Code for Thought

Peter Schmidt
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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

  1. 12H AGO

    [EN] Revealing the structure of crystals and proteins with CrystFEL - Thomas White

    English Edition: Meet Thomas White from DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) who is the creator and maintainer of the tool CrystFEL. The tool to help understand and analyse the structure of materials such as crystals and proteins. Thomas and I dive into the details of the science and experimental setup - and, of course, the software tool he created.  Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_diffraction https://www.cfel.de https://www.desy.de/~twhite/crystfel/ https://www.ccp4.ac.uk https://vimeo.com/1017833941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-electron_laser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_femtosecond_crystallography 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/

    40 min

  2. MAR 3

    [EN] ByteSized: how to get your (digital) ducks in a row - with Richard Acton

    English Edition (ByteSized): In this first episode of the new ByteSized dRTP season, sponsored by the STEP-UP programme from the EPSRC (UK) you'll meet Richard Acton. Richard created a tool to help you keep track of all the steps you should take to make your software shareable and reproducible. With checklists, built right into your GitLab, GitHub repo.  Links https://rsspdc.org/ home page for the checklistshttps://rsspdc.gitlab.io/slides/bytesize-workshop_2026-02-26.html#/outline https://gitlab.com/rsspdc/checklists download the checklists MD files from herehttps://www.software.ac.uk/news/software-management-plans Software management plan (SMP) from the Software Sustainability Institutehttps://www.france-grilles.fr/presoft-software-management-plans-model/ another template of a SMP from Teresa Gomez-Diaz (Paris, France) - PRESOFThttps://hal.science/hal-01802565v1 I'd like to thank the STEP-UP project for their support of this podcast. STEP-UP is a collaboration between Imperial College London, King's College London, University College London and the University of Westminster. STEP-UP is funded by the Engineering and Science and Physical Research Council 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/

    32 min

  3. FEB 24

    [DE] Eine Begegnung mit Katrin Schöning-Stierand (HCDS Hamburg)

    Deutsche Ausgabe: Links https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/ HCDS Hamburghttps://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/hcds/team/katrin-schoening-stierand.html https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/news/2025/20250502-rse-day.html RSE Tag in Hamburg 2025https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/current/all-events/digital-total.html Digital Total 2023Get 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/

    29 min

  4. FEB 17

    [EN] Computing, but not as you know it: analog computers (I) - B Ulmann, D Thuerck

    English Edition: with my guests Bernd Ulmann and Daniel Thuerck I am looking at the fascinating world of analog computers. Far from being "yesterday's" machines, there is a lot of interest in building analog devices. So what are they, what are they used for, and how do you work with them.  Links: https://anabrid.com/ https://the-analog-thing.org https://anabrid.com/redachttps://shop.anabrid.com/collections/lucidac https://www.analogmuseum.org/english/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/analog-and-hybrid/9783110787887/  Bernd Ulmann's bookhttps://analog-computing-days.org/  The Analog Computing Days conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11/12 June 2026https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co64127/phillips-economic-computer  The Phillips MONIAC analog computer at the Science Museum in London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2022/trickle-down-economics-phillips-machine-shows-how-macroeconomy-flows https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/charles-babbages-difference-engines-and-science-museum Part of the Difference Engine by C Babbagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule a simple "analog computer"  https://research.ibm.com/projects/analog-ai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer https://research.ibm.com/projects/analog-ai Research into analog computers at IBMGet 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/

    42 min

  5. FEB 10

    [EN] Making Software Count - Simon Hettrick, Jack Atkinson, Will Swansborough-Aston

    English Edition: making software, digital data and other artefacts count in research evaluations has always been a challenge. But there are plenty of people and initiatives like the https://hidden-ref.org in the UK who want to change research culture. And I talked to three people who are working in this field to find out what the challenges are and what they do to make software and digital technologies count (more): Simon Hettrick (Uni Southampton), Jack Atkinson (Uni Cambridge) and Will Swansborough-Aston (Uni Exeter). Links: https://hidden-ref.org/ The Hidden REF https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/what-the-ref  What the REF podcasthttps://2029.ref.ac.uk/  The Research Excellent Framework for 2029https://joss.theoj.org/  The Journal of Open Source Softwarehttps://data.agu.org/notebooks-now/ Notebooks Nowhttps://mystmd.org/guide/quickstart-jupyter-lab-myst  Myst markup language in Jupyter https://orkg.org/ Open Research Knowledge Graph 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/

    50 min

  6. FEB 3

    [EN] Trailer Season 11 - and Happy Birthday Code for Thought

    English Edition: It's a new season of Code for Thought. But not just any season. As of January this year, the podcast is 5 years old. And with this short trailer I want to give you a glimpse of what's ahead between now and beginning of July. Code for Thought is a community podcast. And if you have any ideas, comments or suggestions, get in touch via email peter@code4thought.org or on Slack (UK and SSI) or LinkedIn or BlueSky. Thanks for all of your support and thanks for listening.  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/

    11 min

  7. 12/23/2025

    [DE] Jupiter HPC für die Wissenschaft - mit A Herten und B von St Vieth

    Deutsche Ausgabe: Anfang September 2025 wurde der neue Hochleistungsrechner Jupiter in Betrieb genommen, mit viel Fanfaren und Prominenz. Zurecht, denn Jupiter ist der schnellste Rechner in Europa. Aber wie kriegt man so eine Maschine am Laufen? Und wie kann man sie instand halten. Das habe ich mit meinen Gästen Andreas Herten und Benedikt von St Vieth vom Forschungszentrum Jülich diskutiert.  Das ist die letzte Folge der 10. Serie von Code for Thought. Und es geht am 3. Februar 2026 wieder mit der 11. Serie weiter (einschließlich deutschsprachiger Folgen). Alles Gute für die Feiertage und 2026!  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/

    40 min

  8. 12/16/2025

    [EN] Meet the 2025 SSI Fellows - Sangeeta Bathia, Jyoti Bhogal and Deborah Udoh

    English Edition: In this last English episode of this season, I'd like to introduce you to the three Software Sustainability Institute fellows for this year: Deborah Udoh, Jyoti Bhogal and Sangeeta Bathia. All three have ambitious goals for their fellowship ranging from training, building networks to public health.  I'd like to thank the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK for supporting this episode and indeed the podcast in general.  Note: there will be a short break after the next German language episode. The new season will start on 3 February 2026. RSE Asia https://rse-asia.github.io/RSE_Asia/on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/rse-asia-association/membership form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XSxDaTJzcNyGeDYXyJNVg1TDCo7un18PLFNiK6_jL2g/viewform?edit_requested=trueGitHub https://github.com/rse-asia/RSE_AsiaHave a great holiday and I wish you all a Happy New Year.  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/

    36 min
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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
    201
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Code for Thought
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