Carpentries Clippings, 5 May 2021

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Community News & Updates from Our Committees / Task Forces

100 Carpentries Member Organisations - THANK YOU! 
The Carpentries recently reached a momentous milestone-- we have 100 member organisations. Thank you to our entire community for your support. If you have ever attended or taught a workshop, added feedback to a lesson, shared something about The Carpentries on social media, or any of the other amazing things our community has done, you are to thank for this milestone.

African Carpentries Community Monthly Meetups
The African Carpentries Community monthly meetups have been running since 2017. In these calls,  community members discuss topics that are of interest to Carpentries instructors in the African context, including available resources, opportunities, events, and more. You are welcome to join our next community call on 27 May 2021 12:00 - 13:00 SAST/10:00-11:00 UTC. You can register your interest to attend in our Etherpad. To join the conversation about The Carpentries in Africa, sign up at Topicbox and join the Slack channel #african-carpentries.

What You May Have Missed on The Carpentries Blog

Library Carpentry's Journey: Seeding the Future
In this post, Al Obayuwana and Catherine Nancarrow highlight Library Carpentry's expansion, partly funded and supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to the California Digital Library

Introducing Michael Culshaw-Maurer
In this post, The Carpentries welcomes Dr. Michael Culshaw-Maurer as a joint postdoctoral researcher with CyVerse, including a message from Michael

Core Team 'Acc-athon' to Add Alt Text Across Carpentries Curricula 
In this post, Core Team members Karen Word and Kelly Barnes highlight  the Core Team 'Acc-athon' at the end of March led by Erin Becker to add and improve alt text across Carpentries Lessons.

Community Opportunity Postings

• The University of Arizona School of Natural Resources & the Environment is hiring a Assistant/Associate Professor of Practice to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in data science and natural resources.

• Data for Black Lives, an organization “committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people” is hiring a Managing Director.

• Invest in Open Infrastructure, an organization “dedicated to improving funding and resourcing for open technologies and systems supporting research and scholarship” is hiring for a Research Data Analyst.

• Data Dryad is looking for an Executive Director and Data Curator.

• Clark Atlanta University in the US is hiring for the following positions:

  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Machine Learning(007-21)

  • Assistant/Associate Professor: Cyber Physical Systems(085-20)

  • Assistant Professor: Math(035-21)

  • Assistant Professor: Math II(036-21)

  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Decision Science and Supply Chain Management(022-20)

• Morehouse College in the US is hiring for the following positions:

• The Harvard University, School of Public Health is accepting applications for a Research Associate - Bioinformatics Trainer and Analyst.

• Stanford Libraries is hiring a Head of Software and Services. 

• University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US is hiring a Director for the Data Science Institute.

• North Carolina State University in the US is hiring a Research Solutions Consultant.

• Assistant/Associate Professor-Bioinformatician

• Director I, Data Analytics and Integrity

• The Morehouse School of Medicine is hiring for the following positions:

• Assistant Professor of Data Science/Analytics (Tenure Track)

• Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computational Physics/Data Science (Tenure Track)

• Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology (Statistics/ Data Analytics/Social Justice Tenure Track)

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