Next week @jsb-ucla.bsky.social will deliver the Keynote address and participate in a panel for the 3rd American Spatial Biology Congress in Columbus Ohio. More info: global-engage.com/product/amer... #spatialbiologycongressUS

Composition of Health Care Contact Days and Mortality Prediction Among Older Adult Clinical Trial Participants. Co-authored by Dr. Arjun Gupta; Cathee Till, MS; Michael LeBlanc, PhD; @drdawnhershman.bsky.social; @drjoeunger.bsky.social. @supportingswog.bsky.social ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

AI is everywhere, but making it reliable and responsible requires statistics. "JASA’s" special issue “Statistical Science in AI” explores how statistical rigor can make AI interpretable, trustworthy, and impactful. magazine.amstat.org/... #Statistics #StatsSky #DataScience #TrustworthyAI

Congratulations to Yingqi Zhao and @jsb-ucla.bsky.social from our Biostatistics Program at Fred Hutch, who have been named 2026 Fellows of the American Statistical Association! 🎉The ASA Fellow designation is one of the field's highest honors. So well deserved! 🔗 www.amstat.org/news-listing...

Edward Kennedy, PhD from @cmu.edu is our Student-Invited Speaker for our weekly seminar on April 23. Kennedy, an associate professor of statistics & data science presents, "Minimax optimal causal inference in high dimensions." In-person on the UW campus in HRC 135 at 3:30 p.m. | bit.ly/493JdFx

🌟 ISCB proudly congratulates the 2026 Class of Fellows! 🌟 This prestigious recognition celebrates a career of significant impact and dedication to the #computationalbiology community.  ➡️Read more about this year’s Fellows and their contributions here: https://tinyurl.com/mtuf6m5b

Congratulations to @jsb-ucla.bsky.social on joining the 2026 Class of @iscb.bsky.social Fellows! 🎉 Her work on single-cell & spatial omics benchmarking (scDesign), FDR methods, and the central dogma has reshaped the field. A truly deserved honor. #ISCBFellows #Bioinformatics #Genomics

Congratulations to VIDD biostatisticians Bo Zhang and Yunda Huang on their new R01 awards! 🎉

Interested in #postdoc opportunities in #Seattle? Join Seattle DROP — a virtual #biomedical postdoc #recruitment event on May 5, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. PT. Register: https://bit.ly/41raYnn

Headed to #AACR26 in San Diego? Be sure to check out presentations from Fred Hutch researchers highlighting advances in cancer biology, early-onset colorectal cancer, breast cancer treatments and more at the annual meeting of @theaacr.bsky.social.#AACR26Learn more: https://bit.ly/4vtmSuJ

Check out the first in our new series of mini-seminars. Bo Zhang presents "Two Statistical Problems in Vaccine Clinical Trials." youtu.be/Yh2QW2tvRso

@uwbiostat.bsky.social in the @uwsph.bsky.social continues to rank among the top ten programs in U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Graduate Schools. UW Biostat is the No. 1 ranked public biostatistics program (#3 overall) in best science programs, #7 in best area of study ranking. bit.ly/4sXSLK5

Our Office of the Chief Data Officer is hiring! Great opportunity to support a great team. #AdminProfessionals #DataGovernance 🔗 careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30760/j...

Li Hsu's @uwbiostat.bsky.social seminar, "Advancing Cancer Risk Prediction: Multi-Ancestry PRS, Model Calibration, and Benefit Burden," is now available on YouTube:

Did you miss Mike LeBlanc's Prentice Lecture, "Evolving Designs and Analyses of Publicly Funding Cancer Clinical Trials" ? Don't fret. You can catch it on the @uwbiostat.bsky.social YouTube channel:

🎉Our first newsletter just dropped! "A Stochastic Newsletter" is a semi-frequent recap of news and notes from the Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program. 🔗 www.fredhutch.org/content/dam/www/research/divisions/public-health-sciences/biostatistics-program/biostat-newsletter-spring-2026.pdf

☘️ You're in luck! #ENAR2026 Tutorial #5 today features our own Stephen Salerno on prediction-based inference!

