Code for Thought

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
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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
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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” 

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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. 

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UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie 
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/  (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile)

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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 FutuRSIhttps://www.futursi.de/partner/ Partner Organisationen

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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)

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