Arielle Bennett
@arielleb.bsky.social
Open research communities enthusiast, The Turing Way contributor, SSI 2025 Fellow, OLS mentor, CSCCE 2019 Fellow, currently senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute.
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Arielle Bennett
@arielleb.bsky.social
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✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨
TL;DR
🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
⏰ Approx 20 mins.
📅 Closes 30 September
🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)
TL;DR
🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
⏰ Approx 20 mins.
📅 Closes 30 September
🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)
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❓Did you know that you can donate your own better images of AI to our library?
If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽
blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...
If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽
blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...
Submission Handbook for Better Images of AI - Better Images of AI Blog
To make the process of submitting images to our library easier for everyone, we've released our Submission Handbook to Better Images of AI.
blog.betterimagesofai.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:21 PM
❓Did you know that you can donate your own better images of AI to our library?
If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽
blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...
If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽
blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...
Happy New Year! If you've got FOMO from #RSEcon25 you can catch all the videos of sessions online now!
Including my workshop sessions on open source in academia:
youtu.be/PSRTMScz3Tg?...
And one of my favourite sessions on accessibility testing for software (with geese!): youtu.be/M-5KPeUtTys?...
Including my workshop sessions on open source in academia:
youtu.be/PSRTMScz3Tg?...
And one of my favourite sessions on accessibility testing for software (with geese!): youtu.be/M-5KPeUtTys?...
From code to contributions: exploring open source culture in academia- Arielle Bennett, Markus Hauru
YouTube video by Society of Research Software Engineering
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Happy New Year! If you've got FOMO from #RSEcon25 you can catch all the videos of sessions online now!
Including my workshop sessions on open source in academia:
youtu.be/PSRTMScz3Tg?...
And one of my favourite sessions on accessibility testing for software (with geese!): youtu.be/M-5KPeUtTys?...
Including my workshop sessions on open source in academia:
youtu.be/PSRTMScz3Tg?...
And one of my favourite sessions on accessibility testing for software (with geese!): youtu.be/M-5KPeUtTys?...
As you might be able to tell from the subject matter, I'm not a 100% AI skeptic, but this is a feature no one asked for, which makes no ones life better.
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As you might be able to tell from the subject matter, I'm not a 100% AI skeptic, but this is a feature no one asked for, which makes no ones life better.
Reviewing case study PDFs in Adobe, and it's "helpfully" given me an AI summary of the file contents.
INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL FILE NAME WHICH HELPS ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SEPARATE FILES.
INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL FILE NAME WHICH HELPS ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SEPARATE FILES.
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reviewing case study PDFs in Adobe, and it's "helpfully" given me an AI summary of the file contents.
INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL FILE NAME WHICH HELPS ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SEPARATE FILES.
INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL FILE NAME WHICH HELPS ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SEPARATE FILES.
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🚨NEW INQUIRY!
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🚨NEW INQUIRY!
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
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You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors
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◾ The first DisCouRSE Focus Group on Team Culture and Leadership in dRTP contexts will be held on Monday, 19 January at King’s College London. The session will explore how leadership can influence a healthy team culture in a dRTP context. Find out more:
www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...
www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
◾ The first DisCouRSE Focus Group on Team Culture and Leadership in dRTP contexts will be held on Monday, 19 January at King’s College London. The session will explore how leadership can influence a healthy team culture in a dRTP context. Find out more:
www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...
www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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🗼 Last Community Forum of the year happening on the 10th December!
Join us for a great celebration of the year and check our plans for 2026!!
Whether you're an experienced contributor or just curious about our project... register and get your invite!
Join us for a great celebration of the year and check our plans for 2026!!
Whether you're an experienced contributor or just curious about our project... register and get your invite!
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: TTW Community Forum December 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Community Forums bring together members of The Turing Way community - including people who have not yet contributed to the project. Modelled off a political town hall event, these online sessions are...
us06web.zoom.us
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🗼 Last Community Forum of the year happening on the 10th December!
Join us for a great celebration of the year and check our plans for 2026!!
Whether you're an experienced contributor or just curious about our project... register and get your invite!
Join us for a great celebration of the year and check our plans for 2026!!
Whether you're an experienced contributor or just curious about our project... register and get your invite!
