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⭐ Whether you’re looking for research partners, hiring talent, solving technical problems, or contributing expertise back to the academic open source community, UC Open 2026 connects university innovation with real-world application.

Join us on April 22-23 in Berkeley!
ucospo.net/events/uc-op...

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This Friday, April 10 - BIDS and @berkeleyischool.bsky.social welcome Kyle Booten to campus for his Cultural Analytics talk "Writing With and Beyond AI: Fieldnotes from Computer-Mediated Poetry"

👉 Join us online or in person!
www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...

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⭐ Join BIDS, UC technologists, researchers, staff, and open source maintainers at the UC Open Summit in Berkeley, April 22-23 -- with MANY opportunities to learn and share!

Get details about guest speakers, panels, & breakout sessions, and register free ➡️ ucospo.net/events/uc-op...

#UCOSPO

Explore "Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans" by BIDS Affiliates @ninabegus.bsky.social and @begus.bsky.social

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💡 Seminars, meetups and workshops on #Connected #DataProducts, #CulturalAnalytics and #OpenScience.

events.berkeley.edu/BIDS

⚖️ Deadline 5 April: Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System and Computational Social Science training program applications (only eligible for @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social PhD students).

berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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🚨 Recap "The Wandering Officer: New Databases for Police Accountability" event, hosted by the California Law Enforcement Accountability Network (CLEAN) and Human Rights Data Analysis Group, @hrdag.org.

bids.berkeley.edu/news/wanderi...

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📖 Read our 2025 BIDS #AnnualReport and how open collaboration and our AI Futures Lab are benefiting science and society.

bids.berkeley.edu/annual-repor...

University of California Open Summit (UC Open) 2026 - UC OSPO Network The Second Annual UC Open celebrating open source throughout the UC system: 22 & 23 April 2026 – UC Berkeley

👋 Join us at UC Open Summit in Berkeley, April 22-23.

Register for free ASAP as places are filling up!

ucospo.net/events/uc-op...

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💌 BIDS's monthly newsletter is out!

Read and subscribe at: mailchi.mp/berkeley/thi...

Big Give 2026 March 12

Today is also the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #CalBigGive - Gifts of every size help BIDS sustain and maintain open source communities benefitting science and society.

givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/1...

Our activities ➡️ @jupyter.org @scientific-python.org ecosystems, cultural analytics, sociology & the criminal justice system.

That link again: bids.berkeley.edu/annual-repor...

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🎊 We are proud to share our 2025 Annual Report, a celebration of our collaborators, alumni, and supporters + BIDS impact: bids.berkeley.edu/annual-repor...

@fernandoperez.org #OpenSource

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🎟️ March 17-20: BIDS is co-hosting a week talks and discussions on multimodal models for the study of culture with the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social and UCB Dept of Scandinavian.

Join us either in person or at the online talks!

www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/cultu...

#CulturalAnalytics

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The Wandering Officer: New Databases for Police Accountability

Discussions around the CLEAN database - how data and storytelling can drive social impact and systemic change.

➡️ Special thanks to @hrdag.org for recording the event!

bids.berkeley.edu/news/wanderi...

I am Troubled Mar 6, 2026, 12:15 pm - Bob L. T. Sturm is an associate professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and the PI of the MUSAiC project.

Join us THIS FRIDAY online or in person: @bobltsturm.bsky.social presents "I am Troubled"

Talk & discussion are part of the #CulturalAnalytics speaker series, co-hosted by BIDS and the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social

Register now 🍿🥤!
www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...

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📣 This week at the #OSPO Knowledge Exchange on Zoom: Roadmap Workshop for #JupyterHub and Binder Share Out

Learn how the JupyterHub team’s reflections can be applied in your projects with guest @arielleb.bsky.social !

events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

#UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience

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🌱 AGU25: Open source geospatial workflows in the cloud ☁

Sessions at #AGU25 created space for sharing practical tools, learning together, and building community around reproducible and open geospatial science.

Read the recap!
bids.berkeley.edu/news/bids-ag...

#GeoJupyter @schmidtdse.bsky.social

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Inspiring talk and deep-dive discussion "AI Fiction in the Wild" with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, which explored how authors writing fiction-based stories are responding to AI through creativity, critique, and experimentation. 📚💡

Recap + recording here!
bids.berkeley.edu/news/melanie...

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🎟️ OSPO monthly meetup THIS THURSDAY: Open science as a process, not a product

Our guest Tasha Snow will share insights from the CryoCloud JupyterHub community and broader cross-agency collaborations.

Join us for the fireside chat and community gathering time! 🍿 🥤 bit.ly/3MKuDuN

#UCOSPO

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🌟 We are thrilled to have six new Berkeley students joining BIDS as interns! We look forward to their collaboration with our community and support at monthly events.

Hear what they're interested in and meet them at our events:
bids.berkeley.edu/news/welcomi...

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BIDS in 2025: Gathering at JupyterCon 2025 to build community and contribute to the future

➡️ Impacts on health & geoscience research, data science education, Jupyter infrastructure

💡 Thoughts on the Jupyter Ecosystem as the platform for a future of scientific computing

More here: bit.ly/4j3lbye

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🌟 BIDS in 2025: Bringing people together to share open source knowledge at the Berkeley OSPO events

Monica Bobra (CA Office of Data & Innovation) joined us for an engaging discussion focused on open source data & the impact it has on real people.

Learn more about her work: bit.ly/4oXrwN3

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🤝 BIDS in 2025: AI Futures Lab: Forging a new direction for collaborative innovation

A hub for groundbreaking research and collaboration at the intersection of AI, science and society.

🎟️ Event plans for 2026 are heating up! Join the announcement list: bids-aifutureslab+subscribe@lists.berkeley.edu

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⭐ BIDS in 2025: CLEAN: Creating tools to increase data transparency and accessibility

We celebrate the CLEAN initiative team and their groundbreaking California Police Records Access Project!

🔎 Learn more and access the database on news sites:
journalism.berkeley.edu/berkeley-and...

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✨ BIDS in 2025: Cultural Analytics: Data-driven analysis of cultural phenomena

🎦 Read the highlights and then watch the entire talk from @manvir.bsky.social “Universality and Diversity in Story and Song”! bit.ly/48CyIYG

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🌟 BIDS in 2025: Making geospatial data analysis and exploration free, open source, & accessible to everyone

@geojupyter.bsky.social led by the teams at BIDS, @schmidtdse.bsky.social, @quantstack.bsky.social, @2i2c.org and @developmentseed.org

➡️ Hackathon highlights - geojupyter.org/blog/2025090...

Join us tomorrow, Dec 4 @ 10am PST!
register now -> events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

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🌟 BIDS in 2025: Welcoming a new executive director

In January, Kirstie Whitaker (@kirstiejane.bsky.social) joined BIDS as executive director. Her leadership has brought a wave of excitement to the BIDS community!

➡️ Hear more from Kirstie in an early interview with CDSS: bit.ly/4pNSSpL

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🌟 BIDS in 2025
Fast and effective connections: the NetworkX developers’ retreat in February 2025

➡️ Check out the write up to understand more about how this open source Python package is enabling AI innovation around the world: bids.berkeley.edu/news/fast-an...