BIDS · KirstieJane · Jan 5, 2026 · Jan 6, 2026 · Jan 8, 2026 · Feb 13, 2026
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+# Weeknotes: January 2026
+
+## w/c 5 January 2026
+
+### Inbox tracker
+
+* 💌 11am Monday: 4315
+* 💌 5pm Monday: 4321
+* 💌 11:59pm Wednesday: 4363
+
+### Rose-bud-thorn
+
+#### 🌹
+
+* 
+
+#### 🌱
+
+* What a joy to be in a call with Turing / UK folks who have scoped TRE requirements and Jupyter experts! Worlds colliding in a really exciting way 🤞 
+
+#### 🌵 
+
+* 
+
+### 🤝 Reciprocal support
+
+#### Who did I help?
+
+* 
+
+#### Who helped me?
+
+* MH took me out for lunch and was so kind and supportive 🥹
+* Really appreciate YP, AJ and RG brainstorming community manager recruitment in the Jupyter Hub / Jupyter Book collaboration cafe!
+
+### Activities / tasks
+
+#### What did I do?
+
+* 🤖 AI Futures Lab
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations
+  * Achieve Together with LH - such a joy to be building processes together - and delivering so many events and activites!
+  * 1:1 with Lilli - set a few plans for the next couple of weeks.
+  * Scheduled Achieve Together meetings with LH, MRK and JM
+  * Went out for lunch with JK - did some planning for how to best support and enable the interns this year
+  * 1:1 with AH - such a supportive conversation 
+  * 1:1 with ThT - really appreciate her clear answers to finance process questions!
+  * Joined coffee chat with DSE team - lovely to connect with SP, MF and CM 💖
+  * Registered for "Research Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI: Building a Community Vision" event in Edinburgh in March - can't wait!
+  * Catch up with AC and TTh
+    * Suggested that they apply to be [research affiliates](https://bids.berkeley.edu/join/faculty-research-affiliation) 💖
+  *   
+* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🪐 Jupyter
+  * Hosted Collaboration Cafe for Jupyter Hub and Jupyter Book
+  * Attended meeting with folks in the UK exploring how Jupyter Hub can be useful for trustworthy research environments
+* 🩻 OPH
+  * 1:1 with SC - so helpful what a joy!
+* ☀️ OSPO
+  * 1:1 with SL - very helpful discussion of where Berkeley OSPO strategy fits into OSPO Network workplan
+  * 1:1 with LL - a delight!
+* 🌳 Scientific Python
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🌱 The Turing Way
+  * Joined the collaboration cafe and had a really interesting chat with CGvP
+  * 
+
+#### What did I not do?
+
+* 🤖 AI Futures Lab
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations
+  * Submitted my achive together form
+  * 
+* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🪐 Jupyter
+  * Arranged BIDS-2i2c Strategic Partnership council meeting
+  * 
+* 🩻 OPH
+  *
+  *
+* ☀️ OSPO
+  * Made a few updates to funding proposal
+  * Promoted GSOC offer from SL
+  * Reviewed, signed and promoted the ADSA [Position Statement on Generative AI in the RSE Workplace](https://github.com/Academic-Data-Science-Alliance/rse-ai-position-statement/blob/main/RSE-AI-Final_Statement.md)
+  * 
+* 🌳 Scientific Python
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🌱 The Turing Way
+  * 
+  * 
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+# Weeknotes: February 2026
+
+## w/c 9 February 2026
+
+### Inbox tracker
+
+* 💌 7:30pm Thursday: 5135
+* 💌 11pm Thursday: 4614
+
+### Rose-bud-thorn
+
+#### 🌹
+
+* The 1:1s with the CRELS and CSS training programs students are my version of "touch grass" - I feel SO motivated and proud whenever I get to hear what they're working on 💖
+
+#### 🌱
+
+* Really loved doing a deep dive with the STRUDEL curriculum team - I can see so many links to our messaging around the human and community engagement needed for trusted open source software
+
+#### 🌵 
+
+* I've not done a good job promoting the [UC Open Source Summit](https://ucospo.net/events/uc-open-2026/) [CFP](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfh5orXB5EFp7JCQAec7ynHN9FkyHszkAmKAioKlOsKVVwuEA/viewform) 😢
+
+### 🤝 Reciprocal support
+
+#### Who did I help?
