Code for Thought
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[EN] The Turing Way Part 2: From Handbook to Community
July 08, 2024 23:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBSend us a Text Message. In the second part episode on the Turing Way, I meet with contributors like Patricia Herterich and Sarah Gibson - who were part of the original team - as well as Malvika Sharan and Anne Steele who joined later. Through these conversations I hope to show how the Turing Way transitioned from being an online guide for reproducibility and open science to a thriving community with members across the globe. https://book.the-turing-way.org/index.html the home page of the ...
[EN] CERN: Keeping the lights on with OpenStack and Kubernetes - Spyridon Trigazis
July 01, 2024 23:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBSend us a Text Message. CERN, the European Nuclear Research Centre, is celebrating its 70th birthday in 2024 and I want to give you a glimpse of the kind of work that happens there. Meet Spyridon Trigazis, who will take us through CERN's infrastructure and how they use OpenStack and Kubernetes to "keep the lights" on. https://home.cern/ CERN homepage https://www.openstack.org OpenStack https://kubernetes.io Kubernetes https://inspirehep.net/authors/1907786 A selection of the work Spyr...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Python Packaging - Liam Pattinson, Laszlo Sranger
June 26, 2024 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBSend us a Text Message. In this last ByteSized RSE episode of this season, we talk about an important subject for Python engineers: Packaging. With my guests Liam Pattinson from York University (UK) and Laszlo Sranger from Hypergolic, we go through the standard Python tools as well as package managers such as Poetry. Links: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/ Python packaging guide https://pypi.org The PyPI Index https://test.pypi.org Test PyPI - publish your package there first ...
[DE] Klima, Modelle und das natESM Projekt - Iris Ehlert, Hendryk Bockelmann
June 24, 2024 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBSend us a Text Message. In dieser letzten Folge vor den Sommerferien treffe ich mich mit Dr Iris Ehlert und Dr Hendryk Bockelmann, um mit ihnen über ihre Arbeit am natESM (nationale Erdmodellierungs Systeme) zu sprechen. Hier ein paar Links https://www.nat-esm.de/ Home page vom natESM https://www.nat-esm.de/services/support-through-sprints Der Sprintprozess beim natESM Projekt https://www.dkrz.de/de das Deutsche Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) https://www.nat-esm.de/who-we-are/governance/wh...
[EN] Research Software Engineering Workshop at ISC 2024 in Hamburg
June 17, 2024 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBSend us a Text Message. The International Conference of Supercomputing, ISC, met in Hamburg (Germany) between 12-16 May 2024. For the first time, a workshop on Research Software Engineering was held there. And I talk to some of the organisers, Stefanie Reuter and Matt Archer and presenters, Eleanor Broadway and Samantha Wittke, how it all went. https://www.rse-hpc.org/program/ The program for the workshop https://www.isc-hpc.com The home page of ISC 2024 Support the Show. Thank you for...
[EN] A National Day for Research Software - the eScience Center
June 10, 2024 23:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBSend us a Text Message. What a fun day that was: the National Research Software Day in Hilversum on 23 April 2024. It was organised by the eScience Center in the Netherlands and in the course of this episode you will hear from one of the organisers, Lieke, a keynote speaker - Jenny Bryan, members of a panel discussions on research infrastructure. But also from 4 artists - because the organisers added an art exhibition to the one day conference. The sound samples you can hear in the episod...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Make Science and Software FAIR (again) - Jamie Quinn
June 05, 2024 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 FAIR https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01710-x The article on FAIR research software https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/open-science/open-scie...
[EN] Happy Birthday - The Turing Way Part 1
June 03, 2024 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBSend us a Text Message. 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...
[DE] Wissenschaft von und mit Bürgern - Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
May 27, 2024 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Links https://tzovar.as/ Bastian's Homepage https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke Bastian's Mastodon Konto https://www.cambridge.org/c...
[EN] Changing the Landscape - The Alan Turing Skills Policy Award - Part II
May 20, 2024 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 Softwar...
[EN] Collaborations Workshop 2024
May 13, 2024 23:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 Newcast...
[EN] Carpentries for All - Greg Wilson
May 06, 2024 23:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 Carpentries https://third-bit.com Greg Wilson's ...
[DE] Software und Zitate - Citation File Format - Stephan Druskat
April 29, 2024 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 Niederlan...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Property Based Testing - Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso
April 24, 2024 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 te...
[EN] The making of a diveRSE community - Jeremy Cohen, Michael McLeod
April 22, 2024 23:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Links https://diverse-rse.github.io the DiveRSE seminar series https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01712 th...
[EN] Make computing GREENER - Loïc Lannelongue
April 15, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBSend us a Text Message. 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...
[EN] Lecturers without Borders - Eugenia Covernton
April 08, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBSend us a Text Message. 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...
[EN] scikit-learn: Software is People
April 01, 2024 23:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. https://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html sc...
[EN] Building Data Science Teams - Alan Turing Institute Skills and Policy Award - Part I
March 26, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. https://www.turing.ac.uk/skills-policy-awards-20232024 The Skills and Policy Award by The Alan Turing Institute https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/programme/bridgeai/ The UKRI Bridge...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: the Citation File Format - Jason Maassen
March 21, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBSend us a Text Message. 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:[email protected] Background: Early scientific Journals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_des_sçavans and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_...
[DE] deRSE24 - Die RSE Konferenz in Würzburg
March 19, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 ...
[EN] Crossing the Language Barrier - Yanina Saibene
March 12, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. https://yabellini.netlify.app/about/ a bit about Yanina from her home page https://carpentries.org/ the Carpentries home page https://rladies.org R Ladies https://latin-r.com Latin R https://ropensci.org rOpenSci https://fossto...