📣 TOMORROW! @jsb-ucla-bsky.social presents "Definitions and Applications of Spatial Niches in Spatial Omics Data Analyses: A Summary and Discussion" #ENAR2026 #SpatialOmics

👀 Be sure to check out this Short Course with @jtleek.bsky.social collaborator Tyler McCormick! 👋 hashtag#ENAR2026

📣 TOMORROW! Stephen Salerno, Awan Afiaz, and @jtleek.bsky.social present "Scorcher: An R Package to Democratize Building and Fitting Torch Deep Learning Models." 🔥

🦠 TOMORROW! Don't miss this @wu-biostat.bsky.social talk, "Accommodating Differential Read Depth in Analyses of Virome Diversity" 🦠 #ENAR2026

FHCC Biostatistics faculty are all over @enar-ibs.bsky.social Spring Meeting next week! Watch for presentations from @jsb-ucla.bsky.social, @wu-biostat.bsky.social, Stephen Salerno, Awan Afiaz, and @jtleek.bsky.social. #ENAR2026 #RStats

Check out this terrific Hutch News article on the Cancer AI Alliance piloting their collaborative AI infrastructure. Eight projects are now testing federated learning models across four leading cancer centers. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/cent... #Cancer #AI #FederatedLearning

Li Hsu from the Biostatistics program at @fredhutch.org speaks today on"Advancing Cancer Risk Prediction: Multi-Ancestry PRS, Model Recalibration, and Benefit-Burden Evaluation" in our department seminar series. The talk will be held on the UW campus at 3:30 p.m. Abstract/details at: bit.ly/4sESCeb

Check out recent talk @jsb-ucla.bsky.social gave at Colorado School of Public Health! #Bioinformatics #FDR #Biostatistics #CompBio #HighThroughputBiology

Fred Hutch is bringing the 🔥 to #STATMadness! @yapeng-su.bsky.social and team uncovered how the sugar mannose supercharges T cells and boosts tumor control. Let’s run up the score — vote in @statnews.com’s bracket-style tournament now! 👉 https://bit.ly/4aUz4en

Applications are now open for the NIEHS-funded Data Science for Environmental Health (DaSEH) short course! Help us study data science education 🍎🧪 💻 Online Portion: June 8-12, 15-18 🧑‍🏫 In-Person Codeathon: June 29 - July 1 Learn more & apply by March 15, 2026 at daseh.org #rstats #EduSky

Awesome to host @uwbiostat.bsky.social students as part of this week's visit!

UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social is now recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work on statistical machine learning and artificial intelligence methods for diverse biological data in relation to cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Full-time (100% FTE) apply.interfolio.com/181098

Check out the FHCC Data Science Lab's short course, Data Science for Environmental Health (DaSEH) 🌼! Learn R through a 2-week online course & an in-person codeathon in Seattle. Limited travel stipends available. Apply by March 15! 💻 🔗 daseh.org #RStats #EnvironmentalHealth #PublicHealth

NYT on the Galleri/NHS trial is a must-read if you’ve been following multi-cancer blood tests. Our own Ruth Etzioni asks the key question: what outcomes matter for patients, and what proof should we demand before wide adoption? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/h... #CancerResearch #CancerScreening

@uwbiostat.bsky.social PhD student Bumjun Park wants to collaborate with different researchers and help answer today’s many pressing scientific questions using data, statistics, and logic. Read a Q&A with Bumjun about his experience in the program: bit.ly/3ORvCtE

UW researchers are part of a team that has developed a powerful tool that uses single-cell studies to improve our understanding of disease genetics.  bit.ly/46kjgQW @uwsph.bsky.social

📣 Hiring now! Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics @ Fred Hutch. Focus: innovative statistical/computational methods for cancer liquid biopsy + high-dimensional omics, with real translational impact on early detection, prognosis, and MRD. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30595/p...

