🚀 Day 3 of #AAI4Science Summit at #AIFuturesLab! Teams focused on prototyping demonstrations for versioning analyses conducted by teams of humans and agents, actor attribution in the #ASTRA standard, and reproducing multiverse analyses. Exciting to watch these creative projects take shape!
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
@ucbids.bsky.social
BIDS is a space for Open Scholarship, Open Source, and interdisciplinary collaboration on AI in science and society. It is part of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. https://bids.berkeley.edu/
💻 Day 2 AAI4Science summit has been full of activity! Participants dug deep in to design discussions, coding blocks, and a participant-led unconference. The questions taking shape go right to the heart of what #OpenSource is all about, and it's exciting to watch them develop. 👀 #AIFuturesLab
☀️ 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!
💌 BIDS's monthly newsletter is out! Some highlights: ⚡ Discover Lightcone Research, a new initiative from BIDS and CNRS 🪐 Read about BCBI with funding for #BioJupyter 🖼️ Starting Sept 3, visit the “Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations” exhibition Check it out! eepurl.com/tl7ESxsFWK
Get highlights from the First All-Campus OSPO Virtual Meetup where we talked about demystifying the NSF PESOSE grant. bids.berkeley.edu/news/new-cha... 👉 And be sure to JOIN US for a discussion about how AI is changing open source workflows on Thursday, August 6 ! ucospo.net/events/#all-...
🌟 📚 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...
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...
Another great #CulturalAnalytics talk with @nolauren.bsky.social – hear about the intersection of film, television, and computational methods! Read the recap and watch the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social recording: bids.berkeley.edu/news/lauren-...
Can AI actually watch and understand recordings of performances? 🎭 #CulturalAnalytics talk: @peterbroadwell.bsky.social explores how multimodal models can help search across various media forms, and why human expertise still matters. Recap & recording ⬇️ bids.berkeley.edu/news/peter-b...
🚨 Announcement: #BioJupyter is a new open source computational platform - part of the BCBI initiative! 👀 Stay tuned: Next month, the fellowship application process for postdoctoral researchers will be launched.
UC Berkeley & UCSF have launched the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine and accelerate advances in clinical care. https://bit.ly/4p8bEZS ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social berkeleyinspire.bsky.social ucbids.bsky.social
💌 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...
An AI that builds coherent, rule-governed conlangs is now public—raising new ways to probe language structure and model behavior.
AI Model ConlangCrafter Dreams up Entire New Languages
The model can even create languages based things like color changes
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🌟 📚 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
UC Open Summit 2026 ➡️ 150 researchers from across UC gathered in Berkeley! Keynotes: open entrepreneurship, AI's future, open source paradoxes 25+ talks: open source research, including emerging projects Get inspired! 💡 Read more and watch the recordings: bids.berkeley.edu/news/highlig...
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!
🌟 The Gateway is a place to make new connections & develop deeper ones. This matters, because BIDS initiatives are designed in collaboration with domain experts across campus, our global open source communities, & BIDS data scientists & software engineers. We are thrilled to be part of this future!
Last month, we celebrated the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway nearing completion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony! 🎉 Watch the recap to catch all the highlights: https://bit.ly/4giLa5k Video credit: UC Berkeley UDAR @berkeleyinspire.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
📣 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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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...
Recapping the first Connected Data Products Hackdays – englacial
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Congrats to CDSS Dean Jennifer Chayes on being recognized as a 100 Women in AI honoree! 🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/4ec4Y8a ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #WomenInAI #WomenInTech #Innovation #AI #PeopleOfCDSS
🎶 What influences a person’s creativity? Noah Askin seeks to answer this question by examining different social & cultural influences that impact musical artists -- a #CulturalAnalytics topic for everyone! Recap + @berkeleyischool.bsky.social recording: bids.berkeley.edu/news/noah-as...
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!
@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.
#CulturalAnalytics research applied to 1,000-year-old Javanese shadow puppet performances! Miguel Escobar Varela analyzed 7-hr-long performances on YouTube -- a fusion of data science + humanities preserving heritage. 📈💪 Recap + @berkeleyischool.bsky.social recording: bit.ly/43A8rbt
💌 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..."
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.)
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!
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.
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
AAI4Science Developer Summit — Lightcone Research
The first Agentic AI for Science (AAI4Science) Developer Summit — July 28–31, 2026, Berkeley, CA.
lightconeresearch.org
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.
#CulturalAnalytics talks at the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social! @taylor-arnold.bsky.social presented computational approaches to pacing and style in TV comedy, showing how visual and audio features can distinguish genres and series in unexpected ways. Hear more: bids.berkeley.edu/news/cultura...
So much light and beautiful lines! Congrats to all who have worked so diligently to create this new home for @berkeleycdss.bsky.social. 🤝 BIDS will be on the ground level, a great location to connect with people at CDSS and across campus. See you there!
The Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway, the new home of CDSS, is nearing completion! This space will foster AI-driven discovery, interdisciplinary collaboration and provide student support as we work to find solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4uJCKbs #UCBerkeley
OSPO Knowledge Exchange Recap: Collaboration across time zones at the #JupyterHub roadmapping workshop, working toward a sustainable process for the future. Get reflections from the workshop, including managing an asynchronous team: bids.berkeley.edu/news/march-o... #UCOSPO