www.researchsoft.org/news/

The FAIR Research Outputs call by @opensciencenl.bsky.social is open 😍 The call gives a boost (💰) to researchers who want to make their outputs #FAIR and #open First come, first served basis, so be quick! www.openscience.nl/en/news/firs...

This is an interesting story on technology and people and memory, though I like the version without highlighting at richardcolby.net/writ2000/wp-... better

VERY important paper! This study detected SARS-CoV-2 in the air of common areas of 4 big US airports. SARS-CoV-2 detected in 98% of samples through the year. Influenza A was found during flu season. That’s why you want to wear an N95 respirator in an airport! And all indoor public spaces all year!

a good read about papers that are going to be desk-rejected - medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

A couple of pictures of me giving a talk on @joss-openjournals.bsky.social at #RSECon26 last week in Sheffield, England. Credit: Society of Research Software Engineering/Dominic Lipinski; license: CC BY-NC

I am very proud of the announce at OECD by the French Minister of Higher Education, Research adn Space, of the French open science strategy for the next 8 years.

Help map GenAI initiatives in research software: ReSA's mapping work underway across the community around priority themes identified at our international GenAI & research software workshop with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. We’d like to hear from you! forms.gle/1BDRm8v3LYdJ... #ResearchSoftware

We're just starting our 8th #Parsl user/developer meeting, this time called APeX Summit 2026 — Academy, Parsl, Globus Compute I'm looking forward to hearing about 40 short talks over 2 half days - parsl-project.org/parslfest/ap...

Keynotes from the first International Research Software Conference (#IRSC26) are now available: - What We Talk About When We Talk About RSE by @rivaquiroga.bsky.social - What Public Code Can Teach Us: Research Software Meets Software Research by Stefano Zacchiroli ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?lis...

CS talk challenge: Give a talk where *all* the slides are just xkcd comics