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[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/

[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/

[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/

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[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/

[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/

[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/

[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/

[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/

[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/

[EN] When Bits Rot - with C McKean, L Talboom, A Page-Mitchell

English Edition: floppy disks, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, SSD drives - no matter what you choose to store your data on - ultimately they all decay. With my guests Callum McKean, Leontien Talboom and Adrian Page-Mitchell, we're going to talk about what kinds of data we find on old drives, why we want to get them in the first place, and what can go wrong with the storage media. To all of you who love all things retro - we'll be talking about floppy disks a bit. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A PDF A format https://www.ibm.com/history/floppy-disk history of floppy disks https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=2140 The BBC Domesday project https://domesday.computinghistory.org.uk/ https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ The excellent Centre of Computing History in Cambridge, UK https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4849567/ stability of DVDs and CDs https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec5/ how environmental conditions affect optical drives Conference announcements https://rse.swiss/swiss_rse_day Swiss RSE Day, 31 August 2026 https://www.researchsoft.org/irsc/ International Research Software Conference 7-8 September 2026, Sheffield, UK https://rsecon26.society-rse.org/ UK RSE Conference (the 10th anniversary) in Sheffield, UK 9-11 September 2026 https://nordic-rse.org/nrse2026/ 9 June 2026, Tromsoe, Norway https://events.hifis.net/event/3249/overview deRSE Collaborations workshop in Goettingen, Germany 23-25 September https://us-rse.org/usrse26/ US RSE Conference, 19-21 October 2026, San Jose, CA, USA 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/

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[EN] Does Spec-Driven Development replace agile? With Graham Lee

English Edition: Will spec-driven development replace agile processes? My guest Graham Lee (https://chironcodex.com/ ) and I discuss if there is still a place for agile software engineering in a world of AI assisted coding. Links: https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html the discussion on spec driven development by Brigitta Boeckeler https://dev.to/cleberdelima/the-end-of-agile-when-the-assumptions-beneath-your-methodology-collapse-3g12 the blog post by Cleber de Lima quoted in the episode https://www.sicpers.info/2025/12/is-spec-driven-development-the-end-of-agile-software-development/ Graham's blog post on spec driven development Discussions on Spec Driven and agile development: https://www.inflectra.com/Ideas/Whitepaper/Is-Agile-Dead.aspx https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/blog/agile-engineering-practices/spec-driven-development-unpacking-2025-new-engineering-practices https://dev.to/jmontagne/mckinsey-just-killed-agile-why-commando-units-are-the-only-way-to-survive-legacy-migration-40lk https://marmelab.com/blog/2025/11/12/spec-driven-development-waterfall-strikes-back.html https://ronjeffries.com/categories/dark-scrum/ "dark scrum" https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamsandman_is-agile-dead-is-ai-killing-agile-development-activity-7367308312620527616--3-2/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-agile-story-points-why-im-trading-sprints-spec-driven-park-6dfke/ Some tools for spec driven development https://kiro.dev/ KIRO https://github.com/github/spec-kit GitHub’s spec-kit https://docs.tessl.io/ Tesla 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/

[DE] Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften - mit Christina Quensel

Deutsche Ausgabe: Seit über 25 Jahren bringt die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (LNDW) Forschungsprojekte und ForscherInnen der Allgemeinheit näher. Zusammen mit Christina Quensel, die die LNDW leitet, habe ich mich über Ursprünge, Herausforderungen und wie es mit der LNDW weitergeht unterhalten. Die LNDW in Berlin findet am 6. Juni 2026 statt und Tickets noch am selben Tag zu haben. Also nix wie hin... Links https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/ https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm hier ist das Programm zur LNDW https://lndw-tickets.reservix.de/p/reservix/event/2535589 Tickets https://www.campusberlinbuch.de/de/Index 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/

[EN] ByteSized: create your web-site with GitHub Pages - J Cohen, S Gibson

English Edition: In this ByteSized episode & online class we're talking about GitHub Pages and how it can help you to create a web-site for your research project (reasonably) quickly. With me are Sarah Gibson and Jeremy Cohen. I'd like to thank the UK STEP-UP project and Imperial College London for supporting this show. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_GitHub https://docs.github.com/en/pages https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/github-for-beginners-getting-started-with-github-pages/ https://jekyllrb.com/docs/history/#v0-1-0 https://jekyllrb.com/ https://liquidjs.com/tutorials/intro-to-liquid.html https://gohugo.io/ https://jupyterbook.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_STFQc9Y2zY Sarah Gibson’s tutorial on Hugo and GitHub Pages on YouTube https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/ https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/pages/ https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/ 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/

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[EN] Managing Packages with Pixi - Raniere de Silva and Wolf Vollprecht

English Edition: there is a (relatively) new kid on the block - of open source package managers. It's called Pixi: and in this episode I talk to Raniere de Silva (GESIS) and Wolf Vollprecht (Prefix - the company behind Pixi), what the tool brings to the table. Links: https://prefix.dev/ the open source company making pixi available https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/ the package manager https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ mamba package manager 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/

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[EN] Computing, but not as you know it: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) - with Michael McLeod

