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Weeknotes: January 2025

w/c 27 January 2025

Inbox tracker

  • 💌 didn't capture 😕

Rose-bud-thorn

🌹

  • Getting to hear what all the CSSTP and CRELS students are working on was such a freaking DREAM.
    • It was also so lovely to have them be interested in my background and see the nods of recognition when I talked about why I care about openness and reproducibility!
      • (If a little depressing that things haven't changed enough!)

🌱

  • SO enjoyed learning about STAT 20 from AB!
    • I can see so many ways of elevating that work if we got some funding for it!

🌵

🤝 Reciprocal support

Who did I help?

  • Hmm - hard to know at this stage...
    • I gave VD a walk through of open source software which was either helpful or completely overwhelming (or both 😅)
  • Hopefully helped BIDS through the "Sustaining the open source infrastructure powering scientific innovation" event funding application!!

Who helped me?

  • EG getting my very first funding submission in!!
    • And also ACC, BS and JW for saying yes to being on the advisory committee at very short notice 🙈
    • And JM and SvdW for making my vague sentences into specific facts! 🙏

Activities / tasks

What did I do?

  • Submitted funding application for Heising-Simons Foundation’s Science program - Open Call for Support of Science Events and Gatherings
    • Title: "Sustaining the open source infrastructure powering scientific innovation"
    • 🔒 Issue in funding applications repo: #1
  • Weekly catch up with the CRELS and CSTTP students - pastries and fascinating people - an absolute dream 🥐
  • BIDS budget walk through with ED and AH
  • Really great questions from TD on BIDS' communications strategy!
    • Lovely to discuss and appreciate her guidance!
  • Interview with TD for CDSS blog
  • Got briefed on the UC OSPO Network with JM
    • Going to help out with some effort there
  • Finally updated my bio for the BIDS website
  • Worked with LH to update Academic Data Science Alliance page in members handbook
  • Met AC and learned more about CLTC
  • Welcomed VD to the team as a work study student.
    • Going to get him warmed up in The Turing Way project and then see where we can go together 🚀🌟
  • Learned more about Cultural Analytics from TTa
  • Met TTh and learned more about his work with the Eviction Research Network
  • Met [AB] who told me all about Stat20 - I'm super excited about disseminating that work further!!
  • Hung out for an afternoon with the NetworkX team
    • So grateful to be able to take Mackenzie along!
  • BIDS leadership meeting
    • Dug into communications plan from TD
  • Joined meeting with students working on wildfire modelling - really interesting and important, and such a motivated team
  • Continued exploring opportunity with potential collaborator
  • 1:1s with JM & FP
  • Gateway space meeting 🛡️

What did I not do?

  • Get my tasks on GitHub 😩
    • The best laid plans...
  • Reply to emails - as always!

w/c 20 January 2025

Inbox tracker

  • 💌 160
    • not great but I did find a place to live!

Rose-bud-thorn

🌹

  • Absolute joy to meet a couple of other Berkeley executive directors - what fascinating people doing such interesting work.
    • And discovered a new favourite lunch place - Tender Greens 😋

🌱

  • Started writing a funding proposal!
    • Deadline: Monday! Nothing like a deadline 😅

🌵

  • A short week with the Monday off. It really gets me behind 😭

🤝 Reciprocal support

Who did I help?

  • Well - if the funding application is selected comes through then I'm helping BIDS to convene some super exciting people and celebrate their open source contributions 🤞

Who helped me?

  • LW and EG were INCREDIBLE for getting me numbers for the funding proposal budget so fast!

Activities / tasks

What did I do?

What did I not do?

  • ALREADY so much 😩
    • I took the Friday off to find an apartment.... and that's important because I need somewhere to live but also means I didn't really reflect / close out any tasks 😞

w/c 13 January 2025

Inbox tracker

  • 💌 132
    • This was going great until I got added to a million trainings 😂

Rose-bud-thorn

🌹

  • I really enjoyed the UC Berkeley all staff forum with the Chancellor.
    • In particular he focused on burnout and making sure that staff feel appreciated which feels like such an important thing for someone so senior to say!

