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Code for Thought episodes:

• 06.10.2024

  [EN] A National Day for Research Software - the eScience Center

  Send us a Text Message. What a fun day that was: the National Research Software Day in Hilversum on 23 April 2024. It was organised by the eScience Center in the Netherlands and in the course of this episode you...

  
• 06.05.2024

  [EN] ByteSized RSE: Make Science and Software FAIR (again) - Jamie Quinn

  Send us a Text Message. In this session of ByteSized RSE we talk about the FAIR principles and research software. My guest helping me with that is Jamie Quinn, currently RSE at Imperial College London. Here are a few links:https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618 The...

  
• 06.03.2024

  [EN] Happy Birthday - The Turing Way Part 1

  Send us a Text Message. The Turing Way was created 5 years ago and during the Collaborations Workshop 2024 at the University of Warwick, UK, we had a big birthday party to celebrate the occasion. In this episode, part 1 of...

  
• 05.27.2024

  [DE] Wissenschaft von und mit Bürgern - Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

  Send us a Text Message. Bastian Greshake Tzovaras arbeitet am Alan Turing Institute in London zum Thema Citizen Science, also Bürgerwissenschaften. Und dies ist auch das Thema unseres Gesprächs, denn Bastian arbeitet daran schon seit geraumer Zeit. Und er zeigt...

  
• 05.20.2024

  [EN] Changing the Landscape - The Alan Turing Skills Policy Award - Part II

  Send us a Text Message. In part two of this "mini-series" on diverse roles in data science teams, I speak with Dr Emma Karoune from the Alan Turing Institute https://www.turing.ac.uk/  and the deputy director of the Software Sustainability Institute of...

  
• 05.13.2024

  [EN] Collaborations Workshop 2024

  Send us a Text Message. The Collaborations Workshop, run by the Software Sustainability Institute https://www.software.ac.uk/ is a long-running institution. I had the pleasure of going there in May 2024 for the first time. It was an exciting, but also exhausting,...

  
• 05.06.2024

  [EN] Carpentries for All - Greg Wilson

  Send us a Text Message. My guest in this episode is Greg Wilson, who co-founded the Carpentries in 1998 together with Brent Gorda. Since then, the Carpentries have gone global teaching essential computing and data skills and training the next...

  
• 04.29.2024

  [DE] Software und Zitate - Citation File Format - Stephan Druskat

  Send us a Text Message. In dieser Folge geht es um die Frage, wie man Software in wissenschaftlichen Artikeln zitieren kann. Die Antwort: das Citation File Format (CFF) - an dem mein Gast Stephan Druskat maßgeblich mitgewirkt hat. Stephan und...

  
• 04.24.2024

  [EN] ByteSized RSE: Property Based Testing - Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso

  Send us a Text Message. Property based testing can help you make your tests more effective and your code more robust. Together with my guests Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso we talk about what property based testing is and...

  
• 04.22.2024

  [EN] The making of a diveRSE community - Jeremy Cohen, Michael McLeod

  Send us a Text Message. In this episode I talk about two different aspects of diversity in tech and in research software engineering in particular. First we hear from Jeremy Cohen, who has been running the DiveRSE seminar series since...

  
• 04.15.2024

  [EN] Make computing GREENER - Loïc Lannelongue

  Send us a Text Message. How can we make computing environmentally more sustainable. Meet Loïc Lannelongue, who - together with Michael Inouye - created the Green Algorithms project. Amongst other things, it allows us to estimate the carbon footprint of...

  
• 04.08.2024

  [EN] Lecturers without Borders - Eugenia Covernton

  Send us a Text Message. Lecturers without Borders  wants to bring scientists and school students together. It is an exciting project and for this episode I talked to Eugenia Covernton, who's leading the non-profit organisation.  So, if you are a travelling...

  
• 04.01.2024

  [EN] scikit-learn: Software is People

  Send us a Text Message. scikit-learn is a highly successful and popular Python library for data science and machine learning. It is open source and has a large contributor base.  I had the pleasure to meet with some of the scikit-learn...

