This guy is cool in the most important and perhaps the only way a guy like him can be cool- by not giving a single shit whether other people think he's cool

CURIOSS member, Emily Lovell (@ucsantacruz.bsky.social #OSPO) has a busy week ahead at #OSSummit! Find out about the #opensource #mentorship at Tuesday's unconference. Emily is also talking about Contributor Catalyst, the #HBCU mentorship program, on Wednesday. #academicOSPOs #academicOSS

We are delighted to partner with @eosa.bsky.social and #RISEResearchInstitutesofSweden to support the @unodet.bsky.social with facilitation and curation of the program for the Friday community side event of #UNOpenSourceWeek. We wish all #CURIOSS members speaking at the event the best of luck!

Many thanks to @duaneobrien.bsky.social and #CURIOSS members, Tom Hughes and @lauralangdon.io for sharing their knowledge and great practices.

We're not just supporting research, we're helping to reinvent it. In a video spotlighting @cmu.edu's unique automated lab, 2/3 of the featured voices were from the Libraries. Melanie Gainey and @sayeedc.bsky.social have emerged as key leaders in the #OpenScience movement. Watch here: bit.ly/45oiP8D

At the end of the rainbow, you will find…Edinburgh Castle.

CMU research shows IRA rebates double adoption of clean tech like heat pumps & slash bills for low-income families. We need more: weatherization, lower rates, & energy justice. w/ @costasamaras.com energy.cmu.edu/news/2025/05... #EnergySky #ClimateJustice #IRA

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

I’m a little shy about posting this, but I’m grateful for the opportunity to express my love and support for the humanities and the university press community — especially at this critical moment in time. And, thank you to my friend Lauren for being an amazing host. open.spotify.com/episode/6LGr...

📣 The Call for Proposals for the #OFASymposium2025 is now live! 🌐 This year's edition will be themed "Open Technology Impact in Uncertain Times". ❗The deadline to respond to the CFP is 1 June, so don't delay in preparing your submissions! More info on the website. symposium.openforumeurope.org

“I don’t want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can’t escape is even worse.” — J. R. R. Tolkien

This is incredibly important to watch:

My thanks to @sayeedc.bsky.social @tjowens.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social for early comments. Of possible interest to @techpolicypress.bsky.social @cni-org.bsky.social @arl.org @rschon.bsky.social @williamkilbride.bsky.social

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

From an Oxfam report: Fifty of the world’s richest billionaires on average produce more carbon through their investments, private jets and yachts in just over an hour and a half than the average person does in their entire lifetime: www.oxfamamerica.org/press/press-...

@minakimes.bsky.social Really appreciated your FaceTime message today from Around the Horn. Thank you.

There's still time to book your free ticket for GW OSCON from March 24-25 next week. Register: go.gwu.edu/oscon #opensource #academicOSS #openscience #openresearch

🎉We have a new pattern for universities trying to meet demand from students for #opensource activities with limited resources. 💡Here's the 'Co-hosting Student Events' pattern: bit.ly/3XwwXHQ #academicOSPOs #academicOSS #opensourcesoftware #openscience #openresearch #OSScommunity #AcademicSky

For anyone interested in #academicOSS, the @gatech-ospo.bsky.social & #GeorgiaTech Center for Scientific Engineering are hosting a fantastic workshop on March 6! Speakers include #CURIOSS members Jeff Young, Fang Liu and @sayeedc.bsky.social! 🎫https://bit.ly/4klSTPH #academicOSPOs #opensource

I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.

It turns out Costco had family size Cadbury’s mini eggs. Yes, I bought one. And, no, I won’t be sharing it with anyone else.

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Are you a postdoc investigating the implications of AI for the science and research ecosystem? Grants up to $250,000 available for early-career researchers in the social sciences and humanities, read more and apply at the link: apply.sloan.org/prog/call_fo...

We're delighted to become an #OSPO Associate with the TODO Group. #academicOSPOs and #industryOSPOs have so much to gain from engaging with each other and we look forward to greater strategic collaboration. ℹ️ bit.ly/3WZ5s9K #academicOSS, #opensource, #opensourcesoftware, #techtransfer

Why we all need sisu – the Finnish concept of action and creativity in hard times

In the Main Track, @sayeedc.bsky.social is talking about Open Source in Academia. I’ve known Sayeed for several years now. He started the first OSPO at Johns Hopkins University Library. He’s working now at Carnegie Mellon University continuing his great work fostering open collaboration.

