Hello,

I'm writing to let you know that applications are now open for the second SEEKCommons Fellowship[1] cohort.

The SEEKCommons Fellowship program is funded by NSF and run by partners at University of Notre Dame, University of California Davis, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, and The HDF Group. The goal of the fellowship is to bring graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and professionals from community-based organizations with new perspectives to socio-environmental research with open technologies.

Application deadline is Dec. 15, 2024.

The fellowship is designed to: - Encourage new translational and integrative work involving socio-environmental action research with Open Science practices; - Provide a space for Fellows and Network members to collaborate on common research issues, challenges, and solutions.

Fellows may be: - Graduate students working with open technologies on socio-environmental issues; - Post-docs with existing community projects in Science and Technology Studies, Open Science, and/or Socio-environmental research; and/or - Community practitioners who are interested in integrating common technologies into their environmental justice work.

The SEEKCommons website contains all the necessary fellowship information, including the application link. https://seekcommons.org/fellowship-application.html

Partnership SEEKCommons + Tor Project =====================================

This year SEEKCommons is reserving one fellowship to sustainability studies of community networks in partnership with the Tor Project!

We welcome Fellowship applications on the sustainability of the Tor network with a focus on energy consumption and relay metadata (such as ASN, uptime, and platform). The goal of the partnership between SEEKCommons and Tor is to study the environmental impact of community networks and promote the use of renewable energy in decentralized infrastructures.

We would like to support applications that address one (or more) of these questions:

- What Free and Open Source technologies can be used to promote a more sustainable and distributed Tor infrastructure? - How can the energy consumption of the Tor network be measured and optimized to reduce its environmental impact? - How can the "Tor Snowflake" decentralized proxy model be used to improve the sustainability of the network? - How can we use metadata from relays (e.g., ASN / uptime / platform) to assess the environmental impact of the network? - What open hardware and renewable energy sources could be used/reused in the Tor network?

More information: https://seekcommons.org/partnership-tor.html

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Thank you so much!

Warmly, Gus

[1] https://seekcommons.org/about.html