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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
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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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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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December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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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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December 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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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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December 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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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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December 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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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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December 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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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...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Join us tomorrow, Dec 4 @ 10am PST!
register now -> events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...
ucbids.bsky.social Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · Nov 25
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:
events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

#UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience
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December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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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December 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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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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December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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:
events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

#UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience
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November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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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
ucbids.bsky.social Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · Nov 13
Register to attend in person or online at the AI Futures Lab:
bit.ly/3JvD8II

#UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience
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November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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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November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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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! 🍿🥤
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Join BIDS and @kirstiejane.bsky.social in one hour at 10am PT!
events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...
ucbids.bsky.social Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · Oct 30
Thurs, Nov 6 @ 10am PST -> Meet us on Zoom for a live report from #JupyterCon 2025 as part of our OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange! 💡🚀

events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

@jupyter.org #UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience
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November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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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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November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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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! 💡🚀

events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

@jupyter.org #UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience
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October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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) 🌟
October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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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October 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Tim Tangherlini, BIDS Associate Faculty Director, quoted in this report about conspiracies and where we get our information.
October 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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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!
jupyter.org Project Jupyter @jupyter.org · Oct 7
Go from JupyterLab user to creator 🚀
At JupyterCon 2025, learn to build + publish custom extensions for real-world workflows — guided by experts in JupyterLab development.
🗓️ Nov 3 | San Diego
Details: sched.co/28H2m
Register: events.linuxfoundation.org/jupytercon/r...
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Looking forward to chatting with @choldgraf.com and Yuvi about @2i2c.org next week!
bit.ly/3WopycK
2i2c.org 2i2c @2i2c.org · Oct 7
We're giving our communities more transparency into their cloud expenses with new cloud cost dashboards! Communities can track spending at a per-user level to understand who is driving their usage and take action.

Learn more 👉 2i2c.org/blog/2025/cl...
Enabling transparent cloud cost monitoring with user-level dashboards | 2i2c
We are excited to announce that dashboards to monitor cloud usage and costs at a per-user level are now available! A key goal of 2i2c is to make the cloud safe for science.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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📣 Thurs, Oct 16 @ 3:30pm PT -> Launching the BIDS membership of @2i2c.org !

With special guests @choldgraf.com and Yuvi from 2i2c - Help shape the future of open source at UC Berkeley at a fireside chat, a Q&A session, and community gathering time with snacks and drinks! 🍿🥤
October 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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📣 TOMORROW - Oct 2 @ 10am PT -> Let’s talk about UX design at the Knowledge Exchange with 3 @superbloom.design team members: Philliph Drummond, @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social , & Anh Lê

No design experience required – just an interest in the topic!

Register to receive a Zoom link: bit.ly/4gDQvm2
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October 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Join us THIS FRIDAY for the first lecture in our Cultural Analytics Talk Series, co-sponsored w/ @ucbids.bsky.social!

Prof. Manvir Singh will talk about projects that investigate global patterns in music and storytelling.

📅 Oct. 3, 12:15 - 1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall, Online

https://bit.ly/3VKQjb7
October 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM