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15 Feb 2022So, what's new?00:04:14

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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 this short trailer, Selina and Jacalyn from the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) https://www.software.ac.uk
and I talk about some of the new content that will be heading your way.

In future we will be ca 10min episodes as well as longer ones, the latter ca every 3 weeks:

  • meet the new/existing SSI fellows
  • hear some truly gruesome horror stories (albeit about software)
  • get some news
  • and also get more in depth and longer interviews and coverages


If you have a story you would like to share, or you want to contribute and host an episode, do not hesitate to get in touch with one of us

Selina s.aragon@epcc.ed.ac.uk
Jacalyn J.Laird@epcc.ed.ac.uk
Peter peter.schmidt@ucl.ac.uk



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22 Feb 2022To Agile or Not to Agile00:31:38

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Agile software development practices and methodologies have been around for a while and have indeed become mainstream. In particular Scrum and its many variants. In this episode I talk to Raj Heda, who helps organisations roll out agile methodologies. I was interested to find out, why "Agile" has become so successful, and what it is organisations need to look out for when they roll it out.

I also wrote a brief blog post on Medium on the subject: https://medium.com/@pweschmidt/is-agile-still-agile-a13b20230bc 

There is plenty of material on agile methodologies out there. But here are a few pointers, some of which were also mentioned in the interview

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08 Mar 2022Software Horror Stories: Rebooting gone wrong!00:08:36

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Yo Yehudi, Executive Director at Open Life Science,  joins Selina Aragon, Software Sustainability Institute Communications Lead and host of the series, as the first guest of Software Horror Stories.

Yo talks through one of the scariest moments of her life as an RSE, how she fixed it, and her tips to overcome your very own horror stories.

Based on the Coding Confessions project, Software Horror Stories shares people’s unintended oversights when coding and how this impacted their research. The aim is to help normalise mistakes and emphasise how they’re a necessary evil of the learning journey in developing software for research. Look out for new episodes each month!

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Would you like to share your very own horror story? Get in touch at s.aragon@software.ac.uk

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22 Mar 2022Happy Birthday RSE00:38:29

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The term research software engineering is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. It was coined during a Collaborations workshop on 21 March 2012. I was privileged to meet with 7 of the participants who took part in this workshop and together we talk how it all came about.
My guests are:

  • Neil Chue Hong MPhys FBCS, Director, Software Sustainability Institute and Senior 
  • Prof. Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director, The Software Sustainability Institute
  • Robert Haines, Head of Research IT, Uni Manchester
  • Dirk Gorissen, Product Manager
  • Rob Baxter, Director of Data Services, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
  • Ilian Todorov,  STFC UKRI
  • James Hetherington FBCS, Director, Advanced Research Computing Centre, University College London

But it's not just walking down memory lane. Even though, RSEs are now found in a number of research centres and universities across different countries, there is still lots to do. The challenges ahead range from creating attractive and sustainable career paths, securing funding, improving on diversity and others.

And finally, after 2 years of pandemic, it is great to see the announcement for an in-person RSE conference again. And this year, it will be in Newcastle, UK.



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04 Apr 2022Putting the Digital into Humanities00:32:46

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Meet James Baker, newly appointed director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton in the UK. Digital Humanities covers a wide area of different disciplines and James has his work cut out for him to help and bring it all together. 
By creating "collaborative spaces" we can bring experts together from different disciplines. An opportunity to innovate and create. But facilitating this is hard and in our conversation we touch on some of the challenges.

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12 Apr 2022Meet the SSI Fellows: Connah Kendrick00:10:32

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Meet Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) 2022 Fellow Connah Kendrick as he tells SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about his plans for his fellowship relating to digitising museum artefacts. 

You can contact Connah by email Connah.kendrick@mmu.ac.uk and follow him on Twitter @connahkendrick.

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(Apologies for the audio quality issues at the beginning).

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25 Apr 2022A Museum For All00:35:06

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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. 

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10 May 2022Meet the SSI Fellows: James Byrne and Tom Russell00:13:59

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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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23 May 2022By Jupyter!00:30:25

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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.


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06 Jun 2022Real Time in Nuclear Fusion00:32:22

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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


Selection of general announcements from 2022


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18 Jul 2022Open Science and Research Software00:34:17

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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.

The Unesco recommendation on Open Science can be found on

A definition of 'copyleft'


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27 Jun 2022Drones and Ecology00:33:31

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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:

Follow Isla and Team Shrubs on Twitter


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05 Jul 2022Meet the SSI Fellows: Jesper Dramsch00:18:40

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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
Newsletter: https://dramsch.net/newsletter
Linkedin: https://dramsch.net/linkedin
Twitter: https://dramsch.net/twitter
Espanso text-expander: https://espanso.org/

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02 Aug 2022The Hidden REF00:25:03

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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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05 Sep 2022Make Software Free (Again)00:37:06

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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. 


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13 Sep 2022Meet the SSI Fellows: Sophia Batchelor00:14:30

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

Find out more about the Turing Way and their online Collaboration Cafe.

Follow Sophia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brainonsilicon

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26 Sep 2022In Conversation with Ben Goldacre00:45:32

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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 author of many articles and books, like e.g. "Bad Science". Today is he running the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science in Oxford, UK.

I met with Ben Goldacre earlier this year (2022) to discuss his report on 'Better, Broader, Safer: Using Health Data for Research and Analysis'. This report, published in April 2022 and commissioned by the UK government, is based on more than 300 individual interviews and many more with key stakeholder groups. 
One of the key findings and recommendations is the need for proper software engineering. Needless to say that RSEs play an important part in this. 
In fact, Ben has been a strong supporter and promoter for Research Software Engineering as well as open science and software. 

