What does The Carpentries actually do?

We help researchers build practical data and computational skills and we train people to teach those skills to others.

That approach has helped grow a global community:
• 5,405 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬
• 185 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬
• 4,965 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 72 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.

But the real impact is personal.

“Changed my career trajectory in a very positive way.”
— 𝘋𝘳. 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘤𝘬, 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳

“It has made me a more confident instructor of coding and coding-adjacent skills.”
— 𝘋𝘳. 𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘒𝘪𝘴, 𝘓𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘳, 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢

Our new Partnership Program helps organisations support these kinds of outcomes through workshops, instructor training, lesson development, and community building.

Read the stories from our community: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/who-are-the-carpentries/

#OpenScience #TheCarpentries #DataSkills #ResearchSoftware

Exploring Petabytes of the Night Sky in Jupyter.

In this Jupyter blog guest post, Robert Nikutta and Stéphanie Juneau from NSF NOIRLab show how Jupyter enables thousands of astronomers to effectively work with large-scale data on the NOIRLab’s Astro Data Lab Science Platform.

#jupyter #astronomy #data
https://bit.ly/3QprZfq

€614k service agreement (of EU funding) for Mastodon: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

It is small money, but enough for hiring two back-end developers and expanding collaboration with other Fediverse projects on spam filtering and blocklist sharing. They also plan to integrate encryption for direct messages after W3C releases updated ActivityPub specifications (on how to do it properly).

#Mastodon #EU