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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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?
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...
Thanks for sharing @kmcdono.bsky.social ! ✨
July 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thanks for sharing @kmcdono.bsky.social ! ✨
Keep an eye out for a workshop at RSEcon 2025 if you'd like to explore this topic in more depth as well! 🌍
Huge thanks also to the open source folks at Turing for early feedback&@bennopt.bsky.social for feedback, ethics wrangling&survey programming!
(6/6)
Huge thanks also to the open source folks at Turing for early feedback&@bennopt.bsky.social for feedback, ethics wrangling&survey programming!
(6/6)
July 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Keep an eye out for a workshop at RSEcon 2025 if you'd like to explore this topic in more depth as well! 🌍
Huge thanks also to the open source folks at Turing for early feedback&@bennopt.bsky.social for feedback, ethics wrangling&survey programming!
(6/6)
Huge thanks also to the open source folks at Turing for early feedback&@bennopt.bsky.social for feedback, ethics wrangling&survey programming!
(6/6)
Findings from this survey (open til 30 Sept) will be used to help advocate for national policies which address common barriers at a structural level, and to develop practical recommendations for improving open source contribution levels across academia.....(5/6)
July 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Findings from this survey (open til 30 Sept) will be used to help advocate for national policies which address common barriers at a structural level, and to develop practical recommendations for improving open source contribution levels across academia.....(5/6)
So part of my @softwaresaved.bsky.social 2025 Fellowship is a short survey to collect views on open source: whether you are a casual contributor, a core project member, or someone who has never interacted with an open source project before!
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (4/6)
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (4/6)
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July 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
So part of my @softwaresaved.bsky.social 2025 Fellowship is a short survey to collect views on open source: whether you are a casual contributor, a core project member, or someone who has never interacted with an open source project before!
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (4/6)
👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (4/6)
UKRI is releasing a software, code & algorithms policy in 2026 (more here: engagementhub.ukri.org/ukri-openres...)
It's a good time for a discussion about how to encourage, recognise,& promote the use & maintenance of open source software in ways that benefit individuals and the community(3/6)
It's a good time for a discussion about how to encourage, recognise,& promote the use & maintenance of open source software in ways that benefit individuals and the community(3/6)
Developing UKRI's research data policy
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engagementhub.ukri.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
UKRI is releasing a software, code & algorithms policy in 2026 (more here: engagementhub.ukri.org/ukri-openres...)
It's a good time for a discussion about how to encourage, recognise,& promote the use & maintenance of open source software in ways that benefit individuals and the community(3/6)
It's a good time for a discussion about how to encourage, recognise,& promote the use & maintenance of open source software in ways that benefit individuals and the community(3/6)
...despite increasing awareness of its importance and efforts to fund open source scientific software (e.g the @softwaresaved.bsky.social maintenance fund)...
July 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
...despite increasing awareness of its importance and efforts to fund open source scientific software (e.g the @softwaresaved.bsky.social maintenance fund)...
In research, we depend on open source software&code daily: python&R, data analysis libraries, HPC, specialist imaging frameworks, or out of sight in the stacks...
... but academic structures often don't recognise or support the maintenance work these tools rely on... (2/6)
... but academic structures often don't recognise or support the maintenance work these tools rely on... (2/6)
July 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In research, we depend on open source software&code daily: python&R, data analysis libraries, HPC, specialist imaging frameworks, or out of sight in the stacks...
... but academic structures often don't recognise or support the maintenance work these tools rely on... (2/6)
... but academic structures often don't recognise or support the maintenance work these tools rely on... (2/6)