Talk announcement: How software development shaped the way I write science (National eScience Symposium)

A few months ago, I informally presented an earlier version of this talk at the Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC). Two remarkable things happened after that:

1. Now I am an eScience Engineer at NLeSC.
2. They invited me to give the talk again. This time in a less informal setting: the National eScience Symposium, and in a less informal venue: the Ajax stadium

Title

How software development shaped the way I write science

Abstract

When we say that scientific papers are complex, we tend to think that their contents are complex. While this is true, there is much more: a paper itself is a complex form of communication. In this short talk I'll explain how my years in the industry of software development dramatically changed the way I write scientific publications.

Spacetime coordinates

• 21 November. Johan Cruijff Arena, Amsterdam. FAIR software session. Registration required

Links

• Slides temporarily available here

Key references

1. My research workflow, based on GitHub. Carl Boettiger. Available here
2. Wilson G, Aruliah DA, Brown CT, Chue Hong NP, Davis M, Guy RT, et al. Best Practices for Scientific Computing. Eisen JA, editor. PLoS Biol [Internet]. 2014 Jan 7. Available here
3. Galileo's instruments of credit. Telescopes, images, secrecy. Mario Biagioli.
4. Rodríguez-Sánchez P. PabRod/rolldown. 2019. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2591550
5. Rodríguez-Sánchez P, van Nes EH, Scheffer M. Climbing Escher’s stairs: a simple quasi-potential algorithm for weakly non-gradient systems. 2019 Mar 13. Available from: http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05615