Join us in 2026
In 2026, BIDS will continue the Cultural Analytics series, co-hosted by the I School, the CRELS speaker series, and OSPO events -- plus more partner events to be announced.
More events coming soon - check back for details!
January 22, 2026
The Wandering Officer: New Databases for Police Accountability
February 5, 2026
OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: February (details tba)
February 10, 2026
STRUDEL Contributor Event
February 13, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Michaela Mahlberg (details tba)
February 19, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: February (details tba)
February 25-26, 2026
JupyterHub Roadmap Workshop (details tba)
March 4-6, 2026
CLEAN Hackathon (details tba)
March 5, 2026
OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: March (details tba)
March 6, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Bob L. T. Sturm "I am Troubled"
March 6, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Bob L. T. Sturm
March 15-16, 2026
Spatial Data Science Summit
March 19, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: March (details tba)
March 17-20, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: "Multi Modal Models for the Study of Culture" workshops (details TBA)
March 31, 2026
JupyterHub Security Workshop (details tba)
April 2, 2026
OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: April (details tba)
April 10, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Kyle Booten
April 10, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Kyle Booten
April 16, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: April (details tba)
April 22-23, 2026
UC Open Source Summit 2026 (details tba)
May 7, 2026
OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: April (details tba)
May 21, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: May (details tba)
2025
In 2025, BIDS hosted a series of seminars with invited speakers, talks & discussions for Cultural Analytics and CRELS, and monthly meetups for the Berkeley OSPO. Additionally, it hosted hackthons and project leadership meetings with partners at the AI Futures Lab space in downtown Berkeley.
December 4, 2025
OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: Scientific Python Developer Summit Highlights with Brigitta Sipőcz & Mridul Seth
December 2, 2025
CRELS Speaker series with Maximilian Kasy “The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits).”
November 20, 2025
OSPO Monthly Meetup: An open approach to data science at the State of California with Monica Bobra
November 14, 2025
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Peter Dodds
November 14, 2025
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Peter Dodds "Telegnomics, Ousiometrics, and Archetypometrics: Data-driven, computational determination of the essence of meaning, stories, and characters"
November 6, 2025
OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: JupyterCon Share Out
October 24, 2025
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Melanie Walsh
October 24, 2025
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Melanie Walsh "AI Fiction in the Wild"
October 23, 2025
Workshop: Building Scientific UIs with STRUDEL and AI Assistants, with support from BIDS
October 16, 2025
OSPO Monthly Meetup: Launching the BIDS membership of 2i2c
October 3, 2025
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Manvir Singh
October 3, 2025
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Manvir Singh "Universality and Diversity in Story and Song"
October 2, 2025
OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: UX design with Superbloom
September 22, 2025
CRELS Speaker series with Davon Norris “Legitimation by (Mis)identification: Credit, Discrimination, and The Racial Epistemology of Algorithmic Expansion”
September 18, 2025
OSPO Monthly Meetup: What can your OSPO do for you?
June 6, 2025
BIDS Seminar with Peter Fackeldey: "Awkward Array: manipulating nested, variable-sized data with NumPy-like idioms"
May 13, 2025
HTF presents Nina Beguš, PhD: "Artificial Humanities: Centering Fiction"
April 21, 2025
BIDS Seminar with the Digital Dunhuang Caves team: "Digital Dunhuang: A Large-Scale Digital Humanities Initiative to Preserve a UNESCO World Heritage Site"
April 1, 2025
CRELS and Social Science Matrix symposium series with AJ Alvero: "Consequential Sentences: Computational Analyses of California Parole Hearing Transcripts"
March 31, 2025
BIDS Seminar with Nicole Starosielski, PhD: "Facilitating Sustainability: Cable Landing Stations and the Alternative History of Network Architectures"
March 18, 2025
CRELS and Social Science Matrix symposium series with Alexander F. Roehrkasse: "The New Contours of Mass Incarceration"
March 17, 2025
BIDS Seminar with Clancy Wilmott, PhD: "Data practice as theoretical inquiry: machine learning, polygons and other notebook adventures in cartography and GIS"
March 10, 2025
BIDS Seminar with Hannes Bajohr, PhD: "Artificial and Post-Artificial Texts: The Reader’s Expectation after AI."
February 3, 2025
BIDS Seminar with Nina Beguš, PhD: "Artificial Humanities"
If you'd like to see BIDS events from 2024 and earlier, please visit the Past Event page here.
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