Can AI watch a complex television series and understand its artistic choices? 🤔 #CulturalAnalytics talk: Peter Leonard tests the limits of modern multimodal models using The Kingdom, showing where advanced and old AI technologies excel and fail. Recap & recording: bids.berkeley.edu/news/testing...

...processed, and the models’ hallucinations. Featuring works by Nouf Aljowaysir; Gašper and Nina Beguš & Metahaven; Grégory Chatonsky; Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler; Asma Kazmi & Jill Miller; Andrea Khôra; Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage; Greg Niemeyer; and Mario Santamaria & Alex Saum-Pascual.

The "Hidden Layers" exhibition examines some of the concealed dimensions of contemporary AI culture — the planetary infrastructures of extraction and computation, the often invisible human labor, the latent vector spaces within which culture is compressed and... events.berkeley.edu/art/event/32...

Exhibition Opening Reception: “Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations”

Please join us for an opening reception for the exhibition Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery. Thi...

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Friends! I'm bad at advertising but better late than never! I'm co-organizing a workshop at #CSCW2026 exploring the future of infrastructure, in conversation with its deep roots in CSCW scholarship. Please join us! cscw2026-infrastructure-workshop.github.io My short pitch below 👇

🌟 📚 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

Congrats to @serenabonaretti.bsky.social or the physical publication of her awesome "Learn Python with Jupyter" 📙 👏 🎉 , and thanks for sending me a physical copy to Berkeley! The weaving of Python+Jupyter and how to use them to think is wonderful. We're fortunate to have Serena in our community!

📣 A great postdoc opportunity to work with @tsnow03.bsky.social at the intersection of statistics, earth science and open science! book.cryointhecloud.com/postdoc

Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Specialist Opportunity - CryoCloud Website

Welcome to CryoCloud: Empowering collaborative Earth science in the cloud

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The @lightconeresearch.bsky.social team, a Berkeley Physics/ @ucbids.bsky.social @cnrs.fr collaboration to build open source standards and infrastructure to support better transparency, inspectability, reproducibility and human insight into AI assisted research. Delighted to advise this great team!

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.

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.

If you work in open source software, particularly in the life sciences, the new @os4science.org Fund is launching its inaugural call for proposals!! A great opportunity with a broad perspective on what can be funded.

Open Source for Science Fund@os4science.org · 3mo ago

📣 New funding opportunity. Today, we're launching our inaugural call for proposals for open source software that underpins data-intensive research and AI-driven discovery in the life sciences. 1/ os4science.org/funding_oppo...

📣 New #OpenSource fund for #science! Building on the impact of EOSS led by @dartar.bsky.social , this new @renphil21.bsky.social program will help scientific communities continue building our computational foundations as an open, public good. os4science.org/news/os4scie...

Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery

A new multi-donor fund by Renaissance Philanthropy seeded by Biohub and Wellcome opens its first call for proposals.

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Open Source for Science Fund@os4science.org · 3mo ago

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-so...

Last call, today at 11am, Evans Hall at UC Berkeley and online! Come for a talk and discussion by the amazing @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social on scikit-learn, open science and an open discussion in today's science and AI context, hosted by @ucbids.bsky.social and Berkeley Statistics!

Fernando Pérez@fernandoperez.org · 5mo ago

"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...

Do you have any thoughts on systemic bottlenecks in science and how to fix them? Astera is running an essay competition! astera.org/essay-compet...

UCS filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the NSF to publicly release all of its communications about its plans to restructure the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “NCAR represents one of the most successful models of federally supported scientific infrastructure in the US.”

UCS Files Requests to Make Proposals Public on How to Restructure National Center for Atmospheric Research

The Union of Concerned Scientists today filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the U.S. National Science Foundation to publicly release all of its communications about its plans to restructure t...

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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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"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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🎊 We are proud to share our 2025 Annual Report, a celebration of our collaborators, alumni, and supporters + BIDS impact: bids.berkeley.edu/annual-repor... @fernandoperez.org #OpenSource

It's an honor to work with the @ucbids.bsky.social team, part of our new @berkeleycdss.bsky.social college! While "Data Science" may now be a well established idea, there is still much work to do, and Berkeley is a unique environment for this!

