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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 1d

Hey University of Washington researchers! Come check out our fall office hour offerings. Head to escience.uw.edu/oh to learn more.

eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 9d

Hey UW research community, come check out