+
+* I hope I helped some of the CRELS / CSS students 🤞
+
+#### Who helped me?
+
+* SvdW gave me a lot of his time to listen to some of my insecurities and reassure me 🥹 
+* LWH is doing an amazing job keeping the annual report moving forwards 💪
+
+### Activities / tasks
+
+#### What did I do?
+
+* 🤖 AI Futures Lab
+  * Met with the BIDS interns
+    I'm so delighted that they're getting their versions of these weeknotes in!
+  * STRUDEL event went really well 🥐
+  * Confirmed event with Astera team for 13 - 15 April
+* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations
+  * Made some progress on the BIDS annual report with LWH
+  * 1:1 w TT - always a delight, lots of great ideas and applications brewing!
+  * 1:1 w AH - always so supportive - even when we have different perspectives!
+  * Space meeting!
+    We're moving into the Gateway so soon!
+* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP
+  * Led a second team science discussion
+  * Met with 5 students - they're all SO WONDERFUL! Every meeting ran long 🙈🥰
+* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics
+  * Attended the Bellweather Lecture: [Making Sense of the World through Language and Stories: A Digital Humanities Perspective](https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/making-sense-world-through-language-and-stories-digital-humanities-perspective) - fascinating
+  * Supported Tim in submitting a grant application
+* 🪐 Jupyter
+  * 1:1 with JG - fantastic time planning our work together!
+  * GeoJupyter strategy meeting
+* 🩻 OPH
+  * Joined my first software meeting - really excited to have this work be more open and accessible 🌞
+* ☀️ OSPO
+  * Group lunch with the Superbloom team - really fun to catch up
+  * Gave a talk at the STRUDEL contributor workshop:
+    * DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.18601850](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18601850)
+    * Went ok, I should have put in some slides about AI... that was really all anyone wanted to discuss in the Q&A 😅🤖
+  * Joined the curriculum breakout room at the STRUDEL workshop - really enjoyed the discussion!
+    * https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/rapid-usability-tutorial 
+    * Wrote up a few issues to capture ideas [#21](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/rapid-usability-tutorial/issues/21), [#22](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/rapid-usability-tutorial/issues/21) and [#23](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/rapid-usability-tutorial/issues/23)
+  * Joined the PREreview advisory committee 👋
+    * Had a lovely call with DS
+  * Sent a few invites to encourage folks to present at UC Open Source Summit!
+* 🌳 Scientific Python
+  * Made progress on a blog post on a specific example of scikit-image is used on campus
+    * Also introduced SvdW to one of the interns and he gave a really lovely overview of the origins of scikit-image!
+* 🌱 The Turing Way
+  * Steering committee meeting - good discussion, and good focus on strategic partnerships, strategic communications, and focusing on communicating what we HAVE in 2026 💪
+
+## w/c 2 February 2026
+
+### Inbox tracker
+
+* *didn't track*
+
+### Rose-bud-thorn
+
+#### 🌹
+
+* I'm proud of my budget projection code and visualizations!
+  * Feels good to have these numbers in a place that I can interrogate :money_with_wings:
+
+#### 🌱
+
+* Open Platforms for Health team retreat was incredibly useful and lots of fun!
+  * Definitely easier to see where I can be helpful having spent dedicated time with the whole team.
+
+#### 🌵 
+
+* I keep doing a bad job with setting up the Jupyter Book team for a constructive collaboration cafe.
+  * Aaaaah to be in more places at the same time!
+
+### 🤝 Reciprocal support
+
+#### Who did I help?
