it's worth reposting this at regular intervals these days

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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...

What a way to end a week.

This shit is so inhumane it's unbelievable.

photo 1/23/26 by Alex Kormann for The Minnesota Star Tribune www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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 😡"

📣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

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...

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

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...

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.

📣 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!

Asking for someone's input and then getting chatgpt-generated text is so discouraging.

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

"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 )

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.

Here’s the show. Please watch! It’s all about HHS and the first segment is about NIH. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

"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...

Some words of encouragement from Dr. Tom Frieden, former Director of CDC. www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-fr...

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...

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]

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."

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.”

📣 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

This is how you do open science.

🧵: 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 -

This talk by @Felienne is fantastic! A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design: https://www.youtube.com/live/-Br66SUjsdQ?si=C-zNVRDOErYJLbgy&t=12120 Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689492.3689809 cc: @RLadiesGlobal

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?

"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...

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/...

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...

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...