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17 Oct 2022Live from the RSE Conference 202200:47:52

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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 people that I only met online so far, it was also the first RSE conference for me personally and the first time I recorded with a live audience. 

The subject of the event was: RSE the next 10 years. Now that we passed the 10th anniversary of the birth of research software engineering as we know - what will the next 10 years bring.

With me on the panel were

  • Idil Ozdemir (University College London)
  • Simon Hettrick (Software Sustainability Institute)
  • Jennifer Richards (University of Newcastle)
  • Anika Cawthorn (University College London)
  • Michael James (EPSRC - UKRI)


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26 Oct 2022ByteSized: Software Licences00:18:43

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This first episode of “Code for Thought ByteSized” is based on the first session in the Byte-sized RSE interactive research software training series.

The session, looking at open source software licensing, took place online on Tuesday 18th October.

Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.

Disclaimer: The presenters and content producers for this podcast are not lawyers and do not have any legal background. The material in this podcast is not legal advice and must not be considered as such. There may be errors and we accept no responsibility or liability for actions you take based on this material. The podcast is intended to provide some high-level general background on open source software licensing and to raise awareness of the area. The content is based on our understanding and experience as research software engineers but this may not be correct in all cases. If you have questions or are unsure about any legal aspects relating to licensing of software that you are making available to others, talk to a legal professional.

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31 Oct 2022Software Horror Stories: Fire in the Lab!00:07:42

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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 fire. Hear about what went wrong, how his colleagues and superiors reacted, and tips for our listeners in this second edition of the Software Horror Stories series.

If you have comments or suggestions, please tag @Code_4_Thought on Twitter or email us at info@software.ac.uk.

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02 Nov 2022Event organisation with the Software Sustainability Institute00:24:40

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In this episode we speak to Shoaib Sufi and Rachael Ainsworth from the Software Sustainability Institute’s Community team about their Event Organisation Guide and some upcoming SSI events.

The Event Organisation Guide brings together years of experience of the SSI in organising events. It covers different stages of the event organisation process from idea through feasibility, sign off, running your event project and closing down. The guide can be tailored to your needs, giving hints and tips on varied subjects such as venue, catering, budget, agenda, publicity and more. 

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08 Nov 2022Citizen Science and Software00:36:23

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Bastian Greshake-Tzovaras and I were accepted as Fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute around the same time. Bastian, trained in biology, has done a lot of work on "citizen science" and the Open Humans platform. 
The latter of which we discuss in a bit more detail as well as two projects Bastian has been working on.

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17 Nov 2022ByteSized: Code Reviews with GitHub00:19:36

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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 1976 below). 
Modern code management tools like GitHub, GitLab and others provide features to integrate code reviews with your overall development and deployment workflow.

In this episode we look specifically at GitHub and how you can use the mechanism of 'pull requests' to start a conversation and review with your colleagues.

In my conversation with Thibault Lestang from Imperial, we discuss what to look out for when doing a code review with your colleagues. And the fact that reviews are still useful, even if you are not using Github. 

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Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/ 

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18 Nov 2022Short breathing space00:04:10

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As part of the Software Sustainability Institute's Research Software Camp on supporting mental health, SSI Research Associate and accredited mindfulness teacher Anita Banerji delivers this short breathing space mindfulness exercise.

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18 Nov 2022Exploring our experience meditation00:09:59

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As part of the Software Sustainability Institute's Research Software Camp on supporting mental health, SSI Research Associate and accredited mindfulness teacher Anita Banerji delivers this 10 minute meditation.

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18 Nov 2022Self-compassion meditation00:11:32

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As part of the Software Sustainability Institute's Research Software Camp on supporting mental health, SSI Research Associate and accredited mindfulness teacher Anita Banerji delivers this self-compassion meditation.

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29 Nov 2022Nuclear Fusion at ITER00:30:16

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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 Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. As section leader of the modelling and simulation team, he is responsible for crucial parts of the software. Contributions to the code (e.g. IMAS) are made from a wide range of different sources and we talk about how he manages to bring and keep it all together. 

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13 Dec 2022What the SMURF?00:24:22

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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 Rera, who is a biology researcher at one of the CNRS (the French national center for scientific research) institute right in the centre of Le Marais. 
Michael has been studying ageing in fruit flies (and other organisms) and has been using the SMURF assay in his studies. SMURF, as it turns flies blue as they near their end.
Michael is also very passionate about Open Science, and he is quoting Jon Tennant, who once said: 'Open Science is just Good Science'. 

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Michael can be found on Mastodon at 
@Michael__Rera@drosophila.social 



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15 Dec 2022ByteSized: Testing your Python code00:21:07

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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 a lot of what we cover in this episode applies to any programming and scripting language. 

For Python, the two big frameworks being used are unittest and PyTest. Unittest is built into Python, whereas PyTest is a module you would need to install extra.


Books mentioned

  • Working effectively with legacy code, Michael Feathers, ISBN: 9780131177055, Pearson's, 2004
  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Martin Fowler, ISBN: 9780134757681, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley Professional


Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/ ByteSized RSE link to Imperial College

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10 Jan 2023Jupyter in the Classroom00:33:48

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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 project in France to promote the use of Jupyter in the classroom. 
Nicolas highlights the advantages of using open source tools like Jupyter and how the pandemic accelerated their use.
And that we need education software engineers as well as research software engineers to train people up in computing in the future.

