The term research software engineering is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. It was coined during a Collaborations workshop on 21 March 2012. I was privileged to meet with 7 of the participants who took part in this workshop and together we talk how it all came about.My guests are:Neil Chue Hong MPhys FBCS, Director, Software Sustainability Institute and Senior Prof. Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director, The Software Sustainability InstituteRobert Haines, Head of Research IT, Uni ManchesterDirk Gorissen, Product ManagerRob Baxter, Director of Data Services, EPCC, University of EdinburghIlian Todorov, STFC UKRIJames Hetherington FBCS, Director, Advanced Research Computing Centre, University College LondonBut it's not just walking down memory lane. Even though, RSEs are now found in a number of research centres and universities across different countries, there is still lots to do. The challenges ahead range from creating attractive and sustainable career paths, securing funding, improving on diversity and others.https://software.ac.uk/cw22 Collaborations workshop of the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK for 2022 (April)https://software.ac.uk The Software Sustainability Institute UKhttps://society-rse.org The Society for Research Software Engineering in the UKAnd finally, after 2 years of pandemic, it is great to see the announcement for an in-person RSE conference again. And this year, it will be in Newcastle, UK.https://rsecon2022.society-rse.org Support the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 22.03.2022
Dauer: 00:38:29
Yo Yehudi, Executive Director at Open Life Science, joins Selina Aragon, Software Sustainability Institute Communications Lead and host of the series, as the first guest of Software Horror Stories. Yo talks through one of the scariest moments of her life as an RSE, how she fixed it, and her tips to overcome your very own horror stories. Based on the Coding Confessions project, Software Horror Stories shares people’s unintended oversights when coding and how this impacted their research. The aim is to help normalise mistakes and emphasise how they’re a necessary evil of the learning journey in developing software for research. Look out for new episodes each month!Tweet your comments or questions @SoftwareSaved using #CodeForThought!Would you like to share your very own horror story? Get in touch at s.aragon@software.ac.ukSupport the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 08.03.2022
Dauer: 00:08:36
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Agile software development practices and methodologies have been around for a while and have indeed become mainstream. In particular Scrum and its many variants. In this episode I talk to Raj Heda, who helps organisations roll out agile methodologies. I was interested to find out, why "Agile" has become so successful, and what it is organisations need to look out for when they roll it out. I also wrote a brief blog post on Medium on the subject: https://medium.com/@pweschmidt/is-agile-still-agile-a13b20230bc There is plenty of material on agile methodologies out there. But here are a few pointers, some of which were also mentioned in the interviewAgile Manifesto https://agilemanifesto.org Scrum https://www.scrum.org Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) https://www.scaledagileframework.com Kanban https://businessmap.io/kanban-resources/getting-started/what-is-kanban What is Lean? https://theleanway.net/what-is-lean Toyota Just in Time manufacturing https://www.rcbi.org/updates/lean-manufacturing-made-toyota-the-success-story-it-is-today/ John Kotter: 8 steps to lead change https://www.kotterinc.com/8-step-process-for-leading-change/ Simon Sinek: empathy and perspective https://github.com/dwyl/leadership/issues/4 Business Agility Institute: https://businessagility.institute Digital AI (publisher of the State of Agile annual survey): https://digital.ai (go to Resources in the nav bar and select State of Agile)Support the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 22.02.2022
Dauer: 00:31:38
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Code for Thought is one year old! (Did I hear anyone say - Hurrah?)Time to think what we can do for you in the coming weeks, months and beyond. In this short trailer, Selina and Jacalyn from the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) https://www.software.ac.ukand I talk about some of the new content that will be heading your way.In future we will be ca 10min episodes as well as longer ones, the latter ca every 3 weeks:meet the new/existing SSI fellowshear some truly gruesome horror stories (albeit about software)get some newsand also get more in depth and longer interviews and coveragesIf you have a story you would like to share, or you want to contribute and host an episode, do not hesitate to get in touch with one of usSelina s.aragon@epcc.ed.ac.uk Jacalyn J.Laird@epcc.ed.ac.ukPeter peter.schmidt@ucl.ac.ukSupport the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 15.02.2022
Dauer: 00:04:14
In this episode we take a trip into the exciting world of insects - mantises to be precise. Prof Jenny Read and her colleague Dr Vivek Nityananda from Newcastle University in the UK have been conducting some exciting research into 3D vision of these iconic animals.I have come across their research through an article in the New York Times and was hooked.3D vision in insects? Yes, dear listeners, you read that right. Mantises have stereoscopic vision as well but not quite like humans. Given the fact that mantises are so much smaller and still capable of 3D vision - is there something we can learn from them with regards to practical applications and robotics?Here some links you might want to check out:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/science/praying-mantis-eating-birds.html the New York Times articlehttp://www.jennyreadresearch.com/research/m3/media/ some cool videos including how we can trace what's going on in a mantis brainhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26740144/ the paper of the researchSupport the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 01.02.2022
Dauer: 00:36:49
