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Code for Thought

By: Peter Schmidt
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Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it. Languages: English, German, French

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  • [EN] Team Portrait: Research Software Engineering in Newcastle
    Mar 24 2026

    English Edition: for this episode we're going "up North", to visit the Research Software Engineering team of the University of Newcastle. The team has been hosting the UK RSE Conference in 2022 and 2024 and here is a chance to meet at least some of the people behind it all.


    Links:

    • https://rse.ncldata.dev/ Team homepage
      • https://rse.ncldata.dev/team
    • https://www.litandphil.org.uk/ oh and the great "Lit and Phil" library in Newcastle for good measure

    Get in touch

    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)

    This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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    58 mins
  • [EN] NextBrain: exploring the human brain - Eugenio Iglesias, James Hughes
    Mar 17 2026

    English Edition: NextBrain is a next generation atlas of the human brain. Juan Eugenio Iglesias Gonzales from Massachusetts General in Boston, US, has been leading this project. My colleague James Hughes (University College London) and I were working on part of it at the time. And in this episode we explore, once again, what NextBrain is, how it evolved using AI tools in a shifting technology landscape and how it can be used in education and research.

    Links

    • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09708-2 the published paper
    • https://github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/NextBrain/#/home the UCL project for the browser
    • https://github.com/UCL/NextBrain# the NextBrain project
    • https://lemon.martinos.org/ Eugenio's research home page


    • https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
    • https://freesurfer.net/
      • https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer

    Get in touch

    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)

    This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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    48 mins
  • [EN] Revealing the structure of crystals and proteins with CrystFEL - Thomas White
    Mar 10 2026

    English Edition: Meet Thomas White from DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) who is the creator and maintainer of the tool CrystFEL. The tool to help understand and analyse the structure of materials such as crystals and proteins. Thomas and I dive into the details of the science and experimental setup - and, of course, the software tool he created.

    Links:

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_diffraction
    • https://www.cfel.de
    • https://www.desy.de/~twhite/crystfel/
    • https://www.ccp4.ac.uk
    • https://vimeo.com/1017833941
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-electron_laser
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_femtosecond_crystallography

    Get in touch

    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)

    This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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    40 mins
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