☀️ We had a GREAT kickoff with the Lightcone Research team today, hosting the #AAI4Science Developer Summit at the #AIFuturesLab in Berkeley! 🤝 Teams formed around the themes of trust & verification, research infrastructure, and more. Tomorrow, they dig into their projects and start coding!

🌟 📚 How can open source tools unlock students’ potential in education? Read our recap of the BIDS panel at the National Workshop on Data Science Education, hosted by @berkeleycdss.bsky.social bids.berkeley.edu/news/bids-na...

💌 BIDS's monthly newsletter is out! Some highlights: 🎟️ All-campus virtual #OSPO meetup on July 2 🎬 #UCOpen Summit recap & recordings 🗺️ jupyter-tiler announcement Check it out! mailchi.mp/berkeley/thi...

So incredibly proud to be in such _distinguished_ company! Really truly honoured to get to work with the #JupyterHub, #JupyterBook @mystmd.org, @geojupyter.bsky.social and #JupyterHealth communities ❤️👩‍🚀🌌

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Congratulations to the newest batch of Jupyter Distinguished Contributors, James Colliander, Florence Haudin, Gregory Mooney, and Kirstie Whitaker. The Jupyter community thanks you for your effort to advance Project Jupyter, and for leading by example! blog.jupyter.org/congratulati...

🌟 📚 Join BIDS at the annual National Workshop for Data Science Education, June 22-24! Our panel on June 23 will feature #Jupyter ecosystem topics #JupyterBook, #GeoJupyter, #JupyterAI It's free to attend in person or on Zoom! Hope to see you there ➡️ cdss.berkeley.edu/dsus/nwdse

🙌 Want to join colleagues from all over the world to review a preprint on safety monitoring of COVID-19 vaccination in the US? Registration is open for our next community #LiveReview on June 25 at 3pm UTC. 👉 Sign up: bit.ly/June25-LiveR... @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy #ReviewTogether

Another workshop success story at #AIFuturesLab! Englacial (funded by @asterainstitute.bsky.social ) & BIDS co-hosted a workshop with 30 scientists & engineers that focused on open, connected scientific data products in the #cryosphere. 🤝💡 Recap with GitHub links: englacial.org/posts/202404...

This excellent video is worth much more 101 seconds of your time, but that's all it takes to understand why #CulturalAnalytics is so important (and fun)! 👀 Keep an eye out for details about the fall cultural analytics event series from BIDS and our co-hosts @berkeleyischool.bsky.social!

UC Berkeley School of Information@berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social featured Prof. @dbamman.bsky.social in its 101 in 101 video series, where he talked about how he uses computational methods to analyze books, films and music, to reveal patterns in storytelling, representation and cultural change across the ages.

💌 BIDS's monthly newsletter is out! Some highlights: 🎟️ AAI4Science Developer Summit 🎧 #VeridicalDataScience (VDS) panel discussion 🤝 Publication co-authored by CSS trainee 🎬 @bobltsturm.bsky.social 's #CulturalAnalytics talk Check it out! eepurl.com/gV0iccZNgb

Saul Perlmutter, BIDS Founding Faculty Director, was part of the team that started the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social course "Sense and Sensibility and Science" 13 years ago -- giving "students the tools to combat misinformation and improve their communication skills..."

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 3mo ago

A Nobel laureate thinks this hit UC Berkeley class could help change the world.

OSPO meetups: Shaping the future of #OpenSource at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Read a recap of “Open Science as a Process, Not a Product” with Tasha Snow & get insights from the #CryoCloud #JupyterHub community. 👉 bids.berkeley.edu/news/insight... (img: A group discussion.)

We're delighted to host @lightconeresearch.bsky.social at BIDS. They're advancing our shared goal of leveraging #AIForScience to benefit society. Join us at their #DeveloperSummit 28-31 July 2026 at our #AIFuturesLab. Apply today: lightconeresearch.org/developer-su... Reviews start on 15 June

Lightcone Research@lightconeresearch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today, we’re launching Lightcone Research. AI is changing what’s tractable in scientific research, putting more ambitious questions within reach. We build open-source infra that turn this expanded reach into results other scientists can reproduce, inspect, and build on.

Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/

Recent Cultural Analytics talk “I am Troubled” by Bob Sturm @bobltsturm.bsky.social about AI-generated music🎶 sparked discussion and gave us a lot to chew on! Read the recap & watch the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social recording ⬇️ bids.berkeley.edu/news/bob-stu...

A Jupyter Workshop on MyST Markdown for educators is happening June 15–17 in Orsay, France! Learn to publish reproducible teaching materials with Jupyter Book. Travel funding available. Register here: events.linuxfoundation.org/demystifying...

One last push for this week's newsletter: "we're describing "AI safety" as technology that is safely created, safely deployed, and safely used and maintained. We're setting a high bar, and it kicks in way before concerns about existential risk become material." buttondown.com/justenoughin...

