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

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

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."

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

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.”

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

📣 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

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This is how you do open science.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

🧵: 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 -

submitted 48 days ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

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?

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

"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...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

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/...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments