In our daily work, small self-made scripts (e.g. Python, R, Bash), home-grown small applications (e.g. GIS Plugins) and small hardware devices significantly help us to get work done. These little helpers -"little minions" (Thiery et al., 2021) – often reduce our workload or optimise our workflows, although they are not often presented to the outside world and the research community. Instead, we generally focus on presenting the results of our research and silently use our small tools during our

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... research, without even pointing to them, and especially not to the source code or building instructions. This session will focus on these small helpers – "little minions" – and we invite researchers to share their tools, so that the scientific community may benefit and – perhaps – create spontaneously "special minion interest groups"...