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Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it. Languages: English, German, French
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English Edition: Meet Thomas White from DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) who is the creator and maintainer of the tool CrystFEL. The tool to help understand and analyse the structure of materials such as crystals and proteins. Thomas and I dive into the details of the science and experimental setup - and, of course, the software tool he created. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_diffraction https://www.cfel.de https://www.desy.de/~twhite/crystfel/ https://...
English Edition (ByteSized): In this first episode of the new ByteSized dRTP season, sponsored by the STEP-UP programme from the EPSRC (UK) you'll meet Richard Acton. Richard created a tool to help you keep track of all the steps you should take to make your software shareable and reproducible. With checklists, built right into your GitLab, GitHub repo. Links https://rsspdc.org/ home page for the checklistshttps://rsspdc.gitlab.io/slides/bytesize-workshop_2026-02-26.html#/outline h...
Deutsche Ausgabe: Links https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/ HCDS Hamburghttps://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/hcds/team/katrin-schoening-stierand.html https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/news/2025/20250502-rse-day.html RSE Tag in Hamburg 2025https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/current/all-events/digital-total.html Digital Total 2023Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE...
English Edition: with my guests Bernd Ulmann and Daniel Thuerck I am looking at the fascinating world of analog computers. Far from being "yesterday's" machines, there is a lot of interest in building analog devices. So what are they, what are they used for, and how do you work with them. Links: https://anabrid.com/ https://the-analog-thing.org https://anabrid.com/redachttps://shop.anabrid.com/collections/lucidac https://www.analogmuseum.org/english/ https://www...
English Edition: making software, digital data and other artefacts count in research evaluations has always been a challenge. But there are plenty of people and initiatives like the https://hidden-ref.org in the UK who want to change research culture. And I talked to three people who are working in this field to find out what the challenges are and what they do to make software and digital technologies count (more): Simon Hettrick (Uni Southampton), Jack Atkinson (Uni Cambridge) and...
English Edition: It's a new season of Code for Thought. But not just any season. As of January this year, the podcast is 5 years old. And with this short trailer I want to give you a glimpse of what's ahead between now and beginning of July. Code for Thought is a community podcast. And if you have any ideas, comments or suggestions, get in touch via email peter@code4thought.org or on Slack (UK and SSI) or LinkedIn or BlueSky. Thanks for all of your support and thanks for listening. ...
Deutsche Ausgabe: Anfang September 2025 wurde der neue Hochleistungsrechner Jupiter in Betrieb genommen, mit viel Fanfaren und Prominenz. Zurecht, denn Jupiter ist der schnellste Rechner in Europa. Aber wie kriegt man so eine Maschine am Laufen? Und wie kann man sie instand halten. Das habe ich mit meinen Gästen Andreas Herten und Benedikt von St Vieth vom Forschungszentrum Jülich diskutiert. Das ist die letzte Folge der 10. Serie von Code for Thought. Und es geht am 3. Februar 202...
English Edition: In this last English episode of this season, I'd like to introduce you to the three Software Sustainability Institute fellows for this year: Deborah Udoh, Jyoti Bhogal and Sangeeta Bathia. All three have ambitious goals for their fellowship ranging from training, building networks to public health. I'd like to thank the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK for supporting this episode and indeed the podcast in general. Note: there will be a short break after...
English Version: our journey this week takes us to Southampton University - the Digital Humanities group, led by James Baker, my guest. And there is a lot more to the digital in Digital Humanities than software. James takes us through a tour through the exciting work that happens there: Links: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-humanitieshttps://www.southampton.ac.uk/~assets/doc//humanities/Digital_2025_DH_Annual%20reportWITHCAPTIONS_RND3.pdf annual report of th...
English Edition: WHAM, BOOM, CLAC, WHOOSH - sound can represent many things, so why not experimental data? James Trayford and Chris Harrison want to show that you can, with their project called Audio Universe. And we're going to hear some of the sound samples during my conversation with them. Links: https://www.audiouniverse.org the project's home pagehttps://github.com/james-trayford/straus The Sonification software STRAUSShttps://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07875 The article on STRA...
