Podcast Episodes

Self-compassion meditation

As part of the Software Sustainability Institute's Research Software Camp on supporting mental health, SSI Research Associate and accredited mindfuln…

3 years, 9 months ago

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ByteSized: Code Reviews with GitHub

In this episode of ByteSized we look at code reviews and GitHub. 
Code reviews have a long tradition (see the link to Michael Fagan's paper from 1976 …

3 years, 9 months ago

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Citizen Science and Software

Bastian Greshake-Tzovaras and I were accepted as Fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute around the same time. Bastian, trained in biology, …

3 years, 9 months ago

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Event organisation with the Software Sustainability Institute

In this episode we speak to Shoaib Sufi and Rachael Ainsworth from the Software Sustainability Institute’s Community team about their Event Organisat…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Software Horror Stories: Fire in the Lab!

Season 4 Episode 6

In this Halloween special, Colin Sauze, a Research Software Engineer at the University of Aberystwyth, tells us about when his code set the lab on fi…

3 years, 9 months ago

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ByteSized: Software Licences

This first episode of “Code for Thought ByteSized” is based on the first session in the Byte-sized RSE interactive research software training series.…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Live from the RSE Conference 2022

Season 4 Episode 4

After 3 years, the RSE Conference returned to an in-person event, this time held at the Frederick Douglas Centre in Newcastle, UK.
Apart from meeting …

3 years, 10 months ago

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In Conversation with Ben Goldacre

Season 4 Episode 3

For this episode I am very excited to talk to Ben Goldacre. Ben has an outstanding career in medicine, science and science communication and is the a…

3 years, 10 months ago

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Meet the SSI Fellows: Sophia Batchelor

Season 4 Episode 2

2022 Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) Fellow Sophia Batchelor speaks to SSI Communications Officer Jacalyn Laird about her Fellowship plans.

Fi…

3 years, 11 months ago

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Make Software Free (Again)

Season 4 Episode 1

Welcome back to another season of Code for Thought. And I'd like to kick it off with an interview with Bastien Guerry. Working for the French governm…

3 years, 11 months ago

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