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Open Science Hardware Foundation @opensciencehw.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨Priority deadline for @opensciencehw.bsky.social's next Executive Director is 📅 TODAY Aug 15! Lead a growing nonprofit + global #openhardware movement.

🔗Apply or share: opensciencehardware.org/2025/07/were...

📍Remote ⏰Full-time 💰USD 100–115k

#openscience #opensource #jobs #hiring

We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation

Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

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Open Science Hardware Foundation @opensciencehw.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨We’re in the final week before the priority deadline for our next Executive Director! Lead @opensciencehw.bsky.social, grow the global #openscience hardware movement.

Apply and share: opensciencehardware.org/2025/07/were...

📅Priority deadline: Aug 15, 2025

#openhardware #opensource #jobs #hiring

We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation

Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

opensciencehardware.org

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Open Science Hardware Foundation @opensciencehw.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨 REMINDER: We're #hiring a new Executive Director!
📍 Remote ⏰ Full-time 💰 USD 100–115k
Help grow the OSHF, lead programs+fundraising, and support #openscience & #openhardware:
opensciencehardware.org/2025/07/were...

#job #opensource #sciencejob

We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation

Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

opensciencehardware.org

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨 Job alert: Exec Director @opensciencehw.bsky.social
📍 Remote | Full-time | $100–$115k
We're hiring our first ED! Help grow the org, lead programs + fundraising, and support open science hardware.
Details: opensciencehardware.org/2025/07/were...

#OpenScience #OpenHardware #Jobs

We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation

Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

opensciencehardware.org

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Jul 16

Spending the morning learning about Sursiendo + May First Movement Tech’s new work on embedding environmental sustainability into autonomous internet infrastructure. They had me at the Axolotl cartoon, but I’m excited to dig into their community-based tech work 💡

sursiendo.org/2025/07/acti...

Actions for environmental justice from autonomous and community-based technological infrastructures

Leer en español Sursiendo, along with May First Movement Technology, is researching action strategies to embed environmental sustainability into autonomous internet communications infrastructure…

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Jul 8

Reflecting on how participatory science took root -- what worked, what didn’t, what’s next. A friend shared this brilliant podcast on ethics in health research: 5 episodes, 10 guests, deep honesty on justice, care & systems. Highly recommend.
🎧 ethicsinpractice.net/home

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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · Jul 6

Hawaii is suing oil companies by invoking the state constitution's "public trust doctrine," which declares that “all public natural resources are held in trust by the State for the benefit of the people." Sarah J. Morath explores this new trend in environmental litigation.

Hawaii’s Lawsuit Against Oil Companies Alleges “Harm to Public Trust Resources”

States are suing companies that cause harm to the environment, relying on mandates requiring protection of public resources.

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚀 The Open Science Hardware Foundation is now on Bluesky and LinkedIn! Follow along, we’ll be posting a new position soon.
🔗 lnkd.in/gwAjccRn
🦋 bsky.app/profile/opensciencehw.bsky.social
🌐 opensciencehardware.org

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Open Environmental Data Project @openenvirodata.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our June newsletter is out! Catch up on OEDP's recent goings-on, including:

🤝 highlights from the Community Data Playbook;

✍ an op-ed about hardware procurement from @sdosemagen.bsky.social , Eunice Mercado-Lara + Alison Parker;

☀️ AGU's Days of Action in D.C.

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Jun 24

Been deep in ✨open✨ all week at UN Open Source + Linux OS Summit (keynote today!). I’m off next to a Nat’l Parks Conservation Assoc. board mtg + thinking about this admin’s attack on public lands. Use your voice before the reconciliation vote: 👉 www.npca.org/notforsale

Oppose the Senate reconciliation bill

We could see one of the largest fire sales of public lands in our nation’s history – with roughly 3 million acres going to the highest bidder – thanks to the Senate’s new budget reconciliation bill. A...

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Jun 18

In NYC this week for UN Open Source, bringing the open science hardware angle. Grateful for the GOSH community - folks worldwide making tools like 3D-printed microscopes & air/water sensors. Curious? Their forum is a great place to start: openhardware.science

Home - Gathering for Open Science Hardware

We are a community that wants to make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025 Join the ForumSign Up to the GOSH NewsletterJoin and chat about open science hardwareLearn about our community valuesHow ...