Welcome to Season 3 of Code for Thought!In this episode, I met with 7 of the new EPSRC fellows in the UK. EPSRC stands for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The EPSRC fellowship has been pivotal in putting research software engineering (RSE) firmly on the map in universities and research centres. RSE has become a recognised role not only in the UK, but also in an increasing number of countries around the globe.I had the pleasure and privilege to meet with some of the new fellows last autumn. As you will hear from my discussion with Eilis, Heather, Carlin, Tom, Jamie, Peter and Ed - they bring a lot of interesting and different hopes, ideas and aspirations to their fellowship. https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/ Support the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 11.01.2022
Dauer: 00:32:34
Mental health in the workplace is often ignored or sidelined. Not to mention that it is difficult to talk about it in the first place.And yet, pressures in our work environment has been rising, not least because of the pandemic. How we can look out for ourselves and others is a question I'll be discussing with Graham McCartney and Dave Horsfall. Dave and Graham are leading the UK charity Jonathan's Voice, which was born under tragic circumstances. As Graham says in the podcast: if you have difficulties in coping, don't struggle alone. Reach out! Your employer may provide services such as mental health aiders or services provided by your HR department.In addition to that most if not all countries provide helplines and advice on mental health. In the UK e.g. there are the Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org Mind https://www.mind.org.uk Here are a few links you might find usefulhttps://jonathansvoice.org.uk Jonathan's Voice Charity - speaking out for mental healthhttps://mhfaengland.org Mental Health First Aiders Englandhttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/thriving-at-work-a-review-of-mental-health-and-employers Thriving at Work: UK government's Stevenson Farmer report from 2017 on Mental Health https://medium.com/newcastle-university-research-software-engineering/mental-health-for-research-software-engineers-in-academia-2a5f0274f16e Dave's article on mental health in Academia in Mediumhttps://www.mentimeter.com MentiMeter a tool to gauge how your audience, team etc are doingSupport the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 07.12.2021
Dauer: 00:35:44
Reproducibility efforts are community efforts, as this episode's guest Grigori Fursin makes very clear. But you also need the tools. For some time, Grigori worked on the Collective Knowledge (CK) Framework to help researchers and machine learning practitioners get the best out of their solutions. In this episode we talk about the challenges you face when trying to evaluate machine learning applications and taking them to production. And how tools like CK Framework and others can help.https://cknowledge.org - Collective Knowledge (CK) Framework web site https://mlcommons.org/en/ - ML Commons, a non-profit organisation & community for tools around machine learning applications: in particular ML Perf for performance testinghttps://github.com/mlcommons/ck - CK framework GitHub repositorySupport the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 23.11.2021
Dauer: 00:30:39
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Four researchers, from various career stages and research areas, took their first steps into coding in R and Python throughout September and October 2021, as part of the Learning to Code mentorship programme. The programme was an initiative brought by the Software Sustainability Institute's (SSI) Research Software Camp: Beyond the Spreadsheet.In this episode, we (Selina Aragon, SSI Communications Lead, and Jacalyn Laird, SSI Communications Officer) spoke to the four researchers who volunteered to take part in the mentorship programme. Emma, Amirah, Yenn and Rebecca talk us through their experience over the last two months, what they learnt, and how having a mentor impacted on their journey. Listen as they share their reasons to join the programme and the tips they have for other beginner coders.As part of the Research Software Camp, we've signposted to resources for people learning to code. It's likely that we'll be running this mentorship programme again, so if you're interested, sign up to receive updates.About Research Software Camps The Software Sustainability Institute runs free online Research Software Camps twice a year over the course of two weeks. Each Camp focusses on introducing and exploring a topic around research software, thus starting discussions among various research communities. Our latest Research Software Camp: Beyond the Spreadsheet took place from 1 to 12 November 2021. Support the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 12.11.2021
Dauer: 00:34:04
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Learning to Code at the Research Software Camp"
This episode is all about music and the role software and technologies such as AI and machine learning play in creative processes. Meet Emily Howard, David De Roure and Chris Melen from the Centre for Practice & Research in Science and Music (PRiSM) at the Royal Northern College of Music. They talk about how they use AI in their creative processes. One of the key tools the team has developed and uses for experimenting and composing music is an open source tool called PRiSM SampleRNN - and you will be able to listen to some of the audio samples. Occasionally, you hear concerns about AI replacing humans - or in this case - composers and performers. But that's not the case as David, Emily and Chris reassure us. Rather, it is a new tool that can enhance and augment our creativity. And furthermore:“If society is going to have AI so pervasively embedded then we really have to understand what it means to be a creative human being in the context of AI”Linkshttps://github.com/rncm-prism/prism-samplernn PRiSM SampleRNN open Sourcehttps://www.rncm.ac.uk/research/research-centres-rncm/prism/ PRiSM main web sitehttps://www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on/events/ Events at the Royal Northern College of Music/PRiSMhttps://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/ai-arts The Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts Special Interest GroupSupport the showThank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! You can also support our efforts by leaving a rating or review.Follow or contact us on Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought Mastadon: @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Erschienen: 09.11.2021
Dauer: 00:33:23
