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Call for Proposals: Critical Data Studies Track—4s/EASST Conference BCN-2106 Science + Technology by Other Means: Exploring Collectives, Spaces, and Futures

BIDS Docker Workshop Overview and Lessons Learned

A big thank you to Titus Brown, associate professor of population health and reproduction at UC Davis, for hosting a two-day Docker Workshop at BIDS. Below is a write-up of the event as well as Titus's takeaways from the workshop.

Recap: Workshop on the Future of Open Science and Publishing

On November 2, we hosted a workshop at BIDS to discuss the future of open science and publishing. Our goal was to explore how increasing calls for openness are likely to affect the landscape of academic research and scholarly communication in the coming decades. The workshop kicked off in the morning with a panel discussion in the Banatao Auditorium on Berkeley campus. Our five invited panelists each presented their organization's current initiatives and future visions surrounding open scholarship.

Looking at the Pain of Others (on Social Media)

BIDS ethnographer Charlotte Cabasse-Mazel recently published a blog post for Platypus reflecting on "the complexity of witnessing from a distance, and engaging with, catastrophic events, disasters or, in this case, terrorist attacks [the November 2015 Paris attacks]" and discussing the concept of resilience from an STS perspective.

The AMP Lab Stands Up to Big Data

By: Wallace Ravven   The iPhone is fully charged, but the car battery isn’t. Siri to the rescue. In a flash, she pinpoints the nearest towing service. Siri taps into a nearly limitless world of data by asking thousands of clustered computers to come up with a quick, reliable answer.

I-School Course Teaches New Approaches to Measuring Impact

A course taught by BIDS fellow Dav Clark and aligned closely with BIDS Collaborative was recently featured in a Blum Center article. By Tamara Straus

rOpenSci Announces $2.9M Award from the Helmsley Charitable Trust

rOpenSci, a project based at BIDS and Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology and led in part by BIDS fellow Karthik Ram, announced today that it was awarded $2.9 million from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust "to expand rOpenSci’s mission of developing tools and community around open data and reproducible research practices." Full announcement below. By Karthik Ram

The Data Structures for Data Science Workshop: Exploring Common Data Structures across Programming Languages and Packages

Co-written by Kyle Barbary

Information Escrows to Combat Code Fraud