Podcast Episodes

Happy Birthday RSE

Season 3 Episode 5

The term research software engineering is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. It was coined during a Collaborations workshop on 21 March 2012. I …

4 years, 5 months ago

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Software Horror Stories: Rebooting gone wrong!

Season 3 Episode 4

Yo Yehudi, Executive Director at Open Life Science,  joins Selina Aragon, Software Sustainability Institute Communications Lead and host of the serie…

4 years, 5 months ago

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To Agile or Not to Agile

Agile software development practices and methodologies have been around for a while and have indeed become mainstream. In particular Scrum and its ma…

4 years, 6 months ago

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So, what's new?

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 th…

4 years, 6 months ago

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The Mantis Sees it All

Season 3 Episode 2

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 fro…

4 years, 6 months ago

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Join The Fellowship

Season 3 Episode 1

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 S…

4 years, 7 months ago

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Keeping It Together

Season 2 Episode 11

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, pressu…

4 years, 8 months ago

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Making Machine Learning Reproducible

Season 2 Episode 10

Reproducibility efforts are community efforts, as this episode's guest Grigori Fursin makes very clear. But you also need the tools. 
For some time, G…

4 years, 9 months ago

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Learning to Code at the Research Software Camp

Season 2 Episode 9

Four researchers, from various career stages and research areas, took their first steps into coding in R and Python throughout September and October …

4 years, 9 months ago

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Make It Sing!

Season 2 Episode 7

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,…

4 years, 9 months ago

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