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Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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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-...
Read "Themes of Day 1, JupyterCon 2025: Collaboration and Modularity" for details:
bids.berkeley.edu/news/themes-...
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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-...
Read "Themes of Day 1, JupyterCon 2025: Collaboration and Modularity" for details:
bids.berkeley.edu/news/themes-...
Me when the PR I haven't previewed gets merged and works first time
a dog wearing glasses sits at a computer keyboard
Alt: a dog wearing glasses sits at a computer keyboard typing lines of code
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Me when the PR I haven't previewed gets merged and works first time
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We now have multiple visualizations of this phenomenon from various news organizations. Which one is the best?
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We now have multiple visualizations of this phenomenon from various news organizations. Which one is the best?
Last year @turingway.bsky.social took part in an ethnographic study on hybrid hackathons and the paper is finally out for folks to read!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(see if you can guess which one we are 😁)
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(see if you can guess which one we are 😁)
dl.acm.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Last year @turingway.bsky.social took part in an ethnographic study on hybrid hackathons and the paper is finally out for folks to read!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(see if you can guess which one we are 😁)
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(see if you can guess which one we are 😁)
As if I didn't have enough to do this week, outlook has changed the location of the flag & delete buttons - such a small change but so rage inducing and jarring every, single. time.
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
As if I didn't have enough to do this week, outlook has changed the location of the flag & delete buttons - such a small change but so rage inducing and jarring every, single. time.
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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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A great opportunity for people working on career pathways and leadership for digital research professionals. Perhaps something for @ukiedh.bsky.social or @turingway.bsky.social to explore?
discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...
discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...
DisCouRSE Flexible Fund - Round 1
DisCouRSE is a UKRI-funded Network+ project that will encourage and support the development of leaders across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles, resulting in an empowered and co...
discourse-network.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A great opportunity for people working on career pathways and leadership for digital research professionals. Perhaps something for @ukiedh.bsky.social or @turingway.bsky.social to explore?
discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...
discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...
Slides from my #RSECon25 workshop "From Code to Contributions: Exploring Open Source in Academia" are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1709...
Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!
Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!
From Open Code to Open Contributions: Exploring Open Source Culture in Academia
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a code repository with an open source license must be in want of an extra maintainer." - Jane Austen, probably. While academic researchers and research tec...
zenodo.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Slides from my #RSECon25 workshop "From Code to Contributions: Exploring Open Source in Academia" are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1709...
Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!
Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!
kicking off day 2 of #RSECon25 with a fantastic keynote on the power of recognition - if you've ever needed three different metaphors for the difference in scale between publications and software submissions to REF, this talk is for you!
slides.com/simonhettric...
slides.com/simonhettric...
RSE Con 25
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September 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
kicking off day 2 of #RSECon25 with a fantastic keynote on the power of recognition - if you've ever needed three different metaphors for the difference in scale between publications and software submissions to REF, this talk is for you!
slides.com/simonhettric...
slides.com/simonhettric...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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September 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Looking forward to a day of talking open source - first with UCL, CURIOSS & CHAOSS folks, then I'm running a workshop as part of my @softwaresaved.bsky.social Fellowship!
V1 of slides is on Zenodo now: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
V1 of slides is on Zenodo now: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
From Open Code to Open Contributions: Exploring Open Source Culture in Academia
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a code repository with an open source license must be in want of an extra maintainer." - Jane Austen, probably. While academic researchers and research tec...
doi.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Looking forward to a day of talking open source - first with UCL, CURIOSS & CHAOSS folks, then I'm running a workshop as part of my @softwaresaved.bsky.social Fellowship!
V1 of slides is on Zenodo now: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
V1 of slides is on Zenodo now: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Excited to kick off #RSEcon25 (my first!) with a great keynote from @amandabrock.bsky.social from @openuk.bsky.social on open source in research software, great whistle stop tour through the naunces of open source and an update on the policy work OpenUK is doing with UK gov on promoting open source
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Excited to kick off #RSEcon25 (my first!) with a great keynote from @amandabrock.bsky.social from @openuk.bsky.social on open source in research software, great whistle stop tour through the naunces of open source and an update on the policy work OpenUK is doing with UK gov on promoting open source