Karen Cranston

Karen Cranston

@kcranston.bsky.social

Computational biologist. Building data sharing infrastructure. Working from a farm with so many cats.🇨🇦

103 Followers 185 Following 3 Posts Joined Nov 2024
11 months ago

🪴 Today we’re reaffirming our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility. We strive to include everyone, everywhere. We’re building a space where everyone can contribute to #opensource in support of #openscience.

🧵 Read more: www.pyopensci.org/blog/pyopens...

#OpenSource #DEIA #Python

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11 months ago
Original post on hachyderm.io

@rOpenSci and @openscapes plan to host a networking event for US scientists and others affected by recent layoffs.

We are looking for co-hosts who

- transitioned from government to other sectors
- are in fields adjacent to statistics/data science/research software engineering
- are willing to […]

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1 year ago

Excited to share that my talk 🎥 on Next-Generation Data Science Education with WebAssembly Technologies from pyOpenSci's Fall Festival 2024 is now available! Resources and links follow in this thread. 🧵

#datascience #rstats #python

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1 year ago
Infographic summarizing pyOpenSci’s achievements in 2024 with the title ‘pyOpenSci 2024: A year of community & growth.’ The ‘Training & Sprints’ section shows 7 events and 180 attendees. The ‘Peer Review’ section highlights 39 accepted packages and approximately 100 editors and reviewers. The ‘Community’ section emphasizes 1,436 issues and pull requests submitted, 278 contributors, and 23 new co-developed lessons.

🚀 Our mission matters now more than ever. Here's to 2024 🚀
🎓 180+ people trained
💡 55 new software submissions
🤝 278 diverse contributors
And a single way to create a #python package!
We’re lowering barriers to #opensource software. Join us!

🔗 Got 6 minutes? Read more: https://buff.ly/4aRffo0

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1 year ago
Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

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1 year ago

Congratulations! I remember first looking into the possibility of 501c3 and noting that we were years away from making that application. And now it is here! So proud of the whole community.

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1 year ago
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BOSC 2025 Keynote Speaker Nominations The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) organizing committee invites you to nominate Keynote Speakers for 2025. You can nominate as many people as you like, but please enter only one nominati...

Keynote nominations due tomorrow! Your nominations for a #BOSC2025 keynote should be submitted by January 16th. We’re eager to invite folks doing inspiring work relevant to bioinformatics and open science. Nomination is simple and quick (2 questions): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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1 year ago
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Math Snacks Students engaged in Math Snacks in class learned more math than those with access to just classroom instruction.

Aimed at slightly higher age but maybe mathsnacks.com

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1 year ago
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Lazy morning setting up Bluesky, enjoying the vibe here, and wondering how long before it becomes a cesspool

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