This excellent video is worth much more 101 seconds of your time, but that's all it takes to understand why #CulturalAnalytics is so important (and fun)! 👀 Keep an eye out for details about the fall cultural analytics event series from BIDS and our co-hosts @berkeleyischool.bsky.social!

💌 BIDS's monthly newsletter is out! Some highlights: 🎟️ AAI4Science Developer Summit 🎧 #VeridicalDataScience (VDS) panel discussion 🤝 Publication co-authored by CSS trainee 🎬 @bobltsturm.bsky.social 's #CulturalAnalytics talk Check it out! eepurl.com/gV0iccZNgb

Saul Perlmutter, BIDS Founding Faculty Director, was part of the team that started the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social course "Sense and Sensibility and Science" 13 years ago -- giving "students the tools to combat misinformation and improve their communication skills..."

OSPO meetups: Shaping the future of #OpenSource at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Read a recap of “Open Science as a Process, Not a Product” with Tasha Snow & get insights from the #CryoCloud #JupyterHub community. 👉 bids.berkeley.edu/news/insight... (img: A group discussion.)

We're delighted to host @lightconeresearch.bsky.social at BIDS. They're advancing our shared goal of leveraging #AIForScience to benefit society. Join us at their #DeveloperSummit 28-31 July 2026 at our #AIFuturesLab. Apply today: lightconeresearch.org/developer-su... Reviews start on 15 June

Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/

Recent Cultural Analytics talk “I am Troubled” by Bob Sturm @bobltsturm.bsky.social about AI-generated music🎶 sparked discussion and gave us a lot to chew on! Read the recap & watch the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social recording ⬇️ bids.berkeley.edu/news/bob-stu...

A Jupyter Workshop on MyST Markdown for educators is happening June 15–17 in Orsay, France! Learn to publish reproducible teaching materials with Jupyter Book. Travel funding available. Register here: events.linuxfoundation.org/demystifying...

One last push for this week's newsletter: "we're describing "AI safety" as technology that is safely created, safely deployed, and safely used and maintained. We're setting a high bar, and it kicks in way before concerns about existential risk become material." buttondown.com/justenoughin...

📢 Check out the latest weeknote from PREreview! Help the Product team continue to improve its experimental #matchmaking feature and learn about a new way to track your requests for #reviews. content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...

Excited for #UCOpen2026!

🚀 We’re starting a new series of Community Features, where we spotlight inspiring members of the 2026 PREreview Champions cohort. Today's guest is Alan Colin-Arce, from Canada. Hear about his experience and tell us what resonated most with you: bit.ly/Champions-Alan

nbgitpuller v1.3.0 is out! New context-aware error handling means no more cryptic terminals for your students. Read about what changed and why it matters: #Jupyter #ErrorHandling blog.jupyter.org/better-shari...

@ucbids.bsky.social is back as a mybinder federation member. Their new OVH node just absorbed 50% of traffic during a Hetzner outage, serving 64K+ users without disruption. Federated infrastructure working as designed. #Jupyter #OpenSource blog.jupyter.org/berkeley-ins...

📧 PREreview April 2026 Newsletter is out: Read about PREreview’s part in shaping a PRC Alliance, recap on Collaborative Peer Review community call, test our matchmaking feature, and check out upcoming events & opportunities! bit.ly/4t7BNJE

Explore the expansion of geospatial workflows in Jupyter. Gregory Mooney, QuantStack highlights how JupyterGIS is enabling collaborative mapping and spatial analysis within interactive notebooks. #Jupyter #GIS #OpenSource blog.jupyter.org/expanding-ge...

⭐ Join BIDS, UC technologists, researchers, staff, and open source maintainers at the UC Open Summit in Berkeley, April 22-23 -- with MANY opportunities to learn and share! Get details about guest speakers, panels, & breakout sessions, and register free ➡️ ucospo.net/events/uc-op... #UCOSPO

📖 Read our 2025 BIDS #AnnualReport and how open collaboration and our AI Futures Lab are benefiting science and society. bids.berkeley.edu/annual-repor...

👋 Join us at UC Open Summit in Berkeley, April 22-23. Register for free ASAP as places are filling up! ucospo.net/events/uc-op...

💌 BIDS's monthly newsletter is out! Read and subscribe at: mailchi.mp/berkeley/thi...

BASE R GIRLIES OUR TIME HAS COME Come hang with us, ask Ella questions (I know Isabella and I will), and learn something new. Don't think you use base R? You use it pretty much each and every time you use R! #baseRgirly Also, we're a delight ✨

At JupyterCon 2025, Chris Holdgraf (2i2c) and Rowan Cockett (Curvenote) introduce Jupyter Book 2 and the MyST Markdown engine powering the next generation of computational publishing. Watch the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MUS... #Jupyter #OpenScience #DataScience #OpenSource

"Cementing a machine-learning ecosystem: scikit-learn and beyond": on Friday March 20, we at @ucbids.bsky.social and the Berkeley Statistics department are delighted to host @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social for a seminar. Join us in person or online! events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

Geospatial workflows are growing fast in data science. This talk introduces GeoJupyter and collaborative geospatial computing. youtu.be/c5h74MJ7amk?... #Jupyter #Geospatial #DataScience #OpenSource

A brilliant new story is written, thanks to the 15,579 who gave over $13,119,765 this year to campus causes for #CalBigGive 🌟 Big thanks to every Golden Bear and the larger Berkeley community for supporting Big Give this year.

