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Arielle Bennett
@arielleb.bsky.social
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Open research communities enthusiast, The Turing Way contributor, SSI 2025 Fellow, OLS mentor, CSCCE 2019 Fellow, currently senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute.
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 16
✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨
TL;DR
🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
⏰ Approx 20 mins.
📅 Closes 30 September
🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7d
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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Michael Donnay @mjdonnay.bsky.social · 16d
A great opportunity for people working on career pathways and leadership for digital research professionals. Perhaps something for @ukiedh.bsky.social or @turingway.bsky.social to explore?

discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...
DisCouRSE Flexible Fund - Round 1
DisCouRSE is a UKRI-funded Network+ project that will encourage and support the development of leaders across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles, resulting in an empowered and co...
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Sep 10
Slides from my #RSECon25 workshop "From Code to Contributions: Exploring Open Source in Academia" are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1709...

Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!
From Open Code to Open Contributions: Exploring Open Source Culture in Academia
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a code repository with an open source license must be in want of an extra maintainer." - Jane Austen, probably. While academic researchers and research tec...
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Sep 10
kicking off day 2 of #RSECon25 with a fantastic keynote on the power of recognition - if you've ever needed three different metaphors for the difference in scale between publications and software submissions to REF, this talk is for you!

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RSE Con 25
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Jost Migenda @jostmigenda.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 10
“I built my entire career by putting blindingly obvious things on slides.”
—Simon Hettrick

#rsecon25
Photo of the keynote speaker. Slide in the background says: “If we don't recognise everyone who is vital to research, we limit our ability to conduct research.”
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Simon Li @penguinoops.bsky.social · Sep 9
FRIDGE, SATRE and AIRR at #RSEcon25
#TrustedResearchEnvironments
FRIDGE, A ready-to-use SATRE compliant TRE that can be deployed to AIRR
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Sep 9
Looking forward to a day of talking open source - first with UCL, CURIOSS & CHAOSS folks, then I'm running a workshop as part of my @softwaresaved.bsky.social Fellowship!

V1 of slides is on Zenodo now: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
From Open Code to Open Contributions: Exploring Open Source Culture in Academia
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a code repository with an open source license must be in want of an extra maintainer." - Jane Austen, probably. While academic researchers and research tec...
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Sep 9
Excited to kick off #RSEcon25 (my first!) with a great keynote from @amandabrock.bsky.social from @openuk.bsky.social on open source in research software, great whistle stop tour through the naunces of open source and an update on the policy work OpenUK is doing with UK gov on promoting open source
A white woman with brown hair wearing round wire glasses and red lipstick in front of a projection screen with RSECon25 9th Annual conference for Research Sofware Engineering in a lecture hall Slide in a lecture hall showing a blue and organge graphic with the title the rise of open source in research, Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
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Chris Holdgraf @choldgraf.com · Sep 3
A reminder that there are two Call for Proposals out from the Jupyter Foundation!

👉 Jupyter Community Workshops: blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-comm...
👉 Jupyter Community Support funding: blog.jupyter.org/your-ideas-o...

Check them out and share the word!
Jupyter Community Workshops Are Back!
The Jupyter Community Building Working Group is pleased to announce that the next call for proposals for Jupyter Community Workshops is now…
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · Aug 23
I swear I used to be able to wake up early at the weekend and be like “oop I don’t need to be awake” and go back to sleep for a bit now it’s like “oh we’re awake, that’s it then, the day has started motherfucker” is this what getting old is
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Software Sustainability Institute @softwaresaved.bsky.social · Aug 7
🧭 We are pleased to announce that applications for the SSI Fellowship Programme 2026 will be open from Mon 11 Aug to Mon 6 Oct 2025.

An introductory Fellowship Programme Launch Webinar will be held on Thu 21 Aug.

Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/fellows...
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Aug 6
Still time to contribut to this 👇open until 30 September to anyone working in academia

Thank you to everyone who has responded so far!
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 16
✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨
TL;DR
🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
⏰ Approx 20 mins.
📅 Closes 30 September
🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
southampton.qualtrics.com
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Ben Thomas @bennopt.bsky.social · Jul 22
Do you, or someone you know, work in sensitive data curation in the UK?

