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| Carpentries Clippings, 27 February |
|  | Carpentries community members at Aotearoa/New Zealand CarpentryConnect event in February 2025. Image provided by Nisha Nisha Ghatak. |
| | | | This month we wish to express our gratitude to the outgoing members of our Board of Directors (previously Executive Council) whose terms concluded on 1 February 2025. They are John Chodacki (board member since 2023; Executive Council member since 2021), Konrad Förstner (board member since 2023; Executive Council member since 2020), Michael Smith (board member since 2023; Executive Council member since 2021), and Sarah Stevens (board member since 2023; Executive Council member since 2021).
We also extend our gratitude to the to all the new and continuing Board members, we are so happy and privileged to have all of you! We thank you for all the work that you do for The Carpentries! |
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| Do you have a gratitude to share? We would love to feature it. Email community@carpentries.org to have it posted to our newsletter. |
| | Updates from The Carpentries Core Team
Important changes to our Self-Organised workshops.
We have made changes to our Self-Organised workshops, along with updates to how they are processed. Among these changes are a definition for Self-Organised workshops and the introduction of a fee for AWS instances used in Genomics workshops. Please visit our blog to learn more. |
| | A new Carpentries donations platform.
If you became a donor before 1 February 2025, when The Carpentries was still a fiscally sponsored project, your donation to The Carpentries was processed through FundRazr, a donations platform registered under and managed by our fiscal sponsor, Community Initiatives. The Carpentries transitioned out of fiscal sponsorship to independent status on 1 February, and we adopted a new donations platform, Zeffy, that is directly managed by The Carpentries.
We have discontinued your recurring donation on FundRazr and kindly ask you to reinstate it on our new donation platform.
We are grateful for your past financial support to The Carpentries, and await your continued support through Zeffy.
With continuing gratitude, Kari L. Jordan & Erin Becker The Carpentries Executive Team |
| | 5 March: Breaking Language Barriers in Data Science: Glosario Codefest Event
In data science and programming, breaking down language barriers is pivotal for creating an inclusive learning environment. This event encourages new contributions to Glosario from our governance and global community.
📅 Date & Time: 5 March 2025, 15:00 UTC 🌍 Find Your Local Time 📅 Add to Calendar
This co-working session is a continuation of the work during the Glosario CodeFest 2024. To join, please sign up on the Glosario Etherpad. |
| | | | 25 March: LLMs for Data Science discussion series.
In January and February, The Carpentries hosted a short series of monthly community discussions on a theme of LLMs for Data Science. These sessions provide a platform for community members to share their ideas, experience, questions, and concerns about teaching generative AI methods and tools, and further inform The Carpentries’ strategy in this area.
Our Director of Curriculum, Toby Hodges, has reported back on January’s sessions on the topic of The Ethics of Teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) in Carpentries Workshops. A report on the February 25th sessions, on the topic of LLMs for Data Science: Essential Knowledge and Common Misconceptions, will be released in the coming weeks.
The third and last sessions for the quarter will be on LLMs for Data Science: Case Studies to Inform Carpentries Curriculum, and will take place as follows:
1st session: 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 25 March, 12:00 UTC 🌍 Find Your Local Time 📅 Add to Calendar
2nd session: 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 25 March, 21:00 UTC: 🌍 Find Your Local Time 📅 Add to Calendar
You can sign up to join these discussions on the Community Sessions Etherpad.
Please join us! |
| | Request for Proposals - Catalytic Awards ProgramWith support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) is excited to announce the Catalytic Awards Program. This initiative offers grants up to $15,000 USD per proposal for projects promoting a culture of open scholarship at U.S.-based non-R1 and/or traditionally under-resourced institutions. Awarded projects may include open science, open research, open data, and other open-sharing practices that promote transparency, reproducibility, community engagement, and collaboration in science, as well as practices that foster an inclusive, innovative, transparent, and trustworthy research environment. Key Details: Application Deadline: 15 March 2025 Award Amount: Grants up to $15,000 Eligible Applicants: Scholars and staff members affiliated with non-R1 or traditionally under-resourced institutions in the U.S.
Encourage your network to apply! Feel free to reach out to eunice@orcaopen.org for further information. |
| | What you may have missed on The Carpentries blog |
| Outcomes of the 2024 Membership Model Task Force
Between August and December 2024, The Carpentries convened a Membership Model Task Force to explore key questions about aligning services with member organisation needs, defining success, and balancing revenue generation with community engagement. This blog post reports on the task force’s recommendations and future plans to implement them. |
| | Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee Approves the Introduction to MarcEdit lesson
The Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee has approved the new beta Introduction to MarcEdit lesson. The lesson demonstrates using MarcEdit to profile, manipulate, and enhance library data in the MARC 21 format. It introduces the tools and functionality needed for many processes required for library and information workers working with library MARC data. |
| | Debugging Lesson Website Builds
Our Director of Curriculum, Toby Hodges, distills the experience he has gained over the last few years working with the Workbench to provide some troubleshooting strategies Carpentries community members can use when they find that their lesson will not build. |
| | Carpentries Core Team Promotions: Congratulations Angelique and Danielle!
