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rOpenSci Announces $400K CZI Award to Empower Historically Excluded Groups as Community Leaders in Scientific Open Source Projects

We are thrilled to have been awarded new funding as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science program’s education and capacity building strategy. This $400K grant will support a new project to enable more members of historically excluded groups to participate in, benefit from, and become leaders in the R, research software engineering, and open source and open science communities.

Ben Nachman receives DOE grant to automate and optimize detector design using machine learning

Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at Berkeley Moves Closer to Becoming a College

This fall, UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society moved one step closer to becoming a college. The University of California’s Office of the President reviewed the division’s pre-proposal, clearing the way for CDSS to revise and seek review of a final proposal laying out its detailed vision and plan for the school. If that is approved, CDSS would be the first new college at Berkeley in more than 50 years.

New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to foster ethics, engagement in science

This article is cross-posted from New Kavli Center at UC Berkeley to foster ethics, engagement in science December 9, 2021  |   Kara Manke  |   Berkeley News

BIDS Offers a Warm Welcome to New Executive Director, Ashish Sahni

BIDS is delighted to announce the arrival of its new Executive Director, Ashish Sahni, who will officially begin his appointment in January 2022. 

Alex de Siqueira to participate in Salta University's "Thousand Programmers" series

BIDS is hiring: Postdoctoral Scholar - Criminal Justice

The Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS) is seeking a postdoctoral scholar for an independent research fellowship focusing on criminal justice and police misconduct. Full details and instructions to apply are available here: BIDS Postdoctoral Scholar - Criminal Justice (#JPF03173).  Apply by December 1, 2021, to ensure full consideration by the hiring committee. Applications received after December 17, 2021, will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Looking to better algorithms to push back against built-in bias in online platforms

This article is cross-posted from Looking to better algorithms to push back against built-in bias in online platforms November 4, 2021  |  Jon Bashor  |  CDSS News ___________________________

A.I. can be a cornerstone of success—but only if leaders make the right choices

Maya Petersen to co-direct UC Berkeley-UCSF Computational Precision Health, an innovative new joint program to improve quality and equity in health care