Please have a read about this HDR UK-led, UKRI DRI-funded project on skills for sensitive data curation. Link to the survey in the article.

Please share with your networks!

www.hdruk.ac.uk/study-and-tr...
Sensitive Data Curation Survey
www.hdruk.ac.uk
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 18
Thanks for sharing @kmcdono.bsky.social ! ✨
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 16
Keep an eye out for a workshop at RSEcon 2025 if you'd like to explore this topic in more depth as well! 🌍

Huge thanks also to the open source folks at Turing for early feedback&@bennopt.bsky.social for feedback, ethics wrangling&survey programming!

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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 16
Findings from this survey (open til 30 Sept) will be used to help advocate for national policies which address common barriers at a structural level, and to develop practical recommendations for improving open source contribution levels across academia.....(5/6)
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 16
So part of my @softwaresaved.bsky.social 2025 Fellowship is a short survey to collect views on open source: whether you are a casual contributor, a core project member, or someone who has never interacted with an open source project before!

👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (4/6)
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 16
UKRI is releasing a software, code & algorithms policy in 2026 (more here: engagementhub.ukri.org/ukri-openres...)
It's a good time for a discussion about how to encourage, recognise,& promote the use & maintenance of open source software in ways that benefit individuals and the community(3/6)
Developing UKRI's research data policy - UK Research and Innovation - Citizen Space
Find and participate in activities run by UK Research and Innovation
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 16
...despite increasing awareness of its importance and efforts to fund open source scientific software (e.g the @softwaresaved.bsky.social maintenance fund)...
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 16
In research, we depend on open source software&code daily: python&R, data analysis libraries, HPC, specialist imaging frameworks, or out of sight in the stacks...
... but academic structures often don't recognise or support the maintenance work these tools rely on... (2/6)
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jul 16
✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨
TL;DR
🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
⏰ Approx 20 mins.
📅 Closes 30 September
🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
southampton.qualtrics.com
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Software Sustainability Institute @softwaresaved.bsky.social · Jul 4
💬 #SSIFellow @mdsimpson.co.uk has launched a new initiative names ConveRSE. The website will serve as a hub for mental health information and support, including updates on his fellowship and collaborations with others in the community. Find out more at
www.software.ac.uk/blog/convers...
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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · Jul 3
🔥 Save the date 🔥

"Learning from Each other's Journeys: Case Studies from Open Initiatives"

📅 31 July 2025, 18 - 19:30 UTC+1 (UK time)

Featuring Aleksandra Nenadic, @choldgraf.com, @yabellini.bsky.social, Yo Yehudi, & @arielleb.bsky.social

Learn more: the-turing-way-fireside-chats.start.page
Hand-drawn image by scriberia is on the right of the digital poster: three people are sitting around a fire whose flames form the words “The Fireside Chat”. They are holding speech bubbles on sticks in lieu of marshmallows.
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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · Jun 30
Hey @avilarenata.bsky.social it should be accessible here: forms.gle/UMrS73uCEDPK...
The Turing Way Fireside Chat Series with Software Sustainability Institute - Governance Edition
The Turing Way Fireside Chat series features experts, champions and their projects from across different international communities in reproducibility, open research, ethics, collaboration and everythi...
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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · Jun 19
🔥 Save the date 🔥

"What does Governance mean to us in Research and Open Science?"

📅 30 June 2025, 15 - 16:30 UTC+1 (UK time)

Featuring @npch.bsky.social, @simonhettrick.bsky.social, @rivaquiroga.bsky.social, @oscarseip.bsky.social & @malvikasharan.bsky.social

Sign-up: forms.gle/d2vuQcpoXJpD
Hand-drawn image by scriberia is on the right of the digital poster: three people are sitting around a fire whose flames form the words “The Fireside Chat”. They are holding speech bubbles on sticks in lieu of marshmallows.
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