

Code for Thought
Peter Schmidt
Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it. Languages: English, German, French
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Oct 28, 2025 • 38min
[DE] Hirne, Zellen und KI - mit Eric Upschulte
Deutsche Ausgabe: mein Gast diese Woche ist Eric Upschulte vom FZJ (Forschungszentrum Jülich) der mit seiner Software CellDetection den Preis für die Software des Monats April 2025 ausgezeichnet wurde (neben anderen Preisen). Was genau CellDetection macht, und das man es auch für total andere Gebiete verwenden kann, erfahrt Ihr in dieser Folge.Links:https://github.com/FZJ-INM1-BDA/celldetection GitHub Repohttps://docs.celldetection.org/en/latest/ Dokumentationhttps://helmholtz.software/software/celldetection https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/rse/community-initiatives/jurse-code-of-the-month/april-2025 Die Preisauschreibung für den Monat Aprilhttps://neurips22-cellseg.grand-challenge.org CellDetection auf der NeurIPS. 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/

Oct 20, 2025 • 49min
[EN] Let Benchmarking Commence... the HPC RSE workshop at ISC 2025 in Hamburg
This year's RSE (research software engineering) workshop at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, focused on one theme: continuous benchmarking for high performance computing. Organisers Rene Caspart and Robert Speck tell us how it all went, while keynote speakers Michele Mesiti and Jayesh Badwaik give us concrete examples of how they go about continuous benchmarking - and why. Links:https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/events/2025_06_13-rsehpcatisc.htmlhttps://exacb.pages.jsc.fz-juelich.dehttps://hpsf.iohttps://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21321https://ramble.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.htmlGeneral links:https://www.kit.edu/english/https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jschttps://www.nhr-verein.de/enhttps://isc-hpc.comhttps://supercomputing.orgGet 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/

Oct 13, 2025 • 28min
[EN] Unleashing digital skills in research - with Phil Reed
English Edition: Meet Phil Reed from the University of Manchester and SSI fellow. In my chat with Phil we touch on a number of themes, like how to boost digital skills for people outside the research software domain, like librarians. And look out for Phil's other endeavours (hint: towards the end of the episode).Links:https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/phil-reed Phil's SSI profileThis SSI website also has more details on the fellowship programme.https://esciencelab.org.uk/people/ the eScience Lab, Uni Manchesterhttps://philreeddata.github.io Phil's GitHubhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4479-715Xhttps://elixir-europe.org The Elixir programmehttps://carpentries.orghttps://www.simplypsychology.org/blooms-taxonomy.html Something on Bloom's taxonomyhttps://github.com/direct-framework/digital-research-competencies-frameworkhttps://disc.ac.ukGet 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/

Oct 6, 2025 • 52min
[EN] Sounds from outer space - the Voyager Programme - with Bill Kurth
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/

Sep 29, 2025 • 56min
[FR] Pandorae: un outil d'exploration - avec Guillaume Levrier à la {BnF
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/

Sep 22, 2025 • 35min
[EN] Fusion Energy and Open Source Software? With Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin
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!

Sep 15, 2025 • 37min
[EN] Meet the 2025 SSI Fellows - with Mike Simpson, Esther Plomp, Niko Sirmpilatze
Better Software - Better Research! This is the mission of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) since 2010. To support this, the SSI has been running a fellowship programme. In this episode you'll hear from 3 different fellows from the 2025 cohort about their motivation and plans for their fellowship. Maybe you want to join, too? You can apply for next year's fellowship - 2026 - until 6 October 2025.Links:https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme the fellowship programme's website. Please, go to this page if you think about applying!https://mdsimpson42.github.io/converse/ Mike's ConveRSE page on mental 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/

Sep 8, 2025 • 41min
[EN] ATLAS: a titan amongst particle physics experiments - with Christian Gutschow
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.

Sep 1, 2025 • 39min
[EN] Bring your own classroom - with The Code Refinery
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/

Aug 25, 2025 • 9min
[EN] Welcome to the autumn and winter season of Code for Thought
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/


