Here are a few things that will help you create good habit when creating scientific code and thus produce better quality code. Resources Software carpentry - resources to learn and teach coding practices for scientists. Scientific computing for the rest of us Sites to host code FigShare, hosts code and issues DOIs. Open Science Framework, offers project hosting, storage, even virtual machines. GitXiv: Matches code in Github with articles in ArXiV. Read more...

If you’re at MozFest, drop by our session on Sunday the 19th of October at 3:15 PM. We’ll be updating this section with the notes from our session. The session is on the 9th floor (don’t worry, there are lifts/elevators!) in section L1. Look for our awesome sign: Look for this sign if you're coming to our session on Sunday at 3:15! Based on the logo by @Geek_Fred pic.twitter.com/obtKLTsKlD Read more...

Want to help make scientific code better and more open? We’re really excited to announce that we’ll be running an interactive session at MozFest 2017 in London at the end of October. The session might be suitable for you if you meet any of these criteria: you have an interest in (or write) open source code you’d like to learn more about the academic publishing model you write software for research. Read more...