Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/main'

Author: roelofsaj

.github/workflows/typo_config.toml

@@ -19,5 +19,6 @@ extend-ignore-re = [
     "AAS",
     "Villegas",
     "Wil",
-    "Lok"
+    "Lok",
+    "BITCON"
 ]

_data/callouts/home.yml

@@ -3,18 +3,16 @@ style: is-light
 items:
   - title: Read our latest newsletter
     subtitle: >
-      In this monthly newsletter, we share recent, current, and planned
-      activities of the US-RSE Association, and related news that we think is
-      of interest to US-RSE members.
+      Learn about recent and planned activities of the US-RSE Association, current job postings, community news, and more.<br>
     link: newsletters/
     link_name: Newsletters
   - title: USRSE'25
-    subtitle: Help make US-RSE's third conference in 2025 great!  Volunteers of all experience levels are needed to join the conference planning committee.
-    link: https://us-rse.org/usrse25/about/organization/
-    link_name: Volunteer
+    subtitle: >
+      Plan to join us at our third conference in Philadelphia, PA, October 6-8, 2025.<br><br>
+    link: https://us-rse.org/usrse25/
+    link_name: Save the Date
   - title: 2024 US-RSE Community Awards Winners Announced
     subtitle: >
-      The 2024 Community Awards winners are: Daniel S. Katz for US-RSE Impact
-      Award and Christina Maimone for US-RSE Excellence in Service Award.
+      Daniel S. Katz: US-RSE Impact Award; <br>Christina Maimone: US-RSE Excellence in Service Award
     link: https://us-rse.org/community-awards/
     link_name: Learn More

_data/memberCounts.csv

@@ -82,3 +82,4 @@ September 2024,73,2837
 October 2024,90,2928
 November 2024,77,3005
 December 2024,45,3050
+January 2025,45,3095

_data/org-members.yaml

@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ standard:
     date_joined: 2024-11-07
     founding_member: true
     tier: "Standard"
+  - name: "Globus - A UChicago non-profit service"
+    url: https://globus.org
+    figure: logo-globus.png
+    acronym: 
+    date_joined: 2025-01-05
+    founding_member: true
+    tier: "Standard"
 
 premier:
   - name: "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign"

_events/repeated/community-call-fridays.md

@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ rrule:
   - RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220610T140000
 ---
 
-The USRSE community calls of each even month (Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec) take place on the second Friday of the month, 2:00-3:00pm ET on Zoom. Community call topics, agenda and zoom registration announcements are posted to Slack and sent to USRSE email accounts.
+The US-RSE community calls of each even month (Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec) take place on the second Friday of the month, 2:00-3:00pm ET on Zoom. Community call topics, agenda, and zoom registration announcements are posted to Slack and sent to the US-RSE email list.
 
-Community calls typically have a topical focus. They provide a forum for USRSE members to compare experiences around a topic, hang-out and chat on zoom.
+Community calls typically have a topical focus. They provide a forum for US-RSE members to compare experiences around a topic, hang-out and chat on zoom.
 
 Community calls alternate between the second Thursday (12:00-1:00pm ET) of each odd month and second Friday (2:00-3:00pm ET) of each even month. 
 
 Any and all suggestions for topics are
 welcome at [https://github.com/USRSE/monthly-community-calls/issues](https://github.com/USRSE/monthly-community-calls/issues).
-Anyone in USRSE is super welcome to lead a call on a topic of their choosing. Feel free to reach out to the organizers (currently Julia Damerow and
-Abbey Roelofs) on USRSE slack ( "@Julia Damerow" and/or "@Abbey Roelofs") or elsewhere if you would like to host (or help with) a call.
+Anyone in US-RSE is super welcome to lead a call on a topic of their choosing. Feel free to reach out to the organizers (currently Julia Damerow and
+Abbey Roelofs) on US-RSE Slack ( "@Julia Damerow" and/or "@Abbey Roelofs") or elsewhere if you would like to host (or help with) a call.

_events/repeated/community-call-planning.md

@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ rrule:
   - RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T120000
 ---
 
-Planning meetings for USRSE monthly community calls occur on the fourth Thursday of each month. 12:00-13:00 Eastern. This is a working meeting to
+Planning meetings for US-RSE monthly community calls occur on the fourth Thursday of each month. 12:00-13:00 Eastern. This is a working meeting to
 plan for the next community call. All are welcome to join the call, zoom details will be posted to the Community Call channel.
 
