| |  | | Carpentries Clippings, 22 February#ReignitingCommunity |  | Jannetta Steyn, Colin Sauze and Abhishek Dasgupta representing Carpentries Offline at FOSDEM 2024, Brussels. | | Gratitude of the Month | | 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
Re-introducing The Carpentries Core Team
Meet our team of nine at The Carpentries and learn how they will continue to support you.
Changes to support from the Core Team at The Carpentries
We clarify how our Core Team will continue to support the community, which initiatives will continue through community-led support, and which activities will be sunset.
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. We are excited to announce an event that aligns with this vision – the Glosario Codefest! This event, made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, marks a step forward in advancing data science knowledge and accessibility for our diverse global community. Join us on Thursday, 29 February, 14:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar), sign up on this Etherpad.
| | Highlights from the Community Calendar
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. Subscribe to our community calendar for updates on Community Sessions that may pique your interest and are in your time zone. Sign up to attend on the Community Sessions Etherpad. To request an accommodation to attend a community session, please fill out the accommodation request form. 5 March Discover the fundamentals of alt text – what it is, its importance in fostering inclusive learning, and the art of writing meaningful alt text descriptions. In the second part of our session, dive into hands-on practice as we guide you through incorporating alt text into The Carpentries Workbench.
6 March Skill-up Session: sandbox.bio for Carpentries lessons at 16:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar) sandbox.bio is a platform featuring free command-line tutorials for bioinformatics. In this session, I’ll discuss how sandbox.bio works, and how it helps to address some challenges of learning how to work in the shell, namely that installing programs can be challenging, and that making mistakes is scary (think rm -f, or runaway cloud costs). To illustrate some of the benefits, I’ll present a demo of running a few Carpentries exercises from “The Unix Shell” within sandbox.bio. Finally, I would love to hear from the community whether this kind of tool could be beneficial for your training sessions. This session will be repeated 7 March at 01:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar)
11 March 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! This session will be repeated 15 March at 09:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar), 19 March 15:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar), and 27 March at 12:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar) and 23:00 UTC (find your time; add to calendar). All upcoming Welcome Sessions are listed on the Welcome Sessions Etherpad.
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| | What you may have missed on the Carpentries blog | Revisions to The Carpentries governance structure | In a significant move towards autonomy, The Carpentries streamlines its governance structure to benefit our global community. |
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| | Supporting the Curriculum Development Community in 2024 | Become an Editor for The Carpentries Lab!
Becoming an Editor for the Lab is a fantastic way to support lesson development in The Carpentries community, expand your network, and gain experience with Open Source and peer-review practices.
Community members acting as Editors for the Lab would benefit from prior experience in any/all of the following: |
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| | | Community Opportunity PostingsA position of Translational Project Scientists and another in Discovery Project Scientists are open Arcadia Science, a science company founded and led by scientists. Please apply by 23 February 2024.
Stanford University Libraries (California - USA) invites applications for the position of Head, Data Science Training & Consultation, supporting applied data science methods across all disciplines on campus. This position is part of Research Data Services, a group within Stanford Libraries which supports computational and data-centric methods and practices to further research at all levels at Stanford.
REAL ML (Research, Engagement, Advocacy & Lived Experience in Machine Learning) is a non-profit organization established in 2022. We nurture and support practical interventions that hold AI tech to account, by empowering, resourcing and connecting a global interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners working on algorithmic accountability research in the public interest. REAL ML is seeking a web/digital designer to reimagine their logo and brand, and develop attractive and accessible website designs for their new small public interest tech research organization. Please apply by 1 March 2024.
Bioinformatics Training Officer position at EMBL Heidelberg. EMBL is Europe’s life sciences laboratory – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and service teams covering the spectrum of molecular biology. It operates across six sites in Heidelberg (headquarters), Barcelona, Cambridge, Grenoble, Hamburg and Rome. Our mission is to perform basic research in molecular biology; train scientists, students and visitors at all levels; offer vital services to scientists in the public and private sectors within the member states; develop new instruments and methods; and engage actively in technology transfer. Please apply by 29 February 2024. The Computing and Software Department at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, invites applicants for two Teaching-Track Faculty Positions ideally commencing in July 2024. Applications received by March 1, 2024, will receive full consideration.
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