Top Article 2️⃣ The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University Joelen Pastva et al. @cmulibraries.bsky.social #DataLibs #ArtificialIntelligence #IMLS doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Democracy dies in a data server room.

Congrats to #CURIOSS member @sayeedc.bsky.social and colleagues on the launch of the Open Forum for Artificial Intelligence. We're looking forward to learning more.

I'm honored to be elected Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, a recognition of significant, enduring contributions to the field! I look forward to #SfAA2025 where I'll discuss equity in th age of AI & share an analysis of trends in transnational nurse migration @appliedanthro.bsky.social

Important, outstanding accomplishment by CMU Language Technologies Institute. Pangea is an "open-source, multilingual multimodal large language model (MLLM) that recognizes 39 languages and was trained on six million data samples to create a culturally inclusive model."

At CNI, @sayeedc.bsky.social introduced the Open Forum for #AI (OFAI), a Carnegie Mellon University-led collaboration aimed at steering AI towards human-centric, ethical practices. Learn more about OFAI’s partners, fellows, prototypes & more at https://youtu.be/dDbjlN0jPFc. @cmulibraries.bsky.social

I want to move my social group away from FB ... What is the most promising alt platform out there? Has anyone tried Friendica? Looks a bit too mastadonny (UI too complicated for many). Open to all options!

Come work with us @cmulibraries.bsky.social - we’re hiring for a postdoc in evidence synthesis. www.linkedin.com/posts/cmu-li...

We're excited to develop our first dedicated special collections library @cmulibraries.bsky.social - we'll be supporting researchers from @carnegiemellon.bsky.social as well as visiting scholars in a reimagined Posner Center when we open this summer www.library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

Outside of Buffalo, does anyone doubt Lamar Jackson is the MVP?

🟢#RLUKDSF events during the year included a series on Digital #GLAM #IIIF; New Digital Frontiers; repository infrastructure; #AI & machine learning; and Open agenda with talks by @danielvanstrien.bsky.social @kaythaney.bsky.social @sayeedc.bsky.social & more. 📺Watch #RLUKDSF events at bit.ly/DSFonD

Check out some of the patterns that the CURIOSS community use to: 📚 Discover OSS in universities 📚 Promote good practices in OSS 📚 Create resources for OSS education 📚 Engage academic OSPO stakeholders 📖 bit.ly/curioss-patt... #academicOSPOs #academicOSS

Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

Church breaks ground on $32M facility to expand health care access in East Baltimore

More great work from my colleagues @cmulibraries.bsky.social including @chaszg.bsky.social - three of my colleagues who expanded their scientific disciplinary training to careers advancing #openscience and science librarianship - From the Lab to Librarianship: Advancing Open Science

I can't even begin to tell you how excited we are about VELI, our values-enacted leadership institute for teams working in higher ed. Read more and sign up for one of our info sessions (Dec 16 and Jan 21): humetricshss.org/values-enact...

In partnership with the @cmulibraries.bsky.social Open Science team.

Excited to see this #openscience program from @cmulibraries.bsky.social emerge. Proud of my colleagues.

House Republicans Aim to Pass Higher Ed Overhaul The wide-ranging legislation likely won’t move forward in the Senate but serves as a marker for Republicans’ higher ed priorities in the next Congress. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4gpWSIx

Thanks to @sayeedc.bsky.social @carnegiemellon.bsky.social for taking the time to speak with @cgknowles.bsky.social today about the growing open source movement within universities and its implications for #AI #RLUKDSF 📺 You can watch the recording of Sayeed's talk at bit.ly/DSFonD

Thanks to @sayeedc.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention. Worth reading this overview from @aip.bsky.social ww2.aip.org/fyi/project-...

Thanks to Ana Jiménez Santamaría #TODOGroup, Jonas van den Bogaard #Alliander, Natali Vlatko @cisco.com and #CURIOSS members @sayeedc.bsky.social @carnegiemellon.bsky.social, and John Whelan @tcddublin.bsky.social for the great discussion.

I've had a lot of conversations lately to the effect of "What can I do?" about our current situation. I offer one suggestion. Make a micro loan through www.kiva.org. You can choose various causes, countries, etc. Loans can be made starting at $25.