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

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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

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English Edition (ByteSized): In this first episode of the new ByteSized dRTP season, sponsored by the STEP-UP programme from the EPSRC (UK) you'll meet Richard Acton. Richard created a tool to help you keep track of all the steps you should take to make your software shareable and reproducible. With checklists, built right into your GitLab, GitHub repo.

Links

• https://rsspdc.org/ home page for the checklists
• https://rsspdc.gitlab.io/slides/bytesize-workshop_2026-02-26.html#/outline
• https://gitlab.com/rsspdc/checklists download the checklists MD files from here
• https://www.software.ac.uk/news/software-management-plans Software management plan (SMP) from the Software Sustainability Institute
• https://www.france-grilles.fr/presoft-software-management-plans-model/ another template of a SMP from Teresa Gomez-Diaz (Paris, France) - PRESOFT
  • https://hal.science/hal-01802565v1

I'd like to thank the STEP-UP project for their support of this podcast. STEP-UP is a collaboration between Imperial College London, King's College London, University College London and the University of Westminster. STEP-UP is funded by the Engineering and Science and Physical Research Council in the UK.

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