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Kate Hertweck

@k8hert.bsky.social
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Open Science @ Biohub, I like bioinformatics/plant genomics/evolutionary biology. Fiber artist/sci-fi/queer. Perceived pronouns (any acceptable). I’m the one on the left in my profile pic. Views my own. www.linkedin.com/in/katehertweck

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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Listening to a scientist describe working with a piece of cutting-edge technology and they mention that they are humbled by the machine on a regular basis. Gadzooks. How much different would science be if we allowed ourselves to be humbled, even just periodically, by the wonder of our work?
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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
1/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
In case you’re wondering if society is still moving towards progress, there’s someone on this city bus waxing poetic about the benefits of the shower beer.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
...wow. It's been a few years since I got stuck in vi. I think it's good to feel that shook every once in awhile?
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Things I did not expect from work at age 42: I'm in a Zoom meeting and am feeling emotionally stifled because emojis are not enabled for the chat. 😣
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I find it absolutely fascinating that Zoom frequently adds a dollar sign to numbers in the millions, even if a unit is not mentioned.
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CURIOSS @curiossorg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🎉@curioss has two new members! A warm welcome to Leigh Phan of @uclalibrary.bsky.social who is also working with the #UCLA #OSPO. We’re also thrilled that @k8hert.bsky.social of @biohub.org has joined the community. We look forward to learning more about your work! #AcademicOSPO #OpenScience
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The PNW thing that will forever remain wondrous--watching hummingbirds through my window while working from home, even during the fall and winter.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
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Consider Sharing Health Challenges With Colleagues (opinion)
Being open with my colleagues about my cancer diagnosis has allowed me to access an enormous source of support and comfort.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I’m quite pleased with the two open science stickers I designed and printed this year. The Bigfoot sticker may represent the first in a series of gay cryptids!
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A peek at the fruit of this week’s conference knitting. I ripped out half of this sock and still finished the pair!
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I'm also having feelings about my public GitHub contributions reporting that I'm "100% issues." Sounds like I'm in a toxic relationship with my repos, tbh
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Today's edition of "slightly menacing spam email" includes this gem of an image
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Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) @orca-open.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚀 Applications are OPEN for the 2nd round of the ORCA Catalytic Awards! With support from the @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social ORCA is offering $15,000 per project to grow a culture of #OpenScience #OpenScholarship at traditionally under-resourced U.S. institutions. 🔗 Learn more: orcaopen.org/work/cap
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Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator
The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.  The program aims to...
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A Slack bot just reminded me to review my channels "for relevance" and leave channels if I don't participate anymore. Bold of it to assume I don't hoard Slack channels like some kind of dragon suffering from information overload.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Someone on this city bus just uttered the phrase “ChatGPT generated holographic Elvis” and I don’t even know where to start
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025
UN Scientific Advisory Board adopts landmark statement on Open Science - International Science Council council.science/news/un-scientific-…
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UN Scientific Advisory Board adopts landmark statement on Open Science - International Science Council
At its second annual retreat, the UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) adopted a landmark statement on open science, with the International Science Council serving as lead coordinator.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Someone two rows behind me on this flight has audible Slack notifications sounding every 10-20 seconds and it’s racheting my anxiety. I don’t think this was the type of response Pavlov intended for us.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Politics aside, is "hot spot" supposed to be a climate change joke? I don't know whether I'm supposed to laugh or cry!
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Are you the type of person who waves goodbye at the end of each Zoom call, or are you someone who has found a way to indicate you don't hate humanity without being awkward?
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I logged on to a zoom call today and a coworker greeted me with “Hey Kate!” The closed captioning in the call interpreted this as “Hey gay!” So wrong, yet so right. 🌈
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A real thing I wrote to a colleague yesterday while taking a work call from an airport: "Can you back me up in case something weird happens? There is half a bulb of half-peeled garlic next to me and it's making me anxious."
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.


We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks. 


We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA


WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.


These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).


THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I was saving a special set of nail wraps for CZI’s Cell Science meeting!
A hand with nails in view. Nails have a purple-pink background with silver double helices. One nail has the silhouette of a black mouse.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Ready for a morning of talks and posters from the Cell Science program!
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very excited to be speaking at this event and the opportunity to meet more of the open source community in UC system!
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This week I learned: when taking photos as a group in Brazil, you say "abacaxi" (🍍) instead of "cheese" (🧀).
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"We sampled species across the tree of life..." 😃 "...but only if they share a common ancestor with humans." 😩
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I felt very accomplished on Friday afternoon when I scheduled a Slack post to send to my team on Monday morning. Today, on Monday morning, I felt deflated when I realized I'd drafted the post as a DM to myself, and had scheduled it to send only to me.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Shout out to the Comms team @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social for amazing science-themed valentines! Head over to IG to see the rest: www.instagram.com/p/DGECj6GPsX...
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Missed opportunity to call "mishmash store" a "crazy quilt store"
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Attending a workshop this week and I was assigned to take notes with a PEN and PAPER and now I am exhausted. What next, a quill? What century is it?
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Currently working temporarily from a coffee shop and wishing I was in last week's hotel, with art that featured a cyclist's bum strategically located over my shoulder when viewed on zoom
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Can't wait to find out how the Zoom AI assistant interprets my colleague's grumbling and growling stomach.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
My hot take for today: telling someone “you do you boo” is usually condescending, passive aggressive, and insulting.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It's been a chaotic week, but I just managed to spray coffee across my kitchen after overflowing my Aeropress. Good to know some things will never change.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Void screaming party at noon, all are invited
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I let my dog out this morning before sunrise and found an unusual sight for my neighborhood: a cybertruck parked but still running in front of my house. Is this an omen? How should I interpret? Is this better or worse than my normal crow omens?
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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
There's a lot going on right now, but we think it's important to respond to this (temporary?) policy shift for NIH intramural scientists. Preprints get science out faster for reuse and critique, on a timeline controlled by researchers. Like/repost the quoted post to support preprinting at NIH!
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🌍 Bioconductor Course, Kenya 2025 🎓 Join us for our first in-person Bioconductor course in Kenya, happening March 24–28, 2025, in Nairobi! This free course is for bioinformatics beginners and builds on our global Carpentry program. 🔗 Apply: buff.ly/40CJL02 #Bioinformatics #RStats #RNAseq
A giraffe standing in the Nairobi National Park with the city skyline in the background. Above the image, the Bioconductor logo is displayed, followed by bold black text that reads: 'Apply Now for the Bioconductor Kenya 2025 Course!
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
As someone who reads too quickly, I am tickled by the headline and suggestion that scientists are deliberating another drink at happy hour. As someone who has had multiple people close to me with alcohol overconsumption problems, I am very interested in the outcome of this discussion.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Ah, yes...once again finding myself at what should be the end of my work day, but being unable to cut myself off in the middle of that sweet sweet super productive time from 4-6 pm.🥲
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I'm leading efforts in Open Science at @cziscience.bsky.social to explore/invest in AI tech that embrace our values/goals: openness, fairness, and improving the process of science. Check out our latest blog post highlighting what we learned and funded in 2024. cziscience.medium.com/pathways-to-...
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Pathways to AI-enabled research
CZI and Sloan Foundation announce eight new grants to transform scientific research practices through AI applications
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Do you know an org or resource that fosters inclusive collaboration in open science? Share it via github.com/willingc/awe... from @willingc.bsky.social ! Maybe the website for the resource/org disappeared earlier this month? The Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social can help!
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GitHub - willingc/awesome-inclusion-open-science
Contribute to willingc/awesome-inclusion-open-science development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Not to brag, but I have A LOT of shirts with pictures of possums on them.
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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@jstksb.bsky.social Don't be a hater!
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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In that familiar old incompetence I haven't missed, Trump's executive order defines sex as what a person is at CONCEPTION. Fetal sex doesn't begin to differentiate until about 7 weeks into gestation. Which means Donald used the highest office in the land to declare all Americans legally female.
A screenshot of Donald Trump's transphobic executive order, declaring a person's gender to be based on their status at conception.
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Posit @posit.co · 21/01/2025
We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)! These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs. If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025 #DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata
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Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2025) - Posit
We are excited to announce Posit will provide 40 Opportunity Scholarships so they can attend posit::conf(2025) in Atlanta, Georgia.
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PREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Today, we published our ☀️2024 Annual Report!🌕 To learn more about our achievements and our renewed commitment to work in community to shape a more equitable, open, and transparent scholarly evaluation landscape, check out our full report here: zenodo.org/records/1467.... #PREreview #annualreport
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2024: A Year of Expansion and Introspection
Today we published our 2024 Annual Report, sharing our achievements from last year and renewing our commitment to work in collaboration with you to shape an equitable, open, and transparent scholarly ...
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