Here a few links, mentioned in the episode:

 

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19 Jan 2023ByteSized RSE: Continuous Integration00:24:18

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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 in today's software development practices and can help you in your engineering tasks. There are a number of tools available for this to get you started, and they are listed below. In addition to that, check out Martin Fowler's block post as well as the code review pyramid links. 
After a brief introduction to the topic, I will be talking to Sarah Gibson from 2i2c. Sarah and I talked about JupyterHub in an episode last year. In this episode she talks about how important Continuous Integration and Deployment are in her daily work

Tools (not an exhaustive list - there is more):

Blogs and other links:

Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/ ByteSized RSE link to Imperial College

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31 Jan 2023Open Access Open Knowledge00:41:31

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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-Claude is one of the authors of the declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative from 2002. He is also an expert on scientific communication and its history. 
Who better to take us through the road that led to the Open Access declaration, what has become of it and where (we hope) it will go. 

Here a few links you might look up:

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14 Feb 2023Conference Report: FOSDEM 202300:20:53

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FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting is back as an in person event at the Université Libre in the Belgium capital, Brussels. 

This is the first time I attended this conference and, indeed, the first time for reporting from a conference for this podcast. 
It's impossible to cover all of the 788 events at FOSDEM, but I wanted to share my impressions with you.

You can view the presentations following the links on the conference website
https://www.fosdem.org/2023/ 

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21 Feb 2023Mentoring Research Software Engineers00:38:14

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In 2021, the Society for Research Software Engineering in the UK launched its first mentoring pilot scheme. 20 mentor/mentee pairs registered for it.
I spoke with the organisers of the scheme, Ania Brown and Sam Mangham to give us an overview of how this project came about. For the second part of this episode, I met with Mark Turner (Newcastle University, UK) and James Graham (King's College, London, UK) who signed up for the pilot project as mentor and mentee, to find out how it all went for them.

Here is the link to the Pilot program.
https://society-rse.org/events/pilot-mentoring-programme/

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02 Mar 2023ByteSized RSE: Lint and Static Code Analysis00:15:27

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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 consistent coding style minimises maintenance efforts and future development. In this episode I'll introduce several tools that can make your code analysis easier: 


Other links you may find interesting and have been mentioned in the episode

Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/
ByteSized RSE link to Imperial College

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14 Mar 2023[EN] Conference: German RSE Conference 202300:16:15

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The German RSE association met for its annual conference in the north-western city of Paderborn between 20 - 22 February 2023. Ca 150 participants attended including yours truly. It was the first such conference for the German RSE community since 2019. In this episode I'd like to share some impressions and discussions I had with you.

It is also the launch for a German language version of this podcast show, which is being published as a separate episode. 

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14 Mar 2023[DE] Konferenzbericht: deRSE 202300:37:01

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Hallo und herzlich willkommen zur ersten deutschsprachigen Folge von Code for Thought. Und wir beginnen diese Serie mit einem Bericht über die diesjährige Konferenz des deutschen RSE Vereins in Paderborn zwischen dem 20. und 22. Februar 2023. Circa 150 TeilnehmerInnen haben sich im Heinz Nixdorf Zentrum eingefunden, nach einer fast vierjährigen Pause. 
In dieser Folge möchte ich Euch einen Einblick geben was so an den Konferenztagen passiert ist, inklusive Interviews mit einigen der TeilnehmerInnen und VeranstalterInnen. 

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21 Mar 2023[EN] Mind the Gap!00:40:54

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There are a lot of excellent training programmes for researchers and RSEs, like the Code Refineries and various Carpentries. But with demand of experienced engineers growing rapidly, we have a gap in training enough RSEs. In this episode I meet with Jeremy Cohen, Radovan Bast, Weronika Filinger and Malvika Sharan to discuss training and what we can do to fill the gap. 

There are a lot of training programs, but here are the links for those mentioned in the panel discussion: 

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29 Mar 2023[EN] ByteSized RSE: Integrated Development Environments00:23:37

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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 time they saved when they were introduced. 
After a brief history and talking about some popular IDEs, I'll be talking to Joaquin Dominguez from the US about how he uses IDEs, which ones and why. He also pointed out a relatively new one called zed (Mac only for now). 

Here a links to some editors etc.:


Some older stuff

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https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/
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03 Apr 2023[EN] Funding it All00:33:04

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Getting funding for software engineering in research is an ongoing challenge. The Research Software Alliance together with the eScience Centre in the Netherlands organised a 2 day workshop in Amsterdam 8-9 Nov 2022 to see how we can get on top of it. I invited the director of ReSA, Michelle Barker and Joris van Eijnatten, director of the eScience centre to talk about the workshop and the declaration that came out of it. 

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17 Apr 2023[DE] Musik Ist Trumpf00:33:45

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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 zu bringen. Das Gedicht 'The Sphinx' untermalt von Charles Ives' 'The Unanswered Question'. 
Dabei war die Aufgabe, Reaktionen des Publikums mittels Biosensoren und künstlicher Intelligenz aufzunehmen und damit die live gespielte Partitur zu verändern. 
Lynn von Kurnatowksi von der DLR erzählt uns in dieser 2. deutschsprachigen Folge wie das ganze Experiment zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft und Software Engineering verlaufen ist.

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25 Apr 2023[EN] Who Are We?00:38:19

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Meet Graham Lee, who has decided to investigate research software engineering  for his PhD thesis. I met Graham at the RSE conference in Newcastle, UK late 2022 where he presented his work in form of an "inverted" talk (i.e. driven by the audience). 
Since there are not many people who make RSEs a subject of study and a PhD thesis, I caught up with Graham after the conference. In our conversation we discuss his thesis and questions such as: is RSE actually a distinct role/discipline and what the future might hold.

