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[DE] Alter Code - Alter Kaffee? Mit Markus Harrer
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Was alt und gebraucht ist muss nicht immer schlecht sein. So Markus Harrer von der Firma InnoQ. Markus erklärt uns wie man Legacy Software erhalten k...
[EN] Jean Zay Supercomputer, Large Language Models - Nathan Cassereau, Hatim Bourfoune
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I met with Nathan Cassereau and Hatim Bourfoune from IDRIS, a national computing centre for the CNRS (the national research centre in France). Nathan ...
[EN] ITER - Nuclear Fusion and a Site Visit
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Finally! After a failed attempt in 2022, I managed to visit Simon Pinches and Olivier Hoenen at ITER this time. ITER is the international thermonuclea...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Software Estimation or - How Long Is A Piece of String?
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Season 2 of ByteSized RSE, a program supported by Universe-HPC http://www.universe-hpc.ac.uk .The subject for this session is: Softwar...
[EN] Conference Report: US RSE Conference 2023 in Chicago
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode takes us to Chicago, the host for the first ever conference of Research Software Engineering (RSE) in the US https://us-rse.org/usrse23/ ...
[DE] Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur NFDI - mit York Sure-Vetter
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Die Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur - NFDI - hat die grosse Aufgabe Forschungsprojekte, deren Daten und Anwendungen miteinander zu vernetzen. D...
[EN] AI at Helmholtz - Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guests for this episode are Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach from the Helmholtz Association in Germany. Helmholtz is the largest research associati...
[EN] Diversity in Tech Part 1: Women in HPC
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode on the theme of diversity in tech I talk to Cristin Merritt and Elsa Gonsiorowski from Women in HPC. The aim is to raise awar...
[DE] Konferenzbericht: Unkonferenz deRSE Jena September 2023
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In dieser Sonderausgabe berichte ich von der Unkonferenz des deutschen RSE Vereins, die zwischen dem 26. und 28. September in Jena stattfand. Ca 60 T...
[EN] Where is all the code Part 2: eScience Centre (NL) and Helmholtz (DE)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this second report on research software archives and directories I am talking to Jason Maassen from the eScience Centre in the Netherlands and Chri...
[EN] Hidden no more - The HiddenREF Festival Sep '23
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The HiddenRef https://hidden-ref.org in the UK is an initiative to push for considering a wider range of research outputs than publications, e.g. soft...
[DE] Reproduzierbarkeit und Physik - mit Julian Lenz
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julian arbeitet an der Universität Swansea in Wales in Grossbritannien. Zusammen mit Kollegen bemüht er sich darum, Ergebnisse von Simulationen und ...
[EN] Conference Report: UK RSECon 2023 in Swansea
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And it's this time of the year again, when the RSE communities meet for their annual gathering. The UK RSE Society held its annual conference in ...
[EN] Where is all the code, Part 1: Software Heritage
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I had the great pleasure to meet with Morane Gruenpeter and Benoît Chauvet from Software Heritage in Paris in 2023. Software Heritage aims to help pr...
[EN] Hello Fortran!
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the fact that Fortran has been around since the 1950s, it remains a very relevant programming language today and has an active community of ke...
[EN] Teaser: First US RSE conference in Oct 2023 - with Sandra Gesing
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let me interrupt your well-earned summer break for a brief episode and teaser: the first ever US RSE conference will be upon us between 16-18 October ...
[DE] Extra: Software Preisauschreibung bei Helmholtz - mit Dr Uwe Konrad
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Uwe Konrad von der Helmholtz Forschungsgemeinschaft stellt den neuen Preis für Softwareentwicklung vor. Obwohl der Preis im Moment nur für Helmho...
[DE] Künstliche Intelligenz bei Helmholtz - Peter Steinbach
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Steinbach leitet eine Gruppe von Consultants am Helmholtz Institut in Dresden-Rossendorf. Die Gruppe ist Teil der Helmholtz AI Initiative und be...
