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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This year's RSE (research software engineering) workshop at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, focused on one theme: continuous benchmarking for high performance computing. Organisers Rene Caspart and Robert Speck tell us how it all went, while keynote speakers Michele Mesiti and Jayesh Badwaik give us concrete examples of how they go about continuous benchmarking - and why.

Links:

• https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/events/2025_06_13-rsehpcatisc.html
• https://exacb.pages.jsc.fz-juelich.de
• https://hpsf.io
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21321
• https://ramble.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html

General links:

• https://www.kit.edu/english/
• https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc
• https://www.nhr-verein.de/en
• https://isc-hpc.com
• https://supercomputing.org

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English Edition: Meet Phil Reed from the University of Manchester and SSI fellow. In my chat with Phil we touch on a number of themes, like how to boost digital skills for people outside the research software domain, like librarians. And look out for Phil's other endeavours (hint: towards the end of the episode).

Links:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/phil-reed Phil's SSI profile
  • This SSI website also has more details on the fellowship programme.
• https://esciencelab.org.uk/people/ the eScience Lab, Uni Manchester
• https://philreeddata.github.io Phil's GitHub
• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4479-715X
• https://elixir-europe.org The Elixir porgramme
• https://carpentries.org
• https://www.simplypsychology.org/blooms-taxonomy.html Something on Bloom's taxonomy
• https://github.com/direct-framework/digital-research-competencies-framework
• https://disc.ac.uk

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English Edition: My guest Bill Kurth and I will go on a space exploration of a special kind: the Voyager probes. Launched in 1977 just a few weeks apart they have now reached interstellar space. Some of the data they send back to Earth are audio - which can tell us a lot about the outer planets like Jupiter or indeed interstellar space, where both Voyagers are now.

Links

• https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/
• https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/voyager/
• https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01363-7 a paper on persistent plasma waves in interstellar space
• https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2025/05/14/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause/ reviving Voyager's thrusters
• https://space-audio.org some of the sounds we heard during the episode (Uni. of Iowa/US)
• https://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/album/planets.html Symphonies of the Planets old homepage
• https://www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/ The Deep Space Network

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Edition française: Guillaume Levrier est chercheur associé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France - Francois Mitterand. Il est l'auteur d'une application Open Source appelée Pandorae. Une application pour simplifier, normaliser et explorer les documents ou données numériques.

Bonne écoute

• https://github.com/Guillaume-Levrier/PANDORAE Pandorae sur GitHub
• https://politique.science
• https://hal.science/hal-04309075v1/document
• https://heritrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html
• https://fluxcd.io
• https://www.electronjs.org
• https://d3js.org
• https://www.istex.fr
• https://www.zotero.org
• https://respadon.hypotheses.org
• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5223-closed-data-open-software-building-new-ways-into-the-french-web-archives/
• https://www.bnf.fr/fr/consulter-les-archives-de-linternet

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