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Posts by Thomas Bock

Understanding the Impact of Research Software Engineers on Scientific Software Development: A Mixed-Methods Study (SERS 2026) - ICSE 2026 1st International Workshop onSoftware Engineering and Research Software (SERS 2026) Tuesday, 14 April 2026 Software enables critical research in a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. Yet those who write this “research software” are often disconnected from the software engineering research (SER) community, whose research does not focus on the unique challenges of research software. This initial Software Engineering and Research Software (SERS) in-person workshop aims to bring the particular needs of research software engineering to, and those who write that software into, the ...

Here are the details for my talk at SERS on Tuesday, April 14, at 9:57 in Oceania III:
conf.researchr.org/details/icse...

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Here are the details for my ICPC talk in Sunday, April 12, at 14:25 in Europa II:
conf.researchr.org/details/icpc...

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On my way to Rio for #ICSE2026 where I will give 2 talks:

Sunday, April 12, 14:25, Europa2 Understanding the Low Inter-Rater Agreement on Aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List

Tuesday, April 14, 9:57, Oceania3 Understanding the Impact of Research Software Engineers on Scientific Software

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Too long to read?

Here's a podcast about the highlights of our article on understanding aggressiveness on the LKML:

🎙️ www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/S...

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💡 We need more research to understand different forms and causes of aggressiveness to automatically detect aggressiveness in written communication.
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💡 There are multiple potential causes for human disagreement, but there is no discernible general theme.
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➡️ Our insights:

💡Humans’ perceptions differ widely, thus aggregating human annotations is not reliable.
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Understanding aggressiveness on the Linux Kernel Mailing List: Why can’t humans agree on what makes an e-mail aggressive? Check out our recently published paper with Niklas Schneider, Angelika Schmid, @svenapel.bsky.social, and @janetsiegmund.bsky.social:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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