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Thank you! Rachael Blake & @invisible-sea.bsky.social of Intertidal Agency, @2i2c.org @developmentseed.org @cloudnativegeo.org @njtierney.bsky.social, @cscheid.net of @posit.co, @esipfed.bsky.social

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Thanks to our wildly effective, generous, and kind Mentors community from NASA, NOAA, CA Water Boards, Fred Hutch, & beyond, our partners & collaborators, experts from our extended network, and contributors and users (users are also contributors!).

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✍🏼 Openscapes Newsletter, Winter 2026

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✍🏼 Make your own software cheatsheet. NOAA Fisheries staff document how they figured it out and the resources they used!
by Sophie Breitbard, Sam Schiano, Kelli Johnson, Kathryn Doering.

Published at:
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Huge thanks and appreciation to NASA Openscapes Mentors Aaron Friesz (now at ESIP), Amy Steiker, Luis Lopez, plus Allison Horst.

Openscapes founding director @juliesquid.bsky.social received the Greg Leptoukh Lecture Award at AGU 2025. This post shares slides & overview of her lecture, official citation for her award, plus Julie's official response.
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✍🏼Summary post on NASA Openscapes Champions 2025 - A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess.
Links to recording, slides, notes doc
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Registration open (free!) for "A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess". Expand your knowledge and use of NASA Earthdata, building on momentum behind the earthaccess python library and workflows in the Cloud.
November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT.
Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#ch...

Collaborate closely with Openscapes partners at NASA DAACs (data centers), CryoCloud, and @2i2c.org.

📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025.

Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
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✍🏼 Building a Culture of Reproducible Science: Reflections from the 2025 NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Summer Workshop.
🐾 Puppies + GitHub governance + examples of work from NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors in "co-creation" sessions.

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Openscapes Community Call Tues July 29: earthaccess — helping users leverage the awesomeness of NASA Earthdata.

A story of building a game-changing bridge between a data system and its open communities, plus new tech features.

Details & register (free) nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-07...

Open Science Momentum at NOAA Fisheries Dr. Eli Holmes shares how the Openscapes Champions Program is advancing open science at NOAA Fisheries.

✍🏼A celebration of the work of NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Champions published on the Fisheries Blog!
"Open Science Momentum at NOAA Fisheries". Marks our 13th Cohort for NOAA Fisheries involving nearly 500 staff and affiliates 🐟
Mentors community -> impact 💥

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/science-blog...

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✍🏼 "Taking stock" to support infrastructure and people at the Fred Hutch. Wrap-up post for our 2025 Fred Hutch Openscapes Champions Cohort. Thank you to Mentors Sitapriya Moorthi, @tladeras.bsky.social, Chris Lo, @seankross.com

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Openscapes at the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium in Vienna
Message @juliesquid.bsky.social to meet up! She'll be talking about "Forking as a worldview: a software engineering concept transforming government agencies IRL (in real life) with Openscapes"

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Yes it IS possible to run real science workflows in different cloud Hubs – and we CAN estimate the costs. Summary of our Community Call on cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub includes links to recording, collaborative notes doc, and slides. openscapes.org/blog/2025-05...

📣 Openscapes Reflections starts Monday!
5 hrs over 4 weeks to get unstuck in your data science workflows and learn GitHub for publishing & project management. Openscapes Reflections is an open data science coaching program for researchers and those who support research.
openscapes.github.io/booklet/

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Registration is open for our Reflections Program - a light-weight way to reflect on your workflows and make goals going into summer. May 5-30, 2025: 1 hr/week for 3 weeks, plus our 2-hr GitHub Clinic in week 4.
Details, open source materials & registration: openscapes.github.io/booklet/

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Openscapes Community Call Tues Apr 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. Experts from @2i2c.org, NASA Alaska Satellite Facility, NOAA Fisheries, CryoCloud, Openscapes, share what they're building.
Registration (free) openscapes.org/events/2025-...

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Community Call April 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. @andyteucher.bsky.social (Openscapes), Alex Lewandowski (NASA ASF), Yuvi Panda (2i2c) sharing their experiences & what they're building.

Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-04...

The Dynamic Relationship of Forks with their Upstream Repository 🔗 Context setting rOpenSci organizes monthly co-working hours on a variety of topics. But the constant is the quality of the discussion that ensues and the renewed energy that comes from it. The Novem...

Good things from @ropensci.org 🤝 Openscapes social coworking discussion of "forking as a world view".

✍️The Dynamic Relationship of Forks with their Upstream Repository, by Hugo Gruson, @stefaniebutland.bsky.social & @rubyk.bsky.social

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📣 Openscapes Champions Program at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Apr-Jun 2025!
Please share. Encourage your Hutch friends to sign up! Leading this with @seankross.com @monicagerber.bsky.social @tladeras.bsky.social & Chris Lo
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🧵 (5/5) Enjoy learning about open science? Are you a Black marine or environmental researcher or HBCU student? It's never too late to join Pathways to Open Science 💻✨! If you didn't attend our first event, come to the others and join our first coworking session this Thursday 5-6:30 PM ET⭐️

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🧵 (4/5) Open science practice: iterate easily with code, figures, tables, and text all in the same place ⌨️📈📑

Example Tool: Quarto/RMarkdown 😏

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🧵 (3/5) Open science practice: manage projects that makes it easier to contribute, reuse, collaborate, and fail safely ⚒⚙️🪚

Example Tool: GitHub 🐈‍⬛💫

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🧵 (2/5) Open science practice: create presentations that can be easily shared with a URL 🔗🌐

Example Tool: Google Slides 🖥

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Still not sure what we mean? We’ve got you! Examples below🫡
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Community Call 1 of Pathways to Open Science for Black marine & environmental researchers is today! "What is Open Science Anyway". Free registration is open throughout the series of Calls and Coworking sessions.
Allies please share with your Black colleagues. zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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blog: The Abundance of Community at the 2024 AGU Meeting.
Reflections following the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2024.
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