📣 TOMORROW! Stephen Salerno, Awan Afiaz, and @jtleek.bsky.social present "Scorcher: An R Package to Democratize Building and Fitting Torch Deep Learning Models." 🔥
Jeff Leek
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Dad/Coach Chief Data Officer, Fred Hutch https://hutchdatascience.org/ Professor, Fred Hutch https://jtleek.com/ Founder, Synthesize Bio https://www.synthesize.bio/ Building things to help people. Opinions & content are my own.
Inference with predicted data is one of the hottest topics in statistics with many, many big names focusing on it. If you are interested in hearing about one of the hottest topics in the field from one of the best teachers I know - you should go to this! #ENAR2026
Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program@fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · 6mo ago📣 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.
Check out @uwbiostat.bsky.social department contributions highlighted in the @uwsph.bsky.social 2025 impact report. sph.washington.edu/impact
We are really interested in hearing the trainee experience - would love to hear from any trainees about their interests and styles of learning! Check this out and please share!
@itcrtraining.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe ITCR Training Network (ITN) www.itcrtraining.org develops training materials for informatics and research. We have a short survey ~3-9 min about your experience & preferences for learning as a researcher. Previous engagement not required! xiar7j-itn.shinyapps.io/itn_follow_up/
The ITCR Training Network (ITN) www.itcrtraining.org develops training materials for informatics and research. We have a short survey ~3-9 min about your experience & preferences for learning as a researcher. Previous engagement not required! xiar7j-itn.shinyapps.io/itn_follow_up/
Ad hoc, post hoc and intrinsic-hoc in bioinformatics www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eNGd3) 🧬🖥️🧪
A cool story that connects the first data I ever analyzed to the work we are doing with Synthesize ! youtube.com/shorts/zN4_m...
The Experiments #Biology Can’t Run — Until Now. #AI #entrepreneur #technology #tech #geneexpression
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Generative genomics predicts future and impossible experiments! Read the new preprint from Synthesize Bio: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and anyone can try our models on the cloud or in R/Python! product.synthesize.bio
CAIA is breaking down research silos with federated learning. AI models learn from diverse data without moving it. Read more: www.canceralliance.ai/blog/beyond-... Congrats to @jtleek.bsky.social + CAIA for advancing secure, equitable cancer research. #CancerAI #FederatedLearning #Biostatistics
Research beyond silos - Cancer AI Alliance
The Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA) brings together top cancer centers and tech leaders to break down institutional silos. Using federated learning, they securely train AI models on diverse patient data, ac...
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Our pioneering partnership with leading cancer centers and tech companies has been recognized by TIME magazine’s #TIME100AI 2025 for groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence and cancer research!
Jeff Leek@jtleek.bsky.social · 11mo agoHonored to see the Cancer AI Alliance included on TIME's list of the TIME100 AI of 2025! #TIME100AI. CAIA has been a true team sport based on the shared commitment of all our Alliance members to accelerate cancer research and ultimately improve and save patient’s lives. time.com/collections/...
Honored to see the Cancer AI Alliance included on TIME's list of the TIME100 AI of 2025! #TIME100AI. CAIA has been a true team sport based on the shared commitment of all our Alliance members to accelerate cancer research and ultimately improve and save patient’s lives. time.com/collections/...
Check out this great post explaining our approach to enabling AI model learning and reasoning across multiple-institutions while carefully protecting (and never transferring!) patient data! www.canceralliance.ai/blog/caia-fe...
How CAIA harnesses federated learning for secure collaboration - Cancer AI Alliance
How can we train AI models on the collective knowledge of the nation's top cancer centers without exposing sensitive patient information? CAIA’s solution is an AI training approach called federated ...
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I was recently on a panel talking about Synthesize Bio and the future of AI in biotech! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5s...
The Future of Drug Discovery: AI, Data, and Design
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Fred Hutch data scientists Carrie Wright and Elizabeth Humphries weigh in on OpenAI's first open-weight reasoning #AI, noting its potential for personalization in research applications while emphasizing thoughtful integration. Via @nature.com go.nature.com/4mFSoRb @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social
OpenAI launches reasoning LLM that you can download and tweak
One version of the gpt-oss large language model can run on a laptop, and performs nearly as well as the company’s most powerful models.
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Code from my first live R package demo talk in honor of Hadley at #jsm2025 gist.github.com/jtleek/8c927... Steve Salerno, Awan Afiaz, and I have been developing the scorcher package to help you more easily fit deep learning models in R ! github.com/jtleek/scorc...
The highlight of my #jsm2025 talk was @hadley.nz roasting the panel with ChatGPT.😂 I also love that he talked about aspiring to kindness!
