Authors: Helen Burns and Isabel Fenton Following the very successful Weather and Climate Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at RSECon 2024, the Geoscience special interest group (SIG) was formally set up as part of the Society of Research Software Engineers. In May, the first elections were held, and Helen Burns was elected as the Chair, with Isabel Fenton as her deputy. It was agreed by the broader committee that it would be great to run another BoF session at RSECon 2025. This time we went for a