English Edition: In this last English episode of this season, I'd like to introduce you to the three Software Sustainability Institute fellows for this year: Deborah Udoh, Jyoti Boghal and Sangeeta Bathia. All three have ambitious goals for their fellowship ranging from training, building networks to public health.

I'd like to thank the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK for supporting this episode and indeed the podcast in general.

Note: there will be a short break after the next German language episode. The new season will start on 3 February 2026.

Have a great holiday and I wish you all a Happy New Year.

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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

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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

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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

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Connecting instruments and managing data transfer between machines is bread and butter stuff for scientists. But you don't want to do the same thing each time you get a new machine or change to another one. Which is why my guest Sébastien Weber from Toulouse, France, created PyMoDAQ, an Open Source Python tool to help you with automating all of that.

Links:

• https://pymodaq.cnrs.fr/en/latest/
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGdoHByMKfIdn-N51goippSSP_9iG4wds YouTube playlist
• https://jt-pymodaq25.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
• https://github.com/PyMoDAQ/PyMoDAQ GitHub repo
• https://github.com/CEMES-CNRS/pymodaq_plugin_manager

Papers:

• https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0032116 Review of scientific instruments paper
• https://www.scientia.global/dr-sebastien-weber-pymodaq-navigating-the-future-of-data-acquisition/
• https://www.photoniques.com/articles/photon/pdf/2024/06/photon2024129p25.pdf

Some of the technology stack:

• https://www.pyqtgraph.org Python QT interface
• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/
• https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro PyQT

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Job interviews and coding tests are daunting. But most of us have to go through them at least once in our lives. Like Mike Mroczka, my guest, who is a software engineer. To share his experiences and help others he wrote a book how to get on top of coding interviews: "Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview".

I met with Mike to discuss how interviewing and testing coding skills have changed, what the common pitfalls are that candidates should look out for and what it is we can do to prepare ourselves for the (coding) interview.

Links:

• https://www.mikemroczka.com Mike's home page
• https://www.beyondctci.com the book's homepage
  • https://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com Cracking the Coding Interview book
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/daisyaugerdominguez/2025/06/29/when-to-change-jobs/ article on people changing jobs
• https://interviewing.io
• https://codesignal.com
• https://www.hackerrank.com
• https://leetcode.com
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKu_SEDAykw Google example interview
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1OLMjG52I Monty Python's Silly Job Interview sketch

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For this week's episode I met with (some of) the core developers behind Quarto, an open source tool for scientific publishing: Carlos Scheidegger, Gordon Woodhull and Christophe Dervieux. Listen to our chat and find out more what Quarto is, how it works and what's in store for the future.

Links

• https://quarto.org
• https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli
• https://github.com/typst/typst
• https://posit.co Posit, the company behind Quarto
  • https://posit.co/blog/announcing-quarto-a-new-scientific-and-technical-publishing-system/ the announcement of Quarto 2022

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Deutsche Ausgabe: mein Gast diese Woche ist Eric Upschulte vom FZJ (Forschungszentrum Jülich) der mit seiner Software CellDetection den Preis für die Software des Monats April 2025 ausgezeichnet wurde (neben anderen Preisen). Was genau CellDetection macht, und das man es auch für total andere Gebiete verwenden kann, erfahrt Ihr in dieser Folge.

Links:

• https://github.com/FZJ-INM1-BDA/celldetection GitHub Repo
  • https://docs.celldetection.org/en/latest/ Dokumentation
  • https://helmholtz.software/software/celldetection
• https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/rse/community-initiatives/jurse-code-of-the-month/april-2025 Die Preisauschreibung für den Monat April
• https://neurips22-cellseg.grand-challenge.org CellDetection auf der NeurIPS.

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