Computer Scientist at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. On here for reading and posting about #WorkshopsForUkraine, #ComputerScience, #Mathematics, #ResearchSoftware, #OpenScience, nature, the universe, and anything.
Very proud of, and sad for, our friends at @thecarpentries for turning down a $1.5M #NSF grant rather than abandon their values. The (illegal) demands that they abandon DEI work were fundamentally at odds with their mission, and they made a hard and principled choice.
Click through for ways you can support them, financially or otherwise.
https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/announcing-withdrawal-of-nsf-pose-proposal/
ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding.
However, we have had to rescind our proposal because it was flagged for DEI content, namely, for “the retention of underrepresented students, which has a limitation or preference in outreach, recruitment, participation that is not aligned to NSF priorities.”
Since we are no longer in the running for this funding, we are actively seeking donors and a cohort of funders who align with our mission and core values and want to support our work.
Find out in this blog post announcement how you can help us by making a recurring donation, or reaching out to potential donors on our behalf, or connecting us with potential donors and program officers, or collaborating with us to apply for grants, and many other ways you can support our mission: https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/announcing-withdrawal-of-nsf-pose-proposal/
Please help @thecarpentries if you can: https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/announcing-withdrawal-of-nsf-pose-proposal/
⏰ Last call: Applications for EMS-sponsored mathematical activities in 2026 close July 31st!
Support available for international meetings, summer schools, and special events that promote inclusiveness and scientific excellence.
➡️ Apply today: https://euromathsoc.org/scientific-activities
Next at #WorkshopsForUkraine:
"Building fully reproducible #DataScience environments for #R #Rstats and #Python with ease using Nix, rix, and rixpress", by Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco (head of the statistics department at the Ministry of Higher education and Research in Luxembourg), Friday, June 20th, 6 pm CEST (note non-standard day of the week). Register or sponsor a place for a student by donating to support #Ukraine. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.i5kscpfah5at
Check out #WorkshopsForUkraine organised by Dariia Mykhailyshyna! Past workshops covered topics on #Python, #Rstats, #Rust, and various #DataScience applications. You can register for the upcoming workshops and donate to get recordings and all of the materials of the previous workshops. You can also sponsor participation of a student. Full list of past and upcoming workshops at https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine
"May I have your name?" the faerie said.
"William," she said with a smile.
"Ah ah!" The faerie gave a wicked laugh. "I have your name! Now no-one will call you by it!"
"Thank you," she said.
"To win it back, you must- what?"
"I will find me a new one," she said, "one that suits me better."
Next at #WorkshopsForUkraine:
"Building fully reproducible #DataScience environments for #R #Rstats and #Python with ease using Nix, rix, and rixpress", by Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco (head of the statistics department at the Ministry of Higher education and Research in Luxembourg), Friday, June 20th, 6 pm CEST (note non-standard day of the week). Register or sponsor a place for a student by donating to support #Ukraine. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.i5kscpfah5at
James Hutton (1726–1797), father of modern geology, was born #OTD, 14 June (NS; 3 June OS). One of the first European proponents of “deep time”, the conclusion of his 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth” has been called one of the most lyrical sentences in all of science:
The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.
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https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2808
#Scottish #literature #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology
Maryna Viazovska is launching a project to formalize a proof of her well-known result that the E_8 lattice is the optimal sphere packing in eight dimensions. The announcement can be found at https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/113486-announce/topic/Sphere-Packing/with/523951357 where you can also find a talk by Viazovska describing the project.
Among other things, the project will develop some of the classical theory of modular forms and complex analysis, which is only partially in Lean's Mathlib at present. For instance, Cauchy's theorem is only currently available for rectangular contours, which means that the valence formula for modular forms (which is usually proven using Cauchy's theorem applied to a non-rectangular contour) is not yet formalized.
Kherson once a proud port city near the Black Sea in south-west Ukraine is pummelled constantly by Russian forces and yet a spirit of defiance remains | Caolan Robertson
#WarInUkraine #Ukraine
https://bylines.scot/news/world/kherson-a-city-under-siege-but-still-unbroken/?fsp_sid=444
Next at #WorkshopsForUkraine: Using #LLMs with ellmer, by Hadley Wickham @hadleywickham (Chief Scientist at Posit PBC and the lead of the #tidyverse team), Friday, June 13th, 6 pm CEST (note non-standard day of the week). Register or sponsor a place for a student by donating to support #Ukraine. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.kijy51qjnq13
Next at #WorkshopsForUkraine: Using #LLMs with ellmer, by Hadley Wickham @hadleywickham (Chief Scientist at Posit PBC and the lead of the #tidyverse team), Friday, June 13th, 6 pm CEST (note non-standard day of the week). Register or sponsor a place for a student by donating to support #Ukraine. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.kijy51qjnq13
ICYMI - the May Newsletter is out now! We've got announcements about the 2025 Trustee Elections, updates on RSECon25 and the RSE Awards, plus a range of news from the community. Check it out below! 👇
This week at #WorkshopsForUkraine: Shinyscholar (https://simon-smart88.github.io/shinyscholar/) - a template for producing reproducible analytic apps in #R #Rstats, by Simon Smart (University of Leicester), Thursday, June 5th, 6 pm CEST. Register or sponsor a place for a student by donating to support #Ukraine. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.svl2ujruwf92
📢 The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) has been re-evaluated as JUFO 1 in Finland! 🎉
This change makes it easier for researchers in Finland to get credit for their software contributions.
Read more about this significant change on the Nordic-RSE blog at https://nordic-rse.org/blog/joss-jufo/
This week at #WorkshopsForUkraine: "surveydown (https://surveydown.org): An #Opensource Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys", by John Paul Helveston (George Washington University), Thursday, May 29th, 6 pm CEST. Register or sponsor a place for a student by donating to support #Ukraine. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.hadttrzgsqe #R #RStats
This week at #WorkshopsForUkraine: "surveydown (https://surveydown.org): An #Opensource Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys", by John Paul Helveston (George Washington University), Thursday, May 29th, 6 pm CEST. Register or sponsor a place for a student by donating to support #Ukraine. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.hadttrzgsqe #R #RStats
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