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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 she now does at the Brain Institute in Paris.

• https://www.inria.fr/fr/aramis The Aramis Lab in Paris
• https://melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/events/3mt/video-archive/2020-grand-final Janan has been a finalist in the 3 minute Thesis challenge
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Janan-Arslan Her profile on Research Gate
• https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2454976 Web of Science
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/janan-arslan/ LinkedIn profile
• https://twitter.com/JananArslan Twitter/X

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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 the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI). 

• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/meag-doherty Meag’s Fellow profile at the SSI. Check out the link to her contributions on the same page.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmM0kRf8Dbk The YouTube page to the full clip from Donald Norman, the author of 'The Design of Everyday Things'
• https://designmuseum.org/discover-design/all-stories/what-is-good-design-a-quick-look-at-dieter-rams-ten-principles Dieter Rams, the influential industrial designer and his 10-point thesis on what makes a good design
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language The book by Christopher Alexander on design principles and the importance on finding a common (pattern) language
• https://www.uxdesigninstitute.com/blog/history-of-ux/ A bit of history on User Experience (UX)
  
  

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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 NFDI. 
Denn, es tut sich so einiges im Bezug auf Forschungssoftware im deutschsprachigen Raum. 

• Interview mit dem deRSE e.V. Vorstand 1'46"
• Interview mit Anna-Lena Lamprecht (Gesellschaft für Informatik) 22'12"
• Interview mit Bernd Flemisch und Martin Hammitzsch (NFDI) 39'23"

• https://fg-rse.gi.de Fachgruppe RSE in der Gesellschaft für Informatik
• https://www.nfdi.de/section-infra/ NFDI Common Infrastructure Sektionen - und da findet Ihr auch den Eintrag für RSE
  • https://zenodo.org/records/6483449 Konzeptpapier der Arbeitsgruppe
• https://de-rse.org/de/ der deRSE e.V. 
• https://events.hifis.net/event/994/overview die Konferenz Webseite für deRSE Konferenz in Würzburg 5. - 7. März 2024

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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 important insights from his experience at 2i2c.

Some links:

• https://chrisholdgraf.com Chris' home page
• https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public 'Working in Public' by Nadia Eghbal, mentioned in this episode

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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 Peter in 2023 to talk about why reproducibility is important, what we as researchers can do to make our work more reproducible and what the network is doing in Germany

• https://reproducibilitynetwork.de  The German Reproducibility Network homepage
• https://www.ukrn.org The UK Reproducibility Network
• https://reproducibilitynetwork.nl The network in the Netherlands
• https://www.ukrn.org/global-networks/ and a list of other networks around the globe (from the UK network site)

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If you want to co-host an episode on Code for Thought get in touch.

• per email on mailto:[email protected]
• RSE Slack channels in the UK (@code4thought or @piddie) or the US (@Peter Schmidt)
• Mastodon https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought 

It's great fun, as my co-host Selina tells us in the short interview.

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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 we learn, adopt new technologies or get into complex subject areas. 
Many researchers, PhD students, post-docs teach themselves how to program while trying to get their thesis or work done. But how do you go about it. 

I hope this interview gives some food for thought on how to get better with learning (and teaching).

• https://barbaraoakley.com Barbara Oakley's homepage
• https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn The course Learning How to Learn on Coursera
• https://blog.innerdrive.co.uk/interleaving-your-teaching Interleaving
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique the Pomodoro Technique

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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 Vertreterinnen: Bernadette Fritzsch vom Alfred Wegener Institut in Bremerhaven und Ruth Schöbel vom Forschungszentrum in Jülich.

• https://womeninhpc.org Women in HPC 
• https://womeninhpc.org/membership/chapters-and-affiliates/chapters Chapters der Women in HPC da ist auch der Link zum FZ-J
• https://www.awi.de Alfred Wegener Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung
• https://www.fz-juelich.de/de Forschungszentrum Jülich

Zum Schluss noch ein Hinweis auf die deRSE Konferenz in Würzburg vom 5.März bis zum 7.März: Anmeldeschluss ist der 1. Februar. Wie ihr dem Kurzinterview mit Florian Goth am Ende der Folge entnehmen könnt.

https://derse24.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/

Diese Folge ist vom Forschungszentrum Jülich gefördert. 

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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 presenting easybuild is Jörg Saßmannshausen from Imperial College in London, UK.

NOTE: this is an entry level discussion. 

And there is a QUIZ as well. If you know the answer to the two following questions email them to [email protected] :

1. What is the main reason to use a tool like EasyBuild rather than installing software manually?
2. Why is reproducible software installation important?

And we have some links for you as well:

• https://easybuild.io easybuild homepage
• http://tutorial.easybuild.io tutorials for easybuild
• https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild easybuild GitHub
• https://www.eessi.io European Environment for Scientific Software Installation (EESSI - pronounced "easy")
  • https://www.eessi.io/docs/  the docs for EESSI
• https://github.com/spack Spack GitHub
• https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/courses/200617-spack-easybuild/ a discussion on Spack and Easybuild by the Archer team
• https://github.com/hpc-uk HPC-UK 

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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 discussions. In the latter part of our conversation we also focus on the difficult and sometimes frustrating aspects of academic life. 
I enjoyed my discussion with Veronika and I hope you will, too.

• https://veronikach.com Veronika's home page
• https://dasya.itu.dk The Data-Intensive Systems and Applications institute in Denmark DASYA 
• https://purrlab.github.io Patterns Revisited Lab, part of DASYA 

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