 Any and all suggestions for community topics are 
 welcome at [https://github.com/USRSE/monthly-community-calls/issues](https://github.com/USRSE/monthly-community-calls/issues).
-Anyone in USRSE is super welcome to lead a call on a topic of their choosing. Feel free to reach out to the organizers (currently Julia Damerow and
-Abbey Roelofs) on USRSE slack ("@Julia Damerow" and/or "@Abbey Roelofs") or elsewhere if you would like to host (or help with) a call.
+Anyone in US-RSE is super welcome to lead a call on a topic of their choosing. Feel free to reach out to the organizers (currently Julia Damerow and
+Abbey Roelofs) on US-RSE Slack ("@Julia Damerow" and/or "@Abbey Roelofs") or elsewhere if you would like to host (or help with) a call.

_events/repeated/community-call.md

@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ rrule:
   - RRULE:UNTIL=20251211T120000;FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=2;BYDAY=+2TH
 ---
 
-The USRSE community calls of each odd month (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov) take place on the second Thursday of the month, 12:00-1:00pm ET on Zoom. Community call topics, agenda and zoom registration announcements are posted to Slack and sent to USRSE email accounts.
+The US-RSE community calls of each odd month (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov) take place on the second Thursday of the month, 12:00-1:00pm ET on Zoom. Community call topics, agenda, and zoom registration announcements are posted to Slack and sent to the US-RSE email list.
 
-Community calls typically have a topical focus. They provide a forum for USRSE members to compare experiences around a topic, hang-out and chat on zoom.
+Community calls typically have a topical focus. They provide a forum for US-RSE members to compare experiences around a topic, hang-out and chat on zoom.
 
 Community calls alternate between the second Thursday (12:00-1:00pm ET) of each odd month and second Friday (2:00-3:00pm ET) of each even month. 
 
 Any and all suggestions for topics are
 welcome at [https://github.com/USRSE/monthly-community-calls/issues](https://github.com/USRSE/monthly-community-calls/issues).
-Anyone in USRSE is super welcome to lead a call on a topic of their choosing. Feel free to reach out to the organizers (currently Julia Damerow and
-Abbey Roelofs) on USRSE slack ( "@Julia Damerow" and/or "@Abbey Roelofs") or elsewhere if you would like to host (or help with) a call.
+Anyone in US-RSE is super welcome to lead a call on a topic of their choosing. Feel free to reach out to the organizers (currently Julia Damerow and
+Abbey Roelofs) on US-RSE Slack ( "@Julia Damerow" and/or "@Abbey Roelofs") or elsewhere if you would like to host (or help with) a call.

_posts/2025-01-30-update-dmv-rse.md

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: January DMV-RSE Meetup Recap
+subtitle: January 2025
+category: update
+tags: [update, dmv-rse]
+---
+
+The second meetup of the [DMV (Delaware-Maryland-Virginia) RSE affinity group](https://us-rse.org/ag/dmv-rse/) met in January to discuss RSE Career Development broadly.  The meetup started strong with pizza, drinks, with some casual introductory chatter and professional updates. After that, a small but dedicated crowd heard from Dr. Angeline Burrell, a research physicist at the Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory who gave a talk on writing effective recommendation letters and publishing research code.
+
+![DMV-RSE meetup]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/img/dmv-rse-jan22_1.jpg "The second DMV-RSE meetup on RSE career development was hosted at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University.")
+
+**Promoting (RSE) careers: writing effective recommendation letters.** Not everyone will be called upon to write an effective recommendation letter, but almost everyone will need one at some point. Recommendation letters are an important leverage point in a research scientists' career. But there’s nuance to it: How can you best promote the candidate, but also retain professional integrity and provide a fair assessment? How can you make sure the language used (e.g. unenthusiastic, unassertive tone) does not bias against the candidate's chances of getting an offer? (Hint: as one option, use a [gender bias calculator](https://slowe.github.io/genderbias/).)
+
+**Baby steps, linters, and collaboration: Incentivizing good coding practices in research labs.** The second part of the meetup was centered on publishing research code. How do we incentivize domain scientists to adopt good coding practices (think code versioning, unit testing, and packaging…)? Most research labs don’t incentivize code quality, so do you spend time writing the paper or documenting the codebase? Do you spend time polishing publication-ready figures or writing unit tests?
+
+![DMV-RSE meetup]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/img/dmv-rse-jan22_2.jpg "Dr. Angeline Burrell gave a talk on writing effective recommendation letters and publishing research code.")
+
+In practice, Dr. Burrell suggested that the main force that will push towards adoption of these practices is _collaboration_. If researchers know other researchers or labs will depend on their codebase, they will most likely spend additional time on making sure the code runs, is understandable, etc. But even if the incentive is there, how do you adopt the practices on a daily basis? Start small and embrace baby steps. Does your code produce a figure? Write down all the steps that happen such that somebody else can understand it. That's the first version. Call it the alpha version. Did a reviewer require changes to figures and/or analyses? Update the code. Update documentation. Update the code version. Rinse and repeat.
+
+What's the one practice that’s the most efficient in order to start maintaining robust code? In Dr. Burrell's experience that's clear: _code linters_. Start off by making code well formatted. This will make it easier for others to review it. Once that bottleneck is cleared, other changes (refactoring, documenting) are easier to take on.
+
+![DMV-RSE meetup]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/img/dmv-rse-jan22_3.jpg "Discussing code sharing in research labs.")
+
+**Incentivizing via funding: evaluation needs to show some teeth.** Finally, an audience question moved us to discussion of more systemic leverage points: how do we incentivize sharing code and data in funding schemes and applications? The first step is to make artifact (e.g. code and data) management plans required. However, this measure alone can and will fail if the evaluation stage shows no teeth and does not directly penalize poorly thought through applications. Attendees experienced in evaluating funding proposals shared their stories of how such watered down evaluation can look like in practice.
+
+All in all, a half-hour presentation led to about an hour long, rich discussion and sharing of RSE experiences among RSEs coming from a diverse set of research environments (National Institutes of health, Naval Research Laboratory, National Labs, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, NASA, private sector...). A few new participants joined the US-RSE Slack, and some of us connected afterwards. Just what this meetup is supposed to do.
+
+Next up is a meetup in Spring, stay tuned for details! 
+
+**How to join DMV-RSE and stay in touch?**  
+Subscribe to event announcements by joining one of:  
+* The `#rg-dmv-rse` channel on the US-RSE slack (see [How to join US-RSE](https://us-rse.org/join/)).
+* Our [Google group](https://groups.google.com/a/us-rse.org/g/rg-dmv-rse)
+* Our [Meetup group](https://www.meetup.com/dc-research-software-engineers/) 