We are about to be live talking about how cool @hadley.nz is in CC214 at 1030am ! Come hang out if you are at #jsm2025
Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program@fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · last yr.✨ Wednesday at #JSM2025: 👉 @jtleek.bsky.social joins the panel honoring @hadley.nz and the power of the #tidyverse. 👉 Lucas Liu presents on cancer recurrence detection using deep learning + LLMs, outperforming traditional NLP. #FredHutch #LLMs #CancerAI #StatGraphics #RStats #DataScience
My family and I are going to be running the 5k at Obliteride again this year! (we'll be biking as soon as the boys are old enough :)). We are raising funds for data science and AI efforts to find cancer cures at the Fred Hutch, consider donating if you are able! secure.fredhutch.org/site/TR/Obli...
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Wild congratulations to one of the most incredible people I’ve ever worked with. @benlangmead.bsky.social I hope you are celebrating this very well deserved honor!!!
JHU Computer Science@jhucompsci.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to @benlangmead.bsky.social on his promotion to full professor! 🎉 Prof. Langmead is recognized across the computational and life sciences fields for his innovative methods helping to transform how biomedical researchers and other life scientists access and use DNA sequencing data. 🧬
These are not just grants. This is thousands of people who devoted their lives and careers - taking pay cuts, working long hours, living with uncertainty - all for the chance to try to make people's lives a bit better for you and your loved ones. This breaks my heart.
Joshua Tucker@jatucker.bsky.social · last yr.Cutting NIH or NSF funding sounds abstract. Seeing what research is actually being cut makes it real. Kudos to @nytimes.com for this piece: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Damn... I wonder why scientists wouldn't want to come to the US to compete at the highest levels for highly-restricted funding that then gets pulled surreptitiously for some imagined reason or no reason at all, all while being vilified by the federal government for their work? A mystery! 🤔
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · last yr.No words
Industry friends, now is the time for MUCH more speaking out on behalf of academic colleagues under duress. Here are core open source methods that many of your products doubtlessly depend on either directly or indirectly (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMMER) being abruptly defunded. Make noise.
HMMER - Wikipedia
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Sean Eddy@cryptogenomicon.bsky.social · last yr.NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
If you are around Seattle, see ya there :)
Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program@fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · last yr.🤖 UW Statistics hosts Hutch’s own @jtleek.bsky.social this Friday: “Building and Using AI Engines – What Do We Do When We’ve Machine Learned Everything?” 📅 May 30 • 🕒 3:30 PM PT • 📍 UW Statistics 🔗 stat.uw.edu/seminars/bui... #Statistics #AI #MachineLearning #FredHutch #UWStats #DataScience
Bright and early talk by @jtleek.bsky.social at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Grand Rounds on building and scaling AI engines in oncology.
Congratulations to the @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social scholarship winners for the 2025 Biology of Genomes conference @cshlnews.bsky.social! Learn more about their research and the scholarship program here: jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-3-... #bog25
Synthesize Bio's platform is awesome as a teaching tool. In just a couple of minutes you can (a) find a dataset, (b) run a validated workflow like @mikelove.bsky.social's published EDA workflow, and (c) share with your friends: app.synthesize.bio/notebooks/3a...
This alliance helps solve the key technical challenges that will enable us to securely use both #AI and massive computational power to find these breakthrough insights and save more lives. Congrats to the CAIA team on this well-deserved recognition! #oncsky
Fred Hutch@fredhutch.org · last yr.Congrats to the Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA) on being named @geekwire.com's Health Innovation of the Year! This Fred Hutch-led initiative unites experts to apply responsible #AI to cancer centers’ data, unlocking insights while ensuring data security. Learn more: www.canceralliance.ai
An incredible honor and the momentum is building for the Cancer AI Alliance. We have been hard at work behind the scenes - expect more public from us soon! @brianmbot.bsky.social (pictured) and the broader CAIA team are amazing and it is fantastic to see their work rewarded.
Fred Hutch@fredhutch.org · last yr.Congrats to the Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA) on being named @geekwire.com's Health Innovation of the Year! This Fred Hutch-led initiative unites experts to apply responsible #AI to cancer centers’ data, unlocking insights while ensuring data security. Learn more: www.canceralliance.ai
We are in a period of remarkable progress in cancer research and care. It’s critical that we don’t let near-term pressures immobilize us and lose sight of our long-term plans. Thanks to Becker’s Hospital Review for inviting me to share what's at stake. www.beckershospitalreview.com/oncology/ami...
Amid federal funding uncertainty, cancer center leaders forge ahead - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis
Facing federal funding uncertainty, a looming workforce shortage and an increasingly aging patient population, cancer center leaders in the U.S. remain undeterred. Their focus remains, as it has for d...
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