📢 datocracy AI and The Carpentries are announcing a partnership that puts people at the very centre of the future of AI training and usage. We are proud to announce this collaboration, as a meeting of two organisations with deeply complementary missions. Read more about this strategic partnership:

Join us next week for a fun and informal Carpentries networking session! This session is designed to connect with fellow community members from around the world in a relaxed and welcoming environment. 🖥️ Event: Carpentries Networking Session 📆 Date: Wednesday, 20 May ⏰️️️ Time: 17:30 UTC

👋 Meet Zhian Kamvar! 🇺🇸 Senior Software Engineer at Recast and maintainer of {tinkr} for rOpenSci. tinkr package cast (R)Markdown Files to XML and Back Again. Find Zhian at: 🐘 hachyderm.io/@zkamvar 💻 github.com/zkamvar 🔗 linkedin.com/in/zkamvar #maintainermonth #ROpenSci #rstats

REMINDER that applications for Carpentries Instructor Trainer Training are now open until 15 May at midnight Anywhere on Earth! Apply today!

Excellent opportunity to learn #datawrangling techniques & skills with @cilipmdg.bsky.social's Fran Frenzel facilitating a Library @carpentries.carpentries.org 2-day workshop: Practical Skills for Working with Data: 5th & 12th June #metadata #collectionsdata #training Register: tinyurl.com/22au9z2m

Round 1 of our Catalytic Awards Program has wrapped! What does nurturing a culture of #OpenScience look like in practice? Supporting projects in medical training, food systems, robotics, & more. Plus lots of engagement w/ faculty, students, & communities. Hear from the participants→ bit.ly/4dhawi7

[blog] Throw-back Thursday! Last year @maelle introduced the idea of ROR IDs (tldr; ROR IDs are to Organizations what ORCiDs are to individuals). Have you set your organizations up with ROR IDs and put them in all the docs yet? ⏳ Roaringly Acknowledge Organizations with ROR IDs in DESCRIPTION […]

Join us next week for a Carpentries community session for lesson developers to report on their experience teaching a new lesson in a pilot workshop, or to ask questions in preparation for an upcoming pilot. 🖥️ Event: Pilot Workshop Debrief 📆 Date: Weds, 13 May ⏰️️️ Time: 18:00 UTC Sign up on Pretix:

Greetings, carpenters! We are on for the May 7 regularly-scheduled meeting. See the agenda for topics, VTC venue and detailed timing. Feedback welcome, as always! codimd.carpentries.org/ozWyVlIoREOA...

Do you work with #metadata & #data in #libraries? Want to build confidence & practical skills wrangling with #messydata? Check out our 2day Library @carpentries.carpentries.org Workshop on "Practical Skills for Working with Data" at @astonuniversity.bsky.social 5th & 12th June tinyurl.com/22au9z2m

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The applications for Carpentries Instructor Trainer Training are now open! We will be hosting our Instructor Trainer Training starting in July. The deadline to apply is 15 May at midnight Anywhere on Earth. To apply, please read our latest blog post: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04...

Thank you Marco for teaching one of the lessons, Building Better Research Software, in The Carpentries Incubator, a place for collaborative development of new lessons. And thank also for taking time to share your experience of doing so, and provide feedback! We appreciate you. 🙏

Join us next week for a hands-on session on how to create a website for your Carpentries workshop. 🖥️ Event: Creating a Workshop Website Skill-up 🛠️ 📆 Date: Wednesday, 6 May ⏰️️ Time: 08:30 UTC You will need a GitHub account to participate. Sign up on Pretix: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev...

📣 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧: 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 We’re excited to invite you to our 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 workshop! 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: 18-21 May, 2026 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 10 am - 2 pm Eastern Time (UTC -4) 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Online This beginner workshop covers Shell, Git, & Python & provides a foundation for further self-directed learning.

