English Edition: How can we preserve data not for years, but for centuries, perhaps even millennia? Meet the Arctic World Archive (AWA), located on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen part of the Svalbard archipelago. I met with the 2 co-founders, Rune Bjerkestrand and Katrina Leon to find out what's behind AWA and how data can be preserved for the longterm.

Links

• https://arcticworldarchive.org
• https://piql.com the PIQL way of storing data on film
• https://archiveprogram.github.com/faq/ GitHub is on AWA
• https://www.seedvault.no/ The Global Seed Vault on the same island
• https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/ Storing data in glass - Microsoft's Project Silica
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism the Antikythera mechanism - an object found in 1901 and seemingly an ancient (analog) computer

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English edition: As part of our ByteSized series, we are going through some of the (many) aspects of AI assisted coding with my guests Robert Chatley (Imperial College London, UK), Reece Walsh (Newcastle Uni., UK) and Faruk Diblen (eScience Centre, Amsterdam, NL).

Links:

• https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/agentic-coding/ A good run-through of agentic coding by MIT/USA
• https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AgenticProgramming.html Martin Fowler on agentic coding
• https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/agent-pull-requests-are-everywhere-heres-how-to-review-them/ here's GitHub's suggestions on how to deal with AI generated pull requests
• https://github.com/fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills Faruk Diblen's set of SKILLS for research software engineering
  • https://ai-declaration.org and here is Faruk's AI declaration website and tool
• https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/getting-started/intro Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic
• https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/report/AI-Assisted_Software_Development_Policy_for_UCL_Advanced_Research_Computing/34070631?file=69660984 an example policy of how to deal with AI assisted coding tools - from UCL (University College London, UK)

ByteSized dRTP is part of the STEP-UP project and I would like to thank them for supporting this show.

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English Edition: scikit-learn is THE open source programming library for all things machine-learning. And since 2024, it is the core part of a company called :probabl.

What this means for the millions of users of scikit-learn and the many contributors is something we find out in this episode, where I talk to Marie Sacksick (skore), Arturo Amor (skolar) and Yann Lechelle (president and co-founder of :probabl.).

Links:

• https://www.probabl.ai Home page for :probabl.
• https://probabl.ai/skore Skore
  • https://github.com/probabl-ai/skore GitHub repo for skore
• https://scikit-learn.org/stable/about.html scikit-learn Python library
• https://blog.probabl.ai/intel-and-probabl-announce-collaboration-to-accelerate-scikit-learn-on-intel-hardware Collaboration between Intel and :probabl.
• https://scikit-learn-central.probabl.ai/#/catalog The central catalogue
  • https://github.com/probabl-ai/scikit-learn-central GitHub repo
• https://skolar.probabl.ai/ skolar, the certification programme
• https://inria.github.io/scikit-learn-mooc/ the INRIA MOOC for scikit-learn
• https://skrub-data.org/stable/ skrub (another project at :probabl.)
  • https://github.com/skrub-data/skrub

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English Edition: PsychoPy is an open source library widely used in behavioural sciences. I met with Jonathan Peirce, author and psychology researcher himself, about what the library does and how he, and his team, manage to keep it running while still doing research.

Links

• https://psychopy.org the homepage for the library
  • https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy GitHub repo
• https://opensciencetools.org the company behind PsychoPy
• https://pavlovia.org Pavlovia - run your experiments online

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Deutsche Ausgabe: In der Woche vom 1. Juni fand in Berlin eine Woche zum Thema Forschungssoftware statt - mit Trainingsprogrammen und Meetups. Dazu gehörte auch der erste RSE (Research Software Engineering) Tag in Berlin. Hier hört Ihr von den Organisatoren Claudia Göbel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9785-4154 ) und Alexander Struck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1173-9228) wie das so gelaufen ist.

Links

• Webseiten der Events:
  • https://forschungssoftware.info/RSdays/2026/Berlin/
  • https://forschungssoftware.info/RSweeks/2026/
• https://zenodo.org/communities/rsday2026/ Materialsammlung zum Research Software Day 2026 Berlin & Brandenburg
• https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/researchsoftwaredaybbb Mailingliste zur Organisation zukünftiger Research Software Days in B & BB
• https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/research-quality/core/index.html Center for Open and Responsible Research der BUA (Berlin University Alliance)
• https://www.matters-of-activity.de/ Exzellenzcluster Matters of Activity. Image Space Material
• https://de-rse.org de-RSE e.V. – Gesellschaft für Forschungssoftware

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English Edition: Andre Piza is one of the authors of the paper: "Towards a National Research Software Engineering Capability in Arts and Humanities Research: A Roadmap". And in this episode Andre tells us what this roadmap contains and how this benefits digital skills in the arts and humanities domain.

Links:

• https://zenodo.org/records/15083396 the original paper
• https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FU000019%2F1#/tabOverview funding of the project by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UK
• https://www.diskah.org DISKAH initiative
• https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/remit-programmes-and-priorities/convergent-screen-technologies-and-performance-in-realtime-costar/costar-national-lab/ CoStar initiative
• https://www.riches.ukri.org Riches initiative

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English Edition: The Institut for Research Software (formerly the Software Sustainability Institute) in the UK can look back on a long tradition of promoting 'better software, better research'. A key element of this is the fellowship. Together with my guests Oscar Seip and Shoaib Sufi (both from the University of Manchester) we explore the history of the fellowship and how it evolved over time.

NOTE: applications for the next round of fellowship is OPEN until 5 October 2026.

Links:

• https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme this is the entry for the fellowship programme. Look here for finding out how to apply etc
• https://www.software.ac.uk/ssi-fellows-mentorship the mentorship at the Institute for Research Software
• https://we-are-ols.org Open Life Science initiative supporting the mentorship programme at the Institute for Research Software

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English Edition: Just in time for the RSE conference in Sheffield 2026 here a portrait of one of the larger groups of digital research professionals in the UK: the team of the Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) at University College London (UCL). Because of its size, I met with a number of staff from different parts of the departments: Jonathan Cooper, Harry Moss, Mahmoud Abdelrazek, Milan Malfait, Stella Prins, Camilla Harris and Hollie Rowland.

Links:

• https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing
• https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/our-people
• https://www.pris-managers.ac.uk the PRISM network in the UK

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