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Monica Gerber

@monicagerber.bsky.social
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data scientist (@ Fred Hutch) / rock climber / reader of books / person on a bike www.monicagerber.com

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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I absolutely loved The Mood Machine by @lizpelly.bsky.social and highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about music and art! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mood-M...
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Mood Machine
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Winner of a Certificate of Merit from the 2025 ARSC Awards for...
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you read just one thing about the realities of modern AI and agents going "rogue", read this: aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading... Brilliant piece from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
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Mark Allen @markallen.io · 03/07/2026
Wrote an update to last year's blog post about how I'm using AI during my cancer journey. markallen.io/standard-ope...
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Standard Operating Procedure
Not the type of follow-up post you ever want to write.
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
WiDS Puget Sounds is hosting a tech talk night at Fred Hutch on April 23rd. Sign up here! luma.com/k5hla8fn
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Tech Talk Night · Luma
Join us for an evening of tech talks. The event will feature networking and technical talks. The audience includes data scientists, analysts, engineers, ML…
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I'm excited to attend WIDS Puget Sound's conference on May 8th! You can still buy an early bird ticket here: luma.com/widsps2026 #WIDS
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Women in Data Science Puget Sound 2026 Conference · Luma
JOIN US AT WIDS PUGET SOUND 2026! It will be a three-track event featuring technical talks, 2 panels, career development sessions, and interactive workshops.…
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It's curious that many of the studies on AI scribes measure physician satisfaction and efficiency/cost outcomes, but none (that I've seen) measure patient outcomes. How do AI scribes impact patient trust in their physicians and care? And how accurate are the AI scribes? ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A Street Called Dolores Huerta by Nikki Darling "What then would it be to drive down a street named Dolores Huerta? What would it feel like and where would it go?" www.tumblr.com/alice-bag/16...
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
There are just no words. More power to her. May she find peace as she continues to do her amazing work.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16/03/2026
The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the scientific community in the US. “This is not efficiency. This is not streamlining. This is the systematic elimination of scientific stewardship at the world’s largest biomedical research funder.” [elizabethginexi.substack.com]
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on having any kind of intellectual life. Depression is rampant because we’ve abandoned books & hobbies in favor of joyless amusements. The single most attractive thing a person can do is read often & delight in learning.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
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Unbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
For the first time in decades, the U.S. sunscreen landscape is truly changing. A modern sunscreen filter that has been rigorously tested for safety will eventually give consumers more options that feel better, protect better, and fit seamlessly into everyday routines.
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Here Comes the Sunscreen Ingredient the U.S. Has Been Waiting For (Little Darlin')
What’s coming, what the science says, and what to do in the meantime
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
it's worth reposting this at regular intervals these days
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 27/01/2026
Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What a way to end a week.
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This shit is so inhumane it's unbelievable.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
photo 1/23/26 by Alex Kormann for The Minnesota Star Tribune www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Matthew Vinge @mvinge.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
Two small children hold signs they made. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
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Brittany Barker @brittanysbarker.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
📣Corvallis is a forming a new R-Ladies group and hosing their first event on Jan 22 at 5:30 pm at Common Fields. Details and an RSVP for the event are here: www.meetup.com/rladies-corv... Please share widely! @weare.rladies.org #Rstats #Rlang #R #oregon
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In other news, @debbiemillman.bsky.social wrote about the design of the new food pyramid. Spoiler: it's terrible design reflecting terrible politics. www.statnews.com/2026/01/13/n...
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I’m a designer. The new food pyramid is outdated and confusing
The new food pyramid represents “an outdated way of thinking about visual communication,” writes a designer.
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
You know you work with data nerds when you post a Slack about nearby flooding and the conversation turns into how great @noaa.gov's plots are. water.noaa.gov/gauges/PESW1
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Wenatchee River at Peshastin
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/12/2025
I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/v...
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Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
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Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public
Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025. Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work... Please share!
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connect – Openscapes
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Asking for someone's input and then getting chatgpt-generated text is so discouraging.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
If RFK Jr approach to develop a vaccine against all viruses involves sequentially exposing himself to each of these viruses and letting his amazing body develop a vaccine the natural way, then I highly endorse this approach. I would start with something easy like Nipah or Hendra virus
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"Many chefs I know get upset at me … But this is the truth: If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue. You need to learn now because when everything is cooked in a microwave you’ll be out of a job." www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you Dr. Schrier for visiting us at Fred Hutch. It's such a crucial moment for scientific advances in vaccines & cancer. I appreciate that I have a congressperson who recognizes that.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Here’s the show. Please watch! It’s all about HHS and the first segment is about NIH. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"rOpenSci and Openscapes are lucky to have as members many U.S. federal employees who enrich our work and community. In a time of great uncertainty for so many government workers, we want to support our members who are considering their next career steps." ropensci.org/events/datas...
