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?

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

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.

...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?

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. 😣

I find it absolutely fascinating that Zoom frequently adds a dollar sign to numbers in the millions, even if a unit is not mentioned.

🎉@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

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...

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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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

Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator

The 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...

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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/

UN Scientific Advisory Board adopts landmark statement on Open Science - International Science Council

At 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.

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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!

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last yr.

Gee, I wonder why 🤔

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!

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)@ucbids.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you wonder about: 🧑‍🎓 Charting the creation and adoption of #OpenSource coming from academia 💫 How #innovators profit by giving software away 🤔 Understanding What is Meant by “Open” These are just some of the topics at the UC Open Summit on 23 & 24 April: ucospo-net.netlify.app/events/uc-op...

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.