Shannon Dosemagen

We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

🚨 REMINDER: We're #hiring a new Executive Director!
📍 Remote ⏰ Full-time 💰 USD 100–115k
Help grow the OSHF, lead programs+fundraising, and support #openscience & #openhardware:
opensciencehardware.org/2025/07/were...

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We’re hiring: Executive Director - Open Science Hardware Foundation Job Summary The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) is a U.S.-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization working to foster enabling ecosystem for open-source development of scientific instruments, eq...

🚨 Job alert: Exec Director @opensciencehw.bsky.social
📍 Remote | Full-time | $100–$115k
We're hiring our first ED! Help grow the org, lead programs + fundraising, and support open science hardware.
Details: opensciencehardware.org/2025/07/were...

#OpenScience #OpenHardware #Jobs

Actions for environmental justice from autonomous and community-based technological infrastructures Leer en español Sursiendo, along with May First Movement Technology, is researching action strategies to embed environmental sustainability into autonomous internet communications infrastructure…

Spending the morning learning about Sursiendo + May First Movement Tech’s new work on embedding environmental sustainability into autonomous internet infrastructure. They had me at the Axolotl cartoon, but I’m excited to dig into their community-based tech work 💡

sursiendo.org/2025/07/acti...

Reflecting on how participatory science took root -- what worked, what didn’t, what’s next. A friend shared this brilliant podcast on ethics in health research: 5 episodes, 10 guests, deep honesty on justice, care & systems. Highly recommend.
🎧 ethicsinpractice.net/home

Hawaii’s Lawsuit Against Oil Companies Alleges “Harm to Public Trust Resources” States are suing companies that cause harm to the environment, relying on mandates requiring protection of public resources.

Hawaii is suing oil companies by invoking the state constitution's "public trust doctrine," which declares that “all public natural resources are held in trust by the State for the benefit of the people." Sarah J. Morath explores this new trend in environmental litigation.

🚀 The Open Science Hardware Foundation is now on Bluesky and LinkedIn! Follow along, we’ll be posting a new position soon.
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🦋 bsky.app/profile/opensciencehw.bsky.social
🌐 opensciencehardware.org

June updates from OEDP

Our June newsletter is out! Catch up on OEDP's recent goings-on, including:

🤝 highlights from the Community Data Playbook;

✍ an op-ed about hardware procurement from @sdosemagen.bsky.social , Eunice Mercado-Lara + Alison Parker;

☀️ AGU's Days of Action in D.C.

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Oppose the Senate reconciliation bill We could see one of the largest fire sales of public lands in our nation’s history – with roughly 3 million acres going to the highest bidder – thanks to the Senate’s new budget reconciliation bill. A...

Been deep in ✨open✨ all week at UN Open Source + Linux OS Summit (keynote today!). I’m off next to a Nat’l Parks Conservation Assoc. board mtg + thinking about this admin’s attack on public lands. Use your voice before the reconciliation vote: 👉 www.npca.org/notforsale

In NYC this week for UN Open Source, bringing the open science hardware angle. Grateful for the GOSH community - folks worldwide making tools like 3D-printed microscopes & air/water sensors. Curious? Their forum is a great place to start: openhardware.science

open-weather Feminist art, tech and education project about our changing relations to weather and climate. Learn DIY satellite imagery reception and reading.

Spending time this morning catching up on one of my favorite projects, the open-weather community. Today, their eNews starts, "On Friday 6 June, members of the open-weather network captured the last images from NOAA-18..." Cliffhanger, but you can check them out here: open-weather.community

Unlocking Innovation: Why Federal Procurement Should Embrace Open Source | TechPolicy.Press Eunice Mercado-Lara, Shannon Dosemagen, and Alison Parker make the case for reforming federal procurement rules to boost open source solutions.

📣 New article from ‪@euniceml.bsky.social‬, Alison Parker, & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the role of procurement in shaping the infrastructure of democracy, arguing for the role of open-source in producing a better vision to broaden who can participate in federal procurement systems.

Advancing Open Science Hardware: Opportunities and Challenges in US Government Procurement

#OpenScience Hardware in Govt Procurement: OSH cuts costs & drives innovation—but outdated policies block progress. New @wilsoncenter.org & @openenvirodata.bsky.social report by @euniceml.bsky.social of @orca-open.bsky.social suggests solutions: bit.ly/447Upzd #OpenHardware #OpenSource

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We’re so proud to release the Community Data Playbook!

