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Join us: we're recruiting four positions to build BioJupyter at BIDS

August 13, 2026
Fernando Pérez
A team of open source research software engineers powering AI-enabled innovation in the biomedical sciences

We are recruiting for four new positions at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) to work on BioJupyter, a component of the recently announced Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI).

Built on the open architecture and ethos of...

Announcing BioJupyter: advancing biomedical research with open platforms

August 13, 2026
Fernando Pérez
We are extending the Jupyter ecosystem for collaborative, computationally intensive and AI-powered biomedical research

We are launching BioJupyter at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), as a component of the recently announced Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI). With this effort, and in close partnership with BCBI scientists, we will extend the existing capabilities of the Jupyter ecosystem to...

The First AAI4Science Developer Summit: focused hacking, collaborative design, and participant-led discussions

August 6, 2026

Crossposted from the Lightcone Research website

From July 28–31, 2026, at the AI Futures Lab in Berkeley, our first Agentic AI for Science (AAI4Science) Developer Summit brought together 35 scientists and builders spanning astrophysics, neuroscience, medical imaging, chemistry and metabolomics, geophysics, biology, theoretical physics, statistics, and data science. Our goal was to lay the foundations for an open-source ecosystem of AI-powered tools that support rigorous scientific research....

A New Chapter for UC Open Source: Highlights from the First All-Campus Virtual Meetup

July 27, 2026
Chenrong Zheng, Laura Langdon

On July 2, 2026, the UC open source community reached an exciting new milestone. Our monthly campus-specific gatherings officially transitioned into one unified all-campus virtual meetup. This first meetup in the series was hosted by the UC Davis OSPO team, setting a powerful precedent for how our network can collaborate, share resources, and grow together. Under this new format, the first half of the meeting consists of workshops or guest speakers moderated by one UC campus. The second half is dedicated to...

https://ucospo.net/posts/ospo-meetup-2026-07-02/

BIDS at the National Workshop on Data Science Education: Open Source shaping education

July 24, 2026
Saumya Lohia

Education and open source tools go hand-in-hand, as demonstrated at the National Workshop on Data Science Education (NWDSE). The “Open Science and BIDS” panel illustrated the benefits of using open source tools in data science education, empowering instructors as well as students, and included demos to show the power of these tools.

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Testing the Artistry Limits of AI Through The Kingdom series

July 22, 2026
Mia Salinas

Television series come in all forms and sizes. The Kingdom (1994), directed by Lars von Trier, is an absurdist, supernatural medical drama series that follows a ghost-hunting, medical malpractice, and plague plot in a hospital. Peter Leonard, an academic librarian and founder of the Yale...

Lauren Tilton presents “Multimodal Cinemetrics”

July 10, 2026
Saumya Lohia

With so many movies, TV shows, and content coming out every year, analyzing media can seem daunting. However, with computational methods, new insights can be uncovered, but what exactly to measure is an open question. As a part of Cultural Analytics workshop week, Lauren Tilton, Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities from the University of Richmond in Virginia, presented her research on the use of computational methods to analyze film and television, a term she...

Peter Broadwell presents: “Gesamtkunstvektoren: Perceptual Embeddings for the Performing Arts”

July 8, 2026
Chenrong Zheng

Our conversations at BIDS around AI often begin not only with what new tools can do, but also how these tools might reshape the questions researchers ask. On March 17th, as part of the Cultural Analytics workshop week, Peter Broadwell, Head of AI Modeling and Inference in Research Data Services at Stanford University Libraries, explored this question in his talk “Gesamtkunstvektoren: Perceptual Embeddings for the...

UC Berkeley and UCSF Launch Computational Biomedicine Initiative

July 6, 2026

UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical care. The new partnership brings together world-class faculty expertise in computing, AI, statistics, biology and medicine, to speed discovery in everything from disease prevention, to early-detection and new therapeutics in healthcare.

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https://cdss.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkeley-and-ucsf-launch-computational-biomedi…

March OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: Roadmap Workshop for JupyterHub and Binder Share Out

April 29, 2026
Saumya Lohia

In March, the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Monthly Knowledge Exchange invited the JupyterHub team to share learnings and discuss their recent roadmapping workshop held on February 25 and 26, 2026. These monthly meetups are...