It's my favourite time of year back again! 🎉🎉🎉 Turing Way Book Dash is a collective, collaborative hackathon covering the additions, revisions, collisions, and joy that go into maintaining the project. No prior experience necessary, just enthusiasm and curiosity ✨

The Turing Way@turingway.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚀 Applications open - November 2026 Book Dash! Want to collaborate to make research more open, reproducible, ethical, and inclusive research? 📅 30 Nov to 4 Dec 2026 Application form here: forms.gle/kcyJ2fJ9Qzb9... • Deadline: 28 Oct 🔗Info: book.the-turing-way.org/community-ha... #OpenScience

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

Lovely to share a snapshot of my @softwaresaved.bsky.social fellowship work at #IRSC26 today exploring open source contributions and culture in academia through a 130 person survey (already OSS-engaged) and an #RSECon25 workshop (mostly RSEs/adjacent)

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w ago

Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80

🚨 BIDS is hiring! With support from Eric and Wendy Schmidt, @lightconeresearch.bsky.social is hiring 3 roles, one in Paris at Centre AISSAI du CNRS @cnrs.fr and 2 here at BIDS, part of @berkeleycdss.bsky.social . Find out more, incl how to apply: www.lightconeresearch.org/careers #AgenticAI

Careers — Lightcone Research

Join Lightcone Research and build the open-source infrastructure that makes AI-assisted science rigorous by construction. Roles in Berkeley and Paris.

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today I have discovered that if you copy and paste from one Word document to another, your footnote formatting will not translate over.

Stick Man's Computer Rage Meme

ALT: Stick Man's Computer Rage Meme

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all I want from technology today is a program that can manage footnotes in word documents.

I've been awake for approximately an hour and we're already onto the third rendition of "Southgate you're the one" in this household

📣 The Turing Way’s June Community Forum! Our second Community Forum of 2026 is taking place on: 🗓 25th June 2026 ⏰ 5:00 PM (UK), 6:00 PM (Central Europe), 12:00 PM (Eastern US), 9:00 AM (Western US) This session brings together our community to share updates and connect about our ongoing work.

The Turing Way Community Forum - June 2026

Date: 25 June 2026 - 5pm UK/6pm Central Europe/12pm Eastern US/9am Western US Community Forums bring together members of The Turing Way community - including people who have not yet contributed to…

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Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

🎉📖 Applications are open for The Turing Way Book Dash: 18th & 19th May 2026! Deadline: 27th April 2026 (midnight, anywhere on Earth 🌏) The Turing Way Book Dash is a collaborative event where you'll work with others to add to and improve The Turing Way book and become a part of its community ✨

The RSECon26 Call for Submissions is open! Share the tools you build and the RSE practices you are advancing. We welcome talks, workshops, and posters from all domains. Check the guidelines and submit your proposals today! Link: rsecon26.society-rse.org/calls/submis... #RSECon26

📣 This week at the #OSPO Knowledge Exchange on Zoom: Roadmap Workshop for #JupyterHub and Binder Share Out Learn how the JupyterHub team’s reflections can be applied in your projects with guest @arielleb.bsky.social ! events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3... #UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience

❓Did you know that you can donate your own better images of AI to our library? If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽 blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...

Submission Handbook for Better Images of AI - Better Images of AI Blog

To make the process of submitting images to our library easier for everyone, we've released our Submission Handbook to Better Images of AI.

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Happy New Year! If you've got FOMO from #RSEcon25 you can catch all the videos of sessions online now! Including my workshop sessions on open source in academia: youtu.be/PSRTMScz3Tg?... And one of my favourite sessions on accessibility testing for software (with geese!): youtu.be/M-5KPeUtTys?...

From code to contributions: exploring open source culture in academia- Arielle Bennett, Markus Hauru

YouTube video by Society of Research Software Engineering

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Reviewing case study PDFs in Adobe, and it's "helpfully" given me an AI summary of the file contents. INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL FILE NAME WHICH HELPS ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SEPARATE FILES.

🚨NEW INQUIRY! Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.

Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...

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You will be visited by three spirits.

Mia McCullough@brazenhussy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

You will be visited by three spirits.

Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors

◾ The first DisCouRSE Focus Group on Team Culture and Leadership in dRTP contexts will be held on Monday, 19 January at King’s College London. The session will explore how leadership can influence a healthy team culture in a dRTP context. Find out more: www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

🗼 Last Community Forum of the year happening on the 10th December! Join us for a great celebration of the year and check our plans for 2026!! Whether you're an experienced contributor or just curious about our project... register and get your invite!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: TTW Community Forum December 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Community Forums bring together members of The Turing Way community - including people who have not yet contributed to the project. Modelled off a political town hall event, these online sessions are...

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Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

So much activity at #JupyterCon 2025 -> tutorials 🧠, meetups 🤝, talks 🎤! Thankfully, Silas Santini captured some highlights and shared some valuable resources! Read "Themes of Day 1, JupyterCon 2025: Collaboration and Modularity" for details: bids.berkeley.edu/news/themes-...

Me when the PR I haven't previewed gets merged and works first time

a dog wearing glasses sits at a computer keyboard

Alt: a dog wearing glasses sits at a computer keyboard typing lines of code

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We now have multiple visualizations of this phenomenon from various news organizations. Which one is the best?

Last year @turingway.bsky.social took part in an ethnographic study on hybrid hackathons and the paper is finally out for folks to read! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... (see if you can guess which one we are 😁)