It's an honor to work with the @ucbids.bsky.social team, part of our new @berkeleycdss.bsky.social college! While "Data Science" may now be a well established idea, there is still much work to do, and Berkeley is a unique environment for this!

🧭 For PREreview, community input is the most reliable compass. In February, we shared our strategic goals with you in a community call designed to listen deeply, learn together, and imagine what’s possible. 👉 Here’s what emerged: content.prereview.org/strategic-pl...

Today is also the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #CalBigGive - Gifts of every size help BIDS sustain and maintain open source communities benefitting science and society. givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/1...

Our activities ➡️ @jupyter.org @scientific-python.org ecosystems, cultural analytics, sociology & the criminal justice system. That link again: bids.berkeley.edu/annual-repor...

🎊 We are proud to share our 2025 Annual Report, a celebration of our collaborators, alumni, and supporters + BIDS impact: bids.berkeley.edu/annual-repor... @fernandoperez.org #OpenSource

AI is landing in notebooks everywhere. Join Jupyter Workshops 2026 (Mar 18–19) to collaborate on extensible AI capabilities for Jupyter. Register: events.linuxfoundation.org/ai-in-jupyter/

🤝 In our latest PREreview Community Features blog post Jennifer Miller, former @force11.bsky.social Board VP and co-lead of their PREreview Club, reflects on its power to catalyze connections across a global community of shared interests. 🔖 Read it and join a review Club! bit.ly/FORCE11-club

📣 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

The Wandering Officer: New Databases for Police Accountability Discussions around the CLEAN database - how data and storytelling can drive social impact and systemic change. ➡️ Special thanks to @hrdag.org for recording the event! bids.berkeley.edu/news/wanderi...

📣Coming up on 19th March at 3pm - online Join us for the launch of the MORPHSS Report and Catalogue of open research practices in the arts, humanities & social sciences. The launch presentation will be followed by a panel discussion on openness in AHSS, chaired by @samuelmoore.org. All welcome!

Join us THIS FRIDAY online or in person: @bobltsturm.bsky.social presents "I am Troubled" Talk & discussion are part of the #CulturalAnalytics speaker series, co-hosted by BIDS and the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social Register now 🍿🥤! www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...

🌱 AGU25: Open source geospatial workflows in the cloud ☁ Sessions at #AGU25 created space for sharing practical tools, learning together, and building community around reproducible and open geospatial science. Read the recap! bids.berkeley.edu/news/bids-ag... #GeoJupyter @schmidtdse.bsky.social

💡 How do you think PREreview.org might better enable gratitude and reciprocity interactions between authors, reviewers, and readers? 🙌 Join one of our community design sprint calls on Feb 24 or Feb 25 to help us develop new features for the PREreview platform! content.prereview.org/prereview-fe...

🙌 Please join us in welcoming Drs. @kirstiejane.bsky.social, Lamis Yahia Mohamed Elkheir, and @malvikasharan.bsky.social to the PREreview Advisory Committe! bit.ly/AC-changes

Our new report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM** has already had over 550 downloads! If you haven't seen it yet but are interested in taking a look, you can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/jn1... #morphss #OpenResearch #AHSS

Practice #13 from the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS disciplines: member checking / member sharing This practice involves inviting participants' input and feedback on the data or analyses that result from their involvement in research. Read more: #OpenResearch #AHSS

Join us for a 90-minute community book club session on Wednesday 11 March at 11am EDT / 3pm UTC to discuss The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, co-hosted by Jody Peters! www.cscce.org/2026/02/10/c...

I had a blast yesterday at the #STRUDEL Contributor Workshop, hosted at @ucbids.bsky.social AI Futures Lab. The team coordinated breakout groups focused on improving the #code, #documentation, #website and #curriculum they’ve created as part of this @sloanfoundation.bsky.social funded initiative.

The power of open! Awesome to see this, which builds on the open source work done at @ucbids.bsky.social years ago by @mentat.za.net and Nathaniel Smith: bids.github.io/colormap/ Nathaniel wrote up a bit more about this work in his blog: vorpus.org/blog/the-unr...

🚀 New blog post by Joren Hammudoglu! One year as a NumPy Fellow, pushing (and reshaping) the boundaries of static typing within the Scientific Python ecosystem. Read more here: blog.scientific-python.org/numpy/fellow...

🌟 BIDS in 2025: Bringing people together to share open source knowledge at the Berkeley OSPO events Monica Bobra (CA Office of Data & Innovation) joined us for an engaging discussion focused on open source data & the impact it has on real people. Learn more about her work: bit.ly/4oXrwN3

This lays the foundation for building more enriched and precise workflows around notebook outputs. We now treat *each output* from a cell independently, laying a foundation to enable things like generating labels with notebook cells. Here's a PR to follow along: github.com/jupyter-book...

There's an ongoing community discussion about this change, and we invite feedback from others in this MyST Enhancement Proposal discussion: github.com/jupyter-book...

The Jupyter Book team has been working hard on a big foundational improvement to how notebook outputs are represented in MyST documents. Steve writes about this change and what it means in this post: blog.jupyterbook.org/posts/2025-1...

🌟 BIDS in 2025: Making geospatial data analysis and exploration free, open source, & accessible to everyone @geojupyter.bsky.social led by the teams at BIDS, @schmidtdse.bsky.social, @quantstack.bsky.social, @2i2c.org and @developmentseed.org ➡️ Hackathon highlights - geojupyter.org/blog/2025090...