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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Deutsche Ausgabe:

Links

• https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/ HCDS Hamburg
• https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/hcds/team/katrin-schoening-stierand.html
• https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/news/2025/20250502-rse-day.html RSE Tag in Hamburg 2025
• https://www.hcds.uni-hamburg.de/current/all-events/digital-total.html Digital Total 2023

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English Edition: with my guests Bernd Ulmann and Daniel Thuerck I am looking at the fascinating world of analog computers. Far from being "yesterday's" machines, there is a lot of interest in building analog devices. So what are they, what are they used for, and how do you work with them.

Links:

• https://anabrid.com/
• https://the-analog-thing.org
• https://anabrid.com/redac
• https://shop.anabrid.com/collections/lucidac
• https://www.analogmuseum.org/english/
• https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/analog-and-hybrid/9783110787887/ Bernd Ulmann's book
• https://analog-computing-days.org/ The Analog Computing Days conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11/12 June 2026
• https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co64127/phillips-economic-computer The Phillips MONIAC analog computer at the Science Museum in London
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine
  • https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2022/trickle-down-economics-phillips-machine-shows-how-macroeconomy-flows
• https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/charles-babbages-difference-engines-and-science-museum Part of the Difference Engine by C Babbage
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule a simple "analog computer"
• https://research.ibm.com/projects/analog-ai
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
• https://research.ibm.com/projects/analog-ai Research into analog computers at IBM

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English Edition: making software, digital data and other artefacts count in research evaluations has always been a challenge. But there are plenty of people and initiatives like the https://hidden-ref.org in the UK who want to change research culture. And I talked to three people who are working in this field to find out what the challenges are and what they do to make software and digital technologies count (more): Simon Hettrick (Uni Southampton), Jack Atkinson (Uni Cambridge) and Will Swansborough-Aston (Uni Exeter).

Links:

• https://hidden-ref.org/ The Hidden REF
• https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/what-the-ref What the REF podcast
• https://2029.ref.ac.uk/ The Research Excellent Framework for 2029
• https://joss.theoj.org/ The Journal of Open Source Software
• https://data.agu.org/notebooks-now/ Notebooks Now
• https://mystmd.org/guide/quickstart-jupyter-lab-myst Myst markup language in Jupyter
• https://orkg.org/ Open Research Knowledge Graph

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English Edition: It's a new season of Code for Thought. But not just any season. As of January this year, the podcast is 5 years old. And with this short trailer I want to give you a glimpse of what's ahead between now and beginning of July.

Code for Thought is a community podcast. And if you have any ideas, comments or suggestions, get in touch via email

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Thanks for all of your support and thanks for listening.

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Anfang September 2025 wurde der neue Hochleistungsrechner Jupiter in Betrieb genommen, mit viel Fanfaren und Prominenz. Zurecht, denn Jupiter ist der schnellste Rechner in Europa. Aber wie kriegt man so eine Maschine am Laufen? Und wie kann man sie instand halten. Das habe ich mit meinen Gästen Andreas Herten und Benedikt von St Vieth vom Forschungszentrum Jülich diskutiert.

Das ist die letzte Folge der 10. Serie von Code for Thought. Und es geht am 3. Februar 2026 wieder mit der 11. Serie weiter (einschließlich deutschsprachiger Folgen). Alles Gute für die Feiertage und 2026!

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