The Code Refinery has been training researchers on how to write better software since 2016. In this episode Samantha Wittke, Richard Darst and Radovan Bast tell us how it all started, how CodeRefinery is run and what's in store for the future.

Do look out for their workshops for September and October 2025.

Links:

• https://coderefinery.org/ The CodeRefinery home page
• https://coderefinery.github.io/2025-09-09-workshop/ list of the forthcoming workshops Sept/Oct

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Welcome to Season 10 of Code for Thought. To warm us up for the forthcoming winter and autumn season, here a list of the episodes and content you can look forward to.

The season will start in earnest on 2 September.

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English edition: In the last episode of this season of Code for Thought, I want to take you on a tour through the MetOffice in Exeter, UK. My host Dimitri Theodorakis and some colleagues of his talk us through some of the exciting work happening there.

Links:

• https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research overview of research at the MetOffice
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_prognosticator the "leech barometer"
• https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-systems/unified-model the Unified Model for weather and climate modelling
• https://github.com/cylc/cylc-flow the workflow engine, mentioned a few times in the episode
• https://github.com/MetOffice/stc other open source tools
• https://niwa.co.nz/climate-and-weather/niwa-weather one of the collaborators of the MetOffice
• https://www.ywt.org.uk/oil-tanker-collision the oil tanker collision from March 2025 we talked about in the episode

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