Issue 42 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ Getting Started with Claude Code @paulgp.com ➡️ 7 Steps towards Reproducible Research @carpentries.carpentries.org ➡️ Data Management Expert Guide @cessda.bsky.social ➡️ The Ghosts in the Data @vickiboykis.com and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Ready to build data skills where you work? The Carpentries Partnership program helps organisations grow training capacity through workshops, instructor training, lesson development, and professional development courses. Join a global community with 5,413 Instructors across 72 countries!

Back teaching with the @carpentries.carpentries.org for the first time in a long time! Love getting back to adult professional learners after 5 years of undergrad. This is with field researchers, so I wore my butterfly skirt, which is in great company today. Everyone has their favorite critter out!

The Carpentries is a community built around a simple idea: Teach people the data and computational skills they need for modern research and teach them how to teach others. That idea has led to: • 5,405 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 • 185 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 • 4,965 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 72 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. And...

📢 Reminder: The deadline to apply to be a Carpentries Lesson Maintainer has been extended to 17 April (midnight, anywhere on Earth). If you have been considering applying, there is still time!

Why do organisations partner with The Carpentries? To build sustainable training capacity for data and computational skills. Our global community includes: 72 countries with workshops 5,382 instructors 185 Instructor Trainers 4,950 workshops delivered

🔊 The deadline to apply to be a Carpentries Lesson Maintainer has been extended to 17 April, midnight anywhere on Earth. The Carpentries Maintainers work with the community to make sure that lessons stay up-to-date, accurate, functional and cohesive. ⏰ Apply now: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04...

Join us next week to add your contributions to Glosario, our multilingual glossary of data science terms, and help us break down language barriers in programming. 🖥️ Event: Glosario Co-Working 📆 Date: Wednesday, 15 April ⏰️️ Time: 15:00 UTC Sign up on Pretix: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev...

Our impact starts with people. Instructor Trainers help prepare new Carpentries Instructors using evidence-based teaching practices. Those instructors go on to teach workshops that reach hundreds of learners across the world. 🌍 That’s the multiplier effect behind our community. 🌟 Read more:

From @robert.bio @helenechiapello.bsky.social @mthomaschollier.bsky.social & col. in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Training biologists in #Unix command-line skills: From curriculum to interactive online tutorials|#Education #OpenEducationalResources | 🖥️ 🧪 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

🚀 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝! Today, 2 April 2026, after many months in the making, the Partnership program officially replaces our previous Membership model. 🎉 We have updated our website and Handbook with full details, FAQs, and pricing:

Earlier this week, our Director of Workshops and Training, SherAaron Hurt, delivered a lecture and workshop as part of the Ashton Speaker Series at the University of New Mexico Libraries, and we are so pleased by how well it went! And many thanks to the Carpentries Instructors at UNM that joined! 💙

The Carpentries is calling for volunteers to onboard as Maintainers to support our lessons. For the first time, we are also onboarding Maintainers for our newest Lesson Program @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social. ⏰ Applications close on 13 April anywhere on Earth. Details: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04...

Join us next week Tuesday for a Community Session reviewing the procedures taken by the Carpentries Code of Conduct Committee when an incident is reported by the community. 🖥️ Event: Code of Conduct Violation Reporting: What Happens? 📆 Date: Tuesday, 7 April ⏰️ Time: 15:30 UTC Sign up on Pretix:

Join us for a hands-on session on how to create a website for your Carpentries workshop. You'll learn the basics of setting up and managing a workshop site, with guided support. 🖥️ Event: Creating a Workshop Website Skill-up 🛠️ 📆 Date: Thursday, 2 April ⏰️ Time: 08:30 UTC Sign up on Pretix:

Our Executive Director @drkariljordan.carpentries.org will be speaking at the upcoming workshop convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 🗣️ Session Title: How AI is Influencing the Tech Workforce 🗓️ Date: Monday, 30 March 2026 ⏰ Time: 2:50–4:20 PM EST

We’re excited to invite you to our Software Carpentry Python: Coding for Beginners workshop in partnership with @instats.bsky.social! 📆 Dates: 22-23 April 2026 ⏰ Time: 8:00am - 12:00pm ET (UTC -4) 🖥️ Location: Zoom Our #Python workshop is for those with little or no prior experience in programming.