Talking of conferences:

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10 May 2023[EN] ByteSized RSE: More on GIT - with Raniere Silva00:25:09

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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's with its name.
My interview partner is Raniere Silva who works at Gesis, which is part of the Leibniz Institute in Germany.

Git comes with loads of features: in this episode we focus on how to deal with and avoid merge conflicts, branching patterns and features such as stash and cherrypick. 

Here are a few links:

Linus wrote that about the name of GIT in the  README of version 0.99:

"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.

  •  random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command.  The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
  • stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
  • "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
  • "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

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15 May 2023[EN] RSE in Asia00:29:37

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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 they built the RSE Asia network from scratch. In this conversation they take us through the journey of building a RSE community. 

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29 May 2023[DE] Agil in der Wissenschaft00:33:02

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Mit Kristine Schima-Voigt und Kay Liewald von der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek in Göttingen. 
In dieser Folge berichten Kristine und Kay von ihren Erfahrungen über die Einführung von Agilen Software Methoden, insbesondere Scrum, in ihrem Bereich der Softwareentwicklung. Agile Methoden wie Scrum, Kanban und andere finden eine immer weitere Verbreitung. Um so wichtiger ist es von praktizierenden Gruppen wie dem Team aus Göttingen zu hören. Und zum Abschluss geben Kay und Kristine Tipps für die Einführung von Scrum.

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Und dann gibt es noch die "Klassiker", d.h. Bücher, über Scrum von Jeff Sutherland und Ken Schwaber. 


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05 Jun 2023[EN] Qubits and Qugates - with Oliver Brown00:34:40

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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 Computer Centre (EPCC), where he leads a quantum applications group.

There is plenty of material on the subject out there. Here are some links, also mentioned in the episode:

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07 Jun 2023[EN] ByteSized RSE: The README - with Julian Lenz00:16:44

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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 in Swansea, UK who will take us through the importance of READMEs, what should go into them and at what stage should you create one (spoiler alert: a.s.a.p.). 

Here are a few links you might find useful.
Example READMEs and templates

Background 

Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/
ByteSized RSE link to Imperial College

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12 Jun 2023[EN] Conference Report: JupyterCon 2023, Paris00:33:37

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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". 
Jupyter is a very popular open source platform with tools such as Jupyter notebook/lab and driven by a very active community. There were a number of excellent talks from a range of different subjects. I had the pleasure to meet and talk to a number of people, see the interview list below.

Order of Interviews: 

  • Leah Silen and Arliss Collins from Numfocus  02:04
  • Franklin Koch (MyST) from Curvenote 04:59
  • Nicolas Thiery (Paris-Saclay) 09:13
  • Sarah Gibson (2i2c) 13:19
  • Ana Ruvalcaba (Jupyter Executive Council) 18:57
  • Fernando Perez (Jupyter Executive Council) 23:48
  • Raniere de Silva (Gesis) 29:56

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26 Jun 2023[DE] Bringt uns Programmieren bei - mit Fredo Erxleben00:31:03

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Fredo Erxleben vom Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf erzählt uns, wie er und seine KollegInnen WissenschaftlerInnen, DoktorantInnen und Postdocs Programmieren beibringt. Der Bedarf an Training ist riesig. Der Bedarf an Ausbildern auch. 
In dieser Folge schauen wir ein wenig hinter die Kulissen und Fredo erzählt welche Herausforderungen es bei den Trainingsprogrammen gibt.

Hier ein paar links:





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03 Jul 2023[EN] Next Stop - RSE Con 2023 in Swansea00:24:28

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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 what it takes to organise and run a conference. And how we participants can contribute to the success of this UK RSE Conference and future events!

The conference takes place on the campus of Swansea University, UK and runs from 5-7 September. There are satellite events on Monday 4 Sep and Friday 8 Sep.

The main link for the conference is below.
https://rsecon23.society-rse.org 

Note: the committee negotiated accommodation with Swansea Uni. The deadline for getting a room there is end of July 2023. Details can be found here
https://rsecon23.society-rse.org/about-swansea/#accommodation 

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10 Jul 2023[EN] Test Driven Data Analysis - with Nick Radcliffe00:31:59

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Nick Radcliffe, data scientist and entrepreneur, talks to us about the importance of test your data. As software engineers we are familiar with test driven development. Test driven data analysis puts the same emphasis on validating and testing data for your AI app. We also dive into the Python library of the same name tdda. 

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Don't forget the upcoming RSE conferences and the Hidden Ref event

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17 Jul 2023[EN] Open Data, Open Software - with Teresa Gomez-Diaz00:34:09

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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 promoting Open Science and last year she talked on this show about the need for licences in research software.

Teresa and her collaborator, Tomas Recio from the University Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid published two papers about Research Data and how to ensure they adhere to Open Science and in particular FAIR principles. 

We start with a discussion of the so-called Borgman conundrum, or why it is hard to share research data before going into what we can do about it. 

A couple of clarifying notes: Teresa speaks of F mille, which refers to F1000Research. Also, when "users" of research data are being mentioned, it refers to authors and contributors.


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24 Jul 2023[DE] Künstliche Intelligenz bei Helmholtz - Peter Steinbach00:35:08

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Peter Steinbach leitet eine Gruppe von Consultants am Helmholtz Institut in Dresden-Rossendorf. Die Gruppe ist Teil der Helmholtz AI Initiative und beratet WissenschafterInnen bzgl KI, Machine Learning usw. 
Neben Fragen über KI in der Wissenschaft hat mich auch interessiert wie Datenwissenschaft mit Software Entwicklung zusammenhängt. Schliesslich sind mehr und mehr Research Software Engineers mit KI und ML Themen beschäftigt. 