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Jun 10

Spending time this morning catching up on one of my favorite projects, the open-weather community. Today, their eNews starts, "On Friday 6 June, members of the open-weather network captured the last images from NOAA-18..." Cliffhanger, but you can check them out here: open-weather.community

open-weather

Feminist art, tech and education project about our changing relations to weather and climate. Learn DIY satellite imagery reception and reading.

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · May 23

📣 New article from ‪@euniceml.bsky.social‬, Alison Parker, & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the role of procurement in shaping the infrastructure of democracy, arguing for the role of open-source in producing a better vision to broaden who can participate in federal procurement systems.

Unlocking Innovation: Why Federal Procurement Should Embrace Open Source | TechPolicy.Press

Eunice Mercado-Lara, Shannon Dosemagen, and Alison Parker make the case for reforming federal procurement rules to boost open source solutions.

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Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) @orca-open.bsky.social · Apr 3

#OpenScience Hardware in Govt Procurement: OSH cuts costs & drives innovation—but outdated policies block progress. New @wilsoncenter.org & @openenvirodata.bsky.social report by @euniceml.bsky.social of @orca-open.bsky.social suggests solutions: bit.ly/447Upzd #OpenHardware #OpenSource

Advancing Open Science Hardware: Opportunities and Challenges in US Government Procurement

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Open Environmental Data Project @openenvirodata.bsky.social · May 20

We’re so proud to release the Community Data Playbook!

Communities around the world collect and use #environmental data, but face barriers in using data to its fullest extent; to unlock the potential benefits of community-generated environmental data, we need better data governance approaches.

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Apr 8

"As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts." Nice rundown, including a shoutout to @openenvirodata.bsky.social for work in env & climate data space.

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It

As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and his...

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Apr 8

From colleagues at Open Environmental Data Project and partners, an OpEd on digital infrastructure, federal collapse, and how we move through and past this moment to, "re-build our digital infrastructure — to make it more useful, more meaningful and ultimately to improve the lives of Americans."

America's digital infrastructure belongs to you

COMMENTARY | We’ve seen unprecedented attacks on our nation’s federal digital infrastructure, from removing or restricting datasets and tools, to taking websites offline, to widespread layoffs.

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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · Mar 27

Everyone's suddenly talking about Signal for some reason. If you don't know - here's what it should and shouldn't be used for. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1...

What is Signal? The messaging app, explained.

With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be used for—and what it shouldn’t.

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Signal @signal.org · Mar 25

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Mar 10

USC Annenberg Innovation Lab is looking for their next cohort of fellows now through March 28th. This might be a great fellowship opportunity to apply for if you merge diverse forms of media and technology with participatory practices to advance social progress 📝

Civic Media Fellowship

Applications for the 2025/26 Fellowship cohort are open from March 3-28, 2025 — APPLY HERE! For more information about the fellowship experience, who we’re looking for and the application process, ple...

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Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social · Mar 10

Great opportunity to take on a leadership role with Adventure Scientists as their next ED! Note that you will need to be willing to relocate to Bozeman, MT 🏔️
www.adventurescientists.org/executive-di...

Executive Director - Adventure Scientists

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csvconf @csvconf.bsky.social · Mar 4

Hello 🦋!
📯 We are excited to announce that the call for proposals for #CSVCONF is now open!
💡 This year theme is "Data for Communities"
✍🏾 Submit your ideas for talks by April 6 for a chance to join us in Bologna🦙🍝!
forms.gle/AEC5oXgQBhPr...
#OpenData #OpenSource #DataJournalism #DataGov

csvconf flyer featuring a llama with the Italian flag
csvconfv9 call for proposals

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Mar 5

This is a tragic loss. Monitoring air quality at U.S. embassies and consulates supports the health not only of the staff at those embassies, but the health of the neighboring communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/c...

U.S. Embassies Halt Air Quality Monitoring Abroad

Since 2008, embassies and other diplomatic posts had been publishing data about local air quality. In many countries, it was the only reliable source of such information.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Feb 23

Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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