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# Small steps towards sustainable and open research
- or why you should care about Research Software Engineering

A blog post summarizing the outcome of a discussion at Nordic-RSE conference May 2024 (https://nordic-rse.org/events/2024-in-person-conference/).
A blog post summarizing the outcome of a discussion at Nordic-RSE conference May 2024 (<https://nordic-rse.org/events/2024-in-person-conference/>).

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#### What is a Research Software Engineer (RSE)?

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* Some essential piece of software runs on a very old machine or on very old version of language and it's very difficult to replace or update, if even possible. This can even lead as far as stopping research activities in the team for some time
* After an article is submitted, one reviewer ask for additional analysis, or slightly different plots, but upon running the code again, one cannot reproduce the plots/results anymore.

#### How RSE can help ?
#### How can RSEs help research ?

**Short answer**

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As a summary, researchers with very deep expertise and RSEs with shallower but wider range of interests and skills complement each other very efficiently.

#### How organisations can help?
#### How can organisations help RSEs?

Many organisations already have people doin RSE work, but the people and the organisation might not be aware of the term RSE. To give those people a sense of belonging and knowing that there is others like them, organisations could:

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- training and collaboration funding (e.g. EuroCC, EOSC)


#### Get deeper
#### Get to know more

Does RSE sound like something you would need in your organisation, or want to hear more about what RSEs in the Nordics are about, please reach out to us at [Nordic-RSE](https://nordic-rse.org/).

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