English Edition: Meet Phil Reed from the University of Manchester and SSI fellow. In my chat with Phil we touch on a number of themes, like how to boost digital skills for people outside the research software domain, like librarians. And look out for Phil's other endeavours (hint: towards the end of the episode).

Links:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/phil-reed Phil's SSI profile
  • This SSI website also has more details on the fellowship programme.
• https://esciencelab.org.uk/people/ the eScience Lab, Uni Manchester
• https://philreeddata.github.io Phil's GitHub
• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4479-715X
• https://elixir-europe.org The Elixir porgramme
• https://carpentries.org
• https://www.simplypsychology.org/blooms-taxonomy.html Something on Bloom's taxonomy
• https://github.com/direct-framework/digital-research-competencies-framework
• https://disc.ac.uk

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English Edition: My guest Bill Kurth and I will go on a space exploration of a special kind: the Voyager probes. Launched in 1977 just a few weeks apart they have now reached interstellar space. Some of the data they send back to Earth are audio - which can tell us a lot about the outer planets like Jupiter or indeed interstellar space, where both Voyagers are now.

Links

• https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/
• https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/voyager/
• https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01363-7 a paper on persistent plasma waves in interstellar space
• https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2025/05/14/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause/ reviving Voyager's thrusters
• https://space-audio.org some of the sounds we heard during the episode (Uni. of Iowa/US)
• https://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/album/planets.html Symphonies of the Planets old homepage
• https://www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/ The Deep Space Network

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Edition française: Guillaume Levrier est chercheur associé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France - Francois Mitterand. Il est l'auteur d'une application Open Source appelée Pandorae. Une application pour simplifier, normaliser et explorer les documents ou données numériques.

Bonne écoute

• https://github.com/Guillaume-Levrier/PANDORAE Pandorae sur GitHub
• https://politique.science
• https://hal.science/hal-04309075v1/document
• https://heritrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html
• https://fluxcd.io
• https://www.electronjs.org
• https://d3js.org
• https://www.istex.fr
• https://www.zotero.org
• https://respadon.hypotheses.org
• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5223-closed-data-open-software-building-new-ways-into-the-french-web-archives/
• https://www.bnf.fr/fr/consulter-les-archives-de-linternet

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My guest this week, Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin from MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts/US, will tell us about the first Open Source Software in Fusion Energy (OSSFE) conference from earlier 2025 - but also why it is important to use and develop open source software in the field and the difficulties he met during his career.

Links:

• https://ossfe.github.io/OSSFE_2025/ The conference website
  • https://ossfe.github.io/OSSFE_2025/plot some conference stats
• https://www.youtube.com/@OSSFE-conf OSSFE YouTube channel
• https://github.com/OSSFE the main website of OSSFE
• https://join.slack.com/t/ossfeworkspace/shared_invite/zt-31yacoitt-yl1aAPLxkm5NkCdv8VpfNg Slack channel for OSSFE
• https://ossfe.github.io/OSSFE_2026/ next year's conference
• https://zenodo.org/communities/ossfe OSSFE on Zenodo
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/remidelaportemathurin/ Rémi on LinkedIn

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Better Software - Better Research! This is the mission of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) since 2010. To support this, the SSI has been running a fellowship programme. In this episode you'll hear from 3 different fellows from the 2025 cohort about their motivation and plans for their fellowship. Maybe you want to join, too? You can apply for next year's fellowship - 2026 - until 6 October 2025.

Links:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme the fellowship programme's website. Please, go to this page if you think about applying!
• https://mdsimpson42.github.io/converse/ Mike's ConveRSE page on mental health
• https://book.the-turing-way.org The Turing Way Handbook
• https://obsproject.com The tool to create videos
• https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut DeepLabCut app
• https://github.com/talmolab/sleap The SLEAP app

And here are the fellows

• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/esther-plomp Esther Plomp
• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/mike-simpson Mike Simpson
• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/niko-sirmpilatze Niko Sirmpilatze

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Meet Christian Gutschow, particle physicist and research software engineer at UCL (University College London, UK). Christian is one of the scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN. And together we try to give you a glimpse of what is going on in this massive experiment that tries to unlock the secrets of matter. Software plays a crucial part in this - and at all levels.

Links:

• https://atlas.cern/about an overview of the ATLAS experiment
• https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/33100-christian-gutschow Chris' profile at UCL
• https://opendata.atlas.cern/docs/documentation/monte_carlo/introduction_MC Monte Carlo simulations at ATLAS
• https://home.cern/science/computing/grid the LHC computing grid
• https://www.hepdata.net the repository of High Energy Physics (HEP) experimental data
• https://atlaspo.cern.ch/public/ATLASOrganisation/index.html

Some publications with Chris as author or contributor:

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7610 some rare Standard Model processes
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02793 dark matter signatures
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00950 Monte-Carlo modelling (theoretical physics)
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13154 GPU acceleration/common file format for HPC
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05451 project RIVET to preserve data, see also
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15984
• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4809-efficient-histogramming-for-high-performance-computing-in-c-with-yoda/ efficient histogramming - a presentation at FOSDEM 25

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The Code Refinery has been training researchers on how to write better software since 2016. In this episode Samantha Wittke, Richard Darst and Radovan Bast tell us how it all started, how CodeRefinery is run and what's in store for the future.

Do look out for their workshops for September and October 2025.

Links:

• https://coderefinery.org/ The CodeRefinery home page
• https://coderefinery.github.io/2025-09-09-workshop/ list of the forthcoming workshops Sept/Oct

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Welcome to Season 10 of Code for Thought. To warm us up for the forthcoming winter and autumn season, here a list of the episodes and content you can look forward to.

The season will start in earnest on 2 September.

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