_posts/2025-01-31-black-history-month.md

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: "US-RSE Celebrates Black History Month 2025"
+tags: [dei, black-history]
+author: Lance Parsons, Cordero Core
+date: 2025-01-31
+---
+
+![Black History Month Logo]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/img/BHMlogo.png){:
+style="display: block; margin: auto; max-width: 600px;" }
+
+US-RSE’s [DEI working group (DEI-WG)](https://us-rse.org/wg/dei/) is proud to
+lead the US-RSE’s participation in celebrating [Black History
+Month](https://www.blackhistorymonth.gov/).
+
+First up, we’ll be sharing stories throughout the month that recognize and
+celebrate African Americans who have inspired our members through their
+accomplishments in their careers and their personal stories. We’ll be
+publishing these posts throughout February to highlight such people, where we
+talk about the person and tie their work and life to the RSE movement.
+
+* [**A. Phillip Randolph**](/2025-01-31-randolph) \- Discover the inspiring
+  journey of Dr. Randolph, a pioneer in research software engineering.
+* *Check back here for links as articles are posted*
+
+In addition, we’re excited to host a **Zoom discussion on Thursday, February
+20th at noon PT / 3 PM ET**. [@Cordero
+Core](https://usrse.slack.com/team/U0523JRUDE3) shared one of his favorite
+YouTube channels with us from Garrison Hayes. We invite you to watch the three
+episodes linked below from [Garrison Hayes' YouTube
+channel](https://www.youtube.com/@GarrisonHayes/featured), and then come
+prepared for a lively, engaging, and thought provoking conversation with us
+over Zoom on Thursday, February 20th and continuing in the [`#dei-discussion`
+channel](https://usrse.slack.com/archives/C01C8CJQ7AP) on Slack (details and
+link in the channel). For those that aren't familiar, Garrison explores a
+variety of interesting questions, usually at the intersection of Black history,
+politics and current events.
+
+* [Why the right is so obsessed with
+  DEI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKvxeNCp84)
+* [Tim Scott and the "token black
+  guy"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcEOpjV1Upc)
+* [Why are Black people still
+  Christian?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKSF1huXOuw)
+
+Finally, we wanted to share with you some articles, shows, and resources we
+found engaging and we invite you to share your own, either on Slack or with the
+hashtag `#usrse-blackhistory`.
+
+### **Events/Conferences**
+
+* [**US-RSE Zoom Discussion**](https://usrse.slack.com/archives/C01C8CJQ7AP) -
+  Thursday, February 20 - Garrison Hayes episodes on DEI, the "token black
+  guy", and Black Christians - Register on Slack in the [`#dei-discussion`
+  channel](https://usrse.slack.com/archives/C01C8CJQ7AP)
+* [Black Tech Week](https://blacktechweek.com/) \- July 14-16 at the Aronoff
+  Center in Cincinnati, OH
+* [BITCON 2025](https://bitcon.blacksintechnology.net/) \- BITCON is the annual
+  conference for the largest community of Black technology professionals
+  globally
+* [Black Women in Data Summit 2025](https://www.blackwomenindata.com/) \-
+  centers Black women's point of view in all spaces where data lives
+* [AfroTech Conference 2025](https://experience.afrotech.com/) \- Explore
+  enterprise innovation, shape the future of work, build essential skills, and
+  champion tech for good
+
+### **Organizations**
+
+* [BlackGirlsHack](https://blackgirlshack.org/) \- Home of Black Girl Cyber
+  Magic
+* [Black In Astro](https://www.blackinastro.com/) \- Celebrating and amplifying
+  the Black experience in space-related fields
+* [Black Men in Tech](https://www.blkmenintech.com/about-us) \- access,
+  resources, and community for Black men within the tech industry
+* [Code.org’s Approach to Diversity and Equity in Computer
+  Science](https://code.org/diversity)
+* [blackcomputeHER.org](https://blackcomputeher.org/) \- dedicated to
+  supporting computing+tech education and workforce development for Black women
+  and girls
+* [African American Women in Physics](https://aawip.com/) \- honor the women
+  who paved the way, to inspire future physicists, and to connect with allies
+  interested in promoting diversity in Physics and other STEM fields
+* [National Society of Black Physicists](https://nsbp.org/) \- For nearly 50
+  years, NSBP has existed to open more opportunities in physics and related
+  sciences for African Americans and others across the African diaspora
+
+### **Articles/Podcasts/Shows**
+
+* [She Started It](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5202656/) \- an award-winning
+  documentary that provides a rare look in the lives of five ambitious young
+  women entrepreneurs (Thuy, Stacey, Sheena, Brienne and Agathe) who will stop
+  at nothing to pursue their startup dreams.
+* [Coded Bias](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394170/) \- When MIT Media Lab
+  researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see
+  dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the
+  first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all.
+* [Interview with Marc
+  Hannah](https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/marc-hannah-41) \-
+  co-founded Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) in 1982, which created software and
+  hardware for 3D visuals in films like Jurassic Park and Terminator 2\.
+* Star Trek Episodes
+  * [Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ST:TOS](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708435/)
+  * [Far Beyond the Stars ST:DS9](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708538/)
+  * [Living Witness ST:VOY](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708926/) (great
+    episode about historical revisionism)
+* [View on Demand: “Black Excellence in Real-World
+  Computing”](https://www.acm.org/diversity-inclusion/bhm-2023) from ACM
+* [Fostering an Enjoyable Black History Learning Experience in Your CS
+  Classroom \- Computer Science Teachers
+  Association](https://csteachers.org/fostering-an-enjoyable-black-history-learning-experience-in-your-cs-classroom/)
+  from Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)