[EN] Meet the 2025 SSI Fellows - with Mike Simpson, Esther Plomp, Niko Sirmpilatze

Better Software - Better Research! This is the mission of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) since 2010. To support this, the SSI has been running a fellowship programme. In this episode you'll hear from 3 different fellows from the 2025 cohort about their motivation and plans for their fellowship. Maybe you want to join, too? You can apply for next year's fellowship - 2026 - until 6 October 2025.

Links:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme the fellowship programme's website. Please, go to this page if you think about applying!
• https://mdsimpson42.github.io/converse/ Mike's ConveRSE page on mental health
• https://book.the-turing-way.org The Turing Way Handbook
• https://obsproject.com The tool to create videos
• https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut DeepLabCut app 
• https://github.com/talmolab/sleap The SLEAP app

And here are the fellows

• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/esther-plomp Esther Plomp
• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/mike-simpson Mike Simpson
• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/niko-sirmpilatze Niko Sirmpilatze

Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören!

Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt:

• Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org
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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)
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This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Chapters

• 1:08 Introduction to the SSI fellowship
• 3:04 Mike Simpson
• 13:40 Esther Plomb
• 22:49 Niko Sirmipilatze
• 33:53 Wrap-up