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We champion better science for future us. #openscience #kinderscience to uncover environmental & Earth solutions faster.
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Registration open (free!) for "A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess". Expand your knowledge and use of NASA Earthdata, building on momentum behind the earthaccess python library and workflows in the Cloud.
November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT.
Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#ch...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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✍🏼 Building a Culture of Reproducible Science: Reflections from the 2025 NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Summer Workshop.
🐾 Puppies + GitHub governance + examples of work from NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors in "co-creation" sessions.

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August 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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✍🏼 "Taking stock" to support infrastructure and people at the Fred Hutch. Wrap-up post for our 2025 Fred Hutch Openscapes Champions Cohort. Thank you to Mentors Sitapriya Moorthi, @tladeras.bsky.social, Chris Lo, @seankross.com

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July 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Registration is open for our Reflections Program - a light-weight way to reflect on your workflows and make goals going into summer. May 5-30, 2025: 1 hr/week for 3 weeks, plus our 2-hr GitHub Clinic in week 4.
Details, open source materials & registration: openscapes.github.io/booklet/
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April 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Openscapes Community Call Tues Apr 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. Experts from @2i2c.org, NASA Alaska Satellite Facility, NOAA Fisheries, CryoCloud, Openscapes, share what they're building.
Registration (free) openscapes.org/events/2025-...
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April 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Community Call April 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. @andyteucher.bsky.social (Openscapes), Alex Lewandowski (NASA ASF), Yuvi Panda (2i2c) sharing their experiences & what they're building.

Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-04...
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March 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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📣 Openscapes Champions Program at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Apr-Jun 2025!
Please share. Encourage your Hutch friends to sign up! Leading this with @seankross.com @monicagerber.bsky.social @tladeras.bsky.social & Chris Lo
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February 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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🧵 (5/5) Enjoy learning about open science? Are you a Black marine or environmental researcher or HBCU student? It's never too late to join Pathways to Open Science 💻✨! If you didn't attend our first event, come to the others and join our first coworking session this Thursday 5-6:30 PM ET⭐️
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January 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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🧵 (4/5) Open science practice: iterate easily with code, figures, tables, and text all in the same place ⌨️📈📑

Example Tool: Quarto/RMarkdown 😏
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January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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🧵 (3/5) Open science practice: manage projects that makes it easier to contribute, reuse, collaborate, and fail safely ⚒⚙️🪚

Example Tool: GitHub 🐈‍⬛💫
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January 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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🧵 (2/5) Open science practice: create presentations that can be easily shared with a URL 🔗🌐

Example Tool: Google Slides 🖥
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January 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🧵 (1/5) 👀So what is open science?? Open data science refers to the tools and practices enabling reproducible, transparent, and inclusive practices for data intensive science!

Still not sure what we mean? We’ve got you! Examples below🫡
#OpenScience #KinderScience
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January 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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blog: The Abundance of Community at the 2024 AGU Meeting.
Reflections following the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2024.
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January 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Ready to level up your skills in 2025? Join the “Pathways to Open Science” series by @official-bweems.bsky.social, Black in Marine Science & Openscapes, starting next Thursday! Build data science skills, community, and more! Register (free) openscapes.github.io/pathways-to-... 💻✨
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January 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Looking to enhance your data science skills in the new year? Join Pathways to Open Science, our free professional development series for Black environmental & marine researchers, with speakers & coworking. Registration (free) & more information at openscapes.github.io/pathways-to-....
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January 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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"Solving the lonely data scientist problem", a post by
@monicagerber.bsky.social to get us in the mindset for the new year! Monica Gerber is a Data Science Manager at @fredhutch.bsky.social and an Openscapes Mentor.

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January 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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At AGU Fall Meeting, the Openscapes team, mentors & collaborators - from NASA DAACs, NOAA Fisheries, EPA, UC Berkeley, U Alaska, U New Hampshire - will be giving talks & posters & participating in hackathons.
Some highlights: openscapes.org/events/2024-...
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November 18, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Just published a post with highlights from "Openscapes recognized at The White House!", with our Community Call recording and photos!!

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October 1, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Openscapes Newsletter #10: Fall 2024
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September 17, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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📣 Community Call: Openscapes Goes to The White House!
Thursday, September 26, 2024, 1 - 2 pm PT
@juliesquid.bsky.social & Ileana Fenwick will interview each other to share their excitement, anxiousness, and experiences.
Read more & register (free) openscapes.org/events/2024-...
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September 12, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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Blog: Onboarding and “fledging”: How NASA Openscapes supports NASA Earthdata users in the Cloud. A session at ESIP Summer 2024 conference

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September 3, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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A letter to researchers that want to make the world a better place, by Dr. Antoinette Foster

For Pathways to Open Science, supported by a Mozilla grant to Openscapes & @prereview.bsky.social

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#antiracism #antioppression #OpenScience #KinderScience
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August 9, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Blog: Community building for a better tomorrow. Report on Pathways to Open Science, 2024

Pathways is a remote event series for Black environmental & marine researchers to build community for the future of data intensive science.

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Screenshot of zoom call in 4 x 5 grid showing Black people smiling and waving. Two people showing heart reactions from zoom A visual survey of participant responses to “What was your favorite part or thing you learned in our speaker series?” during Community Call 3: Data science is for us. Word cloud. Largest words are community and personal stories, followed by resources, confidence, beautiful brown faces, and about 15 additional words in smaller font
August 5, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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📣Published!
Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science. An Open Access editorial written collaboratively by mentors across the Openscapes community
openscapes.org/blog/2024-06...
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June 7, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Open Climate Data Project 🤝 Open Climate Campaign 🤝 Openscapes
Join us June 3 for a conversation about the power (& challenges & opportunities) of opening up climate data. We’ll dig into the best strategies for opening climate research datasets. Free.
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May 15, 2024 at 7:17 PM