Researchers: ditch conda, embrace uv

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Originally published on Substack on October 5, 2025.

If you’re a graduate student like me who writes a lot of code and you haven’t read Patrick Mineault’s Good Research Code Handbook, I highly recommend it. It’s an approachable guide built on a simple premise: organizing your code saves you from frustration, makes your research more reproducible, and, most importantly, frees up your limited mental energy to focus on actual research problems. How you structure your code is how you think, and skipping a 30-minute project setup can cost you hours of refactoring later.

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Researchers: ditch conda, embrace uv