🎉@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

One like = one scene from "AI, Claudius", the epic story of a stammering Markov model who survived corruption, lies, and intrigue to become LLM-peror of Ancient Rome

The PNW thing that will forever remain wondrous--watching hummingbirds through my window while working from home, even during the fall and winter.

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...

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!

A peek at the fruit of this week’s conference knitting. I ripped out half of this sock and still finished the pair!

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

Today's edition of "slightly menacing spam email" includes this gem of an image

🚀 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

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.

Someone on this city bus just uttered the phrase “ChatGPT generated holographic Elvis” and I don’t even know where to start

UN Scientific Advisory Board adopts landmark statement on Open Science - International Science Council https://council.science/news/un-scientific-advisory-board-adopts-landmark-statement-on-open-science/

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.

Politics aside, is "hot spot" supposed to be a climate change joke? I don't know whether I'm supposed to laugh or cry!

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?

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. 🌈

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."

🚨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...

I was saving a special set of nail wraps for CZI’s Cell Science meeting!

Ready for a morning of talks and posters from the Cell Science program!

Very excited to be speaking at this event and the opportunity to meet more of the open source community in UC system!

This week I learned: when taking photos as a group in Brazil, you say "abacaxi" (🍍) instead of "cheese" (🧀).

"We sampled species across the tree of life..." 😃 "...but only if they share a common ancestor with humans." 😩

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.

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...

Missed opportunity to call "mishmash store" a "crazy quilt store"

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?

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

Can't wait to find out how the Zoom AI assistant interprets my colleague's grumbling and growling stomach.

My hot take for today: telling someone “you do you boo” is usually condescending, passive aggressive, and insulting.

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.

Void screaming party at noon, all are invited

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?

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!

🌍 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: https://buff.ly/40CJL02 #Bioinformatics #RStats #RNAseq

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.

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.🥲

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-...

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!

Not to brag, but I have A LOT of shirts with pictures of possums on them.

@jstksb.bsky.social Don't be a hater!

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.

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

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

I wonder if there is some kind of pattern we could infer from this...?

Today's existential mystery: I keep trying to type "assisting" and end up with "assassin" and I'm starting to wonder if autocorrect is trying to tell me something.

The ORCA Catalytic Awards Program is LIVE! Supported by @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social, grants of up to $15,000 to foster open science & scholarship at non-R1 & under-resourced US institutions. More details & application: www.orcaopen.org/work/cap #OpenResearch #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenScholarship

My littlest sis gave me a Butts on Things calendar for 2025. Today’s thing with a butt brings back so much nostalgia!

All I’m saying is we’ll NEVER successfully domesticate raccoons if we don’t start some time

I am in love with this art I recently purchased from my friend Lynn Fellman's "Raging Climate" series. I adore the colors of this digital art print, especially with the ornate gothic frame! See this and other designs at fellmanstudio.com/prints/.