[EN] Open Data, Open Software - with Teresa Gomez-Diaz
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The guest for this episode is Teresa Gomez-Diaz from Université Paris Gustave-Eiffel, east of Paris, France. For a long time Teresa has been promotin...
[EN] Test Driven Data Analysis - with Nick Radcliffe
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Radcliffe, data scientist and entrepreneur, talks to us about the importance of test your data. As software engineers we are familiar with test d...
[EN] Next Stop - RSE Con 2023 in Swansea
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Sam Mangham and Ed Bennett from the Uk RSE Conference organising committee.In this episode I want to take a look behind the scenes and find out w...
[DE] Bringt uns Programmieren bei - mit Fredo Erxleben
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fredo Erxleben vom Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf erzählt uns, wie er und seine KollegInnen WissenschaftlerInnen, DoktorantInnen und Postdocs P...
[EN] Conference Report: JupyterCon 2023, Paris
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
JupyterCon 2023, the conference on all things Jupyter was held in Paris between 10-12 May 2023, followed by 2 days of hands-on "sprints". J...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: The README - with Julian Lenz
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And in this last episode of our first ByteSized RSE season, we talk about the README file. My guest in this episode is Julian Lenz from the University...
[EN] Qubits and Qugates - with Oliver Brown
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about Quantum Computing and trying to look behind the hype around it. Helping me with that is Oliver Brown from the Edinburgh Parallel...
[DE] Agil in der Wissenschaft
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mit Kristine Schima-Voigt und Kay Liewald von der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek in Göttingen. In dieser Folge berichten Kri...
[EN] RSE in Asia
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Research Software Engineering is a global movement. In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Saranjeet Kaur and Jyoti Boghal from India, how ...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: More on GIT - with Raniere Silva
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this ByteSized RSE episode we talk about GIT and some of the great features it comes with. I also wanted to find out where GIT comes from, and what...
[EN] Who Are We?
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Graham Lee, who has decided to investigate research software engineering for his PhD thesis. I met Graham at the RSE conference in Newcastle, U...
[DE] Musik Ist Trumpf
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In dieser Folge ist Musik in der Tat Trumpf. 2021 haben sich das DLR und Martin Hennecke zusammengeschlossen um ein aufregendes Projekt auf die Bühne...
[EN] Funding it All
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Getting funding for software engineering in research is an ongoing challenge. The Research Software Alliance together with the eScience Centre in the ...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Integrated Development Environments
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The 6th instalment of ByteSized is about IDEs. They are mostly taken for granted these days. Hence, it might be easy to forget how much effort and tim...
[EN] Mind the Gap!
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are a lot of excellent training programmes for researchers and RSEs, like the Code Refineries and various Carpentries. But with demand of experi...
[DE] Konferenzbericht: deRSE 2023
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hallo und herzlich willkommen zur ersten deutschsprachigen Folge von Code for Thought. Und wir beginnen diese Serie mit einem Bericht über die diesjä...
[EN] Conference: German RSE Conference 2023
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The German RSE association met for its annual conference in the north-western city of Paderborn between 20 - 22 February 2023. Ca 150 participants att...
ByteSized RSE: Lint and Static Code Analysis
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Linting and static code analysis in general are important tools in software engineering. Making sure the code builds and works is all very well. But a...
Mentoring Research Software Engineers
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, the Society for Research Software Engineering in the UK launched its first mentoring pilot scheme. 20 mentor/mentee pairs registered for it. ...
Conference Report: FOSDEM 2023
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting is back as an in person event at the Université Libre in the Belgium capital, Brus...
Open Access Open Knowledge
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Open Access is one of the pillars of Open Science. In this episode I am talking to Jean-Claude Guedon from the University of Montreal (Canada). Jean-C...
