Just finished teaching a workshop with and in #Rstats for . Feeling so grateful to share what I love with such a special group of learners! Excited to build a community of coders here!
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If you are a person of colour interested in working in libraries and archives, check out the Global Majority scholarship from . Deadline 26th Feb, more details at arlis.net/career/awards- Please share. #LibraryTwitter #LibrarySchool #ArtLibrarians
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We love the innovative approach that , , and the team are taking to bring Carpentries training to areas where internet access is a challenge! #carpentriesoffline
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In this blog post, SSI Fellow @jannettas tells us about #CarpentriesOffline, a version of @thecarpentries workshops that uses a @Raspberry_Pi computer to take lessons offline when there is limited or no access to the internet.
software.ac.uk/blog/2023-01-1
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Join us for a Community Discussion, 18 January 01:30 & 15:00 UTC, to learn about our return to teaching in-person workshops. Details: carpentries.org/community/#com
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Please share far and wide....
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We're seeking a #research leader who is passionate about #DataScience and #MachineLearning, strategic management of complex datasets, and software and hardware infrastructure, to join us as our new Head of Data Science.
Apply by: 06 March 2023
okt.to/7BUjYJ
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What are the career paths, possibilities, opportunities, and frustrations for those who deliver professional development. Come to an "open mike" career chat for this month's community call. Zoom details and times on this post:
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In case you missed it, we've got grants up to $750K for US #highered institutions seeking to launch #OpenSource Program Offices (#OSPO). 🧵
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New grant opportunity for #OpenSource in universities! Grants up to $750K available for US #HigherEd institutions to launch Open Source Program Offices (#OSPO). Please share this around! Full details here: sloan.org/programs/digit
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📣 Attention Carpentries Instructors! Join 23 January 10:00 UTC for a pre-post workshop discussion. These discussions are great opportunities to discuss upcoming workshops or share lessons learned from workshops you recently taught. Details:
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ChatGPT converts lists of references in BibTeX format. I want to cry. OpenAI, I love you.
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The @UBC Master of #DataScience program is recruiting Assistant Professors of Teaching! Several positions are open in @UBCStatistics & several are open in @UBC_CS. Closing dates are Jan 15 and Jan 30, respectively.
- stat.ubc.ca/faculty-positi
- cs.ubc.ca/our-department
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In today's article, SSI Fellow reflects on teaching an Internet of Things workshop at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
software.ac.uk/blog/2023-01-1
#InternetOfThings #IoT #RSEng
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"To me, The Carpentries community means fun! I am able to work hard, play hard and still bring my authentic self to a community that is accepting of EVERYONE!"
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As part of the Carpentries Gratitude Project, we asked Core Team members the question "What does The Carpentries community mean to you?”
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Greater access to taxpayer-funded research can help fuel American innovation. We're proud to launch the Year of Open Science — with actions across the federal government to spur equitable innovation. whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda
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📢 Last chance for UvA-researchers to sign up for the WORKSHOP 16-17 Jan. 'Git, Shell and R: an introduction to #programming'. No prior knowledge required 👇
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If you are around at #PAG30 on Friday please join this workshop. I don’t think we’ve had a discussion at PAG in this way and it’s very exciting. If you can’t make it Friday, many other meet up opportunities throughout the conference.
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Join us @PAGmeeting this Friday. We will be holding a Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion workshop. Info here --> bit.ly/3GFVmmy
#PAG30 #JEDI+ #genomics #animalgenomics #plantgenomics @GIGA_COS @bat1kgenomes @darwintreelife @Arthropod_i5K @USDA_ARS @B10K_Project
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Edit your data inside of R...
And track the edits with code too.
Article: bit.ly/3vzQhpq
#rstats #datascience
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Our latest contribution to
blog went out today, thank you and everyone involved in our survey. #libraries
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I want to say THANK YOU to all the individuals who wrote such great blog posts or vignettes about #rstats pkgs, the for developing 🤩 material on #CommandLine and #Git, and who help develop much of the content from 1st class!
You are the true heros.
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"To me, The Carpentries community is like a library. A place where everyone is welcomed and you can learn about different topics or connect with others."
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The Carpentries will transition to a more accessible lesson infrastructure in May 2023. Learn about The Workbench and details of the transition in this 2 minute video from .
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For Day 7 #30DayMapChallenge I learnt how to use raster data. Second post of #ClimateAction, since there is the current #COP27, data on soil deficit from . #dataviz #rstat. To learn about raster data I used the website: datacarpentry.org/organization-g
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#UCLA library announced a call for proposals for Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods. Check it out on blog:
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SSI Training Lead Aleks Nenadic has rounded up the very first research software #workshops and training #events of the year, such as #ByteSizedRSE & updates. Read more at:
software.ac.uk/news/training-
#ResearchSoftware
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At the end of December, we added a couple of posts to our blog that we hope you'll take a look at. The first highlights a new grant that we'll be working on with , , , , and :
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Join @jannettas for a Carpentries Community Discussion, 11 January 10:00 or 16:00 UTC, to learn about a project working to run Carpentries workshops with no internet access #CarpentriesOffline Details: ow.ly/WmgL50MiJ3B
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"When starting at The Carpentries, everyone had all these words to describe the community: caring, helpful, collaborative, purpose-driven, people-oriented. Two years later I find that these descriptions are more than true, and I feel lucky to be part of an incredible community."
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We're excited to be partnering with on the committee at this year's #AMS2023 and beyond! Thanks to for a great introduction to today's sessions!
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"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together" is an African proverb. We are grateful for the support and efforts our African community brings to The Carpentries. Thank you for being so supportive during 2022. Let's walk far together in 2023!
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