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pyOpenSci @pyopensci.org · 23d
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 · 23d
🌱 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
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 is text spelling “Building resilience in open science starts with collaboration” with the words “resilience” and “collaboration bolded.
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Erin Becker @erinstellabecker.bsky.social · Aug 12
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...
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.
www.forbes.com
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UoM Research IT @uomresearchit.bsky.social · Jul 25
Amazing to see one of our Research Software Engineers being highlighted by The Carpentries - congratulations Aman and well deserved! #RSEng
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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · Jul 25
The Carpentries Gratitude of the Month is to Aman Goel, Research Software Engineer @uomresearchit.bsky.social and Fellow at @softwaresaved.bsky.social. Aman is leading the organisation of a Training Community Day to follow the Research Software Engineering Conference #RSECon25 in September!
A screenshot of the "Gratitude of the Month" section of The Carpentries 24 July 2025 newsletter. The text reads: "This month we express our gratitude to Aman Goel, Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the University of Manchester, for leading the organisation of a Training Community Day to follow RSECon25 in September! We expect this conference satellite event to bring together many members of the Carpentries community in the UK and beyond. Aman worked tirelessly to get everything scheduled, handled almost all the logistics, and obtained multiple sponsorships for the event. Thank you, Aman, for your contributions to The Carpentries community!" Training Community Day is hyperlinked to: https://lu.ma/mm03rimf. The text is accompanied by the Carpentries Gratitudes heart, which is a heart-shaped symbol with The Carpentries logo at its centre. There is also a headshot image of Aman Goel, which is captioned as "found online and may be subject to copyright." In the caption, Aman Goel is hyperlinked to: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amangoel185/.
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Jun 19
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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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · Jun 19
ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding.

However...
Announcing Withdrawal of NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems Proposal
In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program. This project would position The Carpentr...
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Erin Becker @erinstellabecker.bsky.social · Jun 9
@carpentries.carpentries.org‬ just announced that we're withdrawing our NSF POSE proposal for the same reasons. carpentries.org/blog/2025/06... It's reassuring to see others taking this stance.
Announcing Withdrawal of NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems Proposal
In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program. This project would position The Carpentr...
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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · Jun 8
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...
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.
www.richmondscientific.com
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Mar 8
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 · May 30
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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SmaMan @smaman.bsky.social · May 30
Yeah I don't think so...
For every minute "saved" by using AI, is another minute for a real programmer check to make sure it's not just deleting your files... and then to actually write the real code.
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