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Konferenzen im Herbst 2023

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26 Jul 2023[DE] Extra: Software Preisauschreibung bei Helmholtz - mit Dr Uwe Konrad00:14:50

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Dr Uwe Konrad von der Helmholtz Forschungsgemeinschaft stellt den neuen Preis für Softwareentwicklung vor. Obwohl der Preis im Moment nur für Helmholtzprojekte (oder solche mit hauptsächlicher Beteiligung von Helmholtz) zur Verfügung steht, hofft Dr Konrad dass der Preis Schule macht. Denn schliesslich wird es endlich Zeit, dass Software (und deren EntwicklerInnen) ernst genommen wird und als gleichwertiger Beitrag von Forschungsprojekten anerkannt wird.

Die Frist für Bewerbungen ist der 30. September.  Die einzelnen Helmholtzinstitute haben interne Fristen auf die im Gespräch nochmal hingewiesen wird.

Der Link für den Preis ist hier

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21 Aug 2023[EN] Teaser: First US RSE conference in Oct 2023 - with Sandra Gesing00:11:00

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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 in Chicago, USA.
I met with Sandra Gesing from the organising committee to talk about how the preparations are going and what you can expect from the conference.

Talking of conferences. There is a lot happening this autumn, including 


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04 Sep 2023[EN] Hello Fortran!00:40:05

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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 keen engineers. In this episode I'll take a sweep from the origins of Fortran, how to deal with legacy (Fortran 77), how the language evolved to modern day use cases of Fortran. In the course of the episode you'll hear from Thomas Clune (NASA, US), Wim Vanderbauwhede (Uni. Glasgow, UK), Milan Curcic (Uni. of Miami, US) and Ondrej Certik (GSI Technologies, US). 



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11 Sep 2023[EN] Where is all the code, Part 1: Software Heritage00:32:01

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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 preserve and archive software, not only for research but also for the private sector. 

Unlike research software directories (from whom we will hear later this season), Software Heritage archives the actual code. Morane and Benoit take us through what's involved in that. 

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18 Sep 2023[EN] Conference Report: UK RSECon 2023 in Swansea00:46:41

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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 the Welsh city of Swansea this year. And in this episode you'll hear from a range of different participants and presenters. Here they are in the following order

Presentations have been streamed and should be accessible soon.


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25 Sep 2023[DE] Reproduzierbarkeit und Physik - mit Julian Lenz00:27:27

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Julian arbeitet an der Universität Swansea in Wales in Grossbritannien. Zusammen mit Kollegen bemüht er sich darum, Ergebnisse von Simulationen und Berechnungen reproduzierbar zu machen. Erstaunlicherweise, sind wenige der Papers und Ergebnisse auch heute noch reproduzierbar und Julian und das Team bemühen sich darum das zu ändern. 

In unserem Gespräch geht es auch ein wenig um den Physik Zusammenhang - der sogenannten Quantenchromodynamik (QCD).

Dazu ein paar Einführungslinks


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02 Oct 2023[EN] Hidden no more - The HiddenREF Festival Sep '2300:34:17

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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. software and data. The members of the initiative organised an event on 21 September 2023 to bring together academic institutions, funders and publishers. The aim is to increase the amount of non-publication output for the next research assessment in the UK in 2028. 

In this episode I spoke to a number of participants and presenters. In order of appearance;


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09 Oct 2023[EN] Where is all the code Part 2: eScience Centre (NL) and Helmholtz (DE)00:30:48

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In this second report on research software archives and directories I am talking to Jason Maassen from the eScience Centre in the Netherlands and Christian Meessen from the Helmholtz Association in Germany. 

The eScience Centre developed the Research Software Directory (RSD) to show the impact software has on research. Researchers who code can register their software with the directory from all over the work. 
Helmholtz has adopted the RSD platform to produce a Helmholtz specific version and use that to monitor and track development from within the various research centres within Helmholtz.

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11 Oct 2023[DE] Konferenzbericht: Unkonferenz deRSE Jena September 202300:28:42

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In dieser Sonderausgabe berichte ich von der Unkonferenz des deutschen RSE Vereins, die zwischen dem 26. und 28. September in Jena stattfand. 

Ca 60 Teilnehmer*innen trafen sich, um über Themen zu diskutieren, die sie in ihrem Alltag bewegen. Im Rahmen dieser Veranstaltung traf ich mich mit mehreren Organisatoren und Teilnehmern um über ihre Eindrücke und Beiträge zu sprechen.

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16 Oct 2023[EN] Diversity in Tech Part 1: Women in HPC00:33:25

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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 awareness and give a voice and visibility to women and other underrepresented groups in high performance computing, as Cristin and Elsa explain during our conversation. 

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23 Oct 2023[EN] AI at Helmholtz - Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach00:28:51

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My guests for this episode are Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach from the Helmholtz Association in Germany. Helmholtz is the largest research association in Germany and has created a unit around all things AI and machine learning recently. Marie and Peter talk about their contributions and how AI/ML can help in research and science. 

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31 Oct 2023[DE] Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur NFDI - mit York Sure-Vetter00:31:40

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Die Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur - NFDI - hat die grosse Aufgabe Forschungsprojekte, deren Daten und Anwendungen miteinander zu vernetzen. Der Verein wird geleitet von Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter, mit dem ich über die Aufgaben und Herausforderungen des NFDI spreche.

