Thank you so much @davonnorris.bsky.social for the time you spent with the CRELS & CSS fellows and us yesterday, answering our questions and sharing your experiences. .. and then a full house at the Social Science Matrix for your talk. A memorable experience, including the earthquake❗ 🫨

We had a great time at the first Berkeley OSPO meetup yesterday! Jarrod Millman and @kirstiejane.bsky.social discussed what the OSPO can do for the #opensource community now, a time when #openscience is more important than ever. Join us at upcoming OSPO + BIDS events: events.berkeley.edu/BIDS

📣 Next week on Thursday, September 18 @ 3:30pm -> What can your #OSPO do for you? Help shape the future of #OpenSource at #UCBerkeley at a fireside chat, a Q&A session, and community gathering time with snacks and drinks! 🍿🥤 events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3... #UCOSPO #collaboration #OpenScience

Join #STRUDEL on October 23 for a workshop designed to help you rapidly build a high-quality scientific web app! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ScientificWebApp #VSCode #React #prototype #OpenSource #UX

We’re still buzzing from our #GeoJupyter Hackathon experience - here’s why... Results from working side by side and a focus on the needs of the community! 🌍 🤝 Thanks, @mfisher87.bsky.social and @schmidtdse.bsky.social! bit.ly/3JLLlYR #JupyterGIS #OpenSource #Geospatial @geojupyter.bsky.social

Earlier this year, Nicole Starosielski presented her research on the physical installations that support Internet traffic -- this took us to new places and gave us a lot to think about! 🌍 🌊 bids.berkeley.edu/news/nicole-... #SubseaNetwork #CableLandingStation #InternetTraffic

☀️ BIDS was bustling with activity this summer thanks to our 3 amazing interns, Kyle Cheng, Tyler Hawthorne, and Jamilah Karah! They brought thoughtfulness and positivity to event comms and open source documentation review, and now two are off on new adventures.

Kirstie Whitaker (@kirstiejane.bsky.social) and Jarrod Millman (OSPO ED) hugely enjoyed BAIR’s open source AI workshop, hosted in partnership with Mozilla. With steering group member Meredith Lee among many other experts!

➡️👀 Check out the recently announced #JupyterCon schedule, with tutorials and talks from BIDS colleagues (@kirstiejane.bsky.social , @fernandoperez.org, Maryam Vareth) and several others from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social.

Spend 101 seconds with Tim Tangherlini, BIDS Associate Faculty Director, and learn about computational folklore!

Day 2 of the #GeoJupyter #Hackathon is under way at DSE (@schmidtdse.bsky.social)! Groups will gather and define challenges. The fun comes in when we start talking about solutions – thinking about tools and looking at other communities for inspiration 🤔💡

🛠 GeoJupyter Hackathon Summer 2025, co-hosted by DSE (@schmidtdse.bsky.social) and BIDS at the new AI Futures Lab space From live-coding + mapping integrations to beginner friendly GIS tutorials, this hybrid hackathon is all about open, reproducible geospatial science.

What happens when corporate engagement leaders from across UC Berkeley gather in one room? Last month’s BCEN retreat at Bakar Labs was all about connection, meeting new collaborators, sharing ideas, and building a stronger, more unified approach to industry partnerships.

"The database stands as a powerful emblem of transparency and the power of journalism at a time when both of these values face significant new threats," said @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's @davidbarstow.bsky.social re: database on police misconduct in CA. journalism.berkeley.edu/berkeley-and...

The Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic argues that data science, multidisciplinary teams, and universities play a vital role in shaping the next generation of human rights advocacy. Read full article: www.openglobalrights.org/why-data-sci... #UCBerkeleyLaw

Jupyter Community Workshops are back! Find a Call for Proposals and a description of our goals here: blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-comm... This one is for participants who are current or aspiring Jupyter contributors. The CfP is open through Sunday, September 7th, 2025.

