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Carpentries Clippings, 20 April

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Updates from the Core Team

Community Development Team

Community Discussion Host Onboarding

Interested in serving as a Community Discussion Host for The Carpentries? Join us for an onboarding session to learn all you need to know to serve in this role. After the onboarding, you will be able to pick and choose any dates/times, topics, and language for the calls that you lead.

• Session 1: 8 May 14:00 UTC (find your time)

• Session 2: 8 May 22:00 UTC (find your time)

Monthly Welcome Sessions

If you are new to The Carpentries community or want to learn more about the organisation, consider joining us for one of our upcoming Welcome Sessions hosted by members of our Core Team: Wednesday, 26 April, 12:00 UTC (find your local time) and 21:00 UTC (find your local time). You can sign up to join one of the calls on our Community Discussions Etherpad.

Director of Community Office Hours

Our Director of Community continues to host office hours each month (recurring dates and times). The next one will be 27 April at 0:00 UTC (find your local time). Bring your questions or drop by to say hello at any time during the hour.

Workshop Administration Team

Carpentries Instructors, be sure to sign up on the etherpad for the next Instructor Meeting, Tuesday 19 May at 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC.

You can add your name to any of the segments you would like to contribute: Pre/Post workshop discussion, share a tip/trick. To learn more, read the blog post.

Highlights from the Community Calendar

Community Discussions and Themed Discussions in The Carpentries 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 calls that may pique your interest and are in a befitting hour depending on your time zone and schedule. You can also watch some of our recorded community calls on our YouTube channel.

• 9 May

  • Themed Community Discussion 09:00 UTC

    • This themed community discussion will be about the Instructor Notes Drive, coming later in May 2023. It will give community members a chance to learn more about the Drive and how they can get involved, and to ask questions about the event. The session will be particularly relevant to Instructors, Maintainers, and lesson developers.

  • Pre- post workshop discussion 18:00 UTC

  
  

• 10 May

  • Themed Community Discussion with @tobyhodges 18:00 UTC

    • This themed community discussion will be about the Instructor Notes Drive, coming later in May 2023. It will give community members a chance to learn more about the Drive and how they can get involved, and to ask questions about the event. The session will be particularly relevant to Instructors, Maintainers, and lesson developers.

  
  

• 11 May

  • DACH community call 13:30 UTC

  
  

• 15 May

  • Themed Community Discussion 15:00 UTC

    • What is blocking access to your Carpentries workshop? We want to hear from you! Is the internet or access to data giving you a headache? Not feeling accommodated? The computational and programing jargon getting you down? Join this Themed Discussion, where we will share experiences of what blocks your Carpentries Workshops globally.

  • Pre- post workshop discussion 18:00 UTC

• 16 May

  • Pre- post workshop discussion with @speterson 18:00 UTC

  
  

• 17 May

  • Themed community discussion 14:00 UTC

    • Sharing out about Instructor experiences in general

  
  

• 18 May

  • Australia / New Zealand regional community call 02:00 UTC

  
  

• 20 May

  • Pre- post workshop discussion with @microstevens 04:00 UTC

  
  

• 22 May

  • Pre- post workshop discussion 10:00 UTC

  • UK Community Call 15:00 UTC

  
  

• 23 May

  • Pre- post workshop discussion with @speterson 18:00 UTC

  
  

• 24 May

  • Themed community discussion 09:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

    • CarpentriesOffline: Running workshops with no or little Internet access

  
  

• 25 May

  • Themed Community Discussion 0:00 UTC

    • Curriculum Specific Onboarding info session: The Carpentries will begin offering onboarding to prepare Instructors to teach specific curricula. This info session will be used to gather feedback from the community about how best to structure these onboarding opportunities so they are maximally useful to new Instructors and experienced Instructors preparing to teach new curricula.

  • Africa Community Call 10:00 UTC

  
  

• 29 May

  • US Midwest Community Call 16:00 UTC

What you may have missed on the Carpentries blog

Community Opportunity Postings

• South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is hiring a Computational Linguist.

  
  

• The Haskell Foundation is hiring an Indigenous Geography Postdoctoral Research Position.

  
  

• The University of Arizona Research Technologies Department is hiring a Computing Sciences Researcher II to support research data management.

  
  

• The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has four open positions.

  • Junior Research Engineer (RE1) Closes 16 May

  • Senior Research Engineer (RE3) Closes 16 May

  • Bioinformatics Technical Community Engagement Officer (RE2) Closes 16 May

  • Web Front-end Developer (RE2) Closes 16 May

    
    

• The University of Arizona is hiring a Data Scientist III

  
  

• Illinois Institute of Technology looks to hire a Research Software Engineer

• The Agriculture Research Service is hiring an Information Technology Specialist (Science Support)

  
  

• Bitwarden is hiring a Technical Training Manager.

  
  

• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is hiring a Data Science Project Manager

• The University of Virgina is hiring a Research Data Associate or Research Data Specialist.

• UC Santa Barbara is hiring a Carpentry Community Lead

  
  

• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is hiring a Open Science Liaison (Part- Time).

  
  

• The University of Minnesota is hiring a Science Liaison Librarian.

  
  

• New England Library Association call for proposals for the ITS Virtual Conference on 1 June. Proposals due 30 April. 

  
  

• NC State is hiring a Manager HPC Computation Support.

• 2023 Gordon Research Conference for Undergraduate Biology Education Research, 25-30 June 2023

  • A New Vision for Change: Re-imagining Biology Education Through Social Justice, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine USA. Applications must be submitted by 28 May 2023.

• Columbia University is recruiting a Computational Research Instruction Librarian. Open until filled.
  

• The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) is hiring a Lead Trainer and Curriculum Developer (open source specialism)

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