+
+* MF graciously listened to my mega rant about how to chair a collaboration cafe 😂
+  * I might have been helpful there - time will tell!
+
+#### Who helped me?
+
+* CH was a great listening ear and had some very sage advice when I was having a frustrated day 😌♟️
+
+### Activities / tasks
+
+#### What did I do?
+
+* 🤖 AI Futures Lab
+  * Proposed engagement plan to BIDS leadership
+  * Met with BIDS interns
+* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations
+  * Played around with Gemini to code up some budget projections
+    * I'm pretty proud of the figures!
+      And I think wrangling pandas and specific settings for matplotlib is probably a good use of an LLM - the human version was just copying and pasting from stackoverflow in the past :sweat_smile:
+    * Also used the AI Futures Lab Jupyter Hub which was very helpful!
+  * Coordinated with SP to transfer an existing BIDS fund to FP.
+    * I am becoming all powerful with my Cal Answers access!
+  * Prepped FP for a call discussing a potential future collaboration
+  * Annual report fun times with LH
+    * Got a couple of quotes and figured out a good messaging strategy for a project that doesn't fit into a clear box :relieved:
+  * Leadership meeting
+  * Big Give prep call
+  * 1:1 w AH
+  * 1:1 w FP - very helpful brainstorming
+* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP
+  * TEAM SCIENCE YO!
+    * The discussion went better than I'd expected 😂
+      I think two people said "Oh, that's what team science is? I've been doing that!" 😂
+    * Sent out an email with resources inc [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1buG9-qajP1WZOihfoGdwCAACAu2e8NhFTpJEv3uGyvY/edit?usp=sharing)
+  * Met with two students - what a delight!
+* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics
+  * Just said hi to the CARL crew!
+* 🪐 Jupyter
+  * Chaired JupyterHub and Jupyter Book collaboration cafe
+    * Discussed the roadmapping workshop that's coming up and exactly what we're trying to achive!
+  * GeoJupyter technical meeting 
+* 🩻 OPH
+  * Team retreat!!
+    What a fun couple of days!
+    I definitely learned a lot, and came away with a better idea of the pieces of work that need to be done 💪
+  * Constructive meeting with CH re: 2i2c's role
+  * Leadership meeting
+  * 1:1 with LK - so excited to be working togther
+* ☀️ OSPO
+  * Supported CC in sponsoring UC Open Summit!
+  * I completely smashed MF in Dominion 😂
+    * I love that he runs these remote social calls.
+      I enjoy them so much when I'm able to attend!
+* 🌱 The Turing Way
+  * Collaboration Cafe - had a good discussion with LH about accessibility and pathways for getting folks engaged through the Jupyter Book community 🤞
diff --git a/kirstie-whitaker/README.md b/kirstie-whitaker/README.md
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 # Kirstie Whitaker
 
-* August 2025: [2025-08.md](./2025-08.md)
-* June 2025: [2025-06.md](./2025-06.md)
-* February 2025: [2025-02.md](./2025-02.md)
-* January 2025: [2025-01.md](./2025-01.md)
+* 2026
+  * February: [2026-02.md](./2026-02.md)
+  * January: [2026-01.md](./2026-01.md)
+* 2025
+  * August 2025: [2025-08.md](./2025-08.md)
+  * June 2025: [2025-06.md](./2025-06.md)
+  * February 2025: [2025-02.md](./2025-02.md)
+  * January 2025: [2025-01.md](./2025-01.md)
 
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 #### What did I do?
 
-* 
-
-#### What did I not do?
+* 🤖 AI Futures Lab
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🤝 BIDS Leadership & Operations
+  * 
+  * 
+* ⚖️ CRELS + CSSTP
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Cultural Analytics
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🪐 Jupyter
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🩻 OPH
+  *
+  *
+* ☀️ OSPO
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🌳 Scientific Python
+  * 
+  * 
+* 🌱 The Turing Way
+  * 
+  * 
 
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