Outstanding work, @calmatters.org! California police misconduct records now available in public database

“Inside California’s new police records database” - Spend a few minutes watching an interview with Cheryl Phillips (@cephillips.bsky.social) on KTVU Fox 2 (@ktvufox2.bsky.social) to hear more about the new database. www.ktvu.com/video/1686149 #AI #UCBerkeley #Stanford #localnews

🧵 A new public database, the Police Records Access Project, now makes 1.5 million pages of public records on police use of force and misconduct in California searchable for the first time. The project was led by @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social, @ucbids.bsky.social, and Stanford's Big Local News.

New database just published by @latimes.com, @sfchronicle.com, @kqednews.kqed.org + CalMatters and built by Berkeley Journalism's IRP, @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social BIDS + @biglocalnews.bsky.social makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records. journalism.berkeley.edu/police-recor...

We’ve launched a database with about 1.5 million pages of once-secret records detailing when law enforcement officers in California seriously injured someone or an agency found an officer violated policy with @kqednews.kqed.org, @sfchronicle.com @latimes.com @calmatters.org 1/

Today, we celebrate the incredible work on the Police Records Access Project – a first-of-its-kind database in the nation. It took years of work by a multidisciplinary team of journalists, data scientists, lawyers and civil rights advocates. Learn more: bit.ly/4m5uDlu

This is how you can get updates from across the #Jupyter ecosystem, hear talks, and more! ⬇️ 🎯

What does it take to digitize 1,000 years of Buddhist art carved into stone? The #Dunhuang Academy joined BIDS to share how they’re preserving the #Mogao Caves with AI, 3D scans, and open tools - A story about data, preservation, and why the Mogao Caves matter.

The first UC #OpenSource Contributors & Maintainers Meetup brought us together for collaboration 🤝 and open conversations 💬. We showcased diverse projects advancing #research 🔬. This is just the start of an annual series! More details here: bit.ly/45c7aYP #UniversityofCalifornia #Innovation

#BroaderImpacts shouldn’t be an afterthought. Dione Rossiter’s final #SciComm talk made the case for designing impact with the research, not around it. 🤝 Thoughtful partnerships, 🌍 inclusive strategies, and 🎯 clear outcomes are key to making research truly matter. Get resources: brdo.berkeley.edu

Today’s Summer #SciComm session was all about promoting your work and your worth. Whether you're applying for jobs, pitching your work, or nominating yourself for an award: self-promotion isn’t bragging, it’s strategy.

TODAY at 12pm PT on Zoom 🎆 Join us for the UC #OSPO Network All-Campus Virtual Meetup, bringing together the vibrant UC #OpenSource community! All levels welcomed - including the just curious - because the best learning happens when diverse perspectives come together. ucospo.net/events/#all-...

UC Berkeley’s Summer #SciComm Series tackled a hard truth today: racism is deeply embedded in how we communicate science. The overarching question: Who are we really serving with our science? Key takeaways: Impact matters more than intent. Science isn’t objective, it’s a human process.

Science matters – but so does how we talk about it. Dione Rossiter kicked off a week of #SciComm with tips on cutting jargon, clarifying ideas, and reaching across disciplines. 🔬🤝🌐 Sign up & follow along: forms.gle/XBbFZDER74z1... #ScienceCommunication #AccessibilityInScience

@ccst.us will host the co-leads of the Joint Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models – including Carnegie’s President Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar – for the first public discussion of the California report’s findings. July 15, 1pm PST. Register: ccst.us/charting-cal...

🤩 Spotlight on the open source ecosystem! One of our amazing summer interns wrote about last Friday’s panel session at the National Workshop on Data Science Education. Thanks, Tyler! Take a look: bit.ly/4lDGoPv #Jupyter #ScientificPython #OpenScience #DataScienceEducation #Accessibility

At NWDSE last week, UCLA professor and social scientist Safiya Noble & UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society Dean Jennifer Chayes shared a powerful vision: AI should uplift communities and advance equity – not deepen existing inequality. Hear more from CDSS: bit.ly/4kiF3fM

Friday’s panel session at the National Workshop on Data Science Education spotlighted how Jupyter is powering the future of accessible, collaborative data science. Fernando Pérez (@fernandoperez.org) shared the vision, Balaji Alwar demoed JupyterLab’s accessibility checker...

