Code for Thought

In this last ByteSized RSE episode of this season, we talk about an important subject for Python engineers: Packaging. With my guests Liam Pattinson from York University (UK) and Laszlo Sranger from Hypergolic, we go through the standard Python tools as well as  package managers such as Poetry.

Links:

• https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/ Python packaging guide
• https://pypi.org The PyPI Index
• https://test.pypi.org Test PyPI - publish your package there first 
• https://peps.python.org The site for Python Enhancement Proposals (PEP)
• https://python-poetry.org Poetry manager
• https://www.anaconda.com The home page for Anaconda 
• https://toml.io/en/ What is a TOML file
• https://the-hitchhikers-guide-to-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html a bit of packaging history
  • https://www.cpan.org

Thanks to the Universe-HPC program for supporting the ByteSized RSE series.

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In dieser letzten Folge vor den Sommerferien treffe ich mich mit Dr Iris Ehlert und Dr Hendryk Bockelmann, um mit ihnen über ihre Arbeit am natESM (nationale Erdmodellierungs Systeme) zu sprechen. 

Hier ein paar Links

• https://www.nat-esm.de/ Home page vom natESM
• https://www.nat-esm.de/services/support-through-sprints Der Sprintprozess beim natESM Projekt
• https://www.dkrz.de/de das Deutsche Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ)
• https://www.nat-esm.de/who-we-are/governance/white_paper_natesm_strategy_v2.pdf Das White Paper für die natESM Strategy
• https://www.nat-esm.de/news/newsection/240517_newsletter_-5.pdf Der Newsletter vom Max 2024
• https://www.fz-juelich.de/de das Forschungszentrum in Jülich das mit dem DKRZ an dem Projekt zusammen arbeitet.

Es geht dann im September mit einer neuen Serie am letzten Dienstag im Monat weiter. Euch ein paar schöne Ferien.

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The International Conference of Supercomputing, ISC, met in Hamburg (Germany) between 12-16 May 2024. For the first time, a workshop on Research Software Engineering was held there. And I talk to some of the organisers, Stefanie Reuter and Matt Archer and presenters, Eleanor Broadway and Samantha Wittke, how it all went. 

• https://www.rse-hpc.org/program/ The program for the workshop
• https://www.isc-hpc.com The home page of ISC 2024

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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 will hear from one of the organisers, Lieke, a keynote speaker - Jenny Bryan, members of a panel discussions on research infrastructure.
But also from 4 artists - because the organisers added an art exhibition to the one day conference. 

The sound samples you can hear in the episode are from one of the artists Christian Schwarz.

• https://www.esciencecenter.nl/national-research-software-day-2024/ The conference home page
• https://www.beeldengeluid.nl The home page of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
• https://jennybryan.org Jenny Bryan's home page - keynote speaker
• https://www.ru.nl/en/people/kievit-r-a Rogier Kievit - keynote speaker
• https://ilar.xyz Christian Schwarz - artist 
  • https://soundcloud.com/ilarxyz Christian on Soundcloud
• https://xingkuangyi.com Kuangyi Xing - artist
• https://www.eusebijucgla.com/collaborations/hyperview-barcelona Eusebio Jucgla - artist
• https://guidovanderkooij.nl Guido van der Kooij - artist

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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 article on FAIR
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01710-x The article on FAIR research software
• https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/open-science/open-science-monitor/facts-and-figures-open-research-data_en Data produced in research 
• https://coderefinery.github.io/github-without-command-line/doi/ An article on the integration of GitHub and Zenodo
• https://citation-file-format.github.io the Citation File Format and GitHub - also see one of our previous ByteSized RSE episodes
• https://direct.mit.edu/dint/article/2/1-2/1/10016/The-FAIR-Principles-First-Generation here is another interesting article on FAIR principles
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion The Wikipedia entry on the "Cold Fusion" case from Fleischmann/Pons (1989)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWFzPP8ZbdU The YouTube presentation on noise generators

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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 2 episodes on The Turing Way, I sit down with the founder of The Turing Way, Dr Kirstie Whitaker, who is also the Programme Director for Tools, Practices and Systems at the Turing Institute in the UK. 

You also hear a moment when a new chapter was merged into The Turing Way during this recording, done by Sophia Batchelor. 

• https://book.the-turing-way.org/ the Home page of The Turing Way
• https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way the GitHub repository of The Turing Way
• https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/kirstie-whitaker Profile page of Dr Kirstie Whitaker 
• https://book.the-turing-way.org/community-handbook/translation/translation-workflow the part that deals with localising content
• https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/pull/3638 the pull request for the chapter that was merged during the recording of this episode
  • https://github.com/BrainonSilicon Sophia Batchelor's GitHub page

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the Alan Turing Institute for their support and for sponsoring this episode.

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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 uns wie Wissenschaft durchaus von einer engeren Zusammenarbeit mit Bürgern profitieren kann.

Links

• https://tzovar.as/ Bastian's Homepage
• https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke Bastian's Mastodon Konto
• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/data-and-policy/article/how-to-cocreate-content-moderation-policies-the-case-of-the-autspaces-project/DF59760CB3F89901CB5634981C588B55 Ein Paper zum Thema Content Moderation Policies
• https://www.openhumans.org Die Open Humans Platform
• https://opensnp.org Eine Platform zur Veröffentlichung von genetischen Testdaten
• https://www.turing.ac.uk Das Alan Turing Institut in London

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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 the UK, Simon Hettrick.
Emma and I explore the skills and policy landscape of modern data science roles. Emma is one of the awardees of the Skills Policy Award at the Alan Turing Institute.
Simon discusses how groups like the Research Software Engineering community and initiatives like the Hidden REF help to bring about real change. 

• https://www.turing.ac.uk/skills-policy-awards-20232024 The home page for the Project Dr Emma Karoune is involved with at the Alan Turing Institute
• https://www.software.ac.uk The Software Sustainability Institute
• https://hidden-ref.org The "Hidden REF" initiative home page

Both Emma and Simon are Committee member of the Hidden REF (The hidden REF – Celebrating all research outputs (hidden-ref.org)), a campaign to recognise all research outputs and every role that makes research possible.

More information about Emma's project can be found on the project website - Professionalising traditional and infrastructure research roles in data science | The Alan Turing Institute. 

Emma would like to thank her project team members Malvika Sharan and Alexandra Araujo Alvarez as well as all those at The Alan Turing Institute and other data science professionals who have contributed to this project through attending workshops and interviews.

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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, couple of days. The 3 themes focused on AI/ML in science, environmental sustainability and citizen science.

Here is a report on the workshop with a bunch of interviews:

• Arfon Smith from GitHub/Copilot
• Becky Osselton from Newcastle University
• Dave Horsfall from Newcastle University
• Kirstie Pringle from the Software Sustainability Institute
• Shoaib Sufi from Uni Manchester/Software Sustainability Institute

Many thanks for the organisers and sponsors of this event (Wellcome Trust, Alan Turing Institute)

https://www.software.ac.uk/workshop/collaborations-workshop-2024-cw24 

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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 generation of teachers. 
Greg stepped down from the Carpentries a while ago, but he still feels passionate about their mission and goals.

Links:

• https://carpentries.org/ The Home page about all things Carpentries
• https://third-bit.com Greg Wilson's homepage

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