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Thomas Bock

@bockthom.bsky.social

Post-Doctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, PhD from Saarland University

Thomas Bock @bockthom.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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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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 ...

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Thomas Bock @bockthom.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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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Thomas Bock @bockthom.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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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Thomas Bock @bockthom.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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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Thomas Bock @bockthom.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

💡 We need more research to understand different forms and causes of aggressiveness to automatically detect aggressiveness in written communication. (4/4)

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Thomas Bock @bockthom.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

💡 There are multiple potential causes for human disagreement, but there is no discernible general theme. (3/4)

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Thomas Bock @bockthom.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

➡️ Our insights: 💡Humans’ perceptions differ widely, thus aggregating human annotations is not reliable. (2/4)

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Thomas Bock @bockthom.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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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