An incredibly emotional day for all of us at OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. Phil & Penny Knight gave a transformative $2 billion gift to ensure that Oregonians facing a cancer diagnosis receive the best care & the best possible outcome. The fight against cancer is and will always be personal. 🎗️

“Decisions themselves are a form of power. “ 💯

This is an initial list but please suggest others. Now is the time to brsinstorm, work together and act to save Health and Science. All hands on deck - this is not a drill. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

Once in a while. Good morning Blue Sky

For faculty looking for grant peer-review experience- New Volunteer to Review Feature Now Available in Research.gov www.nsf.gov/funding/meri...

#SavePublicMedia The link in this post : protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-emails/

#Job Interested in #AI drug discovery, biomarker development, translational oncology? New OHSU Knight Cancer Institute postdoctoral fellowship- designed to foster multidisciplinary collaboration & provide comprehensive training: intersection of computational & translational cancer research #medsky

Virtual conference: NCI Co-clinical Imaging Research Resource Program: Celebrating A Ten-Year Milestone. Quantitative imaging methods & applications of co-clinical imaging to #oncology precision medicine #medsky May7-8th Registration free but required: events.cancer.gov/cip/cirp (closes 4/23)

Online #DataScience seminar: Utilizing Data to Make Novel Discoveries for #Cancer April 17, 2025 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. ET Speaker: NCI CBIIT’s Acting Director, Dr. Jill Barnholtz-Sloan Free/Registration required: datascience.cancer.gov/news-events/...

Online #Stat Conference: BAYSM 2025 9th edition of the Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting baysm2025.github.io?mc_cid=a9ef0...

Hybrid Seminar: 7th annual Harvard Chan #Microbiome in Public Health Center (HCMPH) symposium 5/19/25. hsph.harvard.edu/research/mic...

Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

signed. you should too

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

I’ll be presenting on how Federated Learning can transform data sharing for #AI Driven innovation this Friday as part of the the UHCC Artificial Intelligence in #Cancer Research seminar series - Registration link in Flyer

Online biomedical #datascience bootcamp from DBMI @ University at Buffalo -includes lectures plus hands-on Jupyter Hub See screenshot of current schedule. #medsky Free but registration is required: medicine.buffalo.edu/departments/...

"Protecting these institutions is vital—not just for scientific advancement but for the millions of patients who rely on them for hope and cutting-edge care," write Shannon McWeeney (@wondermixtape.bsky.social) and Sorena Nadaf-Rahrov https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20250321_2/

“Cancer does not wait for political gridlock or economic uncertainty—it continues its relentless march forward.” A call for unity for our patients & communities Thanks to @cancerletter.com for provisioning outside the member firewall so everyone can access it #cancer #AI #medSky #clinicalTrial

After the workshop - a full report will be available on the Primed-AI website : commonfund.nih.gov/potential-pr...

Great example by @kdpsingh.bsky.social about challenge of validating high profile clinical AI model- when code and data are not available #PrimedAI #AI #medsky

We are live - PRIMED-AI Strategic workshop session: Validating and implementing clinical imaging & multimodal AI - for those 350+ attending please feel free to ask questions - this is designed to be highly interactive #AI #medsky

Tomorrow Weds 3/12 PRIMED-AI Strategic workshop session: Validating and implementing clinical imaging & multimodal AI - I’ll be a panelist w/ @kdpsingh.bsky.social (co-chair) Pam Woodard (co-chair) @asset25.bsky.social @woojinkim.com & Matthew McDermott commonfund.nih.gov/potential-pr... #AI #medsky

Continued 2: JT: Experimental approach: primary cells -> overnight exposure -> CITE-seq: dynamic changes and cell persistence under therapeutic selective pressure. With @wondermixtape.bsky.social #AACRprecmed25 🧪🧬🖥️

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

From me, @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social: We tracked the government websites going down in realtime. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

Center for AI Safety & Scale AI released new benchmarks from “Humanity’s Last Exam” (~ 3k questions designed to test A.I in areas ranging from analytic philosophy to engineering). Authors claim current models were only able to answer < 10 percent correctly. Preprint: bit.ly/HumanitysLastExam

From the ministry of cool sounding ideas that have not been well thought out, we present a self-contained data center on the moon. www.techspot.com/news/106470-...