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)@ucbids.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🎊 We are proud to share our 2025 Annual Report, a celebration of our collaborators, alumni, and supporters + BIDS impact: bids.berkeley.edu/annual-repor... @fernandoperez.org #OpenSource

Interested in open science across disciplines, but especially in earth/climate/environmental tools, workflows and communities? Join us -live/zoom! @ucbids.bsky.social OSPO event, hosted at AI Futures Lab, for a discussion with NASA scientist Tasha Snow. events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

OSPO Monthly Meetup: Open science as a process, not a product

Join us in shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development. There w...

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On a busy day for science policy, it looks like oversight and operations of NCAR’s supercomputing center are transitioning to a third-party operator. www.nsf.gov/news/transit... Lean more about the costs of dismantling NCAR with this opinion from @carlonimbus.bsky.social.

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos

Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

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🎉 JupyterLite is now part of Project Jupyter! Run Jupyter notebooks directly in your browser: no server, no setup. Many thanks to the JupyterLite contributors and supporters like QuantStack, Bloomberg and the Gates Foundation. 🔗 blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlite-...

JupyterLite Officially Joins Project Jupyter!

We are thrilled to announce that JupyterLite is now an official part of Project Jupyter. This milestone marks a significant step forward…

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We’re proud to share a public roadmap for 2i2c's team - it's a step toward more participatory, transparent open development with our member and upstream communities. 👉 2i2c.org/blog/public-...

2i2c Platform Roadmap - 2i2c Platform Roadmap

Development priorities and initiatives for 2i2c's platform

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We’re incredibly proud to announce that Jenny Wong was invited to join the JupyterHub team as a contributor and maintainer! 2i2c.org/blog/jenny-j...

Angus just gave a FOSDEM 2026 talk on Introducing Jupyter Book 2 and why this stack matters for reusable, reproducible computational publishing. 2i2c.org/blog/fosdem-...

More fun with accessibility: how to add alt-text for a matplotlib figure in a Jupyter notebook when it is converted to HTML. Lots of github issues about this when you google, but no firm standard. Wound up with a hackish postprocessing script that does the job: github.com/zingale/matp...

GitHub - zingale/matplotlib_accessible: experiments with alt text in matplotlib

experiments with alt text in matplotlib. Contribute to zingale/matplotlib_accessible development by creating an account on GitHub.

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📢 Call for Papers | Special Issue in Remote Sensing of Environment We are excited to announce a forthcoming special issue in Remote Sensing of Environment focused on the rapidly evolving area of Geospatial Foundation Models and their transformative potential for environmental remote sensing.

Adding an `anywidget` style/based directive & renderer into the core @mystmd.org stack is a big win for custom interactivity and extensibility. My contribution this week: to round off the first cut implementation - based on what've had in prod at @curvenote.com. opensci.dev/articles/ups...

Upstreaming `anywidget` into the MyST Markdown core - opensci.dev

A techbit on upstreaming the anywidget directive to the MyST Markdown core stack, enabling first-class support for embedding JS widgets in MyST Markdown documents.

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UC Berkeley's DataHub team shared error log data that helped us redesign error handling in nbgitpuller - a tool used across education and research to distribute Jupyter content via a single link. 2i2c.org/blog/nbgitpu...

Better sharing UX with nbgitpuller and contextual error handling | 2i2c

TL;DR # nbgitpuller now has improved UX context-aware error handling. Try out the pre-release version 1.3.0b1 and let us know what you think by opening an issue or via the feedback form below 🚀

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This was an exciting round of UX improvements to nbgitpuller thanks to feedback from the team at UC Berkeley. Thanks to the CloudBank team and @ucbids.bsky.social for facilitating collaborations like this!

2i2c@2i2c.org · 6mo ago

UC Berkeley's DataHub team shared error log data that helped us redesign error handling in nbgitpuller - a tool used across education and research to distribute Jupyter content via a single link. 2i2c.org/blog/nbgitpu...