Sayeed Choudhury

Show for catching up on streaming for this winter holiday season vacation: Entire Planet Earth series.

If you follow me and the dogs all year id love if you could watch this. It’s a once a year thing I do. The only time I ever ask. You can support here happydoggo.com/donate?utm_s...

Project Hail Mary feels like a gift given the state of the world. As someone who has often found it difficult to know my place within society, but yet often asked to be the best version of myself, I found it poignant and joyful. As Rocky says during my favorite scene Petrova Line: "It's beautiful."

How Baltimore students are being trained to join the city’s vacant housing fight

📽️Slides and recording from the @researchdataall.bsky.social info session "What is Agentic AI" featuring @sayeedc.bsky.social and CNI/@arl.org 's Natalie Meyers are now available: www.rd-alliance.org/events/what-...

Join us for the DIGHUM lecture with 🎙 @sayeedc.bsky.social​ (@library.cmu.edu​) on openness in AI and an open technology stack for human-centred and responsible AI. 🔗 https://bit.ly/49K9sR7 Online 🗓 Tue, 24 Feb 🕔 5 pm 🎙 Moderator: Helga Nowotny (@csh.ac.at​) By @tuwien.at​ and EUDHIT.

The new ad campaign from Chick fil a given the announcement of the new food pyramid from RFK Jr. In case you don't realize, this image is AI generated slop...

@curiossorg.bsky.social members have shared their most effective strategies for conducting outreach to diverse stakeholders. This article explores how to effectively sequence and combine outreach activites to broaden the reach and maximize impact of #AcademicOSPOs. 📖https://bit.ly/45jJgv1

Congratulations to @curiossorg.bsky.social member, @sayeedc.bsky.social and all at @cmu.edu and @library.cmu.edu on the new grant from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. We will all have so much to learn from the work of the ENGIN Software Foundation. #AcademicOSS #AcademicOSPOs #ENGIN

🎉 CMU Libraries receives Sloan Foundation grant to launch ENGIN Software Foundation. The initiative will help @cmu.edu open source projects grow from research prototypes into sustainable, community-supported tools. A new model for academic #OpenSource! Read more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

Sometimes I get a call where we have to drop everything and go. Our newest arrival is Luna. We got her just in time

@niallharbison.bsky.social Sending lots of energy your way for the marathon.

BRAC University has joined the Open Forum for AI (OFAI), a @cmu.edu-led initiative building a global, open, and ethical #AI ecosystem. “AI must be shaped by diverse perspectives—not just tech giants,” says @sayeedc.bsky.social, OFAI’s exec director & CMU Libraries’ Associate Dean. bit.ly/brac-ofia

It's happening tomorrow!🎉🥳 The 4th Annual Forum for Open Research in MENA kicks off soon and we can't wait! Join us online or in-person to explore #OpenScience, #ResearchIntegrity, and more. Be part of the conversation! Register now: shorturl.at/RJr9D #FORM4Open #OpenAccess #MENA

What does "open" really mean in the age of #AI? On the final day of FORM 2025, join @sayeedc.bsky.social & @cmkeithw.bsky.social from @cmu.edu for a workshop exploring #OpenSource AI & AI scenarios Workshop-only registration is also available👉 shorturl.at/RJr9D #OpenScience #OpenAccess

CURIOSS member, Emily Lovell (@ucsantacruz.bsky.social #OSPO) has a busy week ahead at #OSSummit! Find out about the #opensource #mentorship at Tuesday's unconference. Emily is also talking about Contributor Catalyst, the #HBCU mentorship program, on Wednesday. #academicOSPOs #academicOSS

We are delighted to partner with @eosa.bsky.social and #RISEResearchInstitutesofSweden to support the @unodet.bsky.social with facilitation and curation of the program for the Friday community side event of #UNOpenSourceWeek. We wish all #CURIOSS members speaking at the event the best of luck!

Many thanks to @duaneobrien.bsky.social and #CURIOSS members, Tom Hughes and @lauralangdon.io for sharing their knowledge and great practices.

We're not just supporting research, we're helping to reinvent it. In a video spotlighting @cmu.edu's unique automated lab, 2/3 of the featured voices were from the Libraries. Melanie Gainey and @sayeedc.bsky.social have emerged as key leaders in the #OpenScience movement. Watch here: bit.ly/45oiP8D

At the end of the rainbow, you will find…Edinburgh Castle.

