We welcomed out 1000th member to the CSCCE Community of Practice last week!! This is an exciting milestone for our six-year old community, which “opened its doors” a the end of 2019.

This week at CSCCE, it's the fourth week of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) and the first full week for our Birdaro cohort! PLUS: Nurturing Online Communities (NOC) begins today…

This week at CSCCE, we have a new resource for you, a “last call” reminder to sign up for our Nurturing Online Communities course, and earlier today we welcomed our Birdaro training program participants!

We’ve just rescheduled one of our upcoming Mini-workshops: “Working with volunteers” will now take place on Monday, 29 September 2025 at 11am EDT / 3pm UTC: www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini...

This week at CSCCE, it’s the second week of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals as well as a big prep week for our upcoming Birdaro and Nurturing Online Communities trainings!

Our upcoming Project Management for Scientists training is for anyone in STEM who is managing a team - that includes lab groups, core facilities staff, community volunteers, and more! www.cscce.org/trainings/pr...

This week, we’re also kicking off a short series of Mini-workshops for a client that focus on establishing firm foundations for collaborative projects.

This week at CSCCE, it’s the first week of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF)! Plus - we’re prepping for Nurturing Online Communities (NOC; places still available) and Birdaro!

Our latest blog post is an update on the status of the Birdaro training program! www.cscce.org/2025/09/04/w...

This week at CSCCE, we’ve hosted a fascinating Quarterly Skills Share session with our Certification Program participants, and we’re kicking off a new cohort of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals!

Are your members engaging with your community as volunteers? Are you unsure how to navigate questions of distributed contribution, compensation, and motivation? Then do we have the Mini-workshop for you: www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini...

Coming up this fall, @louwoodley.bsky.social and @camisanti.bsky.social will be facilitating one of our more advanced trainings, Nurturing Online Communities (NOC): www.cscce.org/trainings/noc/

This week at CSCCE, we’re celebrating two more graduates from our Certification Program, concluding a project management training course, and prepping for our incoming Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals cohort!

STEM communities often form around culture change initiatives or shared values, and to move the needle on an issue, members regularly volunteer their time, expertise, and/or influence.

This week at CSCCE, we’re delivering the second week of our Project Management for Scientists training for a client, finalizing a new glossary section for our upcoming Nurturing Online Community course, and more!

We’re delighted to see the CSCCE Community Participation Model (CPM) in action in @yabellini.bsky.social’s UseR talk!!

Coming up this fall, we’re offering two of our more advanced training courses for STEM community managers (this might not be your exact job title, but if you run an online community or manage a team or project, read on!).

We have another new, free resource for you to download and use in your community engagement work! It’s a worksheet for figuring out the voice and tone of your community’s comms and content: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

New resource alert!! We’ve expanded our online tool “Quick Start Guide” collection to include the online white-boarding platform, Mural: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

This week at CSCCE, we’re running a Mini-workshop on creating core values statements and preparing for a client project management training - PLUS last call for Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals!

New on the CSCCE blog: A recap of @louwoodley.bsky.social and @camisanti.bsky.social’s participation in this week’s Science of Team Science conference: www.cscce.org/2025/08/01/c...

New resource highlight! Did you know, we recently released five new “info sheets” that describe CSCCE’s multi-week courses and the various different ways you can participate in them: zenodo.org/search?q=met...

This week at CSCCE, we’re preparing to present at the 2025 Science of Team Science conference, reviewing applications for the Birdaro training program, and making sure you know that Friday is the deadline to register for CEF!!

Managing the @scientistsinc.org and @tasteofscience.org communities is always going to be a work in progress, but even now, almost 2 years later, I still go back and look over CEF course notes to figure out how to serve our members better. Financial help available to help more ppl participate!

The deadline is approaching for two CSCCE trainings: our foundational multi-week course, Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals, and a Mini-workshop on creating core values.

