My guest is John Stevenson from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and there is a lot to cover in this episode: John's switch from science to engineering; how to move from proprietary to open source software - and the hot stuff: volcanos. And what John did in volcanology.

Here are a few links:

• https://www.bgs.ac.uk/people/stevenson-john/ John's profile at the BGS
• https://volcanologistsoutsideacademia.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/spotlight-john-a-stevenson-ph-d/
• https://all-geo.org/volcan01010/every-post-ever/ John's blog posts
• https://fosstodon.org/@volcan01010 John's profile on Mastodon
• https://github.com/volcan01010/ GitHub for John
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Kübler-Ross a reference for the 5 stages of grief

Volcanos

• https://icelandicvolcanos.is Iceland has a lot of volcanos
• https://rischi.protezionecivile.gov.it/en/volcanic/volcanoes-italy/ Volcanos in Italy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallajökull the big eruption from 2010
• http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written-by-pliny-the-elder-about-the-eruption-of-vesuvius-in-79-a-d-history-of-pompeii-en-238-s.htm the letters by Pliny the Younger describing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD

Tools mentioned

• https://www.sonatype.com
• https://qgis.org
• https://www.geopackage.org
• https://merginmaps.com
• https://www.redhat.com/en
• https://www.debian.org
• https://www.centos.org
• https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/malicious-code-in-

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How can you transition from photo-type or exploratory research software to production code? Can you? I've been discussing this with my guest Duncan McGregor. In the first part of our discussion we touch on how you can effectively analyse large data sets that are distributed over different locations with tools like Dask.

Links:

• https://www.youtube.com/@PairingWithDuncan Duncan's YouTube channel
• https://www.oneeyedmen.com Duncan's website
  • https://github.com/dmcg and his GitHub
• https://www.dask.org Dask
  • https://github.com/aws-solutions-library-samples/distributed-compute-on-aws-with-cross-regional-dask cross regional programming with Dask
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/build-efficient-cross-regional-i-o-intensive-workloads-with-dask-on-aws/
  • https://blog.dask.org/2022/07/19/dask-multi-cloud
• https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Zarr format
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCDF NetCDF
• https://www.ecmwf.int European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
  • https://github.com/ecmwf
  • https://www.eumetsat.int
• https://pangeo.io
• https://testbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Unit testing with Jupyter
  • https://github.com/nteract/testbook

Conferences/Events:

• https://dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk King's College London: summer school for digital humanities. 30 June - 4 July, London
• https://www.software.ac.uk/workshop/collaborations-workshop-2025-cw25 The annual Collaborations Workshop of the Software Sustainability Institute UK, 13-15 May, University of Sterling, Scotland
• https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/events/2025_06_13-rsehpcatisc.html The RSE workshop (13 June) at the IS

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English Edition: In this last episode for the ByteSized RSE "miniseries" we talk about AI assisted coding - and the (long) history how engineers tried to come up with assisting tools to make our code better and more robust. My guest is Liam Gao from Imperial College, London, UK.

Links:

• https://github.com/features/copilot GitHub Co-Pilot
• https://huggingface.co HuggingFace another AI tool
• https://spacelift.io/blog/ai-coding-assistant-tools a summary of current tools (non exhaustive)
• https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering OpenAI's take on prompt engineering
  • https://www.promptingguide.ai
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121022091418/http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/spelling.pdf some of the attempts to come up with spelling checks
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_completion
• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Good old Emacs
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_(text_editor) vi editor (not for the faint hearted)
• https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-pascal/7x Borland's Turbo Pascal with IDE
• https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/ Stackoverflow survey from 2024 with ca 65000 respondents

And here the YouTube clips mentioned

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEXkd3O2ow Cypher musing why he didn't take the "blue pill"
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0mRMp2kbQY Star Trek TNG, S3E6 - Geordie LaForge talking to the computer

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Das Hermes Projekt versucht das Publizieren von Software zu vereinfachen und auch zu automatisieren. Stephan Druskat und Michael Meinel, beide vom DLR und dem deRSE e.V. erklären uns was es damit auf sich hat.

