

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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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! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/

Jun 30, 2025 • 54min
[EN] A Service for All Seasons - the MetOffice UK
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.

Jun 23, 2025 • 35min
[DE] Ein Code Klub beim Max Planck Institut - mit Jonas Hagenberg, Vera Karlbauer
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! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/

Jun 16, 2025 • 37min
[EN] Open Research - at FOSDEM 2025
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! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/

Jun 2, 2025 • 40min
[EN] Parsl: a Python library for parallel programming - with Dan Katz and Ben Clifford
Parallel programming is hard. Say Hi to Parsl a Python library and tool that aims to make the task a bit easier. I spoke with two of the key people on the project, Dan Katz and Ben Clifford.https://github.com/parsl/parsl the GitHub repo of Parslhttps://funcx.org FuncX http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu Montage programme mentioned in the discussionhttps://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/Montage it's GitHub projecthttps://www.astropy.org AstroPy a popular lib in Astrophysics https://numfocus.org Numfocus in the US, which supports a number of open source projectsGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/

May 26, 2025 • 35min
[DE] Software entwickeln mit KI? Ein Gespräch mit Carina Haupt und Chris Stenkamp
Meine Gäste Carina Haupt und Christoph Steinkamp vom DLR beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, inwieweit der Einsatz von Large Language Models (wie z.B. ChatGPT) bei Forschungsprojekten und deren Softwareentwicklung helfen? Große Versprechungen - aber kleine Brötchen?Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/

May 19, 2025 • 39min
[EN] Pandoc: a swiss-army knife for documents - with J MacFarlane, A Krewinkel
John MacFarlane and Albert Krewinkel from Pandoc take us through the history and development of this very popular Swiss-army knife for digital documents and document publishing. Pandoc is, of course, open source. And if you want to contribute, don't be shy!https://github.com/jgm/pandoc GitHub repohttps://www.lua.org Lua languagehttps://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html Lua filters and Pandochttps://www.haskell.org Pandoc is written in Haskellhttps://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/paper.html JOSS and Pandochttps://johnmacfarlane.net/tools all the tools from John MacFarlanehttps://github.com/tarleb Albert's GitHubGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org 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/