Ready for Project News? • Mission Science Workshop's 2024-25 Impact Report • CRTWC farewell to founder Dr. Nancy Markowitz • @widsworldwide.bsky.social 2nd annual WiDS Datathon++ winners • @thecscce.bsky.social call for their next cohort of STEM community managers • Hep B Free's 5k Run/Walk in SF

The deadline is approaching to register for CSCCE’s foundational training course, Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF): www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/

Coming up on 6 August, we’re running a Mini-workshop on how to develop a set of core values statements for your community, collaborative project, or organization: www.eventbrite.com/e/cscce-mini...

The application deadline is approaching for the Birdaro training program, a new offering from CSCCE designed to support (STEM-related) open-source projects at crucial transition points: www.cscce.org/2025/07/01/t...

This week at CSCCE, we’re hard at work behind the scenes preparing two trainings: a private cohort of our “Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp” and our general registration “Nurturing Online Communities” courses coming up this fall.

This morning we’re hosting a Mini-workshop all about culture change initiatives in STEM - why some succeed while others fall short, and what individual community managers can do to help.

Calling all open-source project leaders - we have a NEW (free!) program that’s designed to support you as you consider challenges related to project growth, scaling, and/or sustainability: Birdaro - birdaro.org

Did you know that CSCCE now offers project management training for scientists? The training comes in two parts, so you (and the members of your team) can choose the level of training you want/need: www.cscce.org/2025/05/16/p...

This week at CSCCE, the deadline is fast approaching for our “culture change” Mini-workshop, and we have a couple of new resources to draw your attention to! Read on for more….

Are you a STEM community manager? Even if that’s not your job title, it’s still possible that the work you do is community management (also referred to as “network weaving” or “in-reach”).

NEW RESOURCE ALERT! We’ve just published a new guidebook in our “using virtual events to facilitate community building” series, which we began back in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: www.cscce.org/resources/or...

This week at CSCCE, we’re preparing for our annual mid-year social and curated networking forum, as well as our upcoming July Mini-workshops! Read on for more….

Time for a #FlashbackFriday thread! Last week, we got to celebrate the first graduates of the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program: www.cscce.org/2025/05/28/a...

Time for a #FlashbackFriday thread! Last week, we got to celebrate the first graduates of the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program: www.cscce.org/2025/05/28/a...

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) is back in September! This course, which has been completed now by almost 400 STEM community managers, is foundational for anyone supporting collaboration and community building: www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/

This week at CSCCE, we’re prepping for next week’s (COMPLETELY FULL!) community networking forum, gearing up for our upcoming Mini-workshop series, and prepping to (re-)launch a new course in Canvas. Read on to find out more!

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF), our long-running, foundational training for STEM community builders, is back! CEF25F will run from 4 September - 23 October (reg deadline: 1 August): www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/

Do you spend a good chunk of your professional life think about how to connect people and support them in working together? Whether you realize it or not, that’s a big part of what it means to be a community manager!

This week at CSCCE, we’re looking forward to Wednesday’s Quarterly Skills Share session for our Certification Program learners and special guests!

Congratulations to Erin Conn and Miriam Krause, who are our first two graduates from the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program!! www.cscce.org/2025/05/28/a...

Coming up later this year, we have 3 different multi-week courses on offer: Join us to establish your credentials in scientific community management, nurturing online community engagement, and project management!

We’ve opened registration for our next cohort of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF)! This is THE training for STEM professionals working to build community and support collaboration in a whole range of contexts: www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/

Our annual curated networking event is half full already! If you’re interested in joining us on Wednesday, 18 June at 11am EDT / 3pm UTC for an hour of socializing with other STEM community managers, sign up soon! www.cscce.org/2025/05/12/j...

We’ve opened registration for another cohort of our Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp! www.eventbrite.com/e/project-ma...

A massive thanks to @louwoodley.bsky.social, for this incredible #DeepDive into the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement. Its resources are invaluable for #opensource projects seeking sustainable growth and effective collaboration. 📺 bit.ly/43vQJ9Q #academicOSPO #OSS