  
• 03.26.2024

  [EN] Building Data Science Teams - Alan Turing Institute Skills and Policy Award - Part I

  Send us a Text Message. In this episode I meet with Dr Emma Karoune and some of her colleagues from The Alan Turing Institute in London https://www.turing.ac.uk/ to talk about who and what skills we need to create and run...

  
• 03.21.2024

  [EN] ByteSized RSE: the Citation File Format - Jason Maassen

  Send us a Text Message. This ByteSized RSE episode talks about the Citation File Format (CFF) https://citation-file-format.github.io/ , created in 2017 to promote the inclusion of software in scientific papers. My guest is Jason Maassen from the eScience Center in...

  
• 03.19.2024

  [DE] deRSE24 - Die RSE Konferenz in Würzburg

  Send us a Text Message. Die diesjährige Konferenz des deRSE Vereins in Deutschland fand in Würzburg zwischen dem 5.März und 7.März statt. Es gab, wie auch schon letztes Jahr viele interessante Schwerpunktthemen, wie z.B. Continuous Integration oder Teaching RSE.  In dieser Folge...

  
• 03.12.2024

  [EN] Crossing the Language Barrier - Yanina Saibene

  Send us a Text Message. Yanina Saibene is well known in the R community and from her work e.g. in the Software Carpentries. In this episode we talk about what it takes to localise and translate training programs and indeed...

  
• 03.05.2024

  [EN] From Rock Climbing to AI - Janan Arslan

  Send us a Text Message. I had the pleasure of meeting with Janan Arslan in Paris in 2023. Janan has a fascinating career path that involved not only forensics but also various roles in AI in medicine, which is what...

  
• 02.29.2024

  [EN] ByteSized RSE: User Experience Design - Maeg Doherty

  Send us a Text Message. In this session we talk about the importance of user experience and user experience design.  My guest is Meag Doherty, who works for the National Institutes of Health in the USA and is a Fellow of...

  
• 02.27.2024

  [DE] Es tut sich was im RSE-Land - mit Beiträgen vom deRSE, GI und NFDI

  Send us a Text Message. In dieser Folge hören wir Beiträge vom Vorstand des Vereins zur Forschungssoftwareentwicklung deRSE e.V.,  Anna-Lena Lamprecht und der RSE Arbeitsgruppe in der Gesellschaft für Informatik und Bernd Flemisch und Martin Hammitzsch über deren Arbeit im...

  
• 02.20.2024

  [EN] Open Source Projects & Communities - Chris Holdgraf from 2i2c

  Send us a Text Message. In this episode I talk to Chris Holdgraf, executive director of https://2i2c.org about what it takes to manage and run open source organisations.  Open source projects come with unique challenges (and opportunities) and I think Chris brings...

  
• 02.13.2024

  [EN] Make Science Reproducible (Again) - Rima-Maria Rahal, Peter Steinbach

  Send us a Text Message. People are talking about the "Reproducibility Crisis" in science. Good to see, that there are researchers that do something about it.  Meet Rima-Maria Rahal and Peter Steinbach from the German Reprodicibility Network.  I met Rima and...

  
• 02.08.2024

  [EN] Host Your Own Story on Code for Thought - Selina Aragon

  Send us a Text Message. If you want to co-host an episode on Code for Thought get in touch.per email on mailto:[email protected] Slack channels in the UK (@code4thought or @piddie) or the US (@Peter Schmidt)Mastodon https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought It's great fun, as my...

  
• 02.06.2024

  [EN] Learning How to Learn (and Teach) - Barbara Oakley

  Send us a Text Message. With her online course 'Learning How to Learn' (and companion book 'A Mind for Numbers'), Barbara Oakley, distinguished professor in engineering, reached many of us who - like myself - wanted to improve the way...

  
• 01.30.2024

  [DE] Eine RSE Arbeitswelt für Alle - Bernadette Fritzsch und Ruth Schöbel

  Send us a Text Message. Softwareentwicklung, auch im Forschungsbereich ist immer noch eine Männerdomäne. Aber es gibt inzwischen viele Bestrebungen den Zugang zu Stellen und Berufsaussichten für Frauen und andere unterrepräsentierte Gruppen zu öffnen.  In dieser Folge hören wir von zwei...

