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

  1. 48 min ago

    [EN] ByteSized: AI, agents and coding

    English edition: As part of our ByteSized series, we are going through some of the (many) aspects of AI assisted coding with my guests Robert Chatley (Imperial College London, UK), Reece Walsh (Newcastle Uni., UK) and Faruk Diblen (eScience Centre, Amsterdam, NL).  Links: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/agentic-coding/ A good run-through of agentic coding by MIT/USAhttps://martinfowler.com/bliki/AgenticProgramming.html Martin Fowler on agentic codinghttps://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/agent-pull-requests-are-everywhere-heres-how-to-review-them/ here's GitHub's suggestions on how to deal with AI generated pull requestshttps://github.com/fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills Faruk Diblen's set of SKILLS for research software engineeringhttps://ai-declaration.org and here is Faruk's AI declaration website and toolhttps://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/getting-started/intro Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropichttps://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/report/AI-Assisted_Software_Development_Policy_for_UCL_Advanced_Research_Computing/34070631?file=69660984 an example policy of how to deal with AI assisted coding tools - from UCL (University College London, UK)ByteSized dRTP is part of the STEP-UP project and I would like to thank them for supporting this show. Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

  2. 2 days ago

    [EN] From research to startup: scikit-learn and :probabl.

    English Edition: scikit-learn is THE open source programming library for all things machine-learning. And since 2024, it is the core part of a company called :probabl.  What this means for the millions of users of scikit-learn and the many contributors is something we find out in this episode, where I talk to Marie Sacksick (skore), Arturo Amor (skolar) and Yann Lechelle (president and co-founder of :probabl.).  Links: https://www.probabl.ai Home page for :probabl. https://probabl.ai/skore  Skore https://github.com/probabl-ai/skore GitHub repo for skorehttps://scikit-learn.org/stable/about.html scikit-learn Python libraryhttps://blog.probabl.ai/intel-and-probabl-announce-collaboration-to-accelerate-scikit-learn-on-intel-hardware Collaboration between Intel and :probabl. https://scikit-learn-central.probabl.ai/#/catalog The central cataloguehttps://github.com/probabl-ai/scikit-learn-central GitHub repohttps://skolar.probabl.ai/ skolar, the certification programmehttps://inria.github.io/scikit-learn-mooc/ the INRIA MOOC for scikit-learnhttps://skrub-data.org/stable/ skrub (another project at :probabl.)https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub    Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

  3. 5 Oct

    [EN] PsychoPy, a library for behavioural sciences - Jon Peirce

    English Edition: PsychoPy is an open source library widely used in behavioural sciences. I met with Jonathan Peirce, author and psychology researcher himself, about what the library does and how he, and his team, manage to keep it running while still doing research.  Links https://psychopy.org the homepage for the libraryhttps://github.com/psychopy/psychopy GitHub repohttps://opensciencetools.org the company behind PsychoPy https://pavlovia.org Pavlovia - run your experiments online Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

  4. 28 Sept

    [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 & Brandenburghttps://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 Materialhttps://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.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

  5. 21 Sept

    [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 paperhttps://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FU000019%2F1#/tabOverview funding of the project by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UKhttps://www.diskah.org  DISKAH initiativehttps://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/remit-programmes-and-priorities/convergent-screen-technologies-and-performance-in-realtime-costar/costar-national-lab/  CoStar initiativehttps://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.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

  6. 14 Sept

    [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 etchttps://www.software.ac.uk/ssi-fellows-mentorship the mentorship at the Institute for Research Softwarehttps://we-are-ols.org Open Life Science initiative supporting the mentorship programme at the Institute for Research SoftwareGet in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

  7. 7 Sept

    [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-computinghttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/our-people https://www.pris-managers.ac.uk the PRISM network in the UKGet in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

  8. 31 Aug

    [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 posthttps://citizensandtech.org/https://citizensandtech.org/author/j-nathan-matias/  Nathan's biohttps://tzovar.as/ Bastian's homepagehttps://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ an online community mentioned in the interviewhttps://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.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

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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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  • Creator
    Peter Schmidt
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    227
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