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English Edition: My guest Bill Kurth and I will go on a space exploration of a special kind: the Voyager probes. Launched in 1977 just a few weeks apart they have now reached interstellar space. Some of the data they send back to Earth are audio - which can tell us a lot about the outer planets like Jupiter or indeed interstellar space, where both Voyagers are now. Linkshttps://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/ https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/voyager/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01363-7 a paper on persistent plasma waves in interstellar space https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2025/05/14/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause/ reviving Voyager's thrusters https://space-audio.org some of the sounds we heard during the episode (Uni. of Iowa/US)https://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/album/planets.html Symphonies of the Planets old homepagehttps://www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/ The Deep Space NetworkGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Edition française: Guillaume Levrier est chercheur associé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France - Francois Mitterand. Il est l'auteur d'une application Open Source appelée Pandorae. Une application pour simplifier, normaliser et explorer les documents ou données numériques. Bonne écoutehttps://github.com/Guillaume-Levrier/PANDORAE Pandorae sur GitHubhttps://politique.sciencehttps://hal.science/hal-04309075v1/documenthttps://heritrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.htmlhttps://fluxcd.iohttps://www.electronjs.orghttps://d3js.orghttps://www.istex.frhttps://www.zotero.orghttps://respadon.hypotheses.orghttps://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5223-closed-data-open-software-building-new-ways-into-the-french-web-archives/ https://www.bnf.fr/fr/consulter-les-archives-de-linternetGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin, a research scientist at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, discusses the groundbreaking role of open-source software in fusion energy. He shares his journey from creating the Festim code to establishing the OSSFE conference, highlighting the challenges he faced with institutional resistance. Rémi emphasizes the importance of community collaboration, the need for effective strategies to engage decision-makers, and the promising future of open-source adoption in the fusion field. His insights are both inspiring and informative!

Better Software - Better Research! This is the mission of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) since 2010. To support this, the SSI has been running a fellowship programme. In this episode you'll hear from 3 different fellows from the 2025 cohort about their motivation and plans for their fellowship. Maybe you want to join, too? You can apply for next year's fellowship - 2026 - until 6 October 2025.Links:https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme the fellowship programme's website. Please, go to this page if you think about applying!https://mdsimpson42.github.io/converse/ Mike's ConveRSE page on mental healthhttps://book.the-turing-way.org The Turing Way Handbookhttps://obsproject.com The tool to create videoshttps://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut DeepLabCut app https://github.com/talmolab/sleap The SLEAP appAnd here are the fellowshttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/esther-plomp Esther Plomphttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/mike-simpson Mike Simpsonhttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/niko-sirmpilatze Niko Sirmpilatze Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Christian Gutschow, a particle physicist and research software engineer at UCL, dives into the fascinating world of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. He reveals how this massive collaboration of scientists is unlocking the secrets of matter. The conversation highlights the significant role of software, especially Monte Carlo simulations, in tracking high-energy proton collisions. Christian shares insights on the Higgs boson discovery, challenges in data management, and the future of the ATLAS project, paving the way for exciting advancements in particle physics.

The Code Refinery has been training researchers on how to write better software since 2016. In this episode Samantha Wittke, Richard Darst and Radovan Bast tell us how it all started, how CodeRefinery is run and what's in store for the future.Do look out for their workshops for September and October 2025.Links:https://coderefinery.org/ The CodeRefinery home pagehttps://coderefinery.github.io/2025-09-09-workshop/ list of the forthcoming workshops Sept/Oct Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Welcome to Season 10 of Code for Thought. To warm us up for the forthcoming winter and autumn season, here a list of the episodes and content you can look forward to. The season will start in earnest on 2 September. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Join Dimitri Theodorakis, a Research Software Engineer at the Met Office, and Bill Little, a software engineer focused on data analysis, as they unveil the fascinating world of weather prediction. They discuss how historical methods shaped advancements during the World Wars and the innovative technology they use today, including parallel computing techniques. The conversation highlights the significance of collaboration between scientists and software developers, as well as the vital role of Python and open-source tools in enhancing climate research and analysis.

Deutsche Ausgabe: Vera Karlsbauer und Jonas Hagenberg arbeiten am Max-Planck Institut für Psychiatrie in München. Aber Software und Datenverarbeitung spielt auch dort eine große Rolle. Vera und Jonas erzählen uns etwas über ihre Arbeit und über den Code Klub den sie gegründet haben um anderen Forschenden und Studierenden den Zugang und Umgang mit Software etwas zu erleichtern.Links:https://www.psych.mpg.de/2931418/deutsch_pm_jonas_hagenberg_comic.pdf  Ein Poster zum Thema Depression und Mikrobenhttps://www.psych.mpg.de Das Max Planck Institut für Psychiatrie in Münchenhttps://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_3428878_1 der Code Klub am InstitutGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

FOSDEM is the annual event for all things free and open source software in Europe happening over the 1st weekend in February in Brussels. In this episode I want to talk about one "dev room" (developer room) in particular: the one on Open Research, that has been running since 2020. Over the course of a day, we heard from a variety of speakers on topics ranging from climate change to human choreography in computing. Curious? Have a listenLinks:https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/research/  the link to all the talks at the Open Research devroom at FOSDEM25https://research-fosdem.github.io/2025-online-schedule there was an "unofficial" devroom online on 15 Feb, 2 weeks laterInterested in joining the effort on semantic climate? Here's the speaker's email: Peter.murray.rust@googlemail.com https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/episodes/13216530-en-open-data-open-software-with-teresa-gomez-diaz Previous episode with Teresa Gomez-Diaz (Uni Paris Gustav Eiffel)Announcements:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdV75CnxOjw4Xd7AYad8ChZir1OPnW8ex7yUsOCldqRDzdUaQ/viewform Survey from Maxence in Karlsruhe/Germanyhttps://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-maxence-azzouz-thuderoz Maxence profilehttps://github-pages.arc.ucl.ac.uk/Education/rseworkshop/ UCL workshop 23 - 27 July (in person)Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/