Code for Thought
Welcome to Code for Thought, the community podcast for researchers who code and research software engineers. Languages: English, German, French
Episodes
143 episodes
[EN] Championing Research Software Part 1: Champions at Imperial College London
Meet 6 of the research software champions at Imperial College London (UK) who help to create better research - through better software: Alan Xavier, Lukas Kopecky, Jakub Lala, Benjamin Scharpf, Sara Patti and Sneha Jha. Links
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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38:36
[EN] BONUS: Green Computing at the RSE Conference 2024 in Newcastle
[EN] English Edition: "Green computing" had a strong showing at the annual conference for Research Software Engineering in Newcastle, UK, early September 2024. I talk to the presenters, poster creator and organisers of the birds of the f...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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47:57
[DE] Stahlwalzungen, Kristalle und Offene Software - mit Ralf Hielscher und Christoph Renzing
Deutsche Ausgabe: in der ersten DE Ausgabe nach der Sommerpause geht es gleich um 2 Open Source Projekte: MTEX und PyRolL. Mit von der Partie sind die Entwickler und Autoren der Softwarepakete Ralf Hielscher (MTEX) und Christoph Renzing ...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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31:54
[EN] Going Large - CERN VM/VMFS - Laura Promberger, Jakob Blomer
ENGLISH EDITION: There are a lot of "large" things at CERN, including the amount of data produced and the software needed to manage and analyse them. In this episode I talk to Laura Promberger and Jakob Blomer from the CERN virtual machine/file...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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32:59
[FR] L'apprentissage automatique et la reproductibilité - avec Pascal Monasse (LIGM)
L'édition française: Ça y est - le premier épisode de Code for Thought en français. Comment reproduire et évaluer l'apprentissage automatique? Publier les résultats de recherche avec les données et le code source? Avec Pa...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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42:36
[EN] Beyond Open Research - Imperial College London
ENGLISH EDITION: Beyond Open Research is a project at Imperial College London (UK), that tries to change research culture more open and transparent. I met with Dr Hamid Khan, who was leading the project and Prof Julie McCann, Vice-Dean f...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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35:12
[EN] Teaser Season 8 - Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome
ENGLISH EDITION: Welcome back to Season 8 of Code for Thought. Just before we dive into the new season, this trailer will tell you what lies ahead between September and December 2024.
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Season 8
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10:59
[EN] Planning your research software - a workshop in Paris
In May 2024, I attended a workshop/training course on Software Management Plans (SMP), held at the University Gustave Eiffel east of Paris, France.In this episode I talk to the organisers and participants about why SMPs might be useful and ...
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Season 7
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Episode 36
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40:57
[EN] Thriving Ibis or How to thrive in HPC - Dr AJ Lauer
My guest for this episode is Dr AJ Lauer. AJ has been working hard to make the HPC workplace a more open and welcoming environment. She was inclusivity chair at SC21 in St Louis, US and worked with other groups such as Women in HPC. Lately, in ...
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Season 7
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Episode 35
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30:38
[EN] Digital Research Academy - A Grassroots Network for Trainers
The Digital Research Academy - DRA - was created in 2023 to meet the increasing demand for training in open science and research. In this episode I talk to the two founders, Heidi Seibold and Joyce Kao, as well as members like Yeganeh Khazaei (...
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Season 7
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Episode 34
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34:43
[EN] The Turing Way Part 2: From Handbook to Community
In the second part episode on the Turing Way, I meet with contributors like Patricia Herterich and Sarah Gibson - who were part of the original team - as well as Malvika Sharan and Anne Steele who joined later.Through these conversations I ...
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Season 7
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Episode 33
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41:35
[EN] CERN: Keeping the lights on with OpenStack and Kubernetes - Spyridon Trigazis
CERN, the European Nuclear Research Centre, is celebrating its 70th birthday in 2024 and I want to give you a glimpse of the kind of work that happens there. Meet Spyridon Trigazis, who will take us through CERN's infrastructure and how they us...
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Season 7
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Episode 32
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34:51
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Python Packaging - Liam Pattinson, Laszlo Sranger
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...
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Season 7
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Episode 31
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32:26
[DE] Klima, Modelle und das natESM Projekt - Iris Ehlert, Hendryk Bockelmann
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
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Season 7
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Episode 30
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32:00
[EN] Research Software Engineering Workshop at ISC 2024 in Hamburg
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...
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Season 7
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Episode 29
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28:33
[EN] A National Day for Research Software - the eScience Center
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 s...
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Season 7
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Episode 28
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37:26
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Make Science and Software FAIR (again) - Jamie Quinn
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:
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Season 7
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Episode 27
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27:13
[EN] Happy Birthday - The Turing Way Part 1
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 do...
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Season 7
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Episode 26
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28:43
[DE] Wissenschaft von und mit Bürgern - Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
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 wi...
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Season 7
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Episode 25
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35:52
[EN] Changing the Landscape - The Alan Turing Skills Policy Award - Part II
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 Softwar...
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Season 7
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Episode 24
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34:05
[EN] Collaborations Workshop 2024
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 ...
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Season 7
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Episode 23
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40:40
[EN] Carpentries for All - Greg Wilson
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.&n...
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Season 7
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Episode 22
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40:33
[DE] Software und Zitate - Citation File Format - Stephan Druskat
In dieser Folge geht es um die Frage, wie man Software in wissenschaftlichen Artikeln zitieren kann. Die Antwort: das Citation File Format (CFF) - an dem mein Gast Stephan Druskat maßgeblich mitgewirkt hat. Stephan und ich hatten uns auf der le...
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Season 7
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Episode 21
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33:57
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Property Based Testing - Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso
Property based testing can help you make your tests more effective and your code more robust. Together with my guests Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso we talk about what property based testing is and in particular go into one widely used...
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Season 7
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Episode 20
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28:11
[EN] The making of a diveRSE community - Jeremy Cohen, Michael McLeod
In this episode I talk about two different aspects of diversity in tech and in research software engineering in particular. First we hear from Jeremy Cohen, who has been running the DiveRSE seminar series since 2022 and is the co-author on a pa...
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Season 7
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Episode 19
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33:22