Consider submitting an abstract for an invited talk or poster at STATGEN 2026 by December 15th! Amazing keynote speakers and statistical leaders in #genetics and #genomics! 👏 Hope to see you there! statgen26.emory.edu 🧪 🧬 🖥️ 🧠 #statssky #imaging #SingleCell #spatial #omics #DigitalPathology

I am very excited to share this book! It has been so much to collaborate on the project. We hope you find it useful!

🧪 🧬🖥️ 🧠 #neuroskyence #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM #Autism

Very excited to share that Department of Biomedical Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social is hiring for open rank tenure-track faculty in #Biomedical #DataScience! 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/177042 Apps starting to be reviewed Dec 5 and ongoing after! 🧪🧬🖥️🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM

Adding that you are still encouraged to apply even if you can't hit the Nov 15th date! It's just the date we plan to start reviewing, but we'll definitely continue reviewing for some time.

Come work with me! @jhubiostat.bsky.social is hiring for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position 🥳 Apps due Nov 15 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/176686 🧪🧬💻🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM

Looking for postdoctoral opportunities? ✅ Interested in working with me or any of the 30 other amazing @jhubiostat.bsky.social faculty? ✅ If yes, I encourage you to apply to our postdoc program in #DataScience and #AI in #Health and #Medicine! 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/174430 🧪🧬💻🧠

This was a really fantastic collaboration! Congratulations @mictott.bsky.social Rita Cervera Juanes, @svitlanabach.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🧪🧬💻🧠

Congratulations to @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social @svitlana-bach.bsky.social & all co-authors! Wonderful collab btw @alexisbattle.bsky.social and @martinowk.bsky.social @kr-maynard.bsky.social spatially profiling human nucleus accumbens 🧠 #TeamScience 🧪 🧬 🖥️ Thank you #NIH #NIDA for generous funding 👏

Thank you for the invitation @sib.swiss! I really enjoyed talking with everyone and I learned a lot over the last few days. I highly recommend this conference to anyone working in Bioinformatics. 🧬🧪💻

Congratulations @kinnaryshah.bsky.social @mictott.bsky.social @svitlanabach.bsky.social & all co-authors! Wonderful collab btw @jhubiostat.bsky.social @jhu.edu and @lieberinstitute.bsky.social spatially profiling human dACC 🧠 #TeamScience 🧪 🧬 🖥️ Thank you #NIDA #NIMH for generous funding & support 👏

Excited to share a blogpost summarizing challenges, opportunities & reflections from a course @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social co-taught with @alexisbattle.bsky.social (and huge support from Seraj Grimes!) at the intersection of #deeplearning #genetics #genomics 🧪 🧬 💻 stephaniehicks.com/blog/course-...

Benchmarking study of single-cell feature selection finds deviance to be an effective criterion: doi.org/10.1093/bib/... . Try it yourself with our ( @kstreet.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @davi1893.bsky.social ) scry package @bioconductor.bsky.social : doi.org/doi:10.18129... #genomics

Big thanks to everyone who made #GBCC2025 a fantastic week of science, collaboration, and community! Highlights for Bioconductor included keynotes, hands-on projects, and great conversations 💻🧬 @galaxyproject.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social

Very excited to see this important work out led by the talented @mictott.bsky.social @boyiguo.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social! 🧪🧬🖥️

Looking forward to visit Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai tomorrow morning. If you are around NYC and are interested in single cell / spatial genomics, the talk starts at 10am. Hope you see you there! 🧪🧬🖥️ events.mountsinaihealth.org/event/geneti...

Kinnary Shah is a fourth-year PhD candidate and co-president of the Biostats Student Org. Learn more about Kinnary and two of her ongoing research projects, one with the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social, and one with @stephaniehicks.bsky.social, on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...

New paper out in @genomeresearch.bsky.social on using contrastive self-supervised learning for spatial domain detection with multi-omics data! Huge congratulations to Jianing Yao and coauthors Jinglun Yu, Brian Caffo Stephanie Page & @martinowk.bsky.social! 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...

New article is out! Sleep deprivation is bad for the brain transcriptome, but how quickly can a little sleep reverse this effect? A team effort and fun collaboration with @stephaniehicks.bsky.social (a thread) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40315180/

Congratulations to Malone Center affiliate member @stephaniehicks.bsky.social on this distinction from @amstatnews.bsky.social!