Thanks to all for your kind remembrances on this awful day. Words will come later. Only feelings at the moment. Mourn and remember him but don’t forget to celebrate too. We won’t see his like again. The man from another place has gone home. #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks

While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

Our ChromBPNet preprint out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Huge congrats to Anusri! This was quite a slog (for both of us) but we r very proud of this one! It is a long read but worth it IMHO. Methods r in the supp. materials. Bluetorial coming soon below 1/

“Flowers Blooming Backward Into Noise” is a 20-minute “documanifesto” using AI-generated imagery to explain diffusion models and the relationship between composite photography, inferential statistics, and eugenics. My work aims to reveal & resist this logic of categorizing images and bodies.

It's giving Best Paper at the ML for Health Symposium (co-located w NeurIPS)!! 🥳 Congrats to co-authors Emily, Jin, and many others 👏. Check out our work using LLMs to understand liver transplants, esp understudied social and economic factors 🏥💰🏠! #ml4h2024 arxiv.org/pdf/2412.07924

The slides of my NeurIPS lecture "From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport" can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...

Recoded my second office hours on LLM Evals. We talked about observability and how to prioritize writing tests in complex systems Here are the notes: hamel.dev/notes/llm/of... Video: youtu.be/TZwmLXXFbh4?...

Our second poster session is happening now! It's a great opportunity to chat with researchers presenting their work. #ML4H2024

The second set of roundtables is happening now! We're chatting about everything from drug discovery to population health.

Our first panel today discussed the challenges of deploying AI models in healthcare settings. Thank you to our panelists Adarsh Subbaswamy, @wondermixtape.bsky.social, Isaac Kohane, and @suinlee.bsky.social!

We started the day with a wonderful keynote from Adarsh Subbaswamy about regulatory science tools at the FDA. Thanks for the talk, Adarsh!

#ML4H2024 Zak Kohane on values and #AI - the need for both normative and personal preference models #ML4H

“Most people who have died from malaria were never in an EHR system” - Megan Coffee on the panel (“The Promise of Foundation Models in Healthcare”) at ML4H

Simulating a skin lesion dataset for evaluating dermatology models, from Adarsh Subbaswamy at ML4H

EvalEval recap time! This was our first full day #NeurIPS2024 workshop that specifically looked at the emergent field of model evaluations with a deep and critical lens - and it went over incredibly well! 👇

Our second keynote speaker @wondermixtape.bsky.social taught us about deploying AI in clinical settings. Thank you for the talk, Dr. McWeeney!

#ML4H Day2 First keynote from @asubbaswamy.bsky.social on regulatory tools and challenges at FDA with #AI

One of the very interesting things for me at #ML4H2024 was a realization of how diverse the community is. ML4H really means so many different things!! Kinda cool.

It's day 2 of ML4H, and we're excited to see everyone at 9am!🌟

@ash-hematology.bsky.social Women in Hematology Networking Event. We are all models for others. Be what you want to see.

If you want to learn more about #Sora - see the #OpenAi system card: openai.com/index/sora-s... - I will note the statements on transparency and ethical alignment are sparse at best 🤷‍♀️ #AI

Exploring the potential and limits of #Sora from #OpenAI - exhibit A: an affectionate #sloth ❤️ #AI #DiffusionTransforner Rating: 8/10 initial movements too fast and suboptimal integration with background but I love the facial expressions

I am collecting examples of the most thoughtful writing about generative AI published in 2024. What’s yours? They can be insightful for commentary, smart critique, or just because it shifted the conversation. I’ll post some of mine below as I go through them. #criticalAI