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2022 Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellow Sophia Batchelor speaks to SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about her Fellowship plans.

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Welcome back to another season of Code for Thought. And I'd like to kick it off with an interview with Bastien Guerry. Working for the French government, Bastien promotes the use, creation and distribution of Free Software. And in our conversation we discuss the four freedoms as defined by the Free Software Foundation.

Bastien is also an active member of the Emacs community and a contributor to one of the modes: Org mode - a note taking facility. Having used Emacs for a long time it's good to see that it is alive and well. 

• https://bzg.fr/en/libreplanet2022-notes/ Bastien's blog and intro
• https://www.fsf.org The Free Software Foundation
• https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html GPL licence 
• https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/open_research_french_ecosystem/ Bastien's presentation on open software at FOSDEM early 2022 
• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ - YES, it's EMACS
• https://orgmode.org Emac's Org mode for note taking etc

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The way that the Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise is conducted overlooks many of the people who are vital to the success of research. In this episode we hear from Gemma Derrick, part of the organising committee for the Hidden REF, which recognises all research outputs and every role that makes research possible.

Publications rarely name all of the people who make research possible, yet these were the basis for 97% of the outputs submitted to REF 2014. This is not the fault of the REF itself: the guidelines allow submission into a wide range of categories, from software to musical compositions. But with so much funding reliant on the results, universities are highly risk-averse in what they will submit. Publications are well understood in academia, so they are almost the only output submitted to REF – and this means the work of many people goes unrecognised. The goal of the Hidden REF is to celebrate all research outputs and the people who make them possible.

Visit the Hidden REF website: https://hidden-ref.org/.

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Open Science is a broad term. While in Paris in 2022 I had the pleasure of meeting Teresa Gomez-Diaz from the Université Gustave Eiffel for my very first face to face interview. In it we discuss what the term Open Science entails and how free/open software fit into it. 

For some years, Teresa Gomez-Diaz has been working with others to arrive at a common understanding of the term. Together with her collaborators they provided a definition that rests on three pillars: Open Access (publication), Free/Open Software, Open Data.

As for research software, Teresa stresses the importance of software licensing. And in the course we touch on different strategies how that can be accomplished with GNU GPL licence (strong copyleft) and other Free/Open Source Software licences. 

Here are some references for this episode, with papers by Teresa Gomez-Diaz and co-authors. The Twitter link below is with respect to the "mushroom" of Open Science we discuss  during the episode.

• https://f1000research.com/articles/8-1353/v2 On the evaluation of research software: the CDUR procedure
• https://zenodo.org/record/4577066#.Ys0lfi8w1k4 Towards an Open Science definition as a political and legal framework: on the sharing and dissemination of research outputs
• https://zenodo.org/record/6433533#.Ys0l4C8w1k4 The future of Open Science asks for a common understanding
• https://twitter.com/evamen/status/844158610225664000 
• http://igm.univ-mlv.fr/~teresa/logicielsLIGM/documents/CoursLL/2022avril_RS_UGE_TGD.pdf course material (in French) for the course on research software (including licences,
  Open Science definition etc.) by Teresa Gomez-Diaz

The Unesco recommendation on Open Science can be found on

• https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379949 

A definition of 'copyleft'

• https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html 

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2022 Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellow Jesper Dramsch speaks to SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about their fellowship plans and experience of applying.

Jesper's SSI Application video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxMZxbui4Bg
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Espanso text-expander: https://espanso.org/

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Meet Isla Myers-Smith from the University of Edinburgh, who describes herself as a global change ecologist. Her work focuses on tundra ecosystems. 
To measure changes in plants - shrubs in this case - the team collects data on the ground as well as from drones and satellite data. That involves quite a lot of effort and requires technical skills. Skills that Uni courses in ecology (and other fields) typically don't prepare you for. 
Being largely self-taught, Isla made it her mission to help other early career researchers ramp up skills they will need in their future career.
Today, Isla is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and she and her colleagues manage a drone network called HiLDEN. 

Here are a few links:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/about/fellows/isla-myers-smith A SSI blog post about Isla's work
• https://arcticdrones.org the HiLDEN network site
• https://teamshrub.com/lab-blog/ the lab website

Follow Isla and Team Shrubs on Twitter

• https://twitter.com/IslaHMS Isla's Twitter
• https://twitter.com/TeamShrub Team Shrub's Twitter

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Over the past year or two nuclear fusion made its way into the headlines not least in early 2022, when researchers at the JET (Joint European Torus) experiment reported a breakthrough in terms of generating energy.

Finding new and sustainable energy sources is more important than ever. And what better way than to harness energy like our very own sun does.
Enter Dr Adam Stephen, senior software engineer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s lab in Culham. Adam and his team and collaborators are working hard to overcome the engineering challenges and help make nuclear fusion a safe and sustainable way of producing energy. Amongst the work they do are building and designing real time systems and in my conversation we talk about some of the challenges they face.

Links to follow up on the conversation

• https://ccfe.ukaea.uk UK Atomic Energy Authority Fusion site
• https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/research/mast-upgrade/ UKAEA Mast: plasma exhaust system
• https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ real time Linux
• https://vcis.f4e.europa.eu/marte2-docs/master/html/ MARTe2 documentation
• https://github.com/aneto0/MARTe2 MARTe2 GitHub repo
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin Digital twin technology

Selection of general announcements from 2022

• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/09/nuclear-fusion-heat-record-a-huge-step-in-quest-for-new-energy-source Guardian UK on breakthrough in JET experiment Feb 2022
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/03/15/fact-sheet-developing-a-bold-vision-for-commercial-fusion-energy/ White House (US) summit on nuclear fusion announcement

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Jupyter is a well known tool in the education and research sector (and in the private sector, too). Jupiter can also be used in a collaborative environment, be that for teaching purposes or work within a research/product team. With Jupyter Hubs, you can run Jupyter in a variety of different environments and cloud services. 
Meet Dr Sarah Gibson, who works at the International Interactive Computing Collaboration - or 2i2c for short. She is also involved in the myBinder project as well as being a Fellow at the Software Sustainability Institute. 
At 2i2c, Sarah and her team help design, develop and manage Jupyter Hubs, so that researchers, developers and teachers can focus on their projects. 
Sarah takes us through the challenges of managing open source projects and the benefits of Jupyter Hubs.

• https://2i2c.org/author/sarah-gibson/ 
• https://2i2c.org 
• https://mybinder.org 

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2022 Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellows James Byrne and Tom Russell speak to SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about their fellowship plans.

Find out more about James' work at the  British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Artificial Intelligence Group and see the BAS blog.

Find out more about Tom's work on the Colouring Cities GitHub.

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The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the museum for art and design. It spans nearly 5000 years of human history and has well over 1 million objects. 
The Victoria and Albert museum was also one of the first to be accessible on the internet. Which is, why it gives me great pleasure to talk to Kati Price who leads the digital media and publishing team at the V&A. 
The V&A catalogue is accessed not only by the occasional visitors, hobbyists but also by scientists and researchers. Keeping the digital estate up to date and compelling for users is a challenge and Kati Price takes us through how she and her team approach this in their work. 
Think of "user centred".

If you have a chance to check out the vast offerings of the V&A check out the links below.
The V&A also has APIs and GitHub repos which people can access. 
Having said this, I would encourage you to go and visit the V&A in person if you can. 

• https://www.vam.ac.uk The V&A main site
• https://developers.vam.ac.uk/guide/v2/welcome.html Site for developers
• https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/ V&A Blogs
• https://github.com/vanda V&A GitHub repo
• https://iiif.io International Image Interoperability website. 

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