The Carpentries

Keep your skills up-to-date with The Carpentries' new Professional Development courses! 🎓 In just 2-3 hours, build practical skills in GitHub collaboration or learn how to run effective online meetings! Learn more: carpentries.org/professional...

📢 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧! Announcing more GenAI in Workshops events. Check out the latest from The Carpentries. Read more:

📢 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧! Election Nominees for the 2027 Board of Directors. Check out the latest from The Carpentries. Read more:

📋 The agenda is now up for the 15 October HPCC meeting! Take a look and share your feedback, as always: codimd.carpentries.org/a61sVJVDSQe6... Quick update: the domain transfer is complete, which adds urgency to our website updates. Looking forward to the discussion!

The research software community who taught me how to code has a favourite aphorism for this: The typos ARE the pedagogy! This is all very inspirational. @carpentries.carpentries.org

📢 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧! Meet our 2026 Instructor Trainers. Read more here:

⏰ Final reminder: Board Director nominations close on 9 Oct! Could you be our next Carpentries Board Director? We are inviting community members to self-nominate for up to 4 community-elected Board seats. 🗓️ Nominations close on 9 Oct 2026 (AoE).

📢 Community Call – October 1 The agenda (codimd.carpentries.org/55izDwEkTZeM...) is now available! 🗓️ This call will cover adoption activities, lesson development, updates, and opportunities for feedback. 📋 View the agenda for VTC timing and venue details.

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧! Lessons Learned from our Instats Pilot Initiative. Read more here:

This past weekend, we piloted "Running Effective Online Meetings", one of our Professional Development courses at the Black Women in Data Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, hosted by our Interim Executive Director, Dr SherAaron Hurt.

⏰ Could you be our next Carpentries Board Director? We are inviting community members to self-nominate for up to 4 community-elected Board seats. We are looking for expertise in tech, financial sustainability, partnerships, and global contexts. Nominations close on 9 Oct 2026 (AoE)

🌍 Coming up this Wednesday! Looking to connect with fellow Carpentries community members from around the world? Join us for a relaxed, informal networking session and meet some new faces! 📆 Wednesday, 16 September We would love to see you there!

📣 Join us for a fun, informal Carpentries networking session! Meet fellow community members worldwide! 📆 Wed, Sept. 16 @ 01:00 UTC 📝 pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev... 📆 Wed, Sept. 16 @ 14:00 UTC 📝 pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev...

🚀 Applications open - November 2026 Book Dash! Want to collaborate to make research more open, reproducible, ethical, and inclusive research? 📅 30 Nov to 4 Dec 2026 Application form here: forms.gle/kcyJ2fJ9Qzb9... • Deadline: 28 Oct 🔗Info: book.the-turing-way.org/community-ha... #OpenScience

Join us next week for a hands-on session on how to create a website for your Carpentries workshop. 📆 Date: Monday, 15 September ⏰️️️ Time: 15:30 UTC You will need a GitHub account to participate in this session. Sign up on Pretix: pretix.carpentries.org/community-ev...

📣 Want to help shape the future of The Carpentries? Community members can now self-nominate for up to 4 community-elected seats on the Board of Directors. 🗓️ Nominations close on 9 October 2026 (AoE). 👉 carpentries.org/blog/2026/09...

For 15 years, the Software Sustainability Institute has worked to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised. Its aims remain the same, but the name has changed to the Institute for Research Software. Read more: edin.ac/45X3WsV

📣 Today, Dr SherAaron Hurt steps in as Interim Executive Director of The Carpentries. Her Day One message: continuity, gratitude, and a community that shows up for each other. "I am here to serve you." Read it here: carpentries.org/blog/2026/09...

⬡ Today, we become the Institute for Research Software. For 15 years, we've worked as the Software Sustainability Institute to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised.

The eScience Center is based on the work of its Research Software Engineers. But how do they see their work exactly: as research, engineering, or both? We have asked them! blog.esciencecenter.nl/posts/2026-0... By bsky.app/profile/cars...

I will be so sorry to see @drkariljordan.carpentries.org @erinstellabecker.bsky.social and the other members of the team go. I can't express how grateful I am for everything they have done for the @carpentries.carpentries.org community and for me personally.

We're going to SC26! HPC Carpentry will do a BoF to reconnect with the great people who filled out our survey last year and chart our path forward as a Carpentries lesson program. Hope to see you there! sc26.supercomputing.org

It also hurt to have to push back the launch date for @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social. Most of the work is already done, but the HPCC community deserve a launch that we can devote our full attention to, and that simply isn't possible right now. Their time is coming soon! [4/4]

I am eternally grateful to all the community members who contributed to the Data Carpentry Geospatial and Astronomy curricula over the years, helping countless learners develop vital skills to advance their research. I hope they will keep working on these lessons and making a difference [3/4]

For the Curriculum Team, that meant retiring some curricula & pausing my beloved Collaborative Lesson Development Training program. It also forced me to finally admit defeat and close down peer review in The Carpentries Lab – something that TBH I've not had capacity to coordinate in some time. [2/4]

This was a difficult blog post to write, but an important one. With the impending reduction in Core Team capacity, we had to make tough decisions about what work we put down. [1/4]

💡Interested in #OpenSource and #OpenScience? Join this in-person Library Carpentries workshop on #OpenScienceHardware #OScH led by our Board Member Pen-Yuan Hsing 🗓️24 September 2026 📍Berlin, Germany ✏️More info & registration: events.tu-berlin.de/en/events/01...

🎉 Big news is coming. Next week we'll unveil a new name and brand identity for the Software Sustainability Institute that captures the work we do today, honours what we've achieved so far, and sets the stage for what's next. Watch this space 👀 www.software.ac.uk/blog/new-ide...

The Carpentries Board of Directors have approved the following resolution: Strategic Renewal of The Carpentries Curriculum Portfolio: carpentries.org/blog/2026/08... The resolution is to ensure that The Carpentries' curriculum portfolio meets our strategic aims and current and future learner needs.