Code for Thought

English Edition: How can we preserve data not for years, but for centuries, perhaps even millennia? Meet the Arctic World Archive (AWA), located on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen part of the Svalbard archipelago. I met with the 2 co-founders, Rune Bjerkestrand and Katrina Leon to find out what's behind AWA and how data can be preserved for the longterm.
Links
https://arcticworldarchive.org
https://piql.com the PIQL way of storing data on film
https://archiveprogram.github.com/faq/ GitHub is on AWA
https://www.seedvault.no/ The Global Seed Vault on the same island 
https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/ Storing data in glass - Microsoft's Project Silicahttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism  the Antikythera mechanism - an object found in 1901 and seemingly an ancient (analog) computer
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English edition: As part of our ByteSized series, we are going through some of the (many) aspects of AI assisted coding with my guests Robert Chatley (Imperial College London, UK), Reece Walsh (Newcastle Uni., UK) and Faruk Diblen (eScience Centre, Amsterdam, NL). 
Links:
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/agentic-coding/ A good run-through of agentic coding by MIT/USA
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AgenticProgramming.html Martin Fowler on agentic coding
https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/agent-pull-requests-are-everywhere-heres-how-to-review-them/ here's GitHub's suggestions on how to deal with AI generated pull requests
https://github.com/fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills Faruk Diblen's set of SKILLS for research software engineeringhttps://ai-declaration.org and here is Faruk's AI declaration website and tool

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/getting-started/intro Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic
https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/report/AI-Assisted_Software_Development_Policy_for_UCL_Advanced_Research_Computing/34070631?file=69660984 an example policy of how to deal with AI assisted coding tools - from UCL (University College London, UK)
ByteSized dRTP is part of the STEP-UP project and I would like to thank them for supporting this show.
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English Edition: scikit-learn is THE open source programming library for all things machine-learning. And since 2024, it is the core part of a company called :probabl. 
What this means for the millions of users of scikit-learn and the many contributors is something we find out in this episode, where I talk to Marie Sacksick (skore), Arturo Amor (skolar) and Yann Lechelle (president and co-founder of :probabl.). 
Links:
https://www.probabl.ai Home page for :probabl. 
https://probabl.ai/skore  Skore https://github.com/probabl-ai/skore GitHub repo for skore

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/about.html scikit-learn Python library
https://blog.probabl.ai/intel-and-probabl-announce-collaboration-to-accelerate-scikit-learn-on-intel-hardware Collaboration between Intel and :probabl. 
https://scikit-learn-central.probabl.ai/#/catalog The central cataloguehttps://github.com/probabl-ai/scikit-learn-central GitHub repo

https://skolar.probabl.ai/ skolar, the certification programme
https://inria.github.io/scikit-learn-mooc/ the INRIA MOOC for scikit-learn
https://skrub-data.org/stable/ skrub (another project at :probabl.)https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub 

 
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English Edition: PsychoPy is an open source library widely used in behavioural sciences. I met with Jonathan Peirce, author and psychology researcher himself, about what the library does and how he, and his team, manage to keep it running while still doing research. 
Links
https://psychopy.org the homepage for the libraryhttps://github.com/psychopy/psychopy GitHub repo

https://opensciencetools.org the company behind PsychoPy 
https://pavlovia.org Pavlovia - run your experiments online 
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Deutsche Ausgabe: In der Woche vom 1. Juni fand in Berlin eine Woche zum Thema Forschungssoftware statt - mit Trainingsprogrammen und Meetups. Dazu gehörte auch der erste RSE (Research Software Engineering) Tag in Berlin. Hier hört Ihr von den Organisatoren Claudia Göbel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9785-4154 ) und Alexander Struck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1173-9228) wie das so gelaufen ist.
Links
Webseiten der Events: https://forschungssoftware.info/RSdays/2026/Berlin/
https://forschungssoftware.info/RSweeks/2026/

https://zenodo.org/communities/rsday2026/  Materialsammlung zum Research Software Day 2026 Berlin & Brandenburg
https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/researchsoftwaredaybbb Mailingliste zur Organisation zukünftiger Research Software Days in B & BB  
https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/research-quality/core/index.html  Center for Open and Responsible Research der BUA (Berlin University Alliance)
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/ Exzellenzcluster Matters of Activity. Image Space Material
https://de-rse.org de-RSE e.V. – Gesellschaft für Forschungssoftware

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