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07 Nov 2023[EN] Conference Report: US RSE Conference 2023 in Chicago00:40:51

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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/  . The conference was organised by the US RSE association https://us-rse.org  and was sold out. In this report I'll talk to a number of participants, presenters and organisers. 
In order of appearance:

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09 Nov 2023[EN] ByteSized RSE: Software Estimation or - How Long Is A Piece of String?00:16:17

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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: Software Estimation and some ideas on how to approach it. 
Things mentioned in this episode:

Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/
ByteSized RSE link to Imperial College

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14 Nov 2023[EN] ITER - Nuclear Fusion and a Site Visit00:36:07

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Finally! After a failed attempt in 2022, I managed to visit Simon Pinches and Olivier Hoenen at ITER this time. ITER is the international thermonuclear energy reactor - and its aim is to build a nuclear fusion reactor that produces a surplus of energy in a sustainable manner. And can be used as a blueprint for future power stations.

Simon and Olivier gave me the grand tour before we sat down and discussed their work. It was a truly impressive tour - in every way. No less impressive is the work that Simon and Olivier are doing on the software side to help put it all together.

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21 Nov 2023[EN] Jean Zay Supercomputer, Large Language Models - Nathan Cassereau, Hatim Bourfoune00:31:33

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I met with Nathan Cassereau and Hatim Bourfoune from IDRIS, a national computing centre for the CNRS (the national research centre in France). Nathan and Hatim work on the Bloom project, an open source large language model, which was created using the Jean-Zay supercomputer. 
Thanks to Nathan and Hatim I had the chance to take a look at the machine after our interview. 
LLMs and AI/ML in general have created a lot of excitement. Hatim said he got into AI/ML himself, and he highlighted a Coursera course run by Andrew Ng. 

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28 Nov 2023[DE] Alter Code - Alter Kaffee? Mit Markus Harrer00:33:06

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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 kann und warum "Boring Software" eigentlich ganz gut ist. Und wenn man schon erneuern muss, sollte man sich über die Vor- und Nachzüge im Klaren sein.
Markus zieht durch die Lande mit Vorträgen und Seminaren. Unten eine kleine Auswahl von Links. 

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05 Dec 2023[EN] Culture of Women in Tech (Diversity in Tech, Part 2) - Mariann Hardey00:39:19

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In the second part of the diversity in the RSE community series, I am talking to Mariann Hardey. Mariann is an associate professor at Advanced Research Computing of the University of Durham, UK. She also published a book called 'The Culture of Women in Tech' in 2020. In our conversation we don't only talk about the barriers women and other underrepresented groups in tech still face, but also what is and can be done about it.

This episode is sponsored by the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany (Research Centre Jülich) https://www.fz-juelich.de/en 

  • https://www.mariannhardey.com Mariann's home page
  • The Culture of Women in Tech, Mariann Hardey, Emerald Publishing, 2020: ISBN 978-1-78973-426-3 (print), ISBN 978-1-78973-425-6 (Epub)
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01712 Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Challenges within the Research Software Community, paper Neil Chue Hong, Jeremy Cohen and Caroline Jay

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07 Dec 2023[EN] ByteSized RSE: Web Development with Django00:22:45

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In this episode of ByteSized RSE I talk about Django, a Python based web development framework that was developed in the mid 2000s. 
My guests are Tom Couch from the University College London and Max Albert from Southampton University.

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12 Dec 2023[EN] Being a Research Software Engineer in France - Ghislain Vaillant00:30:32

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I met Ghislain Vaillant for our interview at the Brain Institute at the Pitié Salpetrière Hospital in Paris. Ghislain has an interesting career path that took him from an RSE role in the UK to the private sector and back to academia (in France) again. 
Our conversation touches on differences in RSE roles between countries (e.g. UK/France) and how big events shape our careers. 

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19 Dec 2023[EN] Open Data without Friction - Sara Petti and Evgeny Karev00:30:23

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In this last (English) episode of Season 6, I'll be talking to Sara Petti and Evgeny Karev from the Open Knowledge Foundation. Sara and Evgeny work on a project called Frictionless Data, which aims to make working with (open) data easier and more seamless. 

Like many organisations around open source and open data they invite contributions from engineers.

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21 Dec 2023[DE] Wissenschaft ohne Grenzen - Konrad Förstner00:30:55

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So, das ist jetzt die letzte Folge der 6. Serie von Code for Thought und diesmal geht es um Open Science. Mein Gesprächspartner ist Konrad Förstner von der TH Köln, den einige von Euch vielleicht vom Open Science Radio her kennen, das er mit Matthias Fromm schon seit längerer Zeit betreibt. 

Euch Allen ein paar schöne und hoffentlich erholsame Tage. Ich mache eine kleine Pause und es geht dann im Januar 2024 mit der 7. Folge des Podcasts weiter. 

Hier noch ein paar Links zu dieser Folge:

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16 Jan 2024[EN] Net Zero and Computing? Part I: Wim Vanderbauwhede and John Wernvik00:35:11

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Welcome back to a new season of Code for Thought. The subject of this episode is energy consumption in computing. My guests are Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow, UK) and John Wernvik (Eco Datacentre, Sweden). This is a big subject area and there will be more on this later  this season - so watch out.


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23 Jan 2024[EN] Patterns in Science And Medicine - Veronika Cheplygina00:27:41

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My guest in this episode is Veronika Cheplygina, Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. 
We talk about machine learning and AI in medicine and Veronika brings a badly needed realism to the discussions. In the latter part of our conversation we also focus on the difficult and sometimes frustrating aspects of academic life. 
I enjoyed my discussion with Veronika and I hope you will, too.

