Code for Thought

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://ligm.univ-eiffel.fr/~teresa/presoft/ another template of a SMP from Teresa Gomez-Diaz (Paris, France) - PRESOFThttps://zenodo.org/records/1405614

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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