Communities around the world collect and use #environmental data, but face barriers in using data to its fullest extent; to unlock the potential benefits of community-generated environmental data, we need better data governance approaches.

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and his...

"As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts." Nice rundown, including a shoutout to @openenvirodata.bsky.social for work in env & climate data space.

America's digital infrastructure belongs to you COMMENTARY | We’ve seen unprecedented attacks on our nation’s federal digital infrastructure, from removing or restricting datasets and tools, to taking websites offline, to widespread layoffs.

From colleagues at Open Environmental Data Project and partners, an OpEd on digital infrastructure, federal collapse, and how we move through and past this moment to, "re-build our digital infrastructure — to make it more useful, more meaningful and ultimately to improve the lives of Americans."

What is Signal? The messaging app, explained. With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be used for—and what it shouldn’t.

Everyone's suddenly talking about Signal for some reason. If you don't know - here's what it should and shouldn't be used for. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1...

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

Civic Media Fellowship Applications for the 2025/26 Fellowship cohort are open from March 3-28, 2025 — APPLY HERE! For more information about the fellowship experience, who we’re looking for and the application process, ple...

USC Annenberg Innovation Lab is looking for their next cohort of fellows now through March 28th. This might be a great fellowship opportunity to apply for if you merge diverse forms of media and technology with participatory practices to advance social progress 📝

Great opportunity to take on a leadership role with Adventure Scientists as their next ED! Note that you will need to be willing to relocate to Bozeman, MT 🏔️
www.adventurescientists.org/executive-di...

csvconf flyer featuring a llama with the Italian flag csvconfv9 call for proposals

Hello 🦋!
📯 We are excited to announce that the call for proposals for #CSVCONF is now open!
💡 This year theme is "Data for Communities"
✍🏾 Submit your ideas for talks by April 6 for a chance to join us in Bologna🦙🍝!
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#OpenData #OpenSource #DataJournalism #DataGov

U.S. Embassies Halt Air Quality Monitoring Abroad Since 2008, embassies and other diplomatic posts had been publishing data about local air quality. In many countries, it was the only reliable source of such information.

This is a tragic loss. Monitoring air quality at U.S. embassies and consulates supports the health not only of the staff at those embassies, but the health of the neighboring communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/c...

Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Excellent opportunity to work with the @rootedfutureslab.bsky.social team through their summer 2025 Environmental Justice in Tech fellowship program!
📝 Applications currently open
💰 $3000 stipend
🏠 Remote position
More at: www.rootedfutureslab.io/ejit-fellows...

Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...

www.orcaopen.org/work/cap
App due March 15
$15,000 per project to support open scholarship practices at U.S.-based, non-R1, and/or traditionally under-resourced institutions.
An informational webinar will be hosted on March 3. Link on website to register.

The 2025 J.M.K. Innovation Prize | The J.M. Kaplan Fund Awarding $175,000 to early-stage projects with transformative potential in the fields of heritage conservation, the environment, and social justice.

💡 Funding opportunities 💡

jmkfund.org/innovation-p...
App due April 25
Up to 10 Prizes, each including a cash award of $150k over three years and $25k in technical assistance funds.
They're looking for transformative, early-stage projects in heritage conservation, environment, & social justice.

Parks Group Responds to New Order Threatening National Monuments "Time and again, millions of people have spoken out in defense of America’s national monuments. Americans do not agree with stripping away their federal protections." –NPCA's President and CEO Theresa...

Newly confirmed Dept of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered a 15-day internal review of oil, gas and mining on public lands, including national monuments. NPCA's review of the order identified key monuments at risk of losing federal protections. www.npca.org/articles/671...

‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump - Inside Climate News As one of its first acts, the Trump administration removed the online data tool used to allocate money to environmental justice communities. In two days, a coalition of data scientists had restored it...

While the canary in the coal mine was back in the first Trump Admin, efforts to delete data & tools on top of websites are frustrating, to say the least. Colleagues are working on urgent archiving, an important part of building endurance for this Admin. More👇 insideclimatenews.org/news/0402202...

I ran $100 billion in Infrastructure and IRA programs at EPA. We obligated over $70 billion onto signed awards and contracts to protect public health and the environment. All that funding is currently frozen. Here are the facts…
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Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...

⭐ Funding opportunity ⭐
ORCA is offering grants for future-looking projects promoting open scholarship, open science, inclusivity, and innovation.
📌 Details:
Award Amt: Up to $15k USD
Eligibility: U.S. non-R1 and under-resourced institutions
Deadline: 3/15/25
Apply here: www.orcaopen.org/work/cap