We are thrilled to announce that two of our outstanding and well-deserving Core Team members, Angelique Trusler and Danielle Sieh, have been promoted, respectively, to Associate Director of Community to lead the Community Engagement Team and to Senior Program Manager for the Workshops and Instruction Team! |
| | Introducing The Carpentries Board of Directors
The Carpentries welcomes the incoming members to our Board of Directors and bid farewell with gratitude to outgoing members for their service. |
| | Building an Inclusive Future in Data Science: The Carpentries' 2025 Glosario Expansion
With further funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this year The Carpentries plans to make changes that will enhance accessibility and provide tangible ways to recognise contributors for their contributions to Glosario, |
| | | The Carpentries Community Calendar
Community Sessions
Community Sessions are a great way to interact with, learn from and share your knowledge and experiences with other Carpentries community members from around the world.
Welcome Sessions
New to The Carpentries community? Join members of the Core Team and community to learn about the organisation, ways to engage, and to have your questions answered. These sessions provide onboarding for new Instructors and are ideal for new Member contacts and anyone curious to learn more about The Carpentries community. This is also a great place to re-onboard if you haven’t been engaged with us for a while!
All upcoming Welcome Sessions are listed on the Welcome Sessions Etherpad. |
| | Community Opportunity PostingsCarnegie Mellon University Libraries are currently seeking a Postdoctoral Associate to join the team of the Evidence Synthesis and Open Science programs, to investigate and promote open science principles and methods towards a more efficient, effective, transparent and accessible synthesis of research knowledge across disciplines. Applications received by 28 February 2025 will be given first consideration. The OSG School, a training event of the OSG Consortium that is held annually at UW–Madison, is offering an in-person summer school from 23–27 June on high throughput computing (HTC). The deadline for applications is 7 March 2025. VLIZ is hiring, for immediate employment, a Marine Data Steward to help solidify and valorise the data management activities of the Flanders Marine Data Centre and the wider VLIZ organisation. Based on the received applications, a select group of candidates will be invited for a job interview in the course of March, and invited applicants will be informed by email during the week of 10 March. The Masakhane AI Hub, a pan-African initiative aimed at tackling the under-representation of African languages in natural language processing (NLP) and AI, is seeking to fill the positions of Hub Director, Program Manager, Community & Partnerships Lead, Grants & Operations Manager, and Finance & Accounting Lead. Applications for all positions close on 9 March 2025. The Software Sustainability Institute is looking for a Community Manager to help it support and grow vital communities in academia. The position will be based in the Southampton Research Software Group (SRSG) at the University of Southampton. Applications close on 12 March 2025. The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) awards the Raskin Scholarship annually to an individual in the Earth or computer sciences who has an interest in community evolution of Earth science data systems. The award is $5,000 plus attendance of ESIP summer meeting in Seattle, WA, and is open for US citizens only. Special attention will be given to applicants demonstrating an interest in semantics, GIS, cyberinfrastructure and computing in the geosciences. Please also note that ESIP does consider biology and ecology as ‘Earth Sciences’. The application deadline is 14 March 2025. GBIF has announced its call for nominations for the 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award. This award is aimed at graduate students whose master’s and doctoral studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. Share how you are using open biodiversity data from the GBIF network in your graduate research and you could earn global recognition and €5,000. The earliest deadline is 24 May 2025 for applications from South Africa, an the last deadline is 13 June 2025 for applications from Sweden; for US and UK applications the deadline is 27 May 2025. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an independent, nonprofit organisation providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases, is seeking an Analytics Engineer II to join the Data Science team. The incumbent will support data excellence as a core value and feature of data science work at the organisation. Applications are until until the position is filled. Intersect Australia is currently seeking PhD candidates to join their Training team as Digital Research Trainers, a paid casual role with an average workload of 1 day per week and flexibility that complements the requirements of completing a PhD. They are specifically looking for trainers with some experience in High-Performance Computing (either Slurm or PBS Pro), but they also invite researchers with skills in any of the courses in their catalogue to apply. Applicants must have the right to work in Australia, but training is mostly delivered online and so location is entirely flexible. Applications are presumably open until closed.
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