@tobyhodges.carpentries.org
he/him Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries. Views my own. Sorry I haven't replied to your email. "I only know that hearts made of stone will rarely sail far and may never reach home" - Chuck Ragan
I'm gutted not to be able to join Germany's first Collaborations Workshop in Göttingen in Sep. If any other community members plan to be there and want to work on @carpentries.carpentries.org -related project(s), let me know how we can support you! events.hifis.net/event/3249/o...
Had a great time at deRSE26 last week, catching up with old friends and making some new ones 🤩 Thanks to everyone who came to our sessions, and to the organisers for another excellent conference.
But the emphasis of the lesson is "workflow thinking": help learners build a mental model of their process, which steps would most benefit from parallelisation, how to manage that and avoid starting from scratch when something needs to change, etc. Specific workflow lang is (much) less important IMO
Countless hours lost to the "which workflow language" debate! 😂😭
@hpc-carpentry.bsky.social's philosophy is to empower Instructors to customise workshops to meet local community needs. This was the origin of the Maestro lesson, and easy to imagine somebody making a Nextflow equivalent too.
If you are a @carpentries.carpentries.org community member based in Germany and you want to apply for this, please let me know how I can support you!
www.sovereign.tech/news/2026-fe...
We are so happy to announce the BIG and EXCITING news that on 5 February 2026 our Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the adoption of @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social as an official lesson program of The Carpentries, launching on 1 September 2026! carpentries.org/blog/2026/02... 🚀
This is like when somebody introduced me to git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net and told me that 1 in 10 pages it produces are real pages from the docs. That was over a decade ago and I still haven't figured out if they were joking.
Hex logo sticker designs for Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and HPC Carpentry, arranged in a row above The Carpentries logo.
The @carpentries.carpentries.org team will be working closely with @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social community leaders in the coming months, to integrate their programs and processes into ours. It is an exciting time!
The HPC Carpentry project has existed for a long time already. They began the formal process of incubation as a Carpentries Lesson Program in June 2024. During that time, the community has strengthened its governance, curriculum, and outreach efforts.
HPC Carpentry teaches foundation skills for high performance computing, through inclusive, accessible, interactive workshops aimed at novices. They are a fantastic fit with The Carpentries, and I am so excited to see this happening.
The HPC Carpentry logo. Woodworking tools are arranged to spell out the letters HPC, framed inside a circular saw blade design. The logo is centered inside a hexagon with orange border.
HPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social will become the latest Lesson Program of The Carpentries @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social in September 2026 🎉
They join our existing lesson programs: Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry.
carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...
Thank you to everyone who helped make this process a success, to the developers and Maintainers of the 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘴 infrastructure that this community built so many fantastic lessons with over the years, and to the developers and contributors to the Workbench who are carrying this work into the future! 🙏
In January last year, we announced that The Carpentries would sunset support for our previous lesson infrastructure, 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘴, at the end of last year.
Our latest blog post reports and reflects on the progress made migrating lessons from 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘴 to the Workbench: carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...
Fascinating post about the practicalities of overcoming infrastructure disruptions to deliver valuable technical training. After enduring four long years of relentless aggression, the resilience of the Ukrainian community is more inspiring than ever.
Running a workshop in times of the war: report about the first @carpentries.carpentries.org workshop in Ukraine
olexandr-konovalov.github.io/posts/2026/0...
Another is the degree of concern with the longer term maintenance of software, which is probably correlated with the attitude split you first mentioned.
I agree that's part of it. I see a split between people who can and cannot/will not "let go" of any concerns/misgivings about how the technology was trained/its implications elsewhere as well. (Usual disclaimer that there are many other factors, it's complicated, etc)
Time to crack out the tardigrade again
Thanks, I am aware that the bot can be run in a container. But the wording on your posts up-thread ("on YOUR machine. Locally. With full system access." | "Schedule a meeting with Sarah next Tuesday") doesn't imply that you would recommend this kind of caution. Do you not think it's necessary?
🔎 The Teaching and Training Special Interest Group within the @society-rse.org is calling dRTP group or team leads to contribute to the dRTP Training Landscape Survey 2026. Find out more and fill in the survey by Tuesday 31 March: www.software.ac.uk/news/shaping...
The media is silent, the russian drones aren't: marking 4 years of russia's full-scale invasion in Ukraine. Dundee City Square, Sunday 22 February, 2:30-4pm #StandWithUkraine
Any thoughts on the security implications of allowing an autonomous agent to run on your local system with full access to your filesystem? I will not be doing this in a hurry!
A lot of posters have been uploaded to Zenodo (>32000 records according to zenodo.org/search?q=typ...). But I suspect you want a kind of gallery view so that you can quickly identify candidates to share with your students?
📢 The Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee is calling for instructors to run pilot workshops for 14 lessons currently in Alpha status. To move them toward Beta and then adoption as Library Carpentry lessons, they need the Carpentries community to test the lessons in real-world settings. 🙏
I've always admired Project Jupyter from afar and to join as a JupyterHub maintainer is definitely a LIFE GOALS achievement for me. The difference between then and now is that I better understand the power and impact of the open source community and *people*
Congratulations to our subcommunity in New Zealand for hosting another successful CarpentryConnect NZ! 🎉
Our Director of Curriculum @tobyhodges.carpentries.org delivered the keynote, and member of our Board of Directors, Paola Corrales, was the invited speaker: eresearchnz.co.nz/nz-carpentry... 💙
🎧 “You say not all cops
You say not all men
Yeah you insist it's only 99%
There's nothing new for you to learn
Ok, sit back, relax, and watch it all burn”
Ten simple rules for teaching data science arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874
1: Teach data science by doing data analysis
2: Use participatory live coding
3: Give tons of practice and timely feedback
4: Use tractable or toy data examples
5: Use real and rich, but accessible data sets
