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📰 Check out our latest blog post: We Know What Needs to Change, So Why Isn’t It Happening? 📰 Read more 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/news/DurhamH... We explore the EDI "Implementation Gap" - the gap between knowing what needs to change to improve EDI and putting that knowledge into practice.
Looking for funding opportunities across UK DRI? A range of resources and funding schemes are currently available to support activities and projects. Explore what’s on offer here: 🍰 www.cake.ac.uk/funds/ 🍰
UK DRI Funding Opportunities
The CAKE NetworkPlus facilitates knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities.
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What's one thing you've learned from organising or attending events? Share it on our Sprinkles of Knowledge board! Fill in the short form and click Submit. We'll review your contribution before adding it to the sticky note board. 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/CAKEbox/comm...
📰 New blog post: Five CAKE Placement & Visit Ideas You Should Steal! 📰 Read more 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/news/Ideas-f... In this post, Eleanor Broadway shares five ways she would use a CAKE Placement & Visit. If you've ever thought, "I wonder if they'd fund...", this post is for you💡
Want to stay in the loop? 👀 Join the CAKE Slack workspace and mailing list to keep up to date with the latest news, opportunities, and conversations around DRI and knowledge exchange. Sign up here: www.cake.ac.uk/about/who-ar... #KnowledgeExchange #DRI #CAKE
Wondering how to further knowledge exchange in your DRI community? Have a look at the CAKE website to see which calls are currently open: www.cake.ac.uk/opportunities/ #knowledgeexchange #DRI
CAKE Flexible Funding
The CAKE NetworkPlus facilitates knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities.
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What's one tool, shortcut, or workflow that makes your work easier? Share it on our Sprinkles of Knowledge board! Fill in the short form and click Submit. We'll review your contribution before adding it to the sticky note board. 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/CAKEbox/comm...
📰 Check out DisCouRSE latest blog post: Research Coding Community Fair brings together researchers and technical teams across the University! 📰 Read more 👉 discourse-network.github.io/news/2026/06...
Research Coding Community Fair brings together researchers and technical teams across the University!
DisCouRSE is pleased to share highlights from the Research Coding Community Fair, which was held at the University of Exeter on Tuesday 19th May 2026.
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Looking to get a piece of the CAKE? 👀 🎂 Got a big DRI question or challenge? Our CAKE Retreats programme offers funding to help you bring people together, build collaborations and create shared outputs. Propose a 3–4 day hybrid retreat 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/about/retrea... #CAKE #DRI
Retreats
The CAKE NetworkPlus facilitates knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities.
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The first cohort of DRI Knowledge Exchange fellows it half-way through their term! Read about what KE fellow Lewis has done so far, and what his plans are for the next six months: www.cake.ac.uk/news/k8s-cak...
STFC Kubernetes Workshop - K8s CAKE fellowship
Lewis Sampson, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, STFC, DAFNI, lewis.sampson@stfc.ac.uk
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The first cohort of DRI Knowledge Exchange fellows it half-way through their term! Read about what KE fellow Joe has done so far, and what his plans are for the next six months: www.cake.ac.uk/news/fortran...
Update on Fortran index CAKE fellowship
Joe Wallwork, Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, jw2423@cam.ac.uk
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The CAKE-CoSeC EDI working group (www.cake.ac.uk/CAKEbox/edia... ) has three task groups. One of them, focussing on measuring impact, has just published a blog post about their progress, and how challenges they encountered have changed the way they approach their task: www.cake.ac.uk/news/edi-mea...
Measuring Impact - but how, who and what?
In the framework of the CAKE-CoSeC EDI working group, six of the working group members formed a focus group with the title “Measuring Impact”, or, more specifically “Best practices for measuring…
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🌍 CAKE at #ISC26! 🤝 Thanks to everyone who visited our poster and stopped by the UK Universities Booth. 🍰 Have a conference tip to share? Add it to our CAKEbox Sprinkles of Knowledge: www.cake.ac.uk/CAKEbox/comm... #HPC #CAKE
🎉 What a fantastic Durham HPC Days! 🤝 Thanks to everyone who joined us for a week of talks, discussions, and new connections. 🍰 Have a conference tip to share? Add it to our CAKEbox Sprinkles of Knowledge: www.cake.ac.uk/CAKEbox/comm... 📅 See you at Durham HPC Days 2027! #DurhamHPCDays#HPC#CAKE
📣 What’s On This Month? Missed these? There’s plenty more across the DRI landscape — check out the CAKE Calendar: www.cake.ac.uk/events/ #CAKE #DRI
Looking to get a piece of the CAKE? 👀 🎂 Got a big DRI question or challenge? Our CAKE Retreats programme offers funding to help you bring people together, build collaborations and create shared outputs. Propose a 3–4 day hybrid retreat 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/about/retrea... #CAKE #DRI
Retreats
The CAKE NetworkPlus facilitates knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities.
cake.ac.uk
Forming new, worthwhile, collaborations are often a lasting outcome of international conferences. The CAKE led collaboration community event at #ISC26 this morning has focussed on helping people meet and form long lasting connections
If you are at #ISC26 this week then pop by the project posters and have a chat with us to find out more about CAKE and the DRI program
What a week! #DurhamHPCDays are coming to a close, and we are all tired and loaded with ideas and enthusiasm at the same time. Lots of connections made or renewed, lots of discussions, laughter and insights. Thanks to everyone! Hope to see you all back in Durham next year!
Great to be in Hamburg at #ISC26. And even better to see a @cake-dri.bsky.social CoL on one of the opening slides.
📍 We’re at ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg this week! If you're attending today, come and say hello at the Universities of the UK stand in the Exhibitor Hall (Hall H · J50) from 1:00 PM. See you there! #ISC26 #HPC #HighPerformanceComputing #Research #Innovation #Hamburg
The CAKE team is very excited to announce the second cohort of DRI Knowledge Exchange Fellows! We welcome Tobias Ramalho dos Santos Ferreira, Marco Campenni, Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, Raquel Manzano, Connor Aird and Mashy Green on board with CAKE!
What a week! #DurhamHPCDays are coming to a close, and we are all tired and loaded with ideas and enthusiasm at the same time. Lots of connections made or renewed, lots of discussions, laughter and insights. Thanks to everyone! Hope to see you all back in Durham next year!
Tobias is introducing our last speaker of the #DurhamHPCDays: Timo Betcke talking about PhD training at the interface of data, software and compute.
Everyone is gathered again at the #DurhamHPCDays to hear about the UKRI Compute Roadmap from Luke Davis.
Everyone is gathered again at the #DurhamHPCDays to hear about the UKRI Compute Roadmap from Luke Davies.
Good discussions about how to close the implementation gap in the EDI session at #DurhamHPCDays (co-organised by Women in HPC and the CAKE-CoSeC EDI workinggroup).
