🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

We're recruiting a new faculty member Fred Hutch Cancer Center! We're looking for researchers who use data and data science in new and creative ways. All research areas are welcome, from ML/AI to cancer genomics to tech dev to other topics. apply.interfolio.com/115753

For interested parties, I've made a PCA of the Fred Hutch Cancer Center computational biology faculty... it's a fantastic group! 🧪: small wet lab 🧪🧪: big wet lab.

Jeremy Beaulieu (U Tennessee) and Brian O'Meara (U Arkansas) will be giving the next talk in our sequel series on birth-death identifiability on Tuesday, February 21 at 9:00 AM PST with a talk entitled "Diversification analyses: what can we do, and what should we do?"

Does anyone know if GISAID Initiative registration has stopped? Two key folks in my group requested a registration in January. They have sent emails via the contact form and I have too. No response. This is slowing us down: coders have to hand off code to people with access. 🫤

🚨Suchi Saria & I are embarking on an ambitious multi-year project to develop tools for monitoring & updating clinical AI algorithms, with collaborators from multiple federal agencies. If this sounds exciting to you, please apply at jeanfeng.com/joining & help spread the word!

This seminar has been moved to the following day and 30 minutes later: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM PDT . Please spread the word!

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New blog post: our recent work to understand the somatic hypermutation process that enables antibodies to incrementally improve. A story of running into the limitations of deep learning, but still gaining biological insight along the way. matsen.group/general/2025/0…

I'm excited about AI not as a way to get a big black-box oracle, but as a way to assist development of probabilistic models that inform our understanding of biological mechanisms. New blog post: matsen.group/general/2025/0…

Many of my favorite collaborators are immigrants who face double threats of funding cuts and the anti-immigrant political climate. To them and immigrants generally: we need you, and we want you here. I understand if you want to leave but I hope you will stay and reach out.

Working with Claude Code has been transformative. Yes, it does great on new code and refactoring. VSCode integration is 👍. But the big surprise: it can seamlessly edit notebooks and then view the plots to plan next steps. Time to update my blog post matsen.group/general/2025/0…