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Erin Becker @erinstellabecker.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

@carpentries.carpentries.org is recruiting our 2026 cohort of Lesson Maintainers. Great opportunity to develop your skills and get involved in Open Source in a supportive environment. 📢 Deadline is 17 April 📖 Learn more: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04... ⏰ Apply now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Join the 2026 Maintainer Onboarding Cohort!

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next cohort of Maintainers. We are delighted that 79 of 112 existing Maintainers have chosen to continue in their role for another year. To keep the communi...

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pyOpenSci @pyopensci.org · 15/09/2025

Open science orgs are stronger together 💪 @carpentries.carpentries.org, OLS, @ropensci.org, @pyopensci.org & @prereview.bsky.social are convening to move from surviving → thriving. Read how we’re charting a sustainable, collective path forward: www.pyopensci.org/blog/pyopens... #OpenScience #FOSS

Logos of the five participating organizations (top to bottom: The Carpentries, PREreview, rOpenSci, OLS, pyOpenSci) enclosed in grey ovals along the border of a larger grey circle. Inside the circle at the top is text in all caps spelling “STRONGER TOGETHER.” Below that is an image of several arms and hands closed in a fist. At the bottom of the image in is text spelling “Building resilience in open science starts with collaboration” with the words “resilience” and “collaboration bolded.

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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🌱 Open science orgs are stronger together 💪 Together with @carpentries.carpentries.org, OLS , @ropensci.org, @pyopensci.org we are convening to move from Surviving → Thriving. Read how we’re charting a sustainable, collective path forward: content.prereview.org/from-survivi... #OpenScience

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Erin Becker @erinstellabecker.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I'm really grateful to @jdrakephd.bsky.social for shining a light on @carpentries.carpentries.org's decision to stand by our core values in the face of escalating pressure to jettison DEI. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... If you're so inclined - help us keep going - www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Nonprofit Refuses $1.5M Science Grant Due To New Federal DEI Rules

A coding nonprofit turned down a $1.5M NSF grant after new DEI restrictions, highlighting the clash between federal policy and scientific community values.

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UoM Research IT @uomresearchit.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Amazing to see one of our Research Software Engineers being highlighted by The Carpentries - congratulations Aman and well deserved! #RSEng

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/06/2025

Very proud of, and sad for, our friends at The Carpentries for turning down #NSF funding. The (illegal) demands that they abandon DEI goals were fundamentally at odds with their values. They made a hard and principled choice. Click through for ways you can support them, financially or otherwise.

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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Here is UW - Madison's budget. Our <largest> funder is the federal government. 25%. It used to be the state. Either way, the university in its current form ceases to exist if these federal cuts really happen. But The. Public. Doesn't. Know. This. And our leaders are absent from the public debate.

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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

GenAI suggesting 'rm' is a big red flag for me. I'll always remember my @carpentries.carpentries.org instructor saying something like "rm exists, but there is no recycle bin, so probably best not to use rm". Pair programming with GenAI requires some ability to understand the output, the red flags.

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