@carpentries.carpentries.org is recruiting our 2026 cohort of Lesson Maintainers. Great opportunity to develop your skills and get involved in Open Source in a supportive environment. 📢 Deadline is 17 April 📖 Learn more: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04... ⏰ Apply now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join the 2026 Maintainer Onboarding Cohort!

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next cohort of Maintainers. We are delighted that 79 of 112 existing Maintainers have chosen to continue in their role for another year. To keep the communi...

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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

🌱 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

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.

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Amazing to see one of our Research Software Engineers being highlighted by The Carpentries - congratulations Aman and well deserved! #RSEng

The Carpentries@carpentries.carpentries.org · last yr.

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!

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.

The Carpentries@carpentries.carpentries.org · last yr.

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...

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.

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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.

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.

SmaMan@smaman.bsky.social · last yr.

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.