Wrapping up Day 4 of the National Workshop on Data Science Education with a powerful session led by Kirstie Whitaker (@kirstiejane.bsky.social) on open science and reproducibility. Key takeaway: working openly builds trust & community, and needs to start from the beginning, not as an afterthought.

10 years after UC Berkeley launched its foundational Data 8 course, a new precursor, Data 6, is taking shape. Yesterday, four educators shared their pilot experiences, using open-source tools such as JupyterHub and GitHub to expand access to data science for students across all disciplines. 🤝🎓💻

Wrapped Day 2 of the National Workshop on Data Science Education with a powerful conversation between Jennifer Chayes (CDSS, UC Berkeley) and Safiya Noble (@safiyanoble.bsky.social, UCLA) on bridging AI and humanity.

Tim Tangherlini, BIDS Associate Faculty Director, gave a keynote speech this month at the “AI Methods for Research of Folkloristic Narratives” workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia – a city symbolized by a dragon 🐲

About a year ago, we cohosted a veridical data science event. This year, QB3-Berkeley is sponsoring Veridical Data Science for Biology, organized by graduate students and postdocs from the Center for Computational Biology at UC Berkeley. 🎟️ Check it out!

This spring, we explored caves 🔦, maps 🗺️, literature 📚, and digital infrastructure 🌐 with 8 scholars, as part of the BIDS series on the interactions between society and technology.

😀 Guest speaker Peter Fackeldey (@pfackeldey.bsky.social) and Kirstie Whitaker (@kirstiejane.bsky.social) are getting ready for the seminar! Starts at noon PT - sign up to watch online: forms.gle/fKjzxbKFScfA... #DataAnalysis #NumPy

🎉 BIDS has some exciting news about a new partnership AND a new space ➡️ We are partnering with UC Investments to launch the AI Futures Lab, a new hub for groundbreaking research and collaboration at the intersection of AI, science and society.

New seminar just announced! BIDS welcomes Peter Fackeldey (@pfackeldey.bsky.social) to campus on June 6. Don't miss his talk "Awkward Array: manipulating nested, variable-sized data with NumPy-like idioms" events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/2... #DataAnalysis #NumPy

Wonderful to see this group come together! Curious about the history of Scientific Python? 🎦 Watch this: youtu.be/cmUtiEv4xm4?...

It was a pleasure to host a Human Technology Futures (HTF) talk at BIDS - with Cathryn Carson and featuring Nina Beguš (@ninabegus.bsky.social)! Learn more about HTF: htf.berkeley.edu #AI #ArtificialHumanities

🧐 How can the widespread use of AI-generated texts transform readers' expectations? BIDS hosted a seminar on this topic led by Hannes Bajohr (@hannesbajohr.de) -- now you can watch the video! bids.berkeley.edu/news/hannes-... #DataScience #Humanities #AI #SocietyAndTechnology

Very excited to be speaking at this event and the opportunity to meet more of the open source community in UC system!

Hello friends! 👋 🔥 We’re working on ecosystem recommendations called specs to foster collaboration and shared best practices across the scientific Python ecosystem. 🤝 ⭐ Support this effort by starring: 🔗

☀️ Check out these free events! On the #UCBerkeley campus next Friday, April 11: 10am - Parker Solar Probe science talk 12pm - "To the Sun", a participatory carillon and cell phone concert in honor of NASA's Parker Solar Probe www.suncarillon.org @cgentemann.bsky.social @gregniemeyer.bsky.social

📣 Call for applications! We invite Cal PhD students from select disciplines to apply for NSF funded Computational Research for Equity in Legal Systems (CRELS) and NIH funded Computational Social Science Training Program (CSSTP) (deadline: April 28) berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #DataScience