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Non-Government Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists
A community support and networking event hosted by rOpenSci and Openscapes
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/04/2025
Some words of encouragement from Dr. Tom Frieden, former Director of CDC. www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-fr...
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To staff at CDC and everyone working in public health: we’re with you. | Tom Frieden | 50 comments
To staff at CDC and everyone working in public health: we’re with you. | 50 comments on LinkedIn
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It's getting late on Friday, so you know what that means: HHS has just updated its list of cancelled grants and programs. The document went from 14 pages long to 42 pages. Just an incalculable list of cancelled COVID-19 funding. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 07/03/2025
I Took My Work Outside Every Day for a Month This Winter. (“My work” = typing on a laptop.) “Even though I’m not perfectly warm, it lifts my mood to be outside. I can hear the community of songbirds holding their morning conferences, a barking dog…” [outsideonline.com]
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I Took My Work Outside Every Day for a Month This Winter. Here’s What I Learned.
For a month this winter, I committed to taking my laptop outside every workday—no matter the weather—to see how it impacted my life
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Nice essay! "LLMs, while they already have all of humanity's knowledge in memory, haven't generated any new knowledge by connecting previously unrelated facts...We're currently building very obedient students, not revolutionaries."
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is so deeply, deeply, deeply fucked up. “The trial was shutting down. A silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away. … The stop-work order was so immediate and sweeping that the research staff would be violating it if they helped the women remove the rings.”
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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order (Gift Article)
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📣 Openscapes Champions Program at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Apr-Jun 2025! Please share. Encourage your Hutch friends to sign up! Leading this with @seankross.com @monicagerber.bsky.social @tladeras.bsky.social & Chris Lo openscapes.org/events/2025-... #OpenScience #KinderScience
Illustration by Allison Horst. a seaside landscape with animals on different paths
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Dr. Amy Lee @minisciencegirl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is how you do open science.
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -
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@yabellini@fosstodon has moved @yabellini.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2025
This talk by @Felienne is fantastic! A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design: www.youtube.com/live/-Br66SUjsdQ?si… Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689492.3689… cc: @RLadiesGlobal
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[SPLASH'24] Pacific - Onward! (Oct 23th)
Full Program: https://2024.splashcon.org/program/program-splash-2024/
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I've been reading about data science lifecycles and workflows (vs. SDLC). Some things I've been reading: www.datascience-pm.com/data-science... www.datascience-pm.com/data-science... vdsbook.com/02-dslc Any other good blogs or articles you'd recommend? Unique perspectives?
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What is a Data Science Life Cycle? - Data Science PM
A Data Science Life Cycle describes the steps to deliver projects and products. This post walks through one you can use on your next project.
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"We believe that the root of inefficiency in implementing the best software development practices in academic settings is the individualistic approach." More on the lonely bioinformatician problem and its effect on software quality! academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
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Improving bioinformatics software quality through teamwork
AbstractSummary. Since high-throughput techniques became a staple in biological science laboratories, computational algorithms, and scientific software hav
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
There was a lot of exiting progress in childhood cancer research this year, including what NCI Director, Dr. Kimryn Rathmell, describes as "a never-before-seen result." I am thankful that my tax dollars are going towards this important research. www.cancer.gov/news-events/...
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One Year in Cancer Research and Much to Celebrate
NCI Director Dr. Kimryn Rathmell reviews some of the most noteworthy cancer research findings from 2024, including advances in immunotherapy for children with cancer, a potential therapy for cachexia,...
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I wrote up my thoughts on the lonely data scientist problem. I'd love to hear other people's experience with solving this, please comment! Thanks to @openscapes.bsky.social for helping me frame this. www.monicagerber.com/blog/2024-12...
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Solving the lonely data scientist problem | Monica Gerber
Monica Gerber's personal website.
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Monica Gerber @monicagerber.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I like this depiction of being a woman in leadership as a series of messages that you are continually revising and self-editing. From Dr. Stacy Wentworth: cancerculture.substack.com/p/whos-in-ch...
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Who's In Charge Around Here?
I am...I think??
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