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William Okech @willyokech.bsky.social · Feb 19

The African Cancer Atlas (TACA)

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Yemaachi Biotechnology Launches The African Cancer Atlas, in Partnership with Roche

Yemaachi Biotech, a pioneering genomics research company based in Ghana, announced today a partnership with Roche to launch The African Cancer Atlas (

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HIPC @hipcproject.bsky.social · Feb 24

Go look at our #data
Free and #FAIRsharing.
144 studies, 10,244 human participants and > 135,000 samples.
#systems #immunology
@immportdb.bsky.social
#IDsky #immunesky
Check our #analysis tools at immunespace.org

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8 colored circles who different scientific assays used in #immune #studies part of Human Immunology Project. Data is free for sharing.

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Feb 16

Yeah! All 10 campuses of the @UofCalifornia are now considered R1 research institutions!

UC Merced achieves R1 classification, bringing all UC campuses to the highest tier among research universities

Each UC campus now resides among the exclusive group of 187 accredited doctoral-granting universities in the United States designated R1 by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher…

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Jan 25

Wasn’t that calendar analogy a Carl Sagan Cosmos thing? youtu.be/Ln8UwPd1z20?...

Carl Sagan - Cosmos - Cosmic Calendar

YouTube video by carlsagandotcom

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Jan 25

Great new article showcasing how researchers across @UofCAHealth are using @UofCalifornia Health Data Warehouse to study endometriosis, glaucoma, rare disease, cirrhosis, and more! Includes the work of @ManishButte @msirota84 @DrJonWatanabe and many others! bit.ly/4h5lmrh

Data science is accelerating UC medical research, diagnosis and treatment in California

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Jan 16

So awesome! “Daily ferry service is sailing toward Mission Bay.” Imagine commuting directly to @UCSF Mission Bay via high-speed zero-emissions boat! Scheduled to begin service in 2027. Now all we need is service to the South Bay! 😊
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Ferry Service at Mission Bay: When You’ll Benefit From a New Commute Option

A new all-electric ferry to Mission Bay launches in 2027, supported by a $55M EPA grant, aiding UCSF commuters and patients.

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Jan 13

Use my starter pack to add about 90 accounts to follow in science, #AI, bioinformatics, and clinical informatics! go.bsky.app/97wmgsZ

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thinking of and praying for my friends, family, and colleagues in and around Santa Monica and @UCLA @UCLAHealth during these terrible fires…

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Jan 7

Whoa!! @HHSGov drops 125 page HIPAA update for comments: "update[s] HIPAA Security Rule for the first time since 2013"!

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Rohit Vashisht @rohitv.bsky.social · Jan 6

Join us for Post-Doctoral projects at @atulbutte.bsky.social on a newly funded FDA project on real-world analysis of onco-therapies! If you have a passion for epidemiology, causal inference, LLMs & scientific rigor, we'd love to hear from you. Please DM me. Spread the word. Thank you.

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Jan 2

I often wish the default iPad on screen keyboard had arrow keys to navigate in text…

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Jan 1

2024 saw another record for bioRxiv postings. Thanks to all the CSHL staff, affiliates, authors, funders, and everyone who advocates for the project. Happy New Year and #letsmakethisthenorm ! 🧪

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · Jan 1

I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Dec 24

This ad seemed so hard to believe back in 1999… "all rooms have every movie ever made in any language anytime, day or night."

Qwest commercial 1999 - Every Movie

Remember how absurd this seemed in 1999 before the internet really took off? When the weary traveler asked the front desk what entertainment was available, t...

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Dec 23

Whoa! In @NEJM_AI:
A Multimodal Biomedical Foundation Model Trained from 15 Million Image–Text Pairs… fully open-access foundation model!
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A Multimodal Biomedical Foundation Model Trained from Fifteen Million Image–Text Pairs

Biomedical data are inherently multimodal, comprising physical measurements and natural-language narratives. A generalist biomedical artificial intelligence (AI) model needs to simultaneously proce...

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Dec 22

Folks moving back to California!
“California nets large population increase in 2024 — nearly returning to pre-pandemic level”
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California nets large population increase in 2024 — nearly returning to pre-pandemic level

It had the third most new residents of any state, by raw numbers.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Dec 21

A great job for someone, for certain.

But I am re-posting this because this photo of the Geisel (of Dr. Seuss fame) Library at UC San Diego is a reminder of the twinned seriousness and surreality of my undergraduate education there--and the (re)imagining and (re)visioning it made possible for me.

Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Dec 21

Great! @UCSD Biomedical Informatics is recruiting new tenure-track faculty!
Assistant Professor https://buff.ly/49LX6rf ; Associate or Full Professor

Associate or Full Professor (Ladder/In-Residence) Biomedical Informatics Research

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Dec 21

Great! @UCSD Biomedical Informatics is recruiting new tenure-track faculty!
Assistant Professor https://buff.ly/49LX6rf ; Associate or Full Professor

Associate or Full Professor (Ladder/In-Residence) Biomedical Informatics Research

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Dec 21

Nearly 50 US #AI startups raised $100M+ in 2024!

Here’s the full list of 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024 | TechCrunch

AI startups continue to dominate the venture capital funding landscape. Here are the all the megarounds so far in 2024.

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Dec 20

$1 million dollars up for grabs from @NIH for the teams that come up with the best measures of research data sharing, also known as a Data Sharing Index (S-index)! www.freelancer.com/contest/nih-... HT @michaelfchiang.bsky.social

NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge

Check out this contest and enter now!

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Dec 19

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart’s Law

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Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · Dec 19

Here's a website that describes the NIH "s-index challenge" to promote data sharing by developing a robust metric to identify exemplary data sharers.

National Eye Institute is excited lead a large group of participating NIH institutes (shown on website).

www.freelancer.com/contest/NIH-...

NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge

Check out this contest and enter now!

www.freelancer.com

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Karandeep Singh @kdpsingh.bsky.social · Dec 18

There’s a lot to unpack in the Bipartisan House Task Force Report on AI. It’s clear that progress will require collaboration to ensure a healthy evaluation/adoption pipeline.

Glad to see @ucsdhealth.bsky.social’s work in sepsis AI highlighted in this report.

Link: www.speaker.gov/wp-content/u...

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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · Dec 16

This took more than 10 years to get published! 😜

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Francesco Iorio @francescoiorio.bsky.social · Dec 16

After nearly 15 years since its publication, #MANTRA (the tool for drug repositioning I designed during my PhD in Diego di Bernardo's lab at TIGEM) still goes strong! @atulbutte.bsky.social and colleagues using it for drug repurposing in skin inflammation here 👇 👍
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Repurposing an epithelial sodium channel inhibitor as a therapy for murine and human skin inflammation

Computational and molecular analysis identified benzamil as a potential treatment for skin inflammation in murine and human xenograft skin models.

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