[EN] From Rock Climbing to AI - Janan Arslan
March 05, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. https://www.inria.fr/fr/aramis The Aramis Lab in Paris https://melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/events/3mt/video-archive/2020-grand-final Janan has been a finalist in the 3 minute Thesis challenge https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: User Experience Design - Maeg Doherty
February 29, 2024 00:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBSend us a Text Message. 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). https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/meag-doherty Meag’s Fellow profile at the SSI. Check out the link to her contributions on the same page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmM0kRf8Dbk The YouTube page to the full ...
[DE] Es tut sich was im RSE-Land - mit Beiträgen vom deRSE, GI und NFDI
February 27, 2024 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBSend us a Text Message. 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" Intervi...
[EN] Open Source Projects & Communities - Chris Holdgraf from 2i2c
February 20, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Some links: https://chrisholdgraf.com Chris' home page https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public 'Working in Public' by Nadia Eghbal, mentioned in this episode Support the Show....
[EN] Make Science Reproducible (Again) - Rima-Maria Rahal, Peter Steinbach
February 13, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 https://reproducibilitynetwork.de The German Reproducibility Networ...
[EN] Host Your Own Story on Code for Thought - Selina Aragon
February 08, 2024 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.33 MBSend us a Text Message. If you want to co-host an episode on Code for Thought get in touch. per email on mailto:[email protected] RSE Slack channels in the UK (@code4thought or @piddie) or the US (@Peter Schmidt) Mastodon https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought It's great fun, as my co-host Selina tells us in the short interview. Support the Show. Thank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codefort...
[EN] Learning How to Learn (and Teach) - Barbara Oakley
February 06, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 fo...
[DE] Eine RSE Arbeitswelt für Alle - Bernadette Fritzsch und Ruth Schöbel
January 30, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. https://womeninhpc.org Women in HPC https://womeninhpc.org/membership/chapt...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Easy Does It - with easybuild - Jörg Saßmannshausen
January 25, 2024 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 [email protected] : What is the main reason to use...
[EN] Patterns in Science And Medicine - Veronika Cheplygina
January 23, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. https://veronikach.com Veronika's home page https://...
[EN] Net Zero and Computing? Part I: Wim Vanderbauwhede and John Wernvik
January 16, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Links: https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wim/ Wim's page at Uni Glasgow https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aam9744 There is room at the top - paper https:...
[DE] Wissenschaft ohne Grenzen - Konrad Förstner
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBSend us a Text Message. 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...
[EN] Open Data without Friction - Sara Petti and Evgeny Karev
December 19, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Some links for the Open Knowledge Foundation and others mentioned in this episode: https://okfn.org Open Knowle...
[EN] Being a Research Software Engineer in France - Ghislain Vaillant
December 12, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Some links: https://institutducerveau-icm.org/en/ The Brain Institute https://institutdu...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Web Development with Django
December 07, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Links: https://www.djangoproject.com the entry point for Django with tutorials and references https://www.dj4e.com Django for you tutorial site https://www.feldroy.com/books/two-scoops-of-django-3-x the Book Two Scoops of Django by...
[EN] Culture of Women in Tech (Diversity in Tech, Part 2) - Mariann Hardey
December 05, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 Forschu...
[DE] Alter Code - Alter Kaffee? Mit Markus Harrer
November 28, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Markus Handle auf Mastodon und Twitter is @feststelltaste. Seine Webseite i...
[EN] Jean Zay Supercomputer, Large Language Models - Nathan Cassereau, Hatim Bourfoune
November 21, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBSend us a Text Message. 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, ...
[EN] ITER - Nuclear Fusion and a Site Visit
November 14, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBSend us a Text Message. 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...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Software Estimation or - How Long Is A Piece of String?
November 09, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBSend us a Text Message. 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: The Mythical Man Month, Frederick Brooks, 1975, Software Estimation, Steve McConnell, https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Software_Estimation/U5VCAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 https://rclayton.silvrback.com/software-estimation-is-a-los...
[EN] Conference Report: US RSE Conference 2023 in Chicago
November 07, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBSend us a Text Message. 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: Mary Anne Leung Founder and President of the Sustainable Horizon's Institute https://shinstitute.org Joseph Tuccill...
[DE] Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur NFDI - mit York Sure-Vetter
October 31, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Links https://www.nfdi.de/ Das Hauptportal des NFDI https://www.nfdi.de/cordi-2023 Die erste Konferenz - CoRDI 2023 - ausgetragen im September 2023 Auf Mastodon: @[email protected] https://t...
[EN] AI at Helmholtz - Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach
October 23, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Links https://www.helmholtz.ai Helmholtz AI https://www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/computational-health-center Helmholtz Centre in Munich...
[EN] Diversity in Tech Part 1: Women in HPC
October 16, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. Links: https://womeninhpc.org The main website for Women in HPC https://n8cir.org.uk/news/diversity-checklist/ A proposed checklist for recruitment re di...
[DE] Konferenzbericht: Unkonferenz deRSE Jena September 2023
October 11, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. https://un-derse23.sciencesconf.org Der link zur Veranstaltung https://theconversation.c...
[EN] Where is all the code Part 2: eScience Centre (NL) and Helmholtz (DE)
October 09, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 Helm...
[EN] Hidden no more - The HiddenREF Festival Sep '23
October 02, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBSend us a Text Message. 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. https://hidden-ref.org/festival-of-hidden-ref/ The Hidden...
[DE] Reproduzierbarkeit und Physik - mit Julian Lenz
September 25, 2023 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 Einf...