❓Did you know that you can donate your own better images of AI to our library? If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽 blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...

Happy New Year! If you've got FOMO from #RSEcon25 you can catch all the videos of sessions online now! Including my workshop sessions on open source in academia: youtu.be/PSRTMScz3Tg?... And one of my favourite sessions on accessibility testing for software (with geese!): youtu.be/M-5KPeUtTys?...

Reviewing case study PDFs in Adobe, and it's "helpfully" given me an AI summary of the file contents. INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL FILE NAME WHICH HELPS ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SEPARATE FILES.

🚨NEW INQUIRY! Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

You will be visited by three spirits.

Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors

◾ The first DisCouRSE Focus Group on Team Culture and Leadership in dRTP contexts will be held on Monday, 19 January at King’s College London. The session will explore how leadership can influence a healthy team culture in a dRTP context. Find out more: www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

🗼 Last Community Forum of the year happening on the 10th December! Join us for a great celebration of the year and check our plans for 2026!! Whether you're an experienced contributor or just curious about our project... register and get your invite!

Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

So much activity at #JupyterCon 2025 -> tutorials 🧠, meetups 🤝, talks 🎤! Thankfully, Silas Santini captured some highlights and shared some valuable resources! Read "Themes of Day 1, JupyterCon 2025: Collaboration and Modularity" for details: bids.berkeley.edu/news/themes-...

Me when the PR I haven't previewed gets merged and works first time

We now have multiple visualizations of this phenomenon from various news organizations. Which one is the best?

Last year @turingway.bsky.social took part in an ethnographic study on hybrid hackathons and the paper is finally out for folks to read! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... (see if you can guess which one we are 😁)

As if I didn't have enough to do this week, outlook has changed the location of the flag & delete buttons - such a small change but so rage inducing and jarring every, single. time.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

A great opportunity for people working on career pathways and leadership for digital research professionals. Perhaps something for @ukiedh.bsky.social or @turingway.bsky.social to explore? discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...

Slides from my #RSECon25 workshop "From Code to Contributions: Exploring Open Source in Academia" are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1709... Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!

kicking off day 2 of #RSECon25 with a fantastic keynote on the power of recognition - if you've ever needed three different metaphors for the difference in scale between publications and software submissions to REF, this talk is for you! slides.com/simonhettric...

“I built my entire career by putting blindingly obvious things on slides.” —Simon Hettrick #rsecon25

FRIDGE, SATRE and AIRR at #RSEcon25 #TrustedResearchEnvironments

Excited to kick off #RSEcon25 (my first!) with a great keynote from @amandabrock.bsky.social from @openuk.bsky.social on open source in research software, great whistle stop tour through the naunces of open source and an update on the policy work OpenUK is doing with UK gov on promoting open source

A reminder that there are two Call for Proposals out from the Jupyter Foundation! 👉 Jupyter Community Workshops: blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-comm... 👉 Jupyter Community Support funding: blog.jupyter.org/your-ideas-o... Check them out and share the word!

I swear I used to be able to wake up early at the weekend and be like “oop I don’t need to be awake” and go back to sleep for a bit now it’s like “oh we’re awake, that’s it then, the day has started motherfucker” is this what getting old is

🧭 We are pleased to announce that applications for the SSI Fellowship Programme 2026 will be open from Mon 11 Aug to Mon 6 Oct 2025. An introductory Fellowship Programme Launch Webinar will be held on Thu 21 Aug. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/fellows...

Still time to contribut to this 👇open until 30 September to anyone working in academia Thank you to everyone who has responded so far!

Do you, or someone you know, work in sensitive data curation in the UK? Please have a read about this HDR UK-led, UKRI DRI-funded project on skills for sensitive data curation. Link to the survey in the article. Please share with your networks! www.hdruk.ac.uk/study-and-tr...

✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨ TL;DR 🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia 👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... ⏰ Approx 20 mins. 📅 Closes 30 September 🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)

💬 #SSIFellow @mdsimpson.co.uk has launched a new initiative names ConveRSE. The website will serve as a hub for mental health information and support, including updates on his fellowship and collaborations with others in the community. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/blog/convers...

🔥 Save the date 🔥 "Learning from Each other's Journeys: Case Studies from Open Initiatives" 📅 31 July 2025, 18 - 19:30 UTC+1 (UK time) Featuring Aleksandra Nenadic, @choldgraf.com, @yabellini.bsky.social, Yo Yehudi, & @arielleb.bsky.social Learn more: the-turing-way-fireside-chats.start.page

🔥 Save the date 🔥 "What does Governance mean to us in Research and Open Science?" 📅 30 June 2025, 15 - 16:30 UTC+1 (UK time) Featuring @npch.bsky.social, @simonhettrick.bsky.social, @rivaquiroga.bsky.social, @oscarseip.bsky.social & @malvikasharan.bsky.social Sign-up: forms.gle/d2vuQcpoXJpD

Co-organised by @oscarseip.bsky.social from SSI and @malvikasharan.bsky.social and @arielleb.bsky.social from The Turing Way, this series will dive deep into different aspects of governance in open science and research. See the thread below 👇

the level of personal abuse I am facing on this app is getting unbearable

"materialism is bad boohoo things won't make you happy" that's a trinketless mindset, those are the words of somebody who doesn't have cool stuff

Delighted to announce 'ConveRSE' - the new online hub for #MentalHealth information, resources and support for people in the research software community - at @softwaresaved.bsky.social #CollabW25. More details and opportunities to contribute to follow in the coming weeks.

Please see my short survey about #digitalhumanities research skills for my @softwaresaved.bsky.social SSI Fellowship work. Closes 11 June. forms.gle/a6NuKVttpVHj... I am leading a workshop about digital competencies and career development at the @ukiedh.bsky.social annual event in Glasgow, 18 June.

Loch looking beautiful as we start the final day of #CW25

Really lovely that #CollabW25 are running "Social Glue" awards this year for people who put extra effort into connecting folks this year at the conference ✨

"If someone has opened the door for you, make sure to keep it open." @malvikasharan.bsky.social #CollabW25 Really enjoyed the opening panel this morning, thank you to all the panellists for their insights!

one thing about me is that you'll never see a photo of me not talking 😅

Finishing up Day 1 of #CollabW25 with a witty and thought provoking keynote from @kirstiejane.bsky.social on the Future of Research Software - this was her final slide on what she thinks the future should be, and I'm inclined to agree ✨

🛣️ Our second keynote is about to take place in Blair Atholl. Our speaker Kirstie Whitaker will delve deeper into what the future to research software may look like. #CollabW25

The cake:workshop quotient at #CollabW25 so far is pleasing

Made it to #CollabW25 in Stirling and my gosh it's beautiful here

"As tech firms have pushed to develop new data centers to support cutting-edge AI systems, they’ve increasingly turned to states and countries with ample energy resources and favorable regulations, according to experts. What those places often lack, however, is an abundant supply of water."

londondataweek.org/host-an-event/ Data people in London - run an event for Londoners at London Data Week. Submit application to host event by 31 May 2025. Event runs from 7-13 July 2025. cc @connectedbydata.org

Who's heading to #CollabW25? Really excited to spend three days chatting all things reproducibility, open source software, and research practices! ✨

🔊 The Festival of Hidden REF is back! If you care research culture change, and in particular celebrating the diversity of research and everyone involved in making research happen, do consider joining us in October.

Happy Monday!