
Code for Thought
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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Jun 5, 2024 • 27min
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Make Science and Software FAIR (again) - Jamie Quinn
In this session of ByteSized RSE we talk about the FAIR principles and research software. My guest helping me with that is Jamie Quinn, currently RSE at Imperial College London.Here are a few links:https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618 The article on FAIRhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01710-x The article on FAIR research softwarehttps://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/open-science/open-science-monitor/facts-and-figures-open-research-data_en Data produced in research https://coderefinery.github.io/github-without-command-line/doi/ An article on the integration of GitHub and Zenodohttps://citation-file-format.github.io the Citation File Format and GitHub - also see one of our previous ByteSized RSE episodeshttps://direct.mit.edu/dint/article/2/1-2/1/10016/The-FAIR-Principles-First-Generation here is another interesting article on FAIR principleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion The Wikipedia entry on the "Cold Fusion" case from Fleischmann/Pons (1989)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWFzPP8ZbdU The YouTube presentation on noise generatorsGet 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 3, 2024 • 29min
[EN] Happy Birthday - The Turing Way Part 1
The Turing Way was created 5 years ago and during the Collaborations Workshop 2024 at the University of Warwick, UK, we had a big birthday party to celebrate the occasion.In this episode, part 1 of 2 episodes on The Turing Way, I sit down with the founder of The Turing Way, Dr Kirstie Whitaker, who is also the Programme Director for Tools, Practices and Systems at the Turing Institute in the UK. You also hear a moment when a new chapter was merged into The Turing Way during this recording, done by Sophia Batchelor. https://book.the-turing-way.org/ the Home page of The Turing Wayhttps://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way the GitHub repository of The Turing Wayhttps://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/kirstie-whitaker Profile page of Dr Kirstie Whitaker https://book.the-turing-way.org/community-handbook/translation/translation-workflow the part that deals with localising contenthttps://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/pull/3638 the pull request for the chapter that was merged during the recording of this episodehttps://github.com/BrainonSilicon Sophia Batchelor's GitHub pageI would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the Alan Turing Institute for their support and for sponsoring this episode.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 27, 2024 • 36min
[DE] Wissenschaft von und mit Bürgern - Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
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.Linkshttps://tzovar.as/ Bastian's Homepagehttps://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke Bastian's Mastodon Kontohttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/data-and-policy/article/how-to-cocreate-content-moderation-policies-the-case-of-the-autspaces-project/DF59760CB3F89901CB5634981C588B55 Ein Paper zum Thema Content Moderation Policieshttps://www.openhumans.org Die Open Humans Platformhttps://opensnp.org Eine Platform zur Veröffentlichung von genetischen Testdatenhttps://www.turing.ac.uk Das Alan Turing Institut in LondonGet 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 20, 2024 • 34min
[EN] Changing the Landscape - The Alan Turing Skills Policy Award - Part II
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. https://www.turing.ac.uk/skills-policy-awards-20232024 The home page for the Project Dr Emma Karoune is involved with at the Alan Turing Institutehttps://www.software.ac.uk The Software Sustainability Institutehttps://hidden-ref.org The "Hidden REF" initiative home pageBoth 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.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 13, 2024 • 41min
[EN] Collaborations Workshop 2024
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/CopilotBecky Osselton from Newcastle UniversityDave Horsfall from Newcastle UniversityKirstie Pringle from the Software Sustainability InstituteShoaib Sufi from Uni Manchester/Software Sustainability InstituteMany thanks for the organisers and sponsors of this event (Wellcome Trust, Alan Turing Institute)https://www.software.ac.uk/workshop/collaborations-workshop-2024-cw24 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 6, 2024 • 41min
[EN] Carpentries for All - Greg Wilson
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.Links:https://carpentries.org/ The Home page about all things Carpentrieshttps://third-bit.com Greg Wilson's homepageGet 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/

Apr 29, 2024 • 34min
[DE] Software und Zitate - Citation File Format - Stephan Druskat
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.Hier ein paar Linkshttps://citation-file-format.github.io Homepage vom Citation File Formathttps://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files GitHub CFF Support und Hilfe Webseitehttps://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/code-citation-was-made-possible-by-research-software-engineers-in-germany-and-the-netherlands/ eScience Center in den Niederlanden und CFFhttps://codemeta.github.io Code Metahttps://json-schema.org JSON Schema https://project.software-metadata.pub Hermes Projekt (Helmholtz)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/

Apr 24, 2024 • 28min
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Property Based Testing - Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso
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. Here are a few links:https://increment.com/testing/in-praise-of-property-based-testing/ from David MacIver (creator of hypothesis) about the benefits of property based testinghttps://hypothesis.works/articles/what-is-property-based-testing/ explaining what property based testing ishttps://www.inspiredpython.com/course/testing-with-hypothesis/testing-your-python-code-with-hypothesis Testing your code with Hypothesishttps://reiddraper.com/writing-simple-check/ Reid Draper (QuickCheck) on shrinkinghttps://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-1.0 the QuickCheck toolhttps://hypothesis.works/articles/how-many-tests/ How many tests is hypothesis running?https://hypothesis.works/articles/quickcheck-in-every-language/ property based testing in other languages (a bit outdated - it's from 2016)https://hypothesis.works/articles/integrated-shrinking/ David MacIver on how he implemented shrinking in Hypothesishttps://hypothesis.works/articles/compositional-shrinking/ and more on shrinkinghttps://jqwik.net the property based testing library for Java/Kotlinhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming What is functional programminghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgDPvlgUSLE Duncan's YouTube episode on property based testing with jqwik (from his channel 'Refactoring to Kotlin')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/

Apr 22, 2024 • 33min
[EN] The making of a diveRSE community - Jeremy Cohen, Michael McLeod
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. Linkshttps://diverse-rse.github.io the DiveRSE seminar serieshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01712 the paper Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Challenges Within the Research, 2021https://softwaresaved.github.io/international-survey-2018/ RSE International Survey from 2018https://zenodo.org/records/7015772 International RSE Survey 2022https://prideinstem.org Pride in STEMhttps://stemlgbtqyou.gay STEM and LGBTQ+ youGet 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/

Apr 15, 2024 • 32min
[EN] Make computing GREENER - Loïc Lannelongue
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. Links:https://www.green-algorithms.org the home page of Green Algorithms where you also find the link to their estimation toolhttps://github.com/GreenScheduler/cats the green task scheduler - an output from the Collaborations Workshop 2023https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/winners-announced-2024-hdr-uk-annual-prizes/ the HDR UK award page for 2024https://github.com/Llannelongue Loïc's GitHubhttps://www.lannelongue.eu his homepagehttps://www.inouyelab.org Michael Inouye his colleague https://greensoftware.foundation The Green Software FoundationGet 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/