English Edition: In a follow up about "unusual" computers I want to focus on field programmable gate arrays - FPGAs. With my guest and former colleague at UCL, Michael McLeod, we talk about what they are, where they are used and what's so special about working with them. Links: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/field-programmable-gate-arrays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array https://fpga.epcc.ed.ac.uk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language https://nandland.com/the-go-board/ the Go Board affordable FPGA for testing and learning https://nandland.com/ Nandland have more resources on FPGA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinx https://web.archive.org/web/20070412183416/http://filebox.vt.edu/users/tmagin/history.htm https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/fpga.html https://space.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/FPL_13_B112a.pdf Paper discussing a use case of hardware preservation with FPGAs https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RISC.pdf Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the Pascal language, did some work with FPGA as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_decision_process Markov decision process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain 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/

[DE] ICON oder der Weg zu einer offenen Software mit H Bockelmann, J Engels, L Schlemmer

Deutsche Ausgabe: ICON, das große Software Paket für Klimamodellierung, Wettervorhersagen und andere Anwendungsbereiche, ist auf gutem Wege Open Source Software zu werden. Aber daß das nicht immer ganz so leicht ist, werden uns in dieser Folge Hendryk Bockelmann und Jan (Jeff) Frederik Engels vom Deutschen Klimarechenzentrum und Linda Schlemmer vom Deutschen Wetterdienst erzählen. Hier ein paar Links: https://www.dkrz.de/en/communication/news-archive/icon-open-source https://www.icon-model.org/icon_model/getting_started https://gitlab.dkrz.de/icon/icon-model https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31FjyhyyqwkvOaj_e-EbJa4F0Z0n8yGU online courses https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/news/icon-team-receives-international-recognition-for-groundbreaking-achievements-in-high-performance-computing https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/announcements/2025/icon-team-wins-gordon-bell-prize-for-climate-modeling 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/

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[EN] Making Data Last

English Edition: preserving digital data has become essential for archives and libraries, as we have seen an explosion of content. I met with various experts in the field who talk to me about the different aspects and facets of saving our data for future generations to come: Thomas Ries (University of Austin, Texas, US), Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Katie Mackinnon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Andy Jackson (Digital Preservation Coalition, UK) and Laurisa Sastoque Pabon (University of Southampton, UK). Some links to tools and sites mentioned in the episode: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/format/proformatsearch.aspx?status=new Pronom database by the National Archive in the UK https://www.dpconline.org/ Digital Preservation Coalition https://bit-list.dpconline.org/ list of 'endangered digital material' https://thorsten-ries.net/ Thorsten Ries home page https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-preservation-southampton Digital preservation at the Uni. Southampton https://arcticworldarchive.org/ Svalbard Arctic World Archive https://piql.com/ piql data preservation https://github.com/piql GitHub Piql - the archiving file format https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/434376-preserving-today-s-digital-data-for-tomorrow https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w storing data in glass/silica https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/ Project Silica https://english.umd.edu/directory/matthew-kirschenbaum Kirschenbaum papers on recovering digital texts etc. https://www.kali.org/tools/foremost/ the open source "forensic" data tool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls going back in time: a link with a description of the Dead Sea scrolls 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/

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[EN] Meet the SSI Fellows of 2026 - Anne Lee Steel, Cass Gould van Praag, Samantha Ahern, Sara Villa

English Edition: Say hi to the new fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) - Anne Lee Steele, Cass Gould van Praag, Samantha Ahern and Sara Villa. In this episode they tell us all about the plans for their fellowship. And it covers a wide range, as you will hear. Links: https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/anne-lee-steele Anne-Lee https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/cassandra-gould-van-praag Cass https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/samantha-ahern Samantha https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/sara-villa I'd like to thank the SSI for supporting this show. Don't forget there is the Collaborations Workshop, organised by the SSI, coming up at the end of April: 28-30 April 2026 in Belfast. 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/

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[DE] Mit Licht durch die Wand: das ALPS II Experiment - mit A Lindner und S Karstensen

Deutsche Ausgabe: In dieser Folge machen wir uns auf die Suche nach dunkler Materie - mit dem ALPS II Experiment am Deutschen Elektron Synchroton in Hamburg. Mit meinen Gästen Axel Lindner und Sven Karstensen tauchen wir in die Welt der Axionen, mysteriöse Teilchen, und wie man sie aufspüren kann. Daneben gibt es, wie immer in der Teilchenphysik, spannende Fragen zu Software und Datenaufarbeitung. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören. Links: https://alps.desy.de/ Die Home Page des ALPS Projekts https://www.desy.de/research/facilities__projects/alps_ii/index_eng.html https://alps.desy.de/our_group/ Die ALPS II Kollaboration https://darkmatter-alps.desy.de/dark-matter.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion 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/

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[EN] ByteSized: fun with floating points - U Ruede, A Herten and E di Napoli

English Edition: how are real numbers e.g. 0.1 represented on computers? What can go wrong with using their representation in calculations? And does it matter? These and other questions are the subject of this ByteSized episode with my guests Prof. Ulrich Ruede (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg), Andreas Herten and Edoardo di Napoli (both Research Centre Juelich). Links: https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html an online tool to convert numbers into their bit/hex equivalent - also showing the rounding errors https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/103162.103163 Goldberg Paper: What every computer scientist should know about floating points https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02492 revisiting Goldberg, Vincent Lafage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 the Wiki entry on the IEEE 754 standard for floating points (the standard itself is not accessible for free) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place definition von "ulp" https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/floating-point-8-an-introduction-to-efficient-lower-precision-ai-training/ NVidia’s take on lower precision numbers https://indico.esa.int/event/445/contributions/8473/attachments/5559/9378/gernigon_cedric_EDHPC2023.pdf list of lower precision formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem Chinese remainder theorem I would like to thank the STEP-UP project in the UK for supporting this series of ByteSized episodes. 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/

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