CMU research shows IRA rebates double adoption of clean tech like heat pumps & slash bills for low-income families. We need more: weatherization, lower rates, & energy justice. w/ @costasamaras.com energy.cmu.edu/news/2025/05... #EnergySky #ClimateJustice #IRA

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

I’m a little shy about posting this, but I’m grateful for the opportunity to express my love and support for the humanities and the university press community — especially at this critical moment in time. And, thank you to my friend Lauren for being an amazing host. open.spotify.com/episode/6LGr...

📣 The Call for Proposals for the #OFASymposium2025 is now live! 🌐 This year's edition will be themed "Open Technology Impact in Uncertain Times". ❗The deadline to respond to the CFP is 1 June, so don't delay in preparing your submissions! More info on the website. symposium.openforumeurope.org

“I don’t want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can’t escape is even worse.” — J. R. R. Tolkien

This is incredibly important to watch:

My thanks to @sayeedc.bsky.social @tjowens.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social for early comments. Of possible interest to @techpolicypress.bsky.social @cni-org.bsky.social @arl.org @rschon.bsky.social @williamkilbride.bsky.social

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

From an Oxfam report: Fifty of the world’s richest billionaires on average produce more carbon through their investments, private jets and yachts in just over an hour and a half than the average person does in their entire lifetime: www.oxfamamerica.org/press/press-...

@minakimes.bsky.social Really appreciated your FaceTime message today from Around the Horn. Thank you.

There's still time to book your free ticket for GW OSCON from March 24-25 next week. Register: go.gwu.edu/oscon #opensource #academicOSS #openscience #openresearch

🎉We have a new pattern for universities trying to meet demand from students for #opensource activities with limited resources. 💡Here's the 'Co-hosting Student Events' pattern: bit.ly/3XwwXHQ #academicOSPOs #academicOSS #opensourcesoftware #openscience #openresearch #OSScommunity #AcademicSky

For anyone interested in #academicOSS, the @gatech-ospo.bsky.social & #GeorgiaTech Center for Scientific Engineering are hosting a fantastic workshop on March 6! Speakers include #CURIOSS members Jeff Young, Fang Liu and @sayeedc.bsky.social! 🎫https://bit.ly/4klSTPH #academicOSPOs #opensource

I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.

It turns out Costco had family size Cadbury’s mini eggs. Yes, I bought one. And, no, I won’t be sharing it with anyone else.

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Are you a postdoc investigating the implications of AI for the science and research ecosystem? Grants up to $250,000 available for early-career researchers in the social sciences and humanities, read more and apply at the link: apply.sloan.org/prog/call_fo...

We're delighted to become an #OSPO Associate with the TODO Group. #academicOSPOs and #industryOSPOs have so much to gain from engaging with each other and we look forward to greater strategic collaboration. ℹ️ bit.ly/3WZ5s9K #academicOSS, #opensource, #opensourcesoftware, #techtransfer

Why we all need sisu – the Finnish concept of action and creativity in hard times

Top Article 2️⃣ The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University Joelen Pastva et al. @cmulibraries.bsky.social #DataLibs #ArtificialIntelligence #IMLS doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Democracy dies in a data server room.

Congrats to #CURIOSS member @sayeedc.bsky.social and colleagues on the launch of the Open Forum for Artificial Intelligence. We're looking forward to learning more.

I'm honored to be elected Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, a recognition of significant, enduring contributions to the field! I look forward to #SfAA2025 where I'll discuss equity in th age of AI & share an analysis of trends in transnational nurse migration @appliedanthro.bsky.social

Important, outstanding accomplishment by CMU Language Technologies Institute. Pangea is an "open-source, multilingual multimodal large language model (MLLM) that recognizes 39 languages and was trained on six million data samples to create a culturally inclusive model."

At CNI, @sayeedc.bsky.social introduced the Open Forum for #AI (OFAI), a Carnegie Mellon University-led collaboration aimed at steering AI towards human-centric, ethical practices. Learn more about OFAI’s partners, fellows, prototypes & more at https://youtu.be/dDbjlN0jPFc. @cmulibraries.bsky.social

I want to move my social group away from FB ... What is the most promising alt platform out there? Has anyone tried Friendica? Looks a bit too mastadonny (UI too complicated for many). Open to all options!