🌱

  • Such a fun meeting with JM and ST - our inaugural UC Berkeley OSPO steering group meeting! 💫

🌵

  • OMG my participation in The Turing Way collaboration cafe was a complete disaster - Mackenzie got really jealous that I was on a call during breakfast and was not her best self 😩
    • A lesson learned - I have GOT to get out of bed earlier!! 🛏️🌅

🤝 Reciprocal support

Who did I help?

  • I'm in the Gateway Space meeting now - so helping out FP with taking a little responsibility off his plate. A fascinating introduction to the different teams within CDSS!

Who helped me?

  • I'm not sure that this really counts but I SO loved the 3 different walking meetings (CH, DS and SP!) They're so much fun and its such a fantastic opportunity to get outside in the sunshine especially as a solo parent!

Activities / tasks

What did I do?

BIDS Leadership
  • BIDS Leadership meeting
    • 🌹 🌱 🌵 exercise got derailed but there were some good learnings in there... and opportunities to revisit!
  • 1:1s with FP, AH and SvdW - very helpful and super exciting!
  • Pinged emails to the GitHub organization owners and then demoted them to members!
    • A "accidentally delete all the things" risk mitigated and great to be able to say hello to a few alumni!
  • Lunch with SD - really interesting and such a warm welcome.
  • Explored an opportunity for BIDS... very low on details for now.
  • Joined Gateway Space Committee call - such an exciting time!
BIDS Ops
  • Intro meeting with EG - really great to start understanding the finances
  • 1:1 with LH - so many things to talk about and made great progress on the seminar series.
  • Wrote to seminar speakers... trying to channel my inner Priya Parker!
  • Got my new laptop! And got it set up!
Trainings & Outreach
  • Lunch with FP and MV to brainstorm a training session for Schmidt Science Fellows event in February
Jupyter
  • Joined Turing Way collaboration cafe - fun but a complete disaster with a jealous 2 year old.... a new plan must emerge for the next one!
    • Also included a really valuable meeting with the Voices of JupyterHub project team - excited for the interviews to be completed!
  • Walked around campus with CH which was so much fun - and I got a lot of steps in!
  • Walked around campus with DS - also so much fun - and very validating for a few of the ideas I have bubbling around!
OSPO
  • Kicked off the UC OSPO team meetings with JM and ST
    • Joined the Bay Area Open Science slack! 👋

What did I not do?

  • Reimbursements!
    • NEXT WEEK - it can be done!
  • HR paperwork for team member
  • ALL THE TRAININGS OMGGGGG
    • Need to get those downloaded to my phone if at all possible!
  • Paper writing for AIM RSF
  • Governance writing for Turing Way

w/c 6 January 2025

Inbox tracker

  • 💌 115
    • After archiving 9000+ unread emails since 2012 😅

Rose-bud-thorn

🌹

  • Really amazing onboarding experience - the last time I was onboarded I had a few intro meetings that were really far apart. There was a lot of sitting around vaguely reading things. I thought this would be similar!! But no - FP, TT, LWH, AH have all been so generous with their time and introduced me to so many people - what a dream!

🌱

  • So so many. But lets pick Jupyter and how we can integrate BIDS projects with that open source community.
    • I had a great glass-boarding session with FP to get me up to speed! 🪐

🌵

  • oh, idk, its been amazing so far. Really what's going to be hard is the shorter hours for daycare here compared to the UK! I feel like Cinderella at the end of every day 👠

🤝 Reciprocal support

Who did I help?

  • Showed LWH how to archive a bunch of emails 📤

Who helped me?

  • EM from ERSO talked me through submitting some immigration paperwork (importantly!)
  • IT supported me getting access to my Berkeley email
  • FP, TT, LWH, AH - all the BIDS team in getting me briefed and onboarded so well!
    • And for making me feel so welcome 💛
  • JK for letting me in a bunch of buildings!
  • My mum in picking up and dropping off Mackenzie a few times, and for running a bunch of errands while she and I were at work / school 🙏

Activities / tasks

What did I do?

  • 1:1s with LWH, AH, FP, JM
  • Lunches with FP & TT, KK & FP, MV
  • BIDS leadership meeting & sent agenda for next week
  • Catch up with GB from Superbloom
  • Catch up with CH from 2i2c
  • Reviewed newsletter

What did I not do?

  • Get up to speed with my emails - I had so little time to just sit down and read / reply to them!
  • Follow up intros to SW, CP, AA, and a few folks in my linkedin messages!
  • Write reference for MVi 😩