🎉📖 Applications are open for The Turing Way Book Dash: 18th & 19th May 2026!
Deadline: 27th April 2026 (midnight, anywhere on Earth 🌏)
The Turing Way Book Dash is a collaborative event where you'll work with others to add to and improve The Turing Way book and become a part of its community ✨
The RSECon26 Call for Submissions is open! Share the tools you build and the RSE practices you are advancing. We welcome talks, workshops, and posters from all domains. Check the guidelines and submit your proposals today! Link: rsecon26.society-rse.org/calls/submis... #RSECon26
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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
❓Did you know that you can donate your own better images of AI to our library?
If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽
blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...
Happy New Year! If you've got FOMO from #RSEcon25 you can catch all the videos of sessions online now!
Including my workshop sessions on open source in academia:
youtu.be/PSRTMScz3Tg?...
And one of my favourite sessions on accessibility testing for software (with geese!): youtu.be/M-5KPeUtTys?...
As you might be able to tell from the subject matter, I'm not a 100% AI skeptic, but this is a feature no one asked for, which makes no ones life better.
A tab selection of four files which all read "Business applications of Artificial Intelligence". Helpful.
Reviewing case study PDFs in Adobe, and it's "helpfully" given me an AI summary of the file contents.
INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL FILE NAME WHICH HELPS ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SEPARATE FILES.
🚨NEW INQUIRY!
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
You will be visited by three spirits.
Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors
◾ The first DisCouRSE Focus Group on Team Culture and Leadership in dRTP contexts will be held on Monday, 19 January at King’s College London. The session will explore how leadership can influence a healthy team culture in a dRTP context. Find out more:
www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
🗼 Last Community Forum of the year happening on the 10th December!
Join us for a great celebration of the year and check our plans for 2026!!
Whether you're an experienced contributor or just curious about our project... register and get your invite!
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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So much activity at #JupyterCon 2025 -> tutorials 🧠, meetups 🤝, talks 🎤! Thankfully, Silas Santini captured some highlights and shared some valuable resources!
Read "Themes of Day 1, JupyterCon 2025: Collaboration and Modularity" for details:
bids.berkeley.edu/news/themes-...
New York Times graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships.
WSJ graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships.
FT graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships.
Bloomberg graphic depicting circular nature of OpenAI investments and business relationships.
We now have multiple visualizations of this phenomenon from various news organizations. Which one is the best?
Last year @turingway.bsky.social took part in an ethnographic study on hybrid hackathons and the paper is finally out for folks to read!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(see if you can guess which one we are 😁)
As if I didn't have enough to do this week, outlook has changed the location of the flag & delete buttons - such a small change but so rage inducing and jarring every, single. time.
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
A great opportunity for people working on career pathways and leadership for digital research professionals. Perhaps something for @ukiedh.bsky.social or @turingway.bsky.social to explore?
discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...
Slides from my #RSECon25 workshop "From Code to Contributions: Exploring Open Source in Academia" are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1709...
Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!
kicking off day 2 of #RSECon25 with a fantastic keynote on the power of recognition - if you've ever needed three different metaphors for the difference in scale between publications and software submissions to REF, this talk is for you!
slides.com/simonhettric...
Photo of the keynote speaker. Slide in the background says: “If we don't recognise everyone who is vital to research, we limit our ability to conduct research.”
“I built my entire career by putting blindingly obvious things on slides.”
—Simon Hettrick
#RSECon25
FRIDGE, A ready-to-use SATRE compliant TRE that can be deployed to AIRR
FRIDGE, SATRE and AIRR at #RSEcon25
#TrustedResearchEnvironments
Looking forward to a day of talking open source - first with UCL, CURIOSS & CHAOSS folks, then I'm running a workshop as part of my @softwaresaved.bsky.social Fellowship!
V1 of slides is on Zenodo now: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
A white woman with brown hair wearing round wire glasses and red lipstick in front of a projection screen with RSECon25 9th Annual conference for Research Sofware Engineering in a lecture hall
Slide in a lecture hall showing a blue and organge graphic with the title the rise of open source in research, Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Excited to kick off #RSEcon25 (my first!) with a great keynote from @amandabrock.bsky.social from @openuk.bsky.social on open source in research software, great whistle stop tour through the naunces of open source and an update on the policy work OpenUK is doing with UK gov on promoting open source
A reminder that there are two Call for Proposals out from the Jupyter Foundation!
👉 Jupyter Community Workshops: blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-comm...
👉 Jupyter Community Support funding: blog.jupyter.org/your-ideas-o...
Check them out and share the word!
I swear I used to be able to wake up early at the weekend and be like “oop I don’t need to be awake” and go back to sleep for a bit now it’s like “oh we’re awake, that’s it then, the day has started motherfucker” is this what getting old is
