Great read from our own Ruth Etzioni, PhD, Rosalie and Harold Rea Brown Endowed Chair, alongside Scott D. Ramsey, MD, PhD, on the NHS-Galleri results. More on Ruth's work: fredhutch.org/en/faculty-lab-directory/etzioni-ruth.html

The countdown is on for #JSM2026, North America’s premier gathering for statisticians and data scientists. Join thousands in Boston, August 1–6! Regular registration rates end June 30, and official hotel rooms are available through July 2. tinyurl.com/2d8x48jh #JSM2026 #STATSSKY #Statistics

Early discount rates for our 2026 Summer Institutes have been extended through June 15! Join us for online statistical short courses offered by UW Biostatistics. SISCER dates: July 7 – July 30 SISBID dates: July 13 – July 31 Browse courses and register now! si.biostat.washington.edu

UW researcher Kevin Lin, along with his collaborators in @uwmedicine.bsky.social, recently received a $75,000 award from the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center for a project examining this mystery through microglial resilience and data integration. www.biostat.washington.edu/news/stories...

📣New from @programmingsun.bsky.social and collaborators at UC Berkeley: graph neural networks for cell classification, with a standout finding linking microglia and astrocyte gene expression to dementia patient subgroups consistent with pTau and amyloid beta. 📄 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Congrats to Yifei Wang, postdoc in the @fredhutch.org Biostatistics Program, on receiving the Chen Hu Endowed Trainee Travel Fund award! He'll be presenting his work on integrating external studies under heterogeneity at #JSM2026 in Boston this August. Well deserved!

Congratulations to Steve Salerno on his new role as assistant professor at the WashU Bursky School of Public Health! Steve worked closely with the Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program as part of @jtleek.bsky.social's group. We're excited to see what he builds and wishing him all the best in St. Louis!

Our 2026 Summer Institutes are just around the corner! Discount rates end June 1, be sure to register soon! These graduate-level statistical short courses are for students and researchers from universities, research labs, government, health orgs, non-profits, and industry. si.biostat.washington.edu

Congratulations to our postdoc Yifei Wang, who finished the Tacoma City Marathon on May 3rd with a finishing time of 3:52, well within the confidence interval for an impressive finish! Way to go, Yifei!

Next week is busy for @jsb-ucla.bsky.social! She is delivering a keynote at RECOMB-Genetics on May 25. Her talk on synthetic data as a statistical engine for genomics and privacy preservation is exactly the kind of work that makes this field exciting. #RECOMB2026 recomb.org/recomb2026/r...

Our Program Head, @jsb-ucla.bsky.social , is speaking at The Spatial Biology Revolution on May 27, 10:25 am PDT. This free online symposium explores cutting-edge methods in spatial analysis and their implications for disease and therapeutics. 🔗 www.technologynetworks.com/cell-science...

Congrats to Fred Hutch Biostatistics postdoc Arnold Johnsen on a great showing at the Society for Clinical Trials annual meeting! Arnold presented his work on evaluating surrogate endpoints for cancer screening trials. Proud to have him representing the program!

Congratulations to @wu-biostat.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 SSGG Founder's Award! Given annually by the ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, the award honors a member whose leadership and service have made a lasting impact on the field and broader biomedical community.

Calling all PhD (or equivalent) students within 2 years of graduation or who have graduated in the last year! Join us for an opportunity to visit with faculty at @fredhutch.org and hear about career opportunities at this world-renowned institution: https://bit.ly/4bVn7XS

Excited to have Dr. Palepu joining us tomorrow for what should be a really timely conversation.

How do large language models actually work, and how do you use them responsibly in a research setting? Robert McDermott of Fred Hutch covers LLM architecture, fine-tuning, deployment, and responsible AI practices. 🔗 youtu.be/BDNLUN29sPo #LLM #GenerativeAI #ResponsibleAI

From our Statistical AI Symposium: A panel discussion with Jonathan Bricker, Youyi Fong, Lucas Liu, @jtleek.bsky.social, Bill Noble, Ali Shojaie, and @programmingsun.bsky.social on where AI and statistical rigor meet. 🎥 youtu.be/ZLQEWMO_qwg?... #Biostatistics #AIinHealth #CancerResearch

From our Statistical AI Symposium: Sonali Tamhankar on bridging statistical AI and clinical practice, and why workforce readiness is a prerequisite. Her AI literacy course moved confidence scores from 2.4 to 4.7 on a 7-point scale. 🎥 youtu.be/2jEVnhisemw?... #Biostatistics #AIinHealth #ClinicalAI

From our Statistical AI Symposium: Lucas Liu on transfer learning for molecular biomarker prediction from histopathology slides in prostate cance: fine-tuning foundation models when labeled data is scarce. 🎥 youtu.be/G9NmAlcLIWQ?... #Biostatistics #AIinHealth #TransferLearning #Pathology

From our Statistical AI Symposium: Bill Noble from @uwgenome.bsky.social on foundation models for chromatin 3D architecture and proteomics mass spectrometry: two very different data types, one elegant framework. 🎥 youtu.be/S6sHSW_bLvY?... #Biostatistics #AIinHealth #FoundationModels

From our Statistical AI Symposium: @matsen.bsky.social on thinking like a biostatistician and building like an ML researcher. His DASM model beats protein language models while being orders of magnitude smaller and faster. 🎥 youtu.be/SIZg-IwDmow?... #Biostatistics #AIinHealth #MachineLearning

From our Statistical AI Symposium: @jtleek.bsky.social and @vortexing.bsky.social on Fred Hutch Translational Data and AI — what it looks like to build rigorous data science into a cancer research institution. 🎥 youtu.be/OwBdPTtTQ-o?si=QH1LCLZ4tLwJ_lNK #Biostatistics #AIinHealth #CancerResearch

AI adds power. Biostatistics adds trust. Talks from our May 5, 2026 Statistical AI Symposium are now on YouTube: foundation models, transfer learning, clinical AI, and more. 🎥 youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_Dmr1UE8PilFbRSyy4uOfw-1n-jKQHEb #Biostatistics #AIinHealth #CancerResearch

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