édition française: On sait, que les centres de calcul consomment beaucoup d'énergie. Pour déterminer combien, on peut utiliser l'outils logiciels comme Kwollect et Alumet. Simon Delamare (Kwollect) et Guillaume Raffin (Alumet) nous expliquent comment Kwollect et Alumet fonctionnent. https://gitlab.inria.fr/grid5000/kwollecthttps://www.grid5000.fr/w/Monitoring_Using_Kwollecthttps://alumet.devhttps://github.com/alumet-dev/alumethttps://hal.science/hal-04420527https://calcul.math.cnrs.fr/2...
Connecting instruments and managing data transfer between machines is bread and butter stuff for scientists. But you don't want to do the same thing each time you get a new machine or change to another one. Which is why my guest Sébastien Weber from Toulouse, France, created PyMoDAQ, an Open Source Python tool to help you with automating all of that. Links: https://pymodaq.cnrs.fr/en/latest/https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGdoHByMKfIdn-N51goippSSP_9iG4wds YouTube playlisthttps://...
Job interviews and coding tests are daunting. But most of us have to go through them at least once in our lives. Like Mike Mroczka, my guest, who is a software engineer. To share his experiences and help others he wrote a book how to get on top of coding interviews: "Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview". I met with Mike to discuss how interviewing and testing coding skills have changed, what the common pitfalls are that candidates should look out for and what it is we can do to prepare ourse...
For this week's episode I met with (some of) the core developers behind Quarto, an open source tool for scientific publishing: Carlos Scheidegger, Gordon Woodhull and Christophe Dervieux. Listen to our chat and find out more what Quarto is, how it works and what's in store for the future. Links https://quarto.orghttps://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-clihttps://github.com/typst/typsthttps://posit.co Posit, the company behind Quartohttps://posit.co/blog/announcing-quarto-a-new-scienti...
Deutsche Ausgabe: mein Gast diese Woche ist Eric Upschulte vom FZJ (Forschungszentrum Jülich) der mit seiner Software CellDetection den Preis für die Software des Monats April 2025 ausgezeichnet wurde (neben anderen Preisen). Was genau CellDetection macht, und das man es auch für total andere Gebiete verwenden kann, erfahrt Ihr in dieser Folge. Links: https://github.com/FZJ-INM1-BDA/celldetection GitHub Repohttps://docs.celldetection.org/en/latest/ Dokumentationhttps://hel...
This year's RSE (research software engineering) workshop at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, focused on one theme: continuous benchmarking for high performance computing. Organisers Rene Caspart and Robert Speck tell us how it all went, while keynote speakers Michele Mesiti and Jayesh Badwaik give us concrete examples of how they go about continuous benchmarking - and why. Links: https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/events/2025_06_13-rsehpcatisc.htmlhttps...
English Edition: Meet Phil Reed from the University of Manchester and SSI fellow. In my chat with Phil we touch on a number of themes, like how to boost digital skills for people outside the research software domain, like librarians. And look out for Phil's other endeavours (hint: towards the end of the episode). Links: https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/phil-reed Phil's SSI profileThis SSI website also has more details on the fellowship programme.https://esciencelab.org.uk/peopl...
English Edition: My guest Bill Kurth and I will go on a space exploration of a special kind: the Voyager probes. Launched in 1977 just a few weeks apart they have now reached interstellar space. Some of the data they send back to Earth are audio - which can tell us a lot about the outer planets like Jupiter or indeed interstellar space, where both Voyagers are now. Links https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/ https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/voyager/https://doi.org/10....
Edition française: Guillaume Levrier est chercheur associé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France - Francois Mitterand. Il est l'auteur d'une application Open Source appelée Pandorae. Une application pour simplifier, normaliser et explorer les documents ou données numériques. Bonne écoute https://github.com/Guillaume-Levrier/PANDORAE Pandorae sur GitHubhttps://politique.sciencehttps://hal.science/hal-04309075v1/documenthttps://heritrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.htmlhttps:/...
My guest this week, Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin from MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts/US, will tell us about the first Open Source Software in Fusion Energy (OSSFE) conference from earlier 2025 - but also why it is important to use and develop open source software in the field and the difficulties he met during his career. Links: https://ossfe.github.io/OSSFE_2025/ The conference websitehttps://ossfe.github.io/OSSFE_2025/plot some conference statshttps://www.youtube.com/@OSSFE-conf OSSFE YouTu...
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