Code for Thought

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Sep 2026

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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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September 28, 2026Episode 636 min

[DE] RSE Tag(e) in Berlin - Claudia Göbel, Alexander Struck

Deutsche Ausgabe: In der Woche vom 1. Juni fand in Berlin eine Woche zum Thema Forschungssoftware statt - mit Trainingsprogrammen und Meetups. Dazu gehörte auch der erste RSE (Research Software Engineering) Tag in Berlin. Hier hört Ihr von den Organisatoren Claudia Göbel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9785-4154 ) und Alexander Struck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1173-9228 ) wie das so gelaufen ist. Links Webseiten der Events: https://forschungssoftware.info/RSdays/2026/Berlin/ https://forschungssoftware.info/RSweeks/2026/ https://zenodo.org/communities/rsday2026/ Materialsammlung zum Research Software Day 2026 Berlin & Brandenburg https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/researchsoftwaredaybbb Mailingliste zur Organisation zukünftiger Research Software Days in B & BB https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/research-quality/core/index.html Center for Open and Responsible Research der BUA (Berlin University Alliance) https://www.matters-of-activity.de/ Exzellenzcluster Matters of Activity. Image Space Material https://de-rse.org de-RSE e.V. – Gesellschaft für Forschungssoftware Get in touch Thank 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/

September 21, 2026Episode 528 min

[EN] Digital skills in arts and humanities: a roadmap - Andre Piza

English Edition : Andre Piza is one of the authors of the paper: "Towards a National Research Software Engineering Capability in Arts and Humanities Research: A Roadmap". And in this episode Andre tells us what this roadmap contains and how this benefits digital skills in the arts and humanities domain. Links: https://zenodo.org/records/15083396 the original paper https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FU000019%2F1#/tabOverview funding of the project by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UK https://www.diskah.org DISKAH initiative https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/remit-programmes-and-priorities/convergent-screen-technologies-and-performance-in-realtime-costar/costar-national-lab/ CoStar initiative https://www.riches.ukri.org Riches initiative Get in touch Thank 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/

September 14, 2026Episode 436 min

[EN] From Agents to Fellows - with Oscar Seip and Shoaib Sufi

English Edition: The Institut for Research Software (formerly the Software Sustainability Institute) in the UK can look back on a long tradition of promoting 'better software, better research'. A key element of this is the fellowship. Together with my guests Oscar Seip and Shoaib Sufi (both from the University of Manchester) we explore the history of the fellowship and how it evolved over time. NOTE: applications for the next round of fellowship is OPEN until 5 October 2026. Links: https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme this is the entry for the fellowship programme. Look here for finding out how to apply etc https://www.software.ac.uk/ssi-fellows-mentorship the mentorship at the Institute for Research Software https://we-are-ols.org Open Life Science initiative supporting the mentorship programme at the Institute for Research Software Get in touch Thank 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/

September 7, 2026Episode 31 hr 4 min

[EN] Team Portrait: Advanced Research Computing at UCL

English Edition: Just in time for the RSE conference in Sheffield 2026 here a portrait of one of the larger groups of digital research professionals in the UK: the team of the Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) at University College London (UCL). Because of its size, I met with a number of staff from different parts of the departments: Jonathan Cooper, Harry Moss, Mahmoud Abdelrazek, Milan Malfait, Stella Prins, Camilla Harris and Hollie Rowland. Links: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/our-people https://www.pris-managers.ac.uk the PRISM network in the UK Get in touch Thank 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/

August 31, 2026Episode 239 min

[EN] Online ecosystems: beyond the metaphor - with Nathan Matias and Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

English Edition: what do rivers have in common with online communities? This, and other questions, is something I will be talking about with my two guests Nathan Matias (CatLab, Cornell Uni. US) and Bastian Greshake Tzovaras. It all started with a blog post, which you find below in the list of links: https://citizensandtech.org/2025/12/online-communities-as-ecosystems/ the original blog post https://citizensandtech.org/ https://citizensandtech.org/author/j-nathan-matias/ Nathan's bio https://tzovar.as/ Bastian's homepage https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ an online community mentioned in the interview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streeter%E2%80%93Phelps_equation Streeter Phelps equation to quantify river pollution - also known as the “DO (dissolved oxygen) sag equation” Get in touch Thank 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/