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25 Jan 2024[EN] ByteSized RSE: Easy Does It - with easybuild - Jörg Saßmannshausen00:34:24

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It's time for a ByteSized RSE episode - and this time on the subject of 'easybuild' a tool to help you build and install software on high performance computers (HPC). 
My guest to help me with presenting easybuild is Jörg Saßmannshausen from Imperial College in London, UK.

NOTE: this is an entry level discussion. 

And there is a QUIZ as well. If you know the answer to the two following questions email them to code4thought@proton.me :

  1. What is the main reason to use a tool like EasyBuild rather than installing software manually?
  2. Why is reproducible software installation important?


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30 Jan 2024[DE] Eine RSE Arbeitswelt für Alle - Bernadette Fritzsch und Ruth Schöbel00:37:24

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Softwareentwicklung, auch im Forschungsbereich ist immer noch eine Männerdomäne. Aber es gibt inzwischen viele Bestrebungen den Zugang zu Stellen und Berufsaussichten für Frauen und andere unterrepräsentierte Gruppen zu öffnen. 
In dieser Folge hören wir von zwei Vertreterinnen: Bernadette Fritzsch vom Alfred Wegener Institut in Bremerhaven und Ruth Schöbel vom Forschungszentrum in Jülich.

Zum Schluss noch ein Hinweis auf die deRSE Konferenz in Würzburg vom 5.März bis zum 7.März: Anmeldeschluss ist der 1. Februar. Wie ihr dem Kurzinterview mit Florian Goth am Ende der Folge entnehmen könnt.

https://derse24.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/

Diese Folge ist vom Forschungszentrum Jülich gefördert. 

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06 Feb 2024[EN] Learning How to Learn (and Teach) - Barbara Oakley00:35:34

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With her online course 'Learning How to Learn' (and companion book 'A Mind for Numbers'), Barbara Oakley, distinguished professor in engineering, reached many of us who - like myself - wanted to improve the way we learn, adopt new technologies or get into complex subject areas. 
Many researchers, PhD students, post-docs teach themselves how to program while trying to get their thesis or work done. But how do you go about it. 

I hope this interview gives some food for thought on how to get better with learning (and teaching).

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08 Feb 2024[EN] Host Your Own Story on Code for Thought - Selina Aragon00:06:16

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If you want to co-host an episode on Code for Thought get in touch.

It's great fun, as my co-host Selina tells us in the short interview.

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13 Feb 2024[EN] Make Science Reproducible (Again) - Rima-Maria Rahal, Peter Steinbach00:35:22

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People are talking about the "Reproducibility Crisis" in science. Good to see, that there are researchers that do something about it.  Meet Rima-Maria Rahal and Peter Steinbach from the German Reprodicibility Network. 
I met Rima and Peter in 2023 to talk about why reproducibility is important, what we as researchers can do to make our work more reproducible and what the network is doing in Germany

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20 Feb 2024[EN] Open Source Projects & Communities - Chris Holdgraf from 2i2c00:43:41

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In this episode I talk to Chris Holdgraf, executive director of https://2i2c.org about what it takes to manage and run open source organisations. 
Open source projects come with unique challenges (and opportunities) and I think Chris brings important insights from his experience at 2i2c.

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27 Feb 2024[DE] Es tut sich was im RSE-Land - mit Beiträgen vom deRSE, GI und NFDI00:54:59

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In dieser Folge hören wir Beiträge vom Vorstand des Vereins zur Forschungssoftwareentwicklung deRSE e.V.,  Anna-Lena Lamprecht und der RSE Arbeitsgruppe in der Gesellschaft für Informatik und Bernd Flemisch und Martin Hammitzsch über deren Arbeit im NFDI. 
Denn, es tut sich so einiges im Bezug auf Forschungssoftware im deutschsprachigen Raum. 

  • Interview mit dem deRSE e.V. Vorstand 1'46"
  • Interview mit Anna-Lena Lamprecht (Gesellschaft für Informatik) 22'12"
  • Interview mit Bernd Flemisch und Martin Hammitzsch (NFDI) 39'23"


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05 Mar 2024[EN] From Rock Climbing to AI - Janan Arslan00:25:15

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I had the pleasure of meeting with Janan Arslan in Paris in 2023. Janan has a fascinating career path that involved not only forensics but also various roles in AI in medicine, which is what she now does at the Brain Institute in Paris.

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29 Feb 2024[EN] ByteSized RSE: User Experience Design - Maeg Doherty00:20:01

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In this session we talk about the importance of user experience and user experience design. 
My guest is Meag Doherty, who works for the National Institutes of Health in the USA and is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI). 

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12 Mar 2024[EN] Crossing the Language Barrier - Yanina Saibene00:33:23

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Yanina Saibene is well known in the R community and from her work e.g. in the Software Carpentries. In this episode we talk about what it takes to localise and translate training programs and indeed software applications and packages. 

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19 Mar 2024[DE] deRSE24 - Die RSE Konferenz in Würzburg00:43:35

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Die diesjährige Konferenz des deRSE Vereins in Deutschland fand in Würzburg zwischen dem 5.März und 7.März statt.
Es gab, wie auch schon letztes Jahr viele interessante Schwerpunktthemen, wie z.B. Continuous Integration oder Teaching RSE. 
In dieser Folge hört Ihr von verschiedenen TeilnehmerInnen der Konferenz:

  • John Arnold RWTH Aachen - 3min06s
  • Jan Küster Universität Bremen - 7min7s
  • Uwe Schmitt und Franziska Oschmann - 15min12s
  • Guido Juckeland - 21min30s
  • Heidi Seibold - 27min38s
  • Florian Goth und Jan Phillip Thiele - 33min10s

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21 Mar 2024[EN] ByteSized RSE: the Citation File Format - Jason Maassen00:21:08

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This ByteSized RSE episode talks about the Citation File Format (CFF) https://citation-file-format.github.io/ , created in 2017 to promote the inclusion of software in scientific papers. My guest is Jason Maassen from the eScience Center in the Netherlands.