. @stephaniehicks.bsky.social giving a master class on spatial genomics analysis - normalization and qc are essential to reveal the underlying biology! #bog25

I really enjoyed this article: The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism! 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @boyiguo.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce that @dattascientist.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social have been elected Fellows of the American Statistical Association! 🎉 This prestigious honor recognizes outstanding contributions to statistical science. Congrats Abhi & Stephanie! 👏 @amstatnews.bsky.social

April is #Autism Awareness Month. This is a month to accept, understand and love those in the Autism Spectrum. Above all accepting that someone is different and respecting their differences is the most important thing we can do. Here are some facts to help understand (a thread):

Rafa has come out swinging this morning 😂

Always excited to have @rafalab.bsky.social visit Hopkins! He’s talk about statistical challenges in single single and spatial omics. 🧪🧬🖥️

So this weekend I won the veggie category at @jhubiostat.bsky.social annual Chili Cookoff! Huge congratulations to @statsprofo.bsky.social — winner of the meat category! We have the privilege of wearing these hats for the next year 😂 🌶️ #stats 🧪🧬💻 PS thank you @lizstuart.bsky.social for hosting! 🌸

Still processing what this means. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...

📝 New Bioconductor Blog Post on CAB and its new co-chair! @smped.bsky.social introduces themselves and shares insights about the Community Advisory Board (CAB). Check it out here: buff.ly/EZWEg0A #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics #RStats #OpenScience

decided to write an op-ed for our local journal to support federally funded research - I encourage you to spread the good word! riverjournalonline.com/letters/op-e... thanks @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and @sean-ryder-music.bsky.social for the inspiration

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠 www.science.org/content/arti...

This week our class had an awesome discussion on this review article discussing #transformers for #SingleCell. One of my favorite parts was discussing Figure 3 on current strategies for how to transform the counts to a format that can be used by transformer. 1/n 🧪🧬💻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are now accepting applications for scholarships to the @cshlaboratory.bsky.social Biology of Genomes meeting from the @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social. Open to students worldwide in support of open science. Please help spread the word! jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-2-...

National Science Foundation "is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months," Politico reports. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

📝 "Where does the U.S. Government Keep its Data?" 👤 Sam Tyner-Monroe 📖 US Govt data sources: R packages & agency APIs for economic, justice, labor, & more! Unlock data insights. 🔗 https://sctyner.me/post/2018-11-16-us-govt-data/ #rladies#rstats#oldiebutgoodie

Does anyone have any favorite reviews of autoencoders or VAEs for genomics data?

Spent the day at the Maryland Science Center & a German Christmas along the Baltimore waterfront today! 🎄🧬🖥️🧪

Hayes Lab circa summer 2024! Excited to be growing.

Super huge congrats to postdoc in our group Bernie Mulvey and co-leads Kristen Maynard & @kasperdhansen.bsky.social on this absolute tour de force paper profiling sex differences in the human hypothalamus. Really important biological insight about gene expression differences in sex-biased disorders.

I’m told burnout comes less from having too much to do but rather feeling like what you have to do is out of your control (and/or unpleasant work). So, working out substantial changes in what you’re obligated to be doing is the best way out. Thus making space for something new/interesting!

Incredibly honored to be interviewed in this special issue @naturemethods.bsky.social and have work from the lab highlighted! Also, thanks for letting me share some thoughts on spatial atlases and where we are as a community to extract meaningful info from the these valuable data resources! 🧪🧬💻

Excited to share a new algorithm that we have been working on over the last year. 💡 idea is to extend mutual nearest neighbors for #spatial data. We call it spatial mutual nearest neighbors (spatialMNN) 😄 Thank you @haowen-zhou.bsky.social @pratibha-panwar.bsky.social who led this work! 👏 🧬🖥️🧪

Excited to have Francis Collin’s visiting @johnshopkins.bsky.social today! Packed house.

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

Ok, I tried to create my own list of people working on developing statistical or machine learning models applied to omics data. I am sure I missed a lot of cool people. If you'd like to be added, let me know. #Stats #ML #Omics go.bsky.app/73rcuJn

Wearing the new (and most importantly warm) @jhubiostat.bsky.social swag!

Ah thank you! 😊