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Purple graphic with pyOpenSci logo and text: “From Zero to Python Package — A 2-hour packaging workshop with pyOpenSci.” Bullet points: Build your first Python package; Publish securely to PyPI; Automate releases with GitHub Actions; Write docs that help users & contributors. Event details: Thursday, 6 November 2025, 10:00 AM–12:15 PM MST. URL: bit.ly/PythonPackaging. A “Register Now” button appears at the bottom right. Decorative line-art robot stands on the right side.
Want your Python code to be installable + reusable? 🐍📦
Join pyOpenSci’s 2-hour workshop From Zero to Python Package (Nov 6). Build your first package, learn PyPI publishing, and automate with GitHub Actions.
👀 See the graphic for registration!
Traditional academic peer review can feel harsh.
At pyOpenSci, our reviews are:
🤝 Collaborative
🛠️ Practical
💛 Centered on helping maintainers succeed
Because your code matters and so does the experience of sharing it.
👉 Learn how to submit: www.pyopensci.org/software-pee...
Did you miss the Mysterious Sticker during PyCon US earlier this year? You can now solve it online (start at medianoche.org/mother-of-ex...) and figure out what it was all about! #python #PyCon #PyConUS #puzzles
Conference attendees in lively discussion, seated in small groups in a room filled with chairs and people talking and laughing.
A presenter stands at a podium in front of a slide that reads: “We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us” — A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan, John Culkin.
Leah Wasser, Executive Director of pyOpenSci, speaks into a microphone while pointing to a word cloud on a slide about challenges in packaging and sharing code. The word cloud highlights “documentation” and “time.”
Scenes from #SciPy2025!
✨ Inspiring talks on how tools shape us
🔎 @leahawasser.bsky.social digging into the hardest parts of Python packaging (hint: docs + time!)
🤝 Plenty of hallway chats + shared laughs
#OpenScience #Python #Community
Stylized mountain graphic with text: “pyOpenSci at SciPy 2025” and event details for a session titled “Open Code, Open Science — What’s Getting in Your Way?” on July 10, 2025.
Packaging woes? We wanna hear ’em.
Join pyOpenSci at #SciPy2025 for a Birds of a Feather chat on Python packaging pain points + solutions.
🗓 July 10, 1:15 pm, Room 315
🔗 cfp.scipy.org/scipy2025/ta...
More events: www.pyopensci.org/blog/pyopens...
Wide-angle view of a high-level meeting at the United Nations, with delegates seated in a large, wood-paneled conference hall beneath a central screen
We are thrilled to be at the UN #opensource week in New York City this week supported by the Sovereign Tech Agency. We are learning a lot and contributing to important conversations about #opensource sustainability, funding, contributing to open source and more.
We are looking to onboard a new editor with a background in physics! Please share.
If you have any questions about the volunteer position, please reach out about that too!
Illustration of a woman on a video call, with text that says pyOpenSci is seeking volunteer editors with a Physics background. Editors help review 2–4 packages a year and shape peer review policies. Diverse applicants encouraged. Apply link: bit.ly/pyOSEditor
EDITORS NEEDED WITH PHYSICS Background
Could that be you?
We are looking to onboard a new editor with Physics background to lead software reviews for pyOpenSci. Learn more and sign up below!
Please share with your communities!
bit.ly.com/pyoseditor
#opensource #openscience #python
A code block labeled "A Common Bug (in compiled extension modules)." The code shows an attempt to exit a calculation of a large array of random numbers, and then indicates that a Ctrl+C interrupt takes 3.5 seconds to return, rather than returning immediately as is probably the desired and expected behavior.
Have you ever started a Python process, realized that you made a mistake, immediately hit Ctrl+C to interrupt it and then waited a surprisingly long time to get the command line back?
This delay is caused by a bug in the compiled #Python extension.
:thread:
A strange-looking sticker. But definitely just a regular sticker. There is no need to overthink, unless… #PyConUS #Mystery #sticker
Flyer for the PyCon US 2025 Maintainers Summit. Event is on Friday, 16 May 2025 at 2:15pm in Room 402, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Includes a message that all are welcome and no registration is required. A QR code and shortened link (bit.ly/pyconus-maintainers-summit-2025) are provided for more information. Decorated with trees, a cartoon snake on a keyboard, and a hand clicking the link.
Heading to #PyCONUS? Don't miss the Maintainer's Summit!
Friday 16 May 2025 2:15pm in Room 402
✅ Free for any conference attendee to attend
✅ No registration required
✅ All are welcome
Whether you are a maintainer or curious about getting involved #opensource #python this event is for you!
Ernst Haas
New York
1980
There are rumors that a mysterious sticker will be distributed at #PyConUS. Some say it is just another piece of swag, but if you stare long enough, it appears to be hiding a secret.
If you’re the kind who can't resist pulling on loose threads just to see what unravels, keep an eye open for it!
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
My painting COASTAL EXPLORERS
🪴 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
I just played it, very nice, really enjoyed it. Thanks for making it available! Wished it was longer 😆. Only comment I have is a minor detail, I had to stop in the middle and my phone reloaded the page so I had to start again from the beginning. Again, minor.
Found some old treasures hidden inside boxes in the back of a closet #dnd #d&d #rpg
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
It's a great reading, it was my first book of 2025! I definitely recommend. It was very nostalgic to remember the old days when the web was exciting.
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
The PSF powers #Python’s growth, security & community—supporting @pypi.org, @pycon.us, & more. With a whole menu of sponsorship benefits available, we welcome & value corporate sponsors who sustain the programming language they rely on! Learn more & apply: www.python.org/sponsors/app...
Now that we've got the basics covered, we want to expressly invite YOU to join us at #PyConUS 2025! Hosted in Pittsburgh, PA, we hope you join us for some (or all!) of the 9-day event filled with talks, sprints, tutorials and workshops 🐍🤝🐍
Register today: us.pycon.org/2025/attend/...
As folks are embarking on all these data rescue / refuge projects, I hope they're heeding the lessons from the 2016/17 teams -- e.g.,
figshare.com/articles/jou...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg/vol29/is...
Oh the old days, when if you were a low level wizard and someone sneezed next to you, you could die.
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
Our culture is so obsessed with productivity right now that, if the outcome of an investment cannot be isolated and measured, it's value is not recognized. Projects and initiatives that produce results over time or in indirect ways are simply discarded aside as pointless.
A promotional graphic for the PyCon US 2025 Maintainers Summit encouraging abstract submissions. The top of the image features bold text stating “SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT!” with the submission deadline: Friday, February 22, 2025. Below, the event title “PyCon US Maintainers Summit” and a shortened URL (https://bit.ly/pyconus-maintainers-summit-2025) are displayed. The background is beige with a dark blue border. The image includes three smaller photos of participants at past events, showing a diverse group of masked individuals engaged in discussion, using laptops, and posing for a photo with conference badges. The graphic uses a professional yet friendly tone, with Python-themed decorative elements around the title.
🚀 Call for Proposals: PyCon US 2025 Maintainers Summit! 🚀
Proposals are due February 22, 2025 ⏳ Submit yours today!
This year we’re featuring talks & short ignite talks (5 min)—open to all experience levels. Share your insights and lessons learned in #python #opensource
https://buff.ly/4hPulwq
The real life version of the exclamation point inflation caused by social media and the attention economy. Liking something with one exclamation mark is not enough anymore, you need to like with at least three now.