For answers to the quiz questions, email: mailto:code4thought@proton.me

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CFF/Software Citations

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26 Mar 2024[EN] Building Data Science Teams - Alan Turing Institute Skills and Policy Award - Part I00:44:19

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In this episode I meet with Dr Emma Karoune and some of her colleagues from The Alan Turing Institute in London https://www.turing.ac.uk/ to talk about who and what skills we need to create and run modern data science teams. Emma is one of the awardees of the Skills and Policy award at the Turing.

People interviewed in this episode

Dr Emma Karoune's work is supported by the Ecosystem Leadership Award under the EPSRC Grant EP/X03870X/1 and The Alan Turing Institute.

Turing data science case study will be published at: https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/professionalising-traditional-and-infrastructure-research-roles-data

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01 Apr 2024[EN] scikit-learn: Software is People00:43:56

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scikit-learn is a highly successful and popular Python library for data science and machine learning. It is open source and has a large contributor base. 

I had the pleasure to meet with some of the scikit-learn team to talk about how they got involved and how it is possible to run an Open Source project of this size and scale. 

If you like to get involved, here are a few links to their home page and GitHub repository.

Go to the community page of scikit-learn to get links to LinkedIn, Twitter and others

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08 Apr 2024[EN] Lecturers without Borders - Eugenia Covernton00:31:08

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Lecturers without Borders  wants to bring scientists and school students together. It is an exciting project and for this episode I talked to Eugenia Covernton, who's leading the non-profit organisation. 
So, if you are a travelling researcher or RSE, or even if you want to do it from the comfort of your home, LeWiBo give you an opportunity to share your work in schools.

https://www.lewibo.org

The web-site lists a number of partnering organisations like https://www.europlanet-society.org/european-planetary-science-congress/ .
You can also register your interest there directly.

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15 Apr 2024[EN] Make computing GREENER - Loïc Lannelongue00:31:58

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How can we make computing environmentally more sustainable. Meet Loïc Lannelongue, who - together with Michael Inouye - created the Green Algorithms project. Amongst other things, it allows us to estimate the carbon footprint of our algorithms and computing jobs. 

The project has been awarded the HDR UK Susannah Boddie Award for Impact of the Year in March 2024. 

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22 Apr 2024[EN] The making of a diveRSE community - Jeremy Cohen, Michael McLeod00:33:22

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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 paper on the subject (link below). Then I talk to Michael McLeod, who is telling us about the role LGBTQ+ people play in tech. 

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24 Apr 2024[EN] ByteSized RSE: Property Based Testing - Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso00:28:11

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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 implementation for Python - the Hypothesis library. 

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29 Apr 2024[DE] Software und Zitate - Citation File Format - Stephan Druskat00:33:57

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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 letzten UK RSE Konferenz in Swansea in einer der Pausen zu einem Schwätzchen getroffen.

Inzwischen wird das CFF von etlichen Organisationen wie z.B. GitHub, Zenodo und Zotero  unterstützt und das eScience Center in den Niederlanden unterstützt das Projekt tatkräftig.

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06 May 2024[EN] Carpentries for All - Greg Wilson00:40:33

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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. 
Greg stepped down from the Carpentries a while ago, but he still feels passionate about their mission and goals.

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13 May 2024[EN] Collaborations Workshop 202400:40:40

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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 was an exciting, but also exhausting, couple of days. The 3 themes focused on AI/ML in science, environmental sustainability and citizen science.

Here is a report on the workshop with a bunch of interviews:

  • Arfon Smith from GitHub/Copilot
  • Becky Osselton from Newcastle University
  • Dave Horsfall from Newcastle University
  • Kirstie Pringle from the Software Sustainability Institute
  • Shoaib Sufi from Uni Manchester/Software Sustainability Institute

Many thanks for the organisers and sponsors of this event (Wellcome Trust, Alan Turing Institute)

https://www.software.ac.uk/workshop/collaborations-workshop-2024-cw24 

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20 May 2024[EN] Changing the Landscape - The Alan Turing Skills Policy Award - Part II00:34:05

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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 Software Sustainability Institute of the UK, Simon Hettrick.
Emma and I explore the skills and policy landscape of modern data science roles. Emma is one of the awardees of the Skills Policy Award at the Alan Turing Institute.
Simon discusses how groups like the Research Software Engineering community and initiatives like the Hidden REF help to bring about real change. 

Both Emma and Simon are Committee member of the Hidden REF (The hidden REF – Celebrating all research outputs (hidden-ref.org)), a campaign to recognise all research outputs and every role that makes research possible.

More information about Emma's project can be found on the project website - Professionalising traditional and infrastructure research roles in data science | The Alan Turing Institute. 

Emma would like to thank her project team members Malvika Sharan and Alexandra Araujo Alvarez as well as all those at The Alan Turing Institute and other data science professionals who have contributed to this project through attending workshops and interviews.



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27 May 2024[DE] Wissenschaft von und mit Bürgern - Bastian Greshake Tzovaras00:35:52

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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 wie Wissenschaft durchaus von einer engeren Zusammenarbeit mit Bürgern profitieren kann.

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