This post is part of our Curators’ Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Curator. The series grew out of a community-building activity wherein curators at our partner organizations interview each other “chain-letter style” in order to get to know each other and their work outside of the DCN better. We hope…
This post is part of our Curators’ Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Curator. The series grew out of a community-building activity wherein curators at our partner organizations interview each other “chain-letter style” in order to get to know each other and their work outside of the DCN better. We hope…
This post is authored by Avianna Wooten, Data Management & Sharing Specialist at Washington University in St. Louis and first time All Hands Meeting attendee A takeaway from the 2025 DCN All Hands (AHM) as a first-time attendee: I could really go for deviled eggs.As part of my 2025 DCN All Hands Meeting (AHM) experience,…
Alfredo Gonzalez-Espinoza is the Research and Data Services Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University. Alfredo was interviewed by Sarah Reiff Conell in June 2025. How did you come to your current position? During my PhD (Physics) in México and postdoctoral studies at interdisciplinary labs (Biophysics and Computational Genomics in México and Mathematical Biology at Penn), I realized…
This post is authored by members of the Racial Justice Working Group (RJWG). This serves to document our efforts, along with the evolution and status of a DCN ethics statement. Many racial justice efforts were born out of the upheaval of 2020 and have since faded. The DCN’s Racial Justice Working Group (RJWG) persists and…
Sarah Reiff Conell is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Sarah was interviewed by Jennifer Patiño in April 2025. How did you come to your current position? I came to this position through a PhD in art history. I was a project manager for a few different projects, but in each of my positions,…