{"id":5397,"date":"2014-03-18T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2014-03-18T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:01:56","slug":"are-you-a-research-software-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5397","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Research Software Engineer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research Software Engineers (RSEs) are the people who develop software in academia: the ones who write code, but not papers. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.software.ac.uk\/\">Software Sustainability Institute<\/a> (a group of which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.software.ac.uk\/fellows\/mike-croucher\">I am a Fellow<\/a>) believes that Research Software Engineers lack the recognition and reward they deserve for their contribution to research. A campaign website &#8211; with more information &#8211; launched last week:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rse.ac.uk\">http:\/\/www.rse.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The campaign has had some early successes and has been generating publicity for the cause, but nothing will change unless the Institute can show that a significant number of Research Software Engineers exist.<\/p>\n<p>Hence this post. If you agree with the issues and objectives on the website, please sign up to the mailing list. If you know of any other Research Software Engineers, please pass this post onto them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Software Engineers (RSEs) are the people who develop software in academia: the ones who write code, but not papers. The Software Sustainability Institute (a group of which I am a Fellow) believes that Research Software Engineers lack the recognition and reward they deserve for their contribution to research. A campaign website &#8211; with more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,12,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-science","category-scientific-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1p3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5419,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions\/5419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}