Today, Thursday, Feb. 12 Lucy Lu Wang from @ischool.uw.edu will present, "Evaluating the Evaluators: Measuring Uncertainty and Failure in LLMs and LLM judges" for our @uwsph.bsky.social @uwbiostat.bsky.social seminar. Read the abstract and get details about the event. bit.ly/4quBF4D

ENAR Short Course 7 looks fantastic — co-led by Tyler McCormick (University of Washington). Great to see strong Seattle-area stats representation on the program 🎉

📣 Stephen Salerno from the @jtleek.bsky.social group is co-leading this tutorial on prediction-based inference. Great topic if you’re thinking about how ML and inference fit together. #ENAR2026.

Join us Feb. 19 for the 2026 Ross L. Prentice Lecture with Michael LeBlanc, PhD presenting "Evolving Designs and Analyses of Publicly Funded Cancer Clinical Trials." Co-sponsored by @uwbiostat.bsky.social and @fredhutch.org. Read the abstract and full details at: bit.ly/4a8qfyG

✨ Very proud of our Seattle StatGROWS program, led by Ruth Etzioni and Megan Othus! ✨

Today at 3:30 p.m. “Inference on Local Variable Importance Measures for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects,” presented by Pawel Morzywolek, PhD, assistant professor of biostatistics, University of Copenhagen. This is a virtual session. Read the abstract and more event details: bit.ly/4aasGiY

We’re building up the Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program YouTube channel! Our playlists will include our Biostat Seminar series, faculty talks, and more. 🎥 www.youtube.com/@FredHutchBi... #Biostatistics #Statistics #DataScience #CancerResearch

Fred Hutch biostatistician and expert in quantitative methods for infectious diseases Dr. Elizabeth "Betz" Halloran transitioned to emerita after trailblazing a career in quantitative methods for infectious diseases and the design and analysis of vaccine trials. Read more: https://bit.ly/4rnDGjY

I hope that Nullstrap-DE can be a useful add-on to calibrate the FDR control of popular parametric DE methods, including DESeq2 and edgeR, while maintaining the strong power. Looking forward to feedback and comments from the community. We will post the scDesignPop preprint soon.

🔥 Congrats to @jsb-ucla.bsky.social lab for two papers accepted to the highly selective #RECOMB2026 🎉 🧪 Nullstrap-DE — FDR calibration while preserving power in DE methods 🧬 scDesignPop — population-scale scRNA-seq data generation for power + benchmarking + privacy #ComputationalBiology #Genomics

Our @uwbiostat.bsky.social department seminar this week welcomes Dr. Yu Shen from @mdanderson.bsky.social who will present, "Integrating Machine Learning into Survival Analysis through Distribution-Free Conformal Predication." Thursday, Jan. 22 at 3:30 p.m. bit.ly/4jN6orP | @uwsph.bsky.social

👀 Check out this MorPhiC preprint by postdoc Bo Yu, @programmingsun.bsky.social, and others on a causal gene regulatory network framework combining co-expression + knockout modeling. 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🔗 morphic.bio #ComputationalBiology #Genomics #scRNAseq

Fred Hutch researchers have developed a new tool that enables anyone to assess their #colorectalcancer risk online. MyGeneRisk is a free and anonymous tool to get a personalized report using your genetics and lifestyle. Learn more: https://bit.ly/49aNxSy

Here's to another year of bringing together groundbreaking science and comprehensive care to push the boundaries of what’s possible for patients and their loved ones. Wishing you a #HappyNewYear from all of us at Fred Hutch! 🎉

@fredhutch.org researchers, including our own Li Hsu, have created a free tool to assess their colorectal cancer risk online. MyGeneRisk combines lifestyle information and optional genetic data, returns results immediately, and does not store personal data. 🔗 mygenerisk-colon.fredhutch.org

Check out @uwbiostat.bsky.social department contributions highlighted in the @uwsph.bsky.social 2025 impact report. sph.washington.edu/impact