Arielle Bennett
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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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✨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)
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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-...
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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
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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
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
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 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.
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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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
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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 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
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!
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
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...
RSE Con 25
A presentation created with Slides.
slides.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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“I built my entire career by putting blindingly obvious things on slides.”
—Simon Hettrick

#rsecon25
September 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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FRIDGE, SATRE and AIRR at #RSEcon25
#TrustedResearchEnvironments
September 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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
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A reminder that there are two Call for Proposals out from the Jupyter Foundation!

👉 Jupyter Community Workshops: blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-comm...
👉 Jupyter Community Support funding: blog.jupyter.org/your-ideas-o...

Check them out and share the word!
Jupyter Community Workshops Are Back!
The Jupyter Community Building Working Group is pleased to announce that the next call for proposals for Jupyter Community Workshops is now…
blog.jupyter.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I swear I used to be able to wake up early at the weekend and be like “oop I don’t need to be awake” and go back to sleep for a bit now it’s like “oh we’re awake, that’s it then, the day has started motherfucker” is this what getting old is
August 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🧭 We are pleased to announce that applications for the SSI Fellowship Programme 2026 will be open from Mon 11 Aug to Mon 6 Oct 2025.

An introductory Fellowship Programme Launch Webinar will be held on Thu 21 Aug.

Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/fellows...
August 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Still time to contribut to this 👇open until 30 September to anyone working in academia

Thank you to everyone who has responded so far!
✨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)
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
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southampton.qualtrics.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Do you, or someone you know, work in sensitive data curation in the UK?

Please have a read about this HDR UK-led, UKRI DRI-funded project on skills for sensitive data curation. Link to the survey in the article.

Please share with your networks!

www.hdruk.ac.uk/study-and-tr...
Sensitive Data Curation Survey
www.hdruk.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
✨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)
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
southampton.qualtrics.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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💬 #SSIFellow @mdsimpson.co.uk has launched a new initiative names ConveRSE. The website will serve as a hub for mental health information and support, including updates on his fellowship and collaborations with others in the community. Find out more at
www.software.ac.uk/blog/convers...
July 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🔥 Save the date 🔥

"Learning from Each other's Journeys: Case Studies from Open Initiatives"

📅 31 July 2025, 18 - 19:30 UTC+1 (UK time)

Featuring Aleksandra Nenadic, @choldgraf.com, @yabellini.bsky.social, Yo Yehudi, & @arielleb.bsky.social

Learn more: the-turing-way-fireside-chats.start.page
July 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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🔥 Save the date 🔥

"What does Governance mean to us in Research and Open Science?"

📅 30 June 2025, 15 - 16:30 UTC+1 (UK time)

Featuring @npch.bsky.social, @simonhettrick.bsky.social, @rivaquiroga.bsky.social, @oscarseip.bsky.social & @malvikasharan.bsky.social

Sign-up: forms.gle/d2vuQcpoXJpD
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Co-organised by @oscarseip.bsky.social from SSI and @malvikasharan.bsky.social and @arielleb.bsky.social from The Turing Way, this series will dive deep into different aspects of governance in open science and research.

See the thread below 👇
June 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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the level of personal abuse I am facing on this app is getting unbearable
June 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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"materialism is bad boohoo things won't make you happy"

that's a trinketless mindset, those are the words of somebody who doesn't have cool stuff
May 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Delighted to announce 'ConveRSE' - the new online hub for #MentalHealth information, resources and support for people in the research software community - at @softwaresaved.bsky.social #CollabW25.

More details and opportunities to contribute to follow in the coming weeks.
May 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM