
Text Augmentation for NLP – Kenneth Enevoldsen on Augmenty
#12: Kenneth Enevoldsen joins Arfon and Abby to discuss Augmenty, a python library for text augmentation, balancing contributor-friendliness with maintainability in open source, and which danishes he ...
13 Jun 202427min

From COVID to Commuting – Fred Shone on Population Activity Modeller (PAM)
#11: Fred Shone joins Arfon and Abby to discuss his journey from engineer to economist to data scientist to PhD student, the development of Population Activity Model (PAM) including the evolution fro...
30 Mai 202430min

Defect Structure Searching – Irea Mosquera-Lois and Seán Kavanagh on ShakeNBreak
#10: Irea Mosquera-Lois and Seán Kavanagh join Arfon and Abby to discuss releasing software based on important research observations, earning a PhD, and building ShakeNBreak, a defect structure search...
16 Mai 202427min

Reproducibility in Neuroscience – Mats van Es on FieldTrip reproducescript
#9: Mats van Es joins Arfon and Abby to discuss reproducible science and the functionality he added to FieldTrip, a MATLAB software toolbox for analyzing brain imaging data. Mats is a cognitive neu...
2 Mai 202426min

Deep Learning for 3D Protein Structure Predictions – Giulia Crocioni on DeepRank2
#8: Giulia Crocioni joins Arfon and Abby to discuss DeepRank2, a deep learning framework for 3D protein structure predictions. Giulia is a Research Software Engineer at the Netherlands eScience Cente...
18 Apr 202428min

Adding Defect Analysis to the Materials Project – Jimmy Shen on pymatgen-analysis-defects
#7: Jimmy Shen sat down with Arfon and Abby to discuss the role of defect analysis in semiconductor research, the Materials Project, and the development of pymatgen-analysis-defects. Jimmy is a postdo...
4 Apr 202422min

Streamlining Molecular Dynamics – Marjan Albooyeh and Chris Jones on FlowerMD
#6: Marjan Albooyeh and Chris Jones chat with Arfon and Abby about their experience building FlowerMD, an open-source library of recipes for molecular dynamics workflows. Marjan and Chris are both gra...
21 Mar 202426min

Rewrite in Rust – Gui Castelão and Luiz Irber on Gibbs SeaWater Oceanographic Toolbox in Rust
#5: Gui Castelão and Luiz Irber join Arfon and Abby to discuss their work implementing the Gibbs Sea Water Oceanographic Toolbox of TEOS-10 in Rust, and the role of instrument builders in science. Gui...
7 Mar 202436min


















