Went to StanCon 2 years ago & saw a presentation by @liza-semenova.bsky.social And now, here's our first paper together inspired by that talk, led by mine and Gwen Eadie's PhD student Rodrigo Herrera arxiv.org/abs/2606.22601

Scalable Bayesian Additive Models for Stellar Flare Detection via Amortized Gaussian Process Inference and Hidden Markov Models

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are a powerful tool for Bayesian time-series modeling, yet their cubic computational cost remains a severe barrier for application to long, high-cadence datasets in astronomy....

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🧬 Hiring! Postdoc in Deep Generative Modelling for Infectious Diseases @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social. Methods first, Lots of freedom. Background in probab-ML or comp-stat essential. Deadline July 1st. #Hiring #Postdoc #MachineLearning www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Surrogate models are everywhere. Reporting standards are not ⚠️ Our position paper on SMRS was accepted to the #NeurIPS 2025 Position Paper Track (8% acceptance rate). We argue that sharing code is not enough for comparability in scientific ML. #AIforScience #Reproducibility #surrogates

SMRS: advocating a unified reporting standard for surrogate models in the artificial intelligence era

Surrogate models are widely used to approximate complex systems across science and engineering to reduce computational costs. Despite their widespread adoption, the field lacks standardisation across ...

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MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis@mrc-outbreak.bsky.social · 5mo ago

✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ #ScienceInContext This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @liza-semenova.bsky.social about surrogate models and why unified reporting standards matter more than ever in the age of AI youtu.be/s-hSIjpHat0 @smhall97.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsph.bsky.social

📢 PhD OPPORTUNITY: closing 18 January Want to do a PhD in applied statistics or epidemiology and qualify for UK home fees? 📅 Applications close in one week. ✏️ Apply here: lnkd.in/ecEvTjjg @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social

Liza Semenova@liza-semenova.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📊🦠 Looking for a #PhD in applied statistics with real-world public-health impact? Join us at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, collaborating with @ukhsa.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social. Closing date: 18 January. Reach out to me with any queries ✉️ (Eligibility criteria apply.)

📊🦠 Looking for a #PhD in applied statistics with real-world public-health impact? Join us at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, collaborating with @ukhsa.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social. Closing date: 18 January. Reach out to me with any queries ✉️ (Eligibility criteria apply.)

IDDjobs@iddjobs.org · 9mo ago

PhD position (London, UK) Health analytics and modelling of environmental and personal heat health risks with Elizaveta Semenova at Imperial College London More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2416

Do you like to train neural networks to solve all your nasty probabilistic inference and sequential design problems? Do you love letter salads such as NPs, PFNs, NPE, SBI, BED? Then no place is better than the Amortized ProbML workshop we are organizing at #ELLIS UnConference.

Reminder that Amortized inference Workshop submissions at the ELLIS Unconference are still open until **Oct 16, 2025**. Only a short abstract (½ page), so go ahead! Workshop: Dec 2, 2025, co-located with EurIPS. Website: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...

Luigi Acerbi@lacerbi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Do you like to train neural networks to solve all your nasty probabilistic inference and sequential design problems? Do you love letter salads such as NPs, PFNs, NPE, SBI, BED? Then no place is better than the Amortized ProbML workshop we are organizing at #ELLIS UnConference.

✨ Honourable mention ✨ for the 2025 Best Paper Awards at @facct.bsky.social 🏆 Shu will present on Thursday, 11:45am local time Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.09496

ACM FAccT@facct.bsky.social · last yr.

🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆 Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers. Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week! facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...

The popular story behind one of the most famous maps ever drawn is (partly) a myth www.maps.com/snow-mistake...

Snow Mistake: Correcting Myths in the Mapping of Cholera

What if the famous map of Broad Street played no role in determining how cholera spread? Or if John Snow didn't make the storied map?

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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @liza-semenova.bsky.social & Samir Bhatt about #AI & modelling infectious disease outbreaks 👉 How can AI contribute to pandemic preparedness? 👉 Examples of AI in modelling & the Nobel Peace Prize youtu.be/8D_v7ldBW9k 🧵1/4

Thrilled to share our latest publication in @natrevgenet.bsky.social. We explore how deep learning models infused with prior knowledge—biologically-informed neural networks or BINNs—offer better predictive accuracy and interpretability in multi-omics data analysis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beyond the black box with biologically informed neural networks - Nature Reviews Genetics

Biologically informed neural networks promise to lead to more explainable, data-driven discoveries in genomics, drug development and precision medicine. Selby et al. highlight emerging opportunities, ...

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A very sad and counterproductive decision. Aid when you don’t know where diseases are is immensely inefficient. DHS is a vital long-term resource, both in counties with diseases like malaria, but also those finding new global threats. Everyone will be flying blind. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program

The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.

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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2} | Andrew Heiss

Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.

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Joey Cherdarchuk - Obumbratta@obumbratta.com · 2y ago

Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

🚀 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 Looking for my first PhD student 🔬 Project: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥, 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 & 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨-𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 Joint with LSHTM & UKHSA See links below. 📅 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 7 March 2024 📩 Questions? DM me! #PhD #HealthEquity #ImperialCollege

📢 Consider submitting your abstract to "The Science of Connections: Urban Mobility and Networks" satellite event at #NetSci2025 (netsci2025.github.io) 🚀 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 🕒 🔗 Details: mobilityhealthnetworks.github.io ❓ With questions, reach out to @smishra.bsky.social, Prateek Bansal, me 🤝

Swapnil Mishra@smishra.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please consider submitting your work at our satellite event held in parallel with NetSci2025(netsci2025.github.io). @liza-semenova.bsky.social, Prateek Bansal and me would love to hear from everyone interested. mobilityhealthnetworks.github.io

Thrilled to share our new @pnas.org paper using active learning 🤖 to optimise disease testing 🦠 and support public health 🌍. Press release by @imperialsph.bsky.social: imperial.ac.uk/news/259573/... Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Joint work with some stellar collaborators!

An enviable institution and group to work in!

Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 2y ago

Postdoc and doctoral student positions in developing Bayesian methods! The positions are funded by Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI and there are many other topics, too, but if you specify me as the preferred supervisor then it's going to be Bayesian. fcai.fi/winter-2025-...

If you are interested in doing a #PhD with me at Imperial College London and qualify as a home student, please reach out (before end of 2024)! Potential topics: spatial statistics, applied deep generative models, probabilistic programming and more.