  
• 01.25.2024

  [EN] ByteSized RSE: Easy Does It - with easybuild - Jörg Saßmannshausen

  Send us a Text Message. It's time for a ByteSized RSE episode - and this time on the subject of 'easybuild' a tool to help you build and install software on high performance computers (HPC).  My guest to help me with...

  
• 01.23.2024

  [EN] Patterns in Science And Medicine - Veronika Cheplygina

  Send us a Text Message. My guest in this episode is Veronika Cheplygina, Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark.  We talk about machine learning and AI in medicine and Veronika brings a badly needed realism to the...

  
• 01.16.2024

  [EN] Net Zero and Computing? Part I: Wim Vanderbauwhede and John Wernvik

  Send us a Text Message. Welcome back to a new season of Code for Thought. The subject of this episode is energy consumption in computing. My guests are Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow, UK) and John Wernvik (Eco Datacentre, Sweden)....

  
• 12.21.2023

  [DE] Wissenschaft ohne Grenzen - Konrad Förstner

  Send us a Text Message. So, das ist jetzt die letzte Folge der 6. Serie von Code for Thought und diesmal geht es um Open Science. Mein Gesprächspartner ist Konrad Förstner von der TH Köln, den einige von Euch vielleicht...

  
• 12.19.2023

  [EN] Open Data without Friction - Sara Petti and Evgeny Karev

  Send us a Text Message. In this last (English) episode of Season 6, I'll be talking to Sara Petti and Evgeny Karev from the Open Knowledge Foundation. Sara and Evgeny work on a project called Frictionless Data, which aims to...

  
• 12.12.2023

  [EN] Being a Research Software Engineer in France - Ghislain Vaillant

  Send us a Text Message. I met Ghislain Vaillant for our interview at the Brain Institute at the Pitié Salpetrière Hospital in Paris. Ghislain has an interesting career path that took him from an RSE role in the UK to...

  
• 12.07.2023

  [EN] ByteSized RSE: Web Development with Django

  Send us a Text Message. In this episode of ByteSized RSE I talk about Django, a Python based web development framework that was developed in the mid 2000s.  My guests are Tom Couch from the University College London and Max Albert...

  
• 12.05.2023

  [EN] Culture of Women in Tech (Diversity in Tech, Part 2) - Mariann Hardey

  Send us a Text Message. In the second part of the diversity in the RSE community series, I am talking to Mariann Hardey. Mariann is an associate professor at Advanced Research Computing of the University of Durham, UK. She also...

  
• 11.28.2023

  [DE] Alter Code - Alter Kaffee? Mit Markus Harrer

  Send us a Text Message. Was alt und gebraucht ist muss nicht immer schlecht sein. So Markus Harrer von der Firma InnoQ. Markus erklärt uns wie man Legacy Software erhalten kann und warum "Boring Software" eigentlich ganz gut ist. Und...

  
• 11.21.2023

  [EN] Jean Zay Supercomputer, Large Language Models - Nathan Cassereau, Hatim Bourfoune

  Send us a Text Message. I met with Nathan Cassereau and Hatim Bourfoune from IDRIS, a national computing centre for the CNRS (the national research centre in France). Nathan and Hatim work on the Bloom project, an open source large...

  
• 11.14.2023

  [EN] ITER - Nuclear Fusion and a Site Visit

  Send us a Text Message. Finally! After a failed attempt in 2022, I managed to visit Simon Pinches and Olivier Hoenen at ITER this time. ITER is the international thermonuclear energy reactor - and its aim is to build a...

  
• 11.09.2023

  [EN] ByteSized RSE: Software Estimation or - How Long Is A Piece of String?

  Send us a Text Message. Welcome back to Season 2 of ByteSized RSE, a program supported by Universe-HPC http://www.universe-hpc.ac.uk . The subject for this session is: Software Estimation and some ideas on how to approach it.  Things mentioned in this episode:The Mythical...

  
• 11.07.2023

  [EN] Conference Report: US RSE Conference 2023 in Chicago

  Send us a Text Message. This episode takes us to Chicago, the host for the first ever conference of Research Software Engineering (RSE) in the US https://us-rse.org/usrse23/  . The conference was organised by the US RSE association https://us-rse.org  and was...

