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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Holy kitty, that’s high praise! Good NIGHT (Oh yeah, that’s working for me)

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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Both of these are very appealing because of awkward reasons but that prob says something about me as a person

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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

But what will men named Scott think??? 😬

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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Was it hand written in a notebook? Please say yes.

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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thinking about my unironic use of "gadzooks" as an exclamation of awe and delight. Other options I considered included good god (too religious), gracious (too genteel), and good gravy (too thanksgiving). Accepting alternative recommendations!

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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 · 04/03/2026

I’ve been thinking about this—vi is actually older than I am, so I’m imagining Retro Kate as me at 10 years old typing on my family’s old Commodore. I’m not mad about that at all

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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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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

These are...intense descriptions!

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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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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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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 · 11/04/2025

I attended a medium-sized regional uni as an undergrad bc it was financially feasible. I didn't realize till I was a postdoc that faculty/attendees of Ivy League/prestigious schools view it as an exclusive type of club that automatically puts someone at an advantage.

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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

Indeed, though I prefer to think of it as "simultaneously diversifying mechanistic caffeine uptake"

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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

I live in biomedical research land now! I really miss hearing about plants and fungus.

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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 · 12/02/2025

Predigital? You kinda make it sound like I used my prehensile tail to hold the pen?

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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Even the people in my group were alarmed. Multiple other participants offered to take notes on their laptops. "No," I said. "I'm honoring my academic ancestors."

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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

But in both of the cases I recall, it felt like they were actually saying “it’s so cute you think you’re right! You’re in this on your own though, and it’s going to be fun to watch you fail.” I can’t imagine this had any other intention on their part than to shut down the conversation.

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Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I’ve had a few people say it too me lately, and it’s always been after discussing a point of contention or disagreement. My interpretation might be different if it were in another context, especially outside of a difference of opinion with the other person.

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