The Carpentries has fantastic representation at the National Society of Black Engineers Convention in Baltimore #NSBE2026. 🌟 Today, Carpentries Instructor, Sarah Brown, is teaching a Software Carpentry workshop, with Syreeta Thomas as helper. Our ED @drkariljordan.carpentries.org is also attending!

🔍 The 2026 International RSE Survey will close in just a few days. If you haven't done so already, hurry up an have your say by Friday 20 March. - Find out more about the survey and how to participate at lnkd.in/ejTXEsFY

The RSECon26 Call for Mentors is open! Advise early-career RSEs preparing accepted talks and posters. Share expertise and build confidence in our community. Commitment: ~3.5 hours from June 12 - Aug 26. Apply by 1 June! Learn more and sign up: rsecon26.society-rse.org/calls/mentors #RSECon26

Learn Nonresponse in Social Surveys (Free Seminar) at your own pace! #Statistics #Demography #Sociology #SocialTheory #PublicPolicy #DataScience #Powerpoint #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats

📢 Applications are open for @aspenpolicyacademy.bsky.social’s Building Nonprofit Advocacy Capacity course! This free, part-time, virtual program (May 11–15) helps nonprofits build policy advocacy plans from scratch. Apply by April 5. Details and application: aspenpolicyacademy.org/program/buil...

📢 Exciting News for R-Ladies Rome! Join us for a session with Isabella Velásquez from Posit PBC: "What’s New in {dplyr} 1.2.0." Discover updates like when_any(), when_all(), and more, with practical examples. 🗓️ March 18, 2026, 6pm CET 🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-rome... #DataScience 🚀

This week, our Executive Director @drkariljordan.carpentries.org is attending the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Annual Meeting as a representative of one of the 660 projects in attendance. Her goal is to share what The Carpentries is doing to build AI curriculum.

Set your alarms! ⏰ 24 hours to go until our Community Forum. Join the rest of the community tomorrow at 2 PM UK time to talk all things governance and celebrate our latest milestones. 🥂 Grab the link to join us here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Officially a certified Carpentries Instructor! 💻✨ Data science shouldn't be gatekept. Really excited to run official workshops and help more ecologists wrangle their data. @carpentries.carpentries.org

📢 REMINDER: Today is the last day to apply to become a Lesson Program Governor for the Data Carpentry project!

I'm gutted not to be able to join Germany's first Collaborations Workshop in Göttingen in Sep. If any other community members plan to be there and want to work on @carpentries.carpentries.org -related project(s), let me know how we can support you! events.hifis.net/event/3249/o...

Had a great time at deRSE26 last week, catching up with old friends and making some new ones 🤩 Thanks to everyone who came to our sessions, and to the organisers for another excellent conference.

A busy week for our Director of Curriculum @tobyhodges.carpentries.org, who attended the #deRSE26 conference at the University of Stuttgart! He presented a talk on the developments around the AI Carpentry project, and also co-led two @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social-related sessions. Thank you, Toby! 🙏💙

If you are a @carpentries.carpentries.org community member based in Germany and you want to apply for this, please let me know how I can support you! www.sovereign.tech/news/2026-fe...

We need your expertise! The RSECon26 Call for Reviewers is open. Reviewing is a great way to contribute to the community and help us build an outstanding program. Sign up to be a reviewer today: rsecon26.society-rse.org/calls/review... #RSECon26

Join us next week for Lesson Developer Community Meetings! 🌟 These are sessions for lesson developers in The Carpentries community to meet, share experiences, ask questions related to lesson development, and explore opportunities for collaboration. 📆 Date: Weds, 11 March ⏰️ Time: 10:00 + 22:00 UTC

🔊 We recently released updates on AMY, our community data management software, and are calling on our community members with a profile on AMY to please take a few minutes to update your airport location (now a required field) and any other information on your profile: carpentries.org/blog/2026/03...