ByteSized RSE: Continuous Integration
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this 4th episode of our ByteSized RSE mini series, we'll talk about Continuous Integration and Deployment. Both of each play an essential part...
Jupyter in the Classroom
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode I met with Nicolas Thiery from Uni Paris-Saclay in summer 2022. Nicolas is an open source activist and has been leading the Candyce p...
ByteSized: Testing your Python code
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This last episode of ByteSized RSE before the end of 2022 is about testing your Python code.Testing is an essential part of software development, and ...
What the SMURF?
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As time moves quickly towards the end of 2022, let's talk about ageing. While in Paris in spring 2022 I had the pleasure to meet with Michael Rer...
Nuclear Fusion at ITER
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the second on the theme of nuclear fusion, I meet with Simon Pinches. Simon works at ITER at the test reactor site in Cadarache, near...
Self-compassion meditation
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the Software Sustainability Institute's Research Software Camp on supporting mental health, SSI Research Associate and accredited mind...
Exploring our experience meditation
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the Software Sustainability Institute's Research Software Camp on supporting mental health, SSI Research Associate and accredited mind...
Short breathing space
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the Software Sustainability Institute's Research Software Camp on supporting mental health, SSI Research Associate and accredited mind...
ByteSized: Code Reviews with GitHub
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ByteSized we look at code reviews and GitHub. Code reviews have a long tradition (see the link to Michael Fagan's paper from ...
Citizen Science and Software
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bastian Greshake-Tzovaras and I were accepted as Fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute around the same time. Bastian, trained in biology, h...
Event organisation with the Software Sustainability Institute
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we speak to Shoaib Sufi and Rachael Ainsworth from the Software Sustainability Institute’s Community team about their Event Organisa...
Software Horror Stories: Fire in the Lab!
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Halloween special, Colin Sauze, a Research Software Engineer at the University of Aberystwyth, tells us about when his code set the lab on fir...
ByteSized: Software Licences
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This first episode of “Code for Thought ByteSized” is based on the first session in the Byte-sized RSE interactive research software training seri...
Live from the RSE Conference 2022
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After 3 years, the RSE Conference returned to an in-person event, this time held at the Frederick Douglas Centre in Newcastle, UK.Apart from meeting p...
In Conversation with Ben Goldacre
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode I am very excited to talk to Ben Goldacre. Ben has an outstanding career in medicine, science and science communication and is the au...
Meet the SSI Fellows: Sophia Batchelor
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
2022 Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellow Sophia Batchelor speaks to SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about her Fellowship plans.Fin...
Make Software Free (Again)
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 gov...
The Hidden REF
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Open Science and Research Software
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Meet the SSI Fellows: Jesper Dramsch
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
2022 Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellow Jesper Dramsch speaks to SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about their fellowship plans and...
Drones and Ecology
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Isla Myers-Smith from the University of Edinburgh, who describes herself as a global change ecologist. Her work focuses on tundra ecosystems. To...
Real Time in Nuclear Fusion
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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) e...
By Jupyter!
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 enviro...
Meet the SSI Fellows: James Byrne and Tom Russell
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
2022 Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellows James Byrne and Tom Russell speak to SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about their fellows...
A Museum For All
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 obj...
Meet the SSI Fellows: Connah Kendrick
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) 2022 Fellow Connah Kendrick as he tells SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about his plans for his ...
Putting the Digital into Humanities
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet James Baker, newly appointed director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton in the UK. Digital Humanities covers a wide area of ...
Happy Birthday RSE
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The term research software engineering is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. It was coined during a Collaborations workshop on 21 March 2012. I w...
Software Horror Stories: Rebooting gone wrong!
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yo Yehudi, Executive Director at Open Life Science, joins Selina Aragon, Software Sustainability Institute Communications Lead and host of the serie...
To Agile or Not to Agile
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Agile software development practices and methodologies have been around for a while and have indeed become mainstream. In particular Scrum and its man...
So, what's new?
