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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 20/08/2026

Our Associate Director of Technology, Maneesha Sane, and our Communications Manager, Oscar Masinyana, will soon transition from The Carpentries. Angelique Trusler, our Associate Director of Community, and Danielle Sieh, our Workshops and Training Manager, will continue, but at reduced capacity.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 20/08/2026

Today we share a follow-up to yesterday's announcement of an executive leadership transition at The Carpentries. We are also sharing further changes across the Core Team and our programmatic activities as part of a broader restructuring of The Carpentries. Details: carpentries.org/blog/2026/08...

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Changes to Core Team and Programmatic Activities at The Carpentries

Announcing Change and Continuity Yesterday we announced an executive leadership transition at The Carpentries. On 1 September 2026, Dr Kari L. Jordan will step down as Executive Director, and Associat...

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 19/08/2026

The Carpentries Executive Director @drkariljordan.carpentries.org and Associate Director @erinstellabecker.bsky.social will step down on 1 September 2026. Dr. SherAaron Hurt will serve as Interim Executive Director for a 6-month term from 2 Sept. Full announcement: carpentries.org/blog/2026/08...

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 02/03/2026

Last week two members of The Carpentries Core Team, Associate Director @erinstellabecker.bsky.social and Communications Manager @oscarsibabalwe.bsky.social, attended @rainbowr.org conference, and had so much fun being there! 🌈 To join in the activities this community: conference.rainbowr.org/after

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A request for help: what are your favourite pieces of writing on art? It can be just a sentence, or paragraph, not necessarily an entire essay or book. I'm helping to gather some pieces to share with young people (14–19 yrs old), and have some things already, but am keen to hear what you think too.

Johannes Vermeer
A Lady Writing
c. 1665

Shown from about the knees up, a pale, smooth-skinned woman in a fur-lined yellow jacket looks out at us as she sits writing at a table in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces the table to our left. She turns her head to gaze at us from the corners of her dark gray eyes under faint brows. She has a wide nose, and her pale lips are closed. Her light brown hair is pulled back and held in place with white bows, and gleaming teardrop-shaped pearl earrings dangle from her ears. Her lemon-yellow jacket is trimmed with ermine fur, which is white with black speckles, at the cuffs and down the front opening. A full, elephant-gray skirt falls to the floor beneath the jacket. Both hands rest on the table, and she holds a quill in her right hand, farther from us, on a piece of paper. She leans forward in her wooden chair. The back panel of the chair is covered in black fabric and lined with brass studs. Two gilded finials, carved into lions’ heads, face the woman’s back with mouths open. The table is covered with a celestial-blue cloth crumpled near the left edge of the canvas. On the table are a strand of pearls, a pale yellow ribbon, and a black box with three brown panels studded with pearls around silver keyholes. Two pewter gray vessels are visible just beyond it, in front of a second chair, which faces us. On the putty-gray wall behind the woman, a framed painting hangs in the upper left quadrant of the composition. The painting-within-the painting is done in muted tones of brown and shows a cello and other unidentifiable objects.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

One of the things I wrote about in “Travelling While Black” was how the US concepts of race don’t always translate overseas. The instinct to create boxes, label and stick people in them is more about the people doing it than those to whom it is done. Not saying that racism isn’t real but

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This is a really cool paper on the socialisation effects of studying at University. Surprisingly, the effects (moving in a leftward, liberal direction) are biggest for STEM students and those who move away from home to study, attend a single campus uni, and who live in ‘university towns’ and London.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 01/02/2025

As of today The Carpentries is officially an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation! We take this joyous moment to express our deepest gratitude to the incredible community that has brought us here. Here’s to the future of The Carpentries—built on the foundation of an extraordinary community!

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Tremendous cultural contrast coming here to South Africa. It is still a reading culture - like the USA was 40 years ago. The bookstores thrive, and the latest titles matter culturally and socially.

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Mistress Synchronicity @gloriasync.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Just saw on Xiaohongshu that a society that thinks reading is a luxury status symbol is on the brink of collapse

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Guess which ‘one’ hasn’t figured it out yet?! 👇 Just one guess. 🇺🇸

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Wendy E. N Thomas @wendyenthomas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

When men rage, they blow and shoot things up and start wars. When women rage, we create. We knit, do embroidery and cross stitch. We create new things ... while we figure out how to fix the broken things. Behold rage project #1

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 03/12/2024

#GivingTuesday, the global “movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world”, is here @givingtuesday.bsky.social! This year at The Carpentries we appeal to you for donations of any amount to help support our transition to an independent NPO! carpentries.org/blog/2024/12...

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