Jason de Koning 🇨🇦 (@jasondekoning) 's Twitter Profile
Jason de Koning 🇨🇦

@jasondekoning

Associate Professor @UCalgaryMed & @UofCr4kids • Evolution, genetics, computation • He/him • Tweets=opinions 🇺🇦

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Amii (@amiithinks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: Amii Chief Scientific Advisor, Richard S. Sutton, has been awarded the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, alongside Andrew Barto! Read the official Association for Computing Machinery announcement: hubs.la/Q039nZXM0 #TuringAward #AI #ReinforcementLearning

BREAKING: Amii Chief Scientific Advisor, Richard S. Sutton, has been awarded the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, alongside Andrew Barto! Read the official <a href="/TheOfficialACM/">Association for Computing Machinery</a> announcement: hubs.la/Q039nZXM0

#TuringAward #AI #ReinforcementLearning
Swaroop Mishra (@swarooprm7) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PhD students: Remember to apply for the Google PhD fellowship. It will make your PhD super smooth. Application opens on 10th April 2025 Deadline: 15th May 2025

Nathalie Grandvaux 🇨🇦 (@ngrandvaux) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I had already decided to refrain from attending conferences in the U.S. in the near future due to concerns regarding Canada’s sovereignty. The situation described in this article further reinforces my decision. 1/2 lemonde.fr/international/…

Ran Blekhman (@blekhman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trying to make sense of the current situation, I put together some thoughts in an op-ed for @elife on what we, as scientists, can do – and what institutions MUST do – to protect science right now elifesciences.org/articles/106702

Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

hem Google DeepMind Immerse yourself in how Gemini and these AI systems work, spend every waking hour working with them so it's like second nature, become a ninja at prompting and system instructing, and use it from everything from deep research to vibe coding...

Rasmus Nielsen (@ras_nielsen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Save the date! ProbGen 2026 will be hosted at UC Berkeley, March 25 to March 28, 2026, featuring keynote speakers Jonathan Pritchard and Sally Otto. Help spread the message to people who are not this dystopian hellsite.

Dan Roy (@roydanroy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dear PhD students now regretting taking offers at US schools: If you turned down PhD offers in Canada, but want to rethink that, email the professors who were trying to recruit you. They might be able to pull some strings. Your sane neighbor to the north, Canada

Chris Smith (@chriscrsmith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics! Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position. Apply with the below link indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

(Fred)erick Matsen (@ematsen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Open bioinformatics position on next-generation protein evolution models! Join HHMI's AI initiative at Janelia Farm, Virginia, (an amazing place) and work closely with our team. Help us build the future! 🧬 + 🤖 = ❤️ hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

Heather McPherson (@hmcphersonmp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today I called on the 🇨🇦 govt to guarantee universal, no-cost access to COVID-19 vaccines, including for every child under 12. Under the Canada Health Act, every Canadian deserves equal access to care no matter where they live or how badly their provincial govt ignores science.

Today I called on the 🇨🇦 govt to guarantee universal, no-cost access to COVID-19 vaccines, including for every child under 12.

Under the Canada Health Act, every Canadian deserves equal access to care no matter where they live or how badly their provincial govt ignores science.
Jason Kelly (@jrkelly) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Highly recommend getting a PhD - very rare to have the chance in your life to do truly open-ended, self-directed research surrounded by super smart, passionate people. You have the whole rest of your life to grind on applied work. Usual caveat of having a great professor to

Mark Carney (@markjcarney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Deeply saddened by news of the passing of Dr. Darren Markland earlier this week.   Darren was a tireless advocate for patients and health care workers in Edmonton and across Canada. His compassion and dedication made our country stronger. I am keeping his family, and the entire