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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/
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🎟️ March 17-20: BIDS is co-hosting a week talks and discussions on multimodal models for the study of culture with the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social and UCB Dept of Scandinavian.
Join us either in person or at the online talks!
www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/cultu...
#CulturalAnalytics
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The Wandering Officer: New Databases for Police Accountability
Discussions around the CLEAN database - how data and storytelling can drive social impact and systemic change.
➡️ Special thanks to @hrdag.org for recording the event!
bids.berkeley.edu/news/wanderi...
Join us THIS FRIDAY online or in person: @bobltsturm.bsky.social presents "I am Troubled"
Talk & discussion are part of the #CulturalAnalytics speaker series, co-hosted by BIDS and the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
Register now 🍿🥤!
www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...
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📣 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
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🌱 AGU25: Open source geospatial workflows in the cloud ☁
Sessions at #AGU25 created space for sharing practical tools, learning together, and building community around reproducible and open geospatial science.
Read the recap!
bids.berkeley.edu/news/bids-ag...
#GeoJupyter @schmidtdse.bsky.social
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Inspiring talk and deep-dive discussion "AI Fiction in the Wild" with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, which explored how authors writing fiction-based stories are responding to AI through creativity, critique, and experimentation. 📚💡
Recap + recording here!
bids.berkeley.edu/news/melanie...
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🎟️ OSPO monthly meetup THIS THURSDAY: Open science as a process, not a product
Our guest Tasha Snow will share insights from the CryoCloud JupyterHub community and broader cross-agency collaborations.
Join us for the fireside chat and community gathering time! 🍿 🥤 bit.ly/3MKuDuN
#UCOSPO
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🌟 We are thrilled to have six new Berkeley students joining BIDS as interns! We look forward to their collaboration with our community and support at monthly events.
Hear what they're interested in and meet them at our events:
bids.berkeley.edu/news/welcomi...
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BIDS in 2025: Gathering at JupyterCon 2025 to build community and contribute to the future
➡️ Impacts on health & geoscience research, data science education, Jupyter infrastructure
💡 Thoughts on the Jupyter Ecosystem as the platform for a future of scientific computing
More here: bit.ly/4j3lbye
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🌟 BIDS in 2025: Bringing people together to share open source knowledge at the Berkeley OSPO events
Monica Bobra (CA Office of Data & Innovation) joined us for an engaging discussion focused on open source data & the impact it has on real people.
Learn more about her work: bit.ly/4oXrwN3
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🤝 BIDS in 2025: AI Futures Lab: Forging a new direction for collaborative innovation
A hub for groundbreaking research and collaboration at the intersection of AI, science and society.
🎟️ Event plans for 2026 are heating up! Join the announcement list: bids-aifutureslab+subscribe@lists.berkeley.edu
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⭐ BIDS in 2025: CLEAN: Creating tools to increase data transparency and accessibility
We celebrate the CLEAN initiative team and their groundbreaking California Police Records Access Project!
🔎 Learn more and access the database on news sites:
journalism.berkeley.edu/berkeley-and...
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✨ BIDS in 2025: Cultural Analytics: Data-driven analysis of cultural phenomena
🎦 Read the highlights and then watch the entire talk from @manvir.bsky.social “Universality and Diversity in Story and Song”! bit.ly/48CyIYG
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🌟 BIDS in 2025: Making geospatial data analysis and exploration free, open source, & accessible to everyone
@geojupyter.bsky.social led by the teams at BIDS, @schmidtdse.bsky.social, @quantstack.bsky.social, @2i2c.org and @developmentseed.org
➡️ Hackathon highlights - geojupyter.org/blog/2025090...
Join us tomorrow, Dec 4 @ 10am PST!
register now -> events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...
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🌟 BIDS in 2025: Welcoming a new executive director
In January, Kirstie Whitaker (@kirstiejane.bsky.social) joined BIDS as executive director. Her leadership has brought a wave of excitement to the BIDS community!
➡️ Hear more from Kirstie in an early interview with CDSS: bit.ly/4pNSSpL
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🌟 BIDS in 2025
Fast and effective connections: the NetworkX developers’ retreat in February 2025
➡️ Check out the write up to understand more about how this open source Python package is enabling AI innovation around the world: bids.berkeley.edu/news/fast-an...
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NEXT THURS, Dec 4 @ 10am PST -> Meet us on Zoom to get highlights from the @scientific-python.org Developer Summit as part of our OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange! 💡🚀
With guests @bsipocz.bsky.social @mriduls.com - Register here:
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Join us this Thursday!
Meet Monica Bobra (CA Office of Data & Innovation) - Help shape the future of open source at UC Berkeley at a fireside chat, a Q&A session, and community gathering time 🍿🥤
bit.ly/3JvD8II
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A UC Berkeley (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) study led by Professor David Harding finds that how applicants explain their past crimes can affect hiring decisions. Those who took responsibility and showed change were most likely to be hired.
Read more – https://bit.ly/4nVVsc7
#Sociology #Research
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Register to attend in person or online at the AI Futures Lab:
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📣 OSPO Meetup on Thurs, Nov 20 @ 3:30pm PT -> An open approach to data science at the State of California
Meet Monica Bobra (CA Office of Data & Innovation) - Help shape the future of open source at UC Berkeley at a fireside chat, a Q&A session, and community gathering time! 🍿🥤
Join BIDS and @kirstiejane.bsky.social in one hour at 10am PT!
events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...
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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-...
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Thurs, Nov 6 @ 10am PST -> Meet us on Zoom for a live report from #JupyterCon 2025 as part of our OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange! 💡🚀
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We are thrilled, too! Read about BIDS partnership with @2i2c.org in this article from UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) 🌟
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Join us THIS FRIDAY for the second lecture in our Cultural Analytics Talk Series, co-sponsored by @berkeleyischool.bsky.social !
@mellymeldubs.bsky.social will present "AI Fiction in the Wild"
📅 Oct. 24, 12:15 - 1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall, Online
www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2025/...
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Excited to be working with Rosio Reyes, Martha Cryan, @jgrout.bsky.social , and Konstantin Taletskiy on this workshop! 🥰 we joined forces for one mega-tutorial, which isn't reflected in the post below.
Hope to see you there!