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Conference diary Dec 2025

Team day out @tyagilab.bsky.social

Our lab head, @tsonika.bsky.social, presented at the 2025 Victorian Affiliation of Research Nurses Inc. Conference on the applications of AI in clinical trials. The session sparked a great exchange of ideas with delegates, highlighting the excitement and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field.

Preprint from the lab.

Our invited editorial in BMC Artificial Intelligence along with @naimavahab.bsky.social

New publication from the lab

Nice there’s another ML standards case study in this #IDW2025 “long-tail of supplemental data” session, Slava Tykhonov presenting on Croissant ML docs.google.com/presentation...

Our Digital Health and AI applications reading group is on this week. Join in.

The pre-print of our #SIGIRAP2025 paper titled "ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments" is now available arxiv.org/abs/2510.07644 @shuoqisun.bsky.social @danulah.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

@ewanbirney.bsky.social on the new version of Alphafold at the @emblebi.bsky.social www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t... AlphaFold has been a transformation not just in structural biology but also - due to its ability to be applied to all proteins - to molecular biology as a whole.

My colleagues and I here at UVA are looking to hire a skilled #Rstats developer. You'll be working with me on the project. Here's the posting: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

ChatGPT scores up to 97% on medical facts — yet fails to read symptoms. Experts like Ahmed Abdeen Hamed and Dr Andrew Thornton warn: AI can inform, not diagnose. The real challenge now? Using it responsibly in healthcare. #healthcare

"Your best defense isn’t your eyes — it’s your brain. Keep practicing media and digital literacy..." #discover #MedSky #MentalHealth #AI www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Discover how AI can help creators beat creative block, visualize ideas, and craft standout portfolios—without replacing human creativity. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/the-ai-advan...

A solemn day as we pay our respects to Dr Jane Goodall and her extraordinary legacy. Vale, Jane, we promise to keep fighting for all that you loved and fought for too! theconversation.com/only-if-we-h... With @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social, Marissa Parrott, @drvanessapirotta.bsky.social & Zara Bending.

A versatile machine learning pipeline to find co-regulatory modules (CRMs) in DNA. Check it out and explore: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... #Genomics #Epigenomics #MachineLearning #CardiacResearch #OpenScience @tyagilab.bsky.social @tsonika.bsky.social

🩺 Missing medical data isn't just something to fill in or ignore! EHRs often have missing values. Common fix? Imputation. But filling gaps can mislead predictions. We explore ML approaches to handle missingness while preserving the original data distribution. 📜 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Congratulations to @yashpalr.bsky.social on his graduation! @tyagilab.bsky.social

Sharenting is the name given to the action of parents sharing photos of their children online. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Incredibly proud of @kxhuang.bsky.social for persisting with such a challenging dataset from her PhD! We found some intriguing genetic targets in a corticostriatal circuit that may be involved in the development of #anorexia nervosa 🤔 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Earlybird registration & abstract submissions now open for the 𝟒𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝟏𝟓-𝟏𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐞𝐛 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: https://www.lornegenome.org/registrations (deadline 7th Nov 2025) Speakers: https://www.lornegenome.org/speakers We look forward to seeing you there!

Kudos to Naima Vahab for presenting her PhD research at "Storytelling for Impactful Research (STIR) Competition " at RMIT STEM College. What an amazing opportunity for polishing your #scicomm skills and knowledge sharing across STEM disciplines. @tyagilab.bsky.social @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

🧠 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “Predicting gene expression using millions of yeast promoters reveals cis-regulatory logic”   Explore the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf130 Authors include: @susbo.bsky.social

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Science Matters! Scientists have found protein fragments from the Covid-19 virus hidden inside tiny cellular packages in the blood of long-covid patients, offering the first potential measurable biomarker for the condition. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

SARS-CoV-2 causes systemic vascular damage via viral proteins and immune dysregulation, driving acute organ failure and Long COVID. Vaccination reduces these risks significantly. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-vascul...

SciTech Daily: 'Scientists Detect “Ghost” Proteins That Could Explain Long COVID' 'Scientists have uncovered viral protein fragments lingering in the blood of long COVID patients, potentially offering the first measurable biomarker for the condition.' scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...

Contributions to review on graph learning:

New comment A layered strategy for tackling antimicrobial resistance: the Swiss cheese model for policy, prevention, and engagement www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

This looks like a creative use of transformers. Looking forward to diving into this. arxiv.org/abs/2508.04111

We had a fantastic day for team building and a send-off lunch and marking our mid-season break. It was a lovely opportunity to come together and celebrate, with some intense competition on the bowling lanes! 😆 We will miss having you around at @tyagilab.bsky.social @muraliaadhitya.bsky.social 🙌🏽

🚀 Excited to see this work on "Empowering bioinformatics communities with Nextflow and @nf-co.re" is now published, showcasing the incredible growth and impact of the community. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An analysis shows that current deep learning models do not beat linear baselines in predicting gene perturbation effects, thus emphasizing the importance of further method development and evaluation. @const-ae.bsky.social @wkhuber.bsky.social @s-anders.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Age verification is coming to search engines in Australia – with huge implications for privacy and inclusion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We've officially launched the our #eDNA Parks Australia dashboard! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... I've worked quite a bit into this the past few months, including the chatbot (langchain+Python+Claude) and the finetuned DNABERT-S+tSNE to visualise 'unknown'/unlabeled eDNA

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) is the leading cause of heart attack in women who are pregnant or within the first 6 months-1 year post-delivery. #SCADheart #MedSky #CardioSky

Chapter 2 of Fairness & ML strongly emphasizes on the need for justifiable and interpretable decisions — not just accurate ones. 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: aiineverything.blogspot.com/2025/07/when... @tsonika.bsky.social @tyagilab.bsky.social #AIethics #FairML #ResponsibleAI #DigitalHealthReadingGroup #TyagiLab

We have been having great discussions in our fortnightly AI in Digital health reading group. Get in touch with my PhD student @aashishbhandari.com if you wish to participate/present or just come along to say hello!

Working with spatial omics data and need to convert between different objects? My lab has developed a suite of converters between spatial objects. Congratulations Sasuni for all your hard work!

We're looking for the next generation of bioinformaticians! On 5 August 2025, Melbourne Bioinformatics is hosting a free, in-person Open Afternoon to explore the University of Melbourne's Master of Science (Bioinformatics), where biology, computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics meet.

🧪As #AMR increases, #phage therapy offers promise not only as a treatment for antibiotic-resistant infections, but also as a potential alternative to #antibiotics themselves. @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social @phageaustralia.bsky.social amr-action.au/phage/

@monashuniversity.bsky.social @centreimpactamr.bsky.social It has been great to be a part of the organisation as a "Computational Science" centre leader.

Discussing 4 approaches to defining #AI "Understanding these four perspectives i.e. acting humanly, thinking humanly, thinking rationally, and acting rationally, gives us a framework to appreciate the richness and diversity of AI." aiineverything.blogspot.com/2025/07/four... @tyagilab.bsky.social

As preparing for the first lecture of the winter semester 2025 to our cohort of "Foundations of AI in STEM", reflecting back on the origin, the definitions, and history of artificial intelligence. How do you define AI?

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

Experts say forcing companies to delete data would remove cybercrime 'honey pot' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Neuroscientist @solygamagda.bsky.social shares how eLife helped her avoid reviewer overreach, accelerate publication, and reach the right audience, without compromising on rigour. Hear from authors like her: buff.ly/qdblHVi