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Code for Thought

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] Digital Humanities at Southampton - with James Baker
    Dec 9 2025

    English Version: our journey this week takes us to Southampton University - the Digital Humanities group, led by James Baker, my guest. And there is a lot more to the digital in Digital Humanities than software. James takes us through a tour through the exciting work that happens there:

    Links:

    • https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-humanities
      • https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~assets/doc//humanities/Digital_2025_DH_Annual%20reportWITHCAPTIONS_RND3.pdf annual report of the group
    • https://github.com/Southampton-Digital-Humanities their GitHub repos

    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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    44 mins
  • [EN] AudioUniverse: Let Data Speak for Themselves - with Ch Harrison, J Trayford
    Dec 2 2025

    English Edition: WHAM, BOOM, CLAC, WHOOSH - sound can represent many things, so why not experimental data? James Trayford and Chris Harrison want to show that you can, with their project called Audio Universe. And we're going to hear some of the sound samples during my conversation with them.

    Links:

    • https://www.audiouniverse.org the project's home page
    • https://github.com/james-trayford/straus The Sonification software STRAUSS
      • https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07875 The article on STRAUSS in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
      • https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16847 the ArXiv article
      • https://strauss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ documentation

    Some sound/video samples:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjkAoqgJvYg&t=572s Caribbean Audio Universe Tour of the Solar System, stars appearing
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jH1WNpDi10&t=1632s tour of the solar system, planet orbit sequence
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rsZiIqcbc Spectral Data Cube
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKZkPPhaty0 light curves with different sound designs
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78S0lkSc7so warming stripes
    • https://soundcloud.com/audio-universe-685767042/sonification-predatorprey-cycles-goats-and-wolves

    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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    38 mins
  • [FR] Kwollect et Alumet: les outils pour mesurer la consommation d'énergie de HPC - G Raffin, S Delamare
    Nov 25 2025

    édition française: On sait, que les centres de calcul consomment beaucoup d'énergie. Pour déterminer combien, on peut utiliser l'outils logiciels comme Kwollect et Alumet. Simon Delamare (Kwollect) et Guillaume Raffin (Alumet) nous expliquent comment Kwollect et Alumet fonctionnent.

    • https://gitlab.inria.fr/grid5000/kwollect
    • https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Monitoring_Using_Kwollect
    • https://alumet.dev
    • https://github.com/alumet-dev/alumet
    • https://hal.science/hal-04420527
    • https://calcul.math.cnrs.fr/2025-03-energie-infra-calcul-equilibre.html


    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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    31 mins
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