August 24, 2026Episode 111 min

[EN] Welcome to Season 12 - Trailer

English Edition: welcome back from your summer holidays. And what a summer this has been! In this short trailer you'll find out what's in store between now and the end of this year. I hope you find something interesting in there. Get in touch Thank 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/

June 29, 2026Episode 2333 min

[DE] Forschungssoftware für die Zukunft - FutuRSI - mit F Mannseicher, F Schlegelmilch

Deutsche Ausgabe: In dieser letzten Folge vor der Sommerpause (und der letzten dieser Halbjahresserie) schaue ich mir, zusammen mit meinen Gästen Florian Mannseicher und Falk Schlegelmilch, das Projekt FutuRSI an. Brauchen wir eine nationale Einrichtung zur Forschungssoftware. Und wie soll die aussehen und funktionieren. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören. Links: https://klaus-tschira-stiftung.de/ Klaus Tschira Stiftung https://www.futursi.de/ Homepage von FutuRSI https://www.futursi.de/partner/ Partner Organisationen Get in touch Thank 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/

June 22, 2026Episode 2235 min

[EN] ByteSized: Security by Design - Secure Data Principles for Digital Research with E Sheppard, M Hardaker

English Edition: making your code and data safe(r) is the theme of this ByteSized online class and podcast episode. Madalyn Hardaker and Ellie Sheppard from King's College London will tell us why it is crucial to do something about it right from the start. Links: Get in touch Thank 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/

June 15, 2026Episode 2136 min

[EN] What happened to agile development? - A review with Dave Thomas

English Edition: I want to come back to agile development practices with my guest Dave Thomas, or Pragmatic Dave as he is also known in the trade. Dave is one of the authors of the manifesto for agile development - and we talk about what has become of the aims and aspirations of agile development since the manifesto's publication in 2001. Links: https://agilemanifesto.org the manifesto of agile software development https://pragdave.me/ Dave's home page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M Agile is dead by Dave Thomas - YouTube Get in touch Thank 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/

June 10, 2026Episode 2039 min

[ES] ¿Qué es la ingeniería de software de investigación?

Versión en espagñol : El software se está comiendo al mundo, y esto incluye al mundo científico. En estos días, hacer ciencia requiere también desarrollar software, ya sea usando Python para analizar datos, o construyendo aplicaciones web en JavaScript para compartir modelos computacionales con expertos. Mientras muchos científicos se encargan ellos mismos de estas tareas, otros las delegan a especialistas en desarrollo de software científico. Estos especialistas tienen el título de "ingenieros de software de investigación". En esta edición del podcast, Sofía Miñano y Carlos Gavidia-Calderón, ambos ingenieros de software de investigación trabajando en el Reino Unido, conversan sobre su profesión. Entre otras cosas, comentan: Cómo se puede hacer carrera en ingeniería de software de investigación. Las diferencias que ven entre construir software dentro y fuera de la comunidad científica. Los retos de la ingeniería de software y de la ciencia en Latinoamérica.. La comunidad de ingenieros de software y científicos hispanohablantes. Links Seminario “Charlas RSE en espanol”: https://charlas-rse-espanol.github.io/ Conferencia RSLA 2026: https://rs-latam.org/ ixpantia: https://www.ixpantia.com/en/ Link a la transcripción en español: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlas-rse-espanol/codeforthought-transcripts/refs/heads/main/20-S11-ES-RSEEspagnol_reviewed_ES.txt Link to the translated transcript in English: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charlas-rse-espanol/codeforthought-transcripts/refs/heads/main/20-S11-ES-RSEEspagnol_reviewed_EN.txt Get in touch Thank 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/