Links:

• https://hermes.software-metadata.pub/en/latest/ Hermes homepage
• https://docs.software-metadata.pub/en/latest/ Hermes workflow
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09015 das Paper zu Hermes
• https://invenio-software.org/products/rdm/
• https://dataverse.org dataverse von Harvard
• https://zenodo.org Zenodo
• https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-repository/referencing-and-citing-content Zenodo und GitHub
• https://citation-file-format.github.io Citation File Format

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English Edition: This episode is all about 'green computing' and how we can check the impact of our computing efforts. Helping me with that are Kirsty Pringle (SSI), Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge, UK) and Andy Turner from the EPCC in Edinburgh (UK).

Tools discussed in this episode:

• https://www.green-algorithms.org Green Algorithms home page with the online calculator
• https://codecarbon.io Code Carbon - a Python library

Other:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/GreenDiSC Green Disc certification
• Green Computing Special Interest group (SIG) contact
  • https://socrse.github.io/green-sig/ home page of the SIG with contact details
  • UK RSE Slack channel: #green-sig
• https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0677/ Parliamentary report on ICT energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions
• https://app.electricitymaps.com/map map of energy sources for electricity (fossil fuel, nuclear, renewables etc)
• https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/what-are-scope-1-2-3-carbon-emissions Emmisions scopes explained

ERRATA: I mentioned in the episode that Kirsty is working at the EPCC - but she works at the SSI (Software Sustainability Institute, UK). Sorry about the confusion.

The sound effects are from Hindenburg audio editing software.

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Edition française: le projet RésIn - réseau d'ingénieurs RésIn est une collaboration entre Science Po et l'Université Paris Cité pour valoriser le travail des ingénieurs pluridisciplinaires.

Audrey Banyex et Diégo Antolinos-Basso (maintenant à l'Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse) nous expliquent pourquoi créer ce réseau et à quoi il sert.

Liens:

• https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/activites/resin/ le descriptif du projet RésIn
• https://resin.medialab.sciences-po.fr/ l'annuaire professionnel
• https://vimeo.com/showcase/11270732 le viméo qui héberge les captations et interviews faites dans le cadre du projet
• https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/activites/metat-atelier-de-methodes/ L'atelier de méthodes (MetAt)
• https://metsem.hypotheses.org/ Le séminaire de méthodologie (MetSem)

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English Edition: How can repository services like GitHub or GitLab help you manage your project. Listen to my conversation with three guests, Gemma Turon (Ersilia), Ben Clifford (Parsl) and Mike Simpson (Uni Newcastle) how they use GitHub PM tools effectively in their work.

Links:

• https://ersilia.io Ersilia project - Gemma Turon
  • https://github.com/ersilia-os GitHub pages for Ersilia
• https://parsl-project.org - Parsl project - Ben Clifford
  • https://github.com/Parsl/parsl - Parsl on GitHub
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYQ_F8auEQ - Mike Simpson's talk at RSE Con 2023 'Colouring Cities: from prototype to Platform'
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP9k8mAXod4 - a session on Project Management and people at RSE Con 2024 - also with Mike
• https://docs.github.com/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/learning-about-projects/best-practices-for-projects GitHub guidelines for using Projects (GitHub tool)
• https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/task-management-humans-self-care blog post from Mike

ByteSized RSE is supported by the Universe-HPC project.

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Ende November 2024 fand in Berlin ein Austausch von Ausbildern und Tutoren bei Helmholtz statt - unter dem Namen TEACH. Wie kann man dem wachsenden Bedarf and Weiterbildung gerecht werden und welche Mittel und Tools helfen dabei. In diesem kleinen Rückblick spreche ich mit den OrganisatorInnen und Sprechern der Veranstaltung: Prof Silke Schworm, Jolanta Zjuba, Fredo Erxleben und Anna-Lisa Döring.

Links:

• https://events.hifis.net/event/1472/timetable/#20241121.detailed Das Programm der Veranstaltung mit Beiträgen zum Herunterladen
• https://www.helmholtz-hida.de HIDA, der Dachverband bei dem die Tagung stattfand
• https://www.hifis.net HIFIS auch eine Helmholtz Platform
• https://www.helmholtz.de/hida-files/user_upload/pdf_dokumente/Helmholz-Incubator-Folder_2022.pdf Übersicht der Helmholtz Platformen
• https://www.uni-regensburg.de/humanwissenschaften/erziehungswissenschaft-medien/team/prof-dr-silke-schworm/index.html Prof Silke Schworm
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKralSEhZq0

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