Allow me to suggest Research Software Engineering - https://society-rse.org/careers/rse-stories/

US Organisation - https://us-rse.org/ UK (but also worldwide) - https://society-rse.org/

There are RSEs who specialise in Earth Science, e.g. https://socrse.github.io/geoscience-sig/

This is what i immediately thought of too. Some more links;

Research Software Engineers - https://researchsoftware.org/

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_software_engineering (checkout References/Further Reading etc.)

Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/ResearchSoftwareEng/

PS: LinkedIn shows me a bunch of jobs with this designation (though many seem to be AI/ML related).

That's amazing! Thank you!

Steve M. Easterbrook Computing the Climate - How We Know What We Know About Climate Change

Tom Deakin and Timothy G. Mattson Programming Your GPU with OpenMP: Performance Portability for GPUs

Haven't read either, but both sound interesting! Thanks!

Submitted previously, more relevant than ever.

I learned electronics from

https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...

pasting the circuit diagram on to a block of wood and screwing down the components...

Fond memories

See also TIM a computer made from scrap relays - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXrT619jBw

There is also a more user friendly version of the MetaWards at https://metawards.org/ ( GH repo: https://github.com/chryswoods/MetaWards ) implemented in Python which identically matches the results of the C implementation, verified by tests.

The good news is people are trying to address this. Starting in the UK there is a movement for Research Software Engineering https://rse.ac.uk/ and happening right now is the German RSE conference https://www.de-rse.org/en/conf2019/

- Research software (e.g. scientific)

"A FORTRAN Coloring Book" - http://www.amazon.com/FORTRAN-Coloring-Book-Roger-Kaufman/dp...