Carpentries Clippings, 7 April 2021

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Community News & Updates from Our Committees / Task Forces

Workshop Administration Community Discussions
The Workshop Administration Team will be presenting a series of Community Discussions to share updates and receive feedback about workshops. The first session will be on Self-Organised Workshops. The team will share logistical information as well as answer questions you may have.

The sessions will be:

• Tuesday, 20 April 2021  at 4:00 PM UTC
• Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 1:00 AM UTC

Please sign up on the etherpad to join us!

The Carpentries has launched a Podcast!
The Carpentries’ podcast is a way for us to share conversations and discussions of interest to our community in a format that is portable and accessible. The goal is to ensure that our community is able to interact with us in whatever way they choose to do so. 

Listen or download the two current episodes at the Carpentries Podcast page!

The Executive Council has a new Code of Conduct Liaison
Masami Yamaguchi is the new Executive Council liaison for the Code of Conduct Committee.  

African Carpentries Monthly Meetups
The African Carpentries Community monthly meetups have been running since 2017. Here we discuss topics that are of interest to our instructors in the African context, including available resources, opportunities, events, and more. Join our next session, on 22 April 2021 12:00 - 13:00 SAST/10:00-11:00 UTC. 

You can sign up on the Etherpad. To join the conversation about The Carpentries in Africa, sign up at Topicbox and join the Slack channel #african-carpentries.

What You May Have Missed on The Carpentries Blog

Welcome to The Trainers Leadership!
In this post we welcome the five new members of the Trainers Leadership Group.

Pondering on the Question of Community Sustainability
This post provides a summary of discussions and takeaways from the Community Sustainability session that Serah Rono and Toby Hodges facilitated at the March 2021 SORSE workshop. 

Announcing The Python Software Foundation Scientific Working Group Grant
This post provides an overview and introduction to Carpentries Instructor Vini Salazar’s work to develop the Carpentries Python Curriculum.

Community Opportunity Postings

• Data for Black Lives, an organization “committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people” is hiring a Managing Director.

• The British Library is hiring an Assistant Data Services Specialist.

• Invest in Open Infrastructure, an organization “dedicated to improving funding and resourcing for open technologies and systems supporting research and scholarship” is hiring for a Research Data Analyst.

• The Software Sustainability Institute, an organization that “facilitates the advancement of software in research by cultivating better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research.” is hiring a Data Steward Content Creator and a Training Fellowship Coordinator. 

• The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University in the US is hiring a full stack Web Developer.

• Data Dryad is looking for an Executive Director.

• Clark Atlanta University in the US is hiring for the following positions:

  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Machine Learning(007-21)

  • Assistant/Associate Professor: Cyber Physical Systems(085-20)

  • Assistant Professor: Math(035-21)

  • Assistant Professor: Math II(036-21)

  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Decision Science and Supply Chain Management(022-20)

• Morehouse College in the US is hiring for the following positions:

• Assistant Professor of Data Science/Analytics (Tenure Track)

• Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computational Physics/Data Science (Tenure Track)

• Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology (Statistics/ Data Analytics/Social Justice Tenure Track)

• The Morehouse School of Medicine is hiring for the following positions:

• Assistant/Associate Professor-Bioinformatician

• Director I, Data Analytics and Integrity

• Stanford Libraries is hiring a Head of Software and Services. 

• University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US is hiring a Director for the Data Science Institute.

• North Carolina State University in the US is hiring a Research Solutions Consultant.

• The Harvard University, School of Public Health is accepting applications for a Research Associate - Bioinformatics Trainer and Analyst.

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