Better Software - Better Research! This is the mission of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) since 2010. To support this, the SSI has been running a fellowship programme. In this episode you'll hear from 3 different fellows from the 2025 cohort about their motivation and plans for their fellowship. Maybe you want to join, too? You can apply for next year's fellowship - 2026 - until 6 October 2025.

Links:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme the fellowship programme's website. Please, go to this page if you think about applying!
• https://mdsimpson42.github.io/converse/ Mike's ConveRSE page on mental health
• https://book.the-turing-way.org The Turing Way Handbook
• https://obsproject.com The tool to create videos
• https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut DeepLabCut app
• https://github.com/talmolab/sleap The SLEAP app

And here are the fellows

• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/esther-plomp Esther Plomp
• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/mike-simpson Mike Simpson
• https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/niko-sirmpilatze Niko Sirmpilatze

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Meet Christian Gutschow, particle physicist and research software engineer at UCL (University College London, UK). Christian is one of the scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN. And together we try to give you a glimpse of what is going on in this massive experiment that tries to unlock the secrets of matter. Software plays a crucial part in this - and at all levels.

Links:

• https://atlas.cern/about an overview of the ATLAS experiment
• https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/33100-christian-gutschow Chris' profile at UCL
• https://opendata.atlas.cern/docs/documentation/monte_carlo/introduction_MC Monte Carlo simulations at ATLAS
• https://home.cern/science/computing/grid the LHC computing grid
• https://www.hepdata.net the repository of High Energy Physics (HEP) experimental data
• https://atlaspo.cern.ch/public/ATLASOrganisation/index.html

Some publications with Chris as author or contributor:

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7610 some rare Standard Model processes
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02793 dark matter signatures
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00950 Monte-Carlo modelling (theoretical physics)
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13154 GPU acceleration/common file format for HPC
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05451 project RIVET to preserve data, see also
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15984
• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4809-efficient-histogramming-for-high-performance-computing-in-c-with-yoda/ efficient histogramming - a presentation at FOSDEM 25

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The Code Refinery has been training researchers on how to write better software since 2016. In this episode Samantha Wittke, Richard Darst and Radovan Bast tell us how it all started, how CodeRefinery is run and what's in store for the future.

Do look out for their workshops for September and October 2025.

Links:

• https://coderefinery.org/ The CodeRefinery home page
• https://coderefinery.github.io/2025-09-09-workshop/ list of the forthcoming workshops Sept/Oct

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