  
• 10.31.2023

  [DE] Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur NFDI - mit York Sure-Vetter

  Send us a Text Message. Die Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur - NFDI - hat die grosse Aufgabe Forschungsprojekte, deren Daten und Anwendungen miteinander zu vernetzen. Der Verein wird geleitet von Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter, mit dem ich über die Aufgaben und Herausforderungen...

  
• 10.23.2023

  [EN] AI at Helmholtz - Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach

  Send us a Text Message. My guests for this episode are Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach from the Helmholtz Association in Germany. Helmholtz is the largest research association in Germany and has created a unit around all things AI and...

  
• 10.16.2023

  [EN] Diversity in Tech Part 1: Women in HPC

  Send us a Text Message. In this first episode on the theme of diversity in tech I talk to  Cristin Merritt and Elsa Gonsiorowski from Women in HPC.  The aim is to raise awareness and give a voice and visibility to...

  
• 10.11.2023

  [DE] Konferenzbericht: Unkonferenz deRSE Jena September 2023

  Send us a Text Message. In dieser Sonderausgabe berichte ich von der Unkonferenz des deutschen RSE Vereins, die zwischen dem 26. und 28. September in Jena stattfand.  Ca 60 Teilnehmer*innen trafen sich, um über Themen zu diskutieren, die sie in ihrem...

  
• 10.09.2023

  [EN] Where is all the code Part 2: eScience Centre (NL) and Helmholtz (DE)

  Send us a Text Message. In this second report on research software archives and directories I am talking to Jason Maassen from the eScience Centre in the Netherlands and Christian Meessen from the Helmholtz Association in Germany.  The eScience Centre developed...

  
• 10.02.2023

  [EN] Hidden no more - The HiddenREF Festival Sep '23

  Send us a Text Message. The HiddenRef https://hidden-ref.org in the UK is an initiative to push for considering a wider range of research outputs than publications, e.g. software and data. The members of the initiative organised an event on 21...

  
• 09.25.2023

  [DE] Reproduzierbarkeit und Physik - mit Julian Lenz

  Send us a Text Message. Julian arbeitet an der Universität Swansea in Wales in Grossbritannien. Zusammen mit Kollegen bemüht er sich darum, Ergebnisse von Simulationen und Berechnungen reproduzierbar zu machen. Erstaunlicherweise, sind wenige der Papers und Ergebnisse auch heute noch...

  
• 09.18.2023

  [EN] Conference Report: UK RSECon 2023 in Swansea

  Send us a Text Message. And it's this time of the year again, when the RSE communities meet for their annual gathering. The UK RSE Society held its annual conference in the Welsh city of Swansea this year. And in...

  
• 09.11.2023

  [EN] Where is all the code, Part 1: Software Heritage

  Send us a Text Message. I had the great pleasure to meet with Morane Gruenpeter and Benoît Chauvet from Software Heritage in Paris in 2023. Software Heritage aims to help preserve and archive software, not only for research but also...

  
• 09.04.2023

  [EN] Hello Fortran!

  Send us a Text Message. Despite the fact that Fortran has been around since the 1950s, it remains a very relevant programming language today and has an active community of keen engineers. In this episode I'll take a sweep from...

  
• 08.21.2023

  [EN] Teaser: First US RSE conference in Oct 2023 - with Sandra Gesing

  Send us a Text Message. Let me interrupt your well-earned summer break for a brief episode and teaser: the first ever US RSE conference will be upon us between 16-18 October in Chicago, USA. I met with Sandra Gesing from the...

  
• 07.26.2023

  [DE] Extra: Software Preisauschreibung bei Helmholtz - mit Dr Uwe Konrad

  Send us a Text Message. Dr Uwe Konrad von der Helmholtz Forschungsgemeinschaft stellt den neuen Preis für Softwareentwicklung vor. Obwohl der Preis im Moment nur für Helmholtzprojekte (oder solche mit hauptsächlicher Beteiligung von Helmholtz) zur Verfügung steht, hofft Dr Konrad...