Arielle Bennett
Open research communities enthusiast, The Turing Way contributor, SSI 2025 Fellow, OLS mentor, CSCCE 2019 Fellow, currently senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute.
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- Happy New Year! If you've got FOMO from #RSEcon25 you can catch all the videos of sessions online now! Including my workshop sessions on open source in academia: youtu.be/PSRTMScz3Tg?... And one of my favourite sessions on accessibility testing for software (with geese!): youtu.be/M-5KPeUtTys?...
- Reviewing case study PDFs in Adobe, and it's "helpfully" given me an AI summary of the file contents. INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL FILE NAME WHICH HELPS ME DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SEPARATE FILES.
- Reposted by Arielle Bennett🚨NEW INQUIRY! Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
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- Reposted by Arielle BennettI hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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- Reposted by Arielle BennettHey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
- Reposted by Arielle BennettSo much activity at #JupyterCon 2025 -> tutorials 🧠, meetups 🤝, talks 🎤! Thankfully, Silas Santini captured some highlights and shared some valuable resources! Read "Themes of Day 1, JupyterCon 2025: Collaboration and Modularity" for details: bids.berkeley.edu/news/themes-...
- Me when the PR I haven't previewed gets merged and works first time
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- Last year @turingway.bsky.social took part in an ethnographic study on hybrid hackathons and the paper is finally out for folks to read! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... (see if you can guess which one we are 😁)
- As if I didn't have enough to do this week, outlook has changed the location of the flag & delete buttons - such a small change but so rage inducing and jarring every, single. time.
- Reposted by Arielle Bennett"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
- Reposted by Arielle BennettA great opportunity for people working on career pathways and leadership for digital research professionals. Perhaps something for @ukiedh.bsky.social or @turingway.bsky.social to explore? discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...
- Slides from my #RSECon25 workshop "From Code to Contributions: Exploring Open Source in Academia" are now up on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1709... Excited to share the write up once I've digested all the miro board notes and HackMD contributions - thanks to everyone who participated!
- kicking off day 2 of #RSECon25 with a fantastic keynote on the power of recognition - if you've ever needed three different metaphors for the difference in scale between publications and software submissions to REF, this talk is for you! slides.com/simonhettric...
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- Excited to kick off #RSEcon25 (my first!) with a great keynote from @amandabrock.bsky.social from @openuk.bsky.social on open source in research software, great whistle stop tour through the naunces of open source and an update on the policy work OpenUK is doing with UK gov on promoting open source
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- Reposted by Arielle Bennett🧭 We are pleased to announce that applications for the SSI Fellowship Programme 2026 will be open from Mon 11 Aug to Mon 6 Oct 2025. An introductory Fellowship Programme Launch Webinar will be held on Thu 21 Aug. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/fellows...
- Still time to contribut to this 👇open until 30 September to anyone working in academia Thank you to everyone who has responded so far!
- ✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨ TL;DR 🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia 👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... ⏰ Approx 20 mins. 📅 Closes 30 September 🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)
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- ✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨ TL;DR 🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia 👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... ⏰ Approx 20 mins. 📅 Closes 30 September 🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)
- In research, we depend on open source software&code daily: python&R, data analysis libraries, HPC, specialist imaging frameworks, or out of sight in the stacks... ... but academic structures often don't recognise or support the maintenance work these tools rely on... (2/6)
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- Reposted by Arielle BennettDelighted to announce 'ConveRSE' - the new online hub for #MentalHealth information, resources and support for people in the research software community - at @softwaresaved.bsky.social #CollabW25. More details and opportunities to contribute to follow in the coming weeks.
- Reposted by Arielle BennettPlease see my short survey about #digitalhumanities research skills for my @softwaresaved.bsky.social SSI Fellowship work. Closes 11 June. forms.gle/a6NuKVttpVHj... I am leading a workshop about digital competencies and career development at the @ukiedh.bsky.social annual event in Glasgow, 18 June.
- Loch looking beautiful as we start the final day of #CW25
- Really lovely that #CollabW25 are running "Social Glue" awards this year for people who put extra effort into connecting folks this year at the conference ✨
- "If someone has opened the door for you, make sure to keep it open." @malvikasharan.bsky.social #CollabW25 Really enjoyed the opening panel this morning, thank you to all the panellists for their insights!
- one thing about me is that you'll never see a photo of me not talking 😅
- Finishing up Day 1 of #CollabW25 with a witty and thought provoking keynote from @kirstiejane.bsky.social on the Future of Research Software - this was her final slide on what she thinks the future should be, and I'm inclined to agree ✨
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- The cake:workshop quotient at #CollabW25 so far is pleasing
- Made it to #CollabW25 in Stirling and my gosh it's beautiful here
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- Who's heading to #CollabW25? Really excited to spend three days chatting all things reproducibility, open source software, and research practices! ✨
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- Happy Monday!
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- ✨It's Friday! How are folks closing out their weeks? ✨ I ask this question in a closed Slack channel usually but I thought I'd give it a go on here to see if anyone fancies sharing...
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- Reposted by Arielle BennettThe Call for Proposals for #jupytercon is now open! Submit your ideas for talking about interactive computing, data science, AI, and collaboration. This will be the first JupyterCon in a few years, and I'm excited to see everybody there! blog.jupyter.org/jupytercon-2...
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- Reposted by Arielle Bennett👥 If you have written software, code or scripts for research purposes and are from an underrepresented group in research software, we would like to hear from you! Find out how to get involved in our inclusive RSE study at www.software.ac.uk/news/partici...
- I can't make this sadly but it looks like a really great event!
- #AIUK25 time at the QEII! Catch me at the BridgeAI booth to chat Practitioners Hub, at the open source AI panel or "driving AI innovation and impact with research community management" & "getting started with open source LLMs" workshops ✨
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- me, about an event that happens twice a year, which I have been involved in organising for the past 4 years, which nevertheless manages to surprise me with it's timetable EVERY TIME
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- Very excited to see this - software maintenance isn't super glamorous but it's critical for so many of our research tools!
- 🟥 We are happy to announce that the SSI has received £4.8m from @ukri.org to launch the Research Software Maintenance Fund. Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...
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