Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Listening 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? 121
Reposted by Kate HertweckLoïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 29/06/20261/ 🧬🔬 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 17941
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 04/03/2026In 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. 011
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? 131
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Things 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. 😣 032
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 16/12/2025I find it absolutely fascinating that Zoom frequently adds a dollar sign to numbers in the millions, even if a unit is not mentioned. 000
Reposted by Kate HertweckCURIOSS @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 153
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The PNW thing that will forever remain wondrous--watching hummingbirds through my window while working from home, even during the fall and winter. 010
Reposted by Kate HertweckProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I’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...insidehighered.comConsider 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. 58329
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 23/10/2025I’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! 040
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 23/10/2025A peek at the fruit of this week’s conference knitting. I ripped out half of this sock and still finished the pair! 081
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I'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 040
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Today's edition of "slightly menacing spam email" includes this gem of an image 010
Reposted by Kate HertweckOpen 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/caporcaopen.orgOpen Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community AcceleratorThe 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... 069
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 29/09/2025A 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. 140
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Someone on this city bus just uttered the phrase “ChatGPT generated holographic Elvis” and I don’t even know where to start 030
Reposted by Kate HertweckOpen Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025UN Scientific Advisory Board adopts landmark statement on Open Science - International Science Council council.science/news/un-scientific-…council.scienceUN Scientific Advisory Board adopts landmark statement on Open Science - International Science CouncilAt 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. 024
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Someone 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. 131
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Politics aside, is "hot spot" supposed to be a climate change joke? I don't know whether I'm supposed to laugh or cry! 000
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Are 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? 230
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I 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. 🌈 040
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 29/04/2025A 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." 120
Reposted by Kate HertweckNoam 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... 7636659
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I was saving a special set of nail wraps for CZI’s Cell Science meeting! 020
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Ready for a morning of talks and posters from the Cell Science program! 130
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Very excited to be speaking at this event and the opportunity to meet more of the open source community in UC system! 031
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 15/03/2025This week I learned: when taking photos as a group in Brazil, you say "abacaxi" (🍍) instead of "cheese" (🧀). 030
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." 😩 120
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I 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. 060
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Shout 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... 040
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Missed opportunity to call "mishmash store" a "crazy quilt store" 060
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Attending 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? 180
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Currently 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 021
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Can't wait to find out how the Zoom AI assistant interprets my colleague's grumbling and growling stomach. 010
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 02/02/2025My hot take for today: telling someone “you do you boo” is usually condescending, passive aggressive, and insulting. 130
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025It'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. 110
Reposted by Kate HertweckJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Void screaming party at noon, all are invited 1135
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I 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? 050
Reposted by Kate HertweckKatie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 28/01/2025There'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! 022
Reposted by Kate HertweckBioconductor @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 11210
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025As 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. 000
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Ah, 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.🥲 030
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I'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-...cziscience.medium.comPathways to AI-enabled researchCZI and Sloan Foundation announce eight new grants to transform scientific research practices through AI applications 131
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Do 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!github.comGitHub - willingc/awesome-inclusion-open-scienceContribute to willingc/awesome-inclusion-open-science development by creating an account on GitHub. 042
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Not to brag, but I have A LOT of shirts with pictures of possums on them. 170
Reposted by Kate HertweckCrystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 21/01/2025In 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. 271287423
Reposted by Kate HertweckPosit @posit.co · 21/01/2025We’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 #pydatapos.itApply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2025) - PositWe are excited to announce Posit will provide 40 Opportunity Scholarships so they can attend posit::conf(2025) in Atlanta, Georgia. 03839
Reposted by Kate HertweckPREreview @prereview.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Today, 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 #annualreportcontent.prereview.org2024: A Year of Expansion and IntrospectionToday 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 ... 075