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Code for Thought is one year old! (Did I hear anyone say - Hurrah?)Time to think what we can do for you in the coming weeks, months and beyond. In thi...
The Mantis Sees it All
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we take a trip into the exciting world of insects - mantises to be precise. Prof Jenny Read and her colleague Dr Vivek Nityananda from...
Join The Fellowship
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 3 of Code for Thought!In this episode, I met with 7 of the new EPSRC fellows in the UK. EPSRC stands for Engineering and Physical Sc...
Keeping It Together
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mental health in the workplace is often ignored or sidelined. Not to mention that it is difficult to talk about it in the first place.And yet, pressur...
Making Machine Learning Reproducible
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reproducibility efforts are community efforts, as this episode's guest Grigori Fursin makes very clear. But you also need the tools. For some ti...
Learning to Code at the Research Software Camp
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Four researchers, from various career stages and research areas, took their first steps into coding in R and Python throughout September and October 2...
Make It Sing!
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is all about music and the role software and technologies such as AI and machine learning play in creative processes. Meet Emily Howard,...
Is Research Software A Tangled Mess?
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sometime in early 2021 there was a bit of excitement on the Research Software Engineering Slack channel. It was all about a blog post called: "Re...
The Joy of Graphs
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Graph Theory has been around for a long time. Its use in computing has found a number of applications, most prominently social networks. In this episo...
SeptembRSE: How to become a cloud ninja
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here is the final SeptembRSE special episode. And this time I'll be talking to Apeksha, James and Natalia from Amazon Web Services (AWS). We touc...
SeptemberRSE special: Closing the skills gap
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Brad Tipp from Microsoft. Brad thinks that research software engineering has a crucial role to close the ever growing skills gap. The gap between...
SeptembRSE special: Oracle and Research
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This year's annual conference on Research Software Engineering (see link below) is upon us at the moment. And this year, SeptembRSE is running on...
Reproduced in Germany
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Season 2 of Code for Thought!Reproducibility is hard and no one knows this better than Heidi Seibold. In this episode Heidi and I talk...
From Research To Startup
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you thought about turning your PhD and research into a business? You are not alone. It can be a daunting task. But there is help at hand in form ...
Research On The Go
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about mobile apps in research software engineering. Not surprisingly, there is an increasing demand for mobile apps by researchers. In...
Designed to Work: Part 3 - solutions architects
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whereas the last episode focused on architecture at enterprise scale, this episode is looking at architecture for software solutions. I was fortunate...
Designed to Work: Part 2 - architecture at large scale
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture at large scale, such as in enterprises and organisations with complex infrastructure, puts very different demands on the role than being ...
Designed to Work: Part 1 - architecture and research
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first part on software architecture. Meet James Smithies from Kings College in London (UK), Steve Crouch from the Software Sustainability ...
Where goest thou, Julia - Part 2
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we continue our journey into the Julia programming language and dive a little deeper into some aspects of Julia. For that reason I met...
Where goest thou, Julia - Part 1
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009 a group of engineers Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah and Alan Edelman set out to develop a new language that is open source, easy ...
Research Software Engineering in the Nordic Countries
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Nordic RSE network held a 3 day workshop in December 2020 and I was delighted to record a panel discussion on the subject of 'Research Softwa...
Who is Pierre Bourdieu
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Talking about sociology in software development is rare. But that is exactly what happened at a meet-up I went to in Paris in 2019. Fabien Lamarque, s...
Making African Science Visible
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's publish or perish for researchers and scientists. In addition to that many researchers and scientists from African countries struggle to get...
It's All About Reproducibility
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most of today's research depends on software. So, reproducing science and research results is ever more important. For this episode I have been f...
Funding Research Software Engineering
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Richard Gunn and Sarah King from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).Recognising the work rese...
And so it begins...
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Code for Thought. The new podcast about software, engineering, research and anything in between.In this episode I want to give you some bac...