For spring break, or even not for spring break, this was a busy week. I gave a Physics Colloquium, Schrödinger’s code: Opening the computational box, at Michigan Tech on Thursday; links to the slides, resources/sources, etc. are available online. It was a new talk, and though I could repurpose some slides from various other talks, creating new slides and working out the flow took a good bit of time. The colloquium was scheduled between two meetings of the SciCodes consortium. More about SciCodes is below.

Three code entries from our backlog were edited, assigned ASCL IDs, and moved in production, and three new codes were added to our staged (unpublished) entries. We have hundreds of entries staged; some of these don’t yet meet our criteria and may never do so. Thirty-one entries were curated and social media random code entries have been scheduled through March 31. One would think that scheduling these random code entries would be quick, but it took over three hours to stage the eleven needed to finish out the month, as entry curation is part of this work.

The SciCodes consortium holds two meetings on the same day to accommodate different time zones; members can attend either an early or late meeting. After the early meeting, a couple of people stayed in the Zoom so we could talk, as several people new to the group had questions. The meeting made clear that I had not prepared any on-boarding assistance, so that will have to be corrected.

This coming week, I will send out meeting minutes for the SciCodes meeting, try to figure out what I need to do to get the SciCodes web domain working again, meet virtually with a colleague (I hope) about our NASA project, and spend some number of hours getting a new machine set up, as it is supposed to arrive early in the week. I’m sure I’ll be thrilled with it once it’s set up, right? I’ll also be going back to my office at UMD part of one day this week; it’ll be only the second time I’ll have been in it since before last year’s spring break.