diff --git a/.github/spacy_universe_alert.py b/.github/spacy_universe_alert.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99ffabe93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/spacy_universe_alert.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import os
+import sys
+import json
+from datetime import datetime
+
+from slack_sdk.web.client import WebClient
+
+CHANNEL = "#alerts-universe"
+SLACK_TOKEN = os.environ.get("SLACK_BOT_TOKEN", "ENV VAR not available!")
+DATETIME_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"
+
+client = WebClient(SLACK_TOKEN)
+github_context = json.loads(sys.argv[1])
+
+event = github_context['event']
+pr_title = event['pull_request']["title"]
+pr_link = event['pull_request']["patch_url"].replace(".patch", "")
+pr_author_url = event['sender']["html_url"]
+pr_author_name = pr_author_url.rsplit('/')[-1]
+pr_created_at_dt = datetime.strptime(
+    event['pull_request']["created_at"],
+    DATETIME_FORMAT
+)
+pr_created_at = pr_created_at_dt.strftime("%c")
+pr_updated_at_dt = datetime.strptime(
+    event['pull_request']["updated_at"],
+    DATETIME_FORMAT
+)
+pr_updated_at = pr_updated_at_dt.strftime("%c")
+
+blocks = [
+    {
+      "type": "section",
+      "text": {
+        "type": "mrkdwn",
+        "text": "📣 New spaCy Universe Project Alert ✨"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "section",
+      "fields": [
+        {
+          "type": "mrkdwn",
+          "text": f"*Pull Request:*\n<{pr_link}|{pr_title}>"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "mrkdwn",
+          "text": f"*Author:*\n<{pr_author_url}|{pr_author_name}>"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "mrkdwn",
+          "text": f"*Created at:*\n {pr_created_at}"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "mrkdwn",
+          "text": f"*Last Updated:*\n {pr_updated_at}"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+
+
+client.chat_postMessage(
+    channel=CHANNEL,
+    text="spaCy universe project PR alert",
+    blocks=blocks
+)
diff --git a/.github/workflows/spacy_universe_alert.yml b/.github/workflows/spacy_universe_alert.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e02d93985
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/spacy_universe_alert.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+name: spaCy universe project alert
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "website/meta/universe.json"
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Dump GitHub context
+        env:
+          GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{github.event.number}}
+        run: |
+          echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+      - name: Install Bernadette app dependency and send an alert
+        env:
+          SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
+          GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
+          CHANNEL: "#alerts-universe"
+        run: |
+          pip install slack-sdk==3.17.2 aiohttp==3.8.1
+          echo "$CHANNEL"
+          python .github/spacy_universe_alert.py "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"
diff --git a/website/meta/universe.json b/website/meta/universe.json
index 01ed91c67..b11d829ec 100644
--- a/website/meta/universe.json
+++ b/website/meta/universe.json
@@ -2983,6 +2983,7 @@
                 "from pysbd.utils import PySBDFactory",
                 "",
                 "nlp = spacy.blank('en')",
+                "# Caution: works with spaCy<=2.x.x",
                 "nlp.add_pipe(PySBDFactory(nlp))",
                 "",
                 "doc = nlp('My name is Jonas E. Smith. Please turn to p. 55.')",