📢 Check out the latest weeknote from PREreview! Help the Product team continue to improve its experimental #matchmaking feature and learn about a new way to track your requests for #reviews. content.prereview.org/prereview-pl...

PREreview platform news, 17 April 2026

Help the Product team continue to improve its experimental matchmaking feature and learn about a new way to track your requests for reviews.

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Excited for #UCOpen2026!

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)@ucbids.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⭐ Whether you’re looking for research partners, hiring talent, solving technical problems, or contributing expertise back to the academic open source community, UC Open 2026 connects university innovation with real-world application. Join us on April 22-23 in Berkeley! ucospo.net/events/uc-op...

🚀 We’re starting a new series of Community Features, where we spotlight inspiring members of the 2026 PREreview Champions cohort. Today's guest is Alan Colin-Arce, from Canada. Hear about his experience and tell us what resonated most with you: bit.ly/Champions-Alan

nbgitpuller v1.3.0 is out! New context-aware error handling means no more cryptic terminals for your students. Read about what changed and why it matters: #Jupyter #ErrorHandling blog.jupyter.org/better-shari...

Better sharing UX with nbgitpuller and contextual error handling

Better sharing UX with nbgitpuller and contextual error handling TL;DR nbgitpuller now has improved UX context-aware error handling. Update to version 1.3.0 and let us know what you think by opening …

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@ucbids.bsky.social is back as a mybinder federation member. Their new OVH node just absorbed 50% of traffic during a Hetzner outage, serving 64K+ users without disruption. Federated infrastructure working as designed. #Jupyter #OpenSource blog.jupyter.org/berkeley-ins...

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) joins the mybinder.org federation with help from 2i2c

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is now a part of the mybinder.org federation!

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📧 PREreview April 2026 Newsletter is out: Read about PREreview’s part in shaping a PRC Alliance, recap on Collaborative Peer Review community call, test our matchmaking feature, and check out upcoming events & opportunities! bit.ly/4t7BNJE

PREreview April 2026 Newsletter

Lively conversations, renewed motivation, and stimulating challenges for this turning season. Let’s dive in together. Building alternative pathways: PREreview joins the PRC AlliancePREreview joined a ...

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Explore the expansion of geospatial workflows in Jupyter. Gregory Mooney, QuantStack highlights how JupyterGIS is enabling collaborative mapping and spatial analysis within interactive notebooks. #Jupyter #GIS #OpenSource blog.jupyter.org/expanding-ge...

Expanding Geospatial Workflows in JupyterGIS: STAC Browsing and Story Maps

Since its initial announcement less than two years ago, JupyterGIS has been a growing effort to bring interactive geospatial workflows into…

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⭐ Join BIDS, UC technologists, researchers, staff, and open source maintainers at the UC Open Summit in Berkeley, April 22-23 -- with MANY opportunities to learn and share! Get details about guest speakers, panels, & breakout sessions, and register free ➡️ ucospo.net/events/uc-op... #UCOSPO

📖 Read our 2025 BIDS #AnnualReport and how open collaboration and our AI Futures Lab are benefiting science and society. bids.berkeley.edu/annual-repor...

👋 Join us at UC Open Summit in Berkeley, April 22-23. Register for free ASAP as places are filling up! ucospo.net/events/uc-op...

University of California Open Summit (UC Open) 2026 - UC OSPO Network

The Second Annual UC Open celebrating open source throughout the UC system: 22 & 23 April 2026 – UC Berkeley

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💌 BIDS's monthly newsletter is out! Read and subscribe at: mailchi.mp/berkeley/thi...

BASE R GIRLIES OUR TIME HAS COME Come hang with us, ask Ella questions (I know Isabella and I will), and learn something new. Don't think you use base R? You use it pretty much each and every time you use R! #baseRgirly Also, we're a delight ✨

Isabella Velásquez@ivelasq3.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Did you know you (yes, YOU!) can contribute to base R? Base R is the foundation of everything #RStats. If you’ve ever found a bug or thought of an improvement, you can help shape the language. Join @ellakaye.co.uk on the Posit Data Science Lab tomorrow to learn how to get started! pos.it/dslab

At JupyterCon 2025, Chris Holdgraf (2i2c) and Rowan Cockett (Curvenote) introduce Jupyter Book 2 and the MyST Markdown engine powering the next generation of computational publishing. Watch the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MUS... #Jupyter #OpenScience #DataScience #OpenSource

Introducing Jupyter Book 2: Next-generation Tools for Creating Computati... C. Holdgraf & R. Cockett

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"Cementing a machine-learning ecosystem: scikit-learn and beyond": on Friday March 20, we at @ucbids.bsky.social and the Berkeley Statistics department are delighted to host @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social for a seminar. Join us in person or online! events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

Cementing a machine-learning ecosystem: scikit-learn and beyond

Please join us for a special event with Gaël Varoquaux (Probabl, scikit-learn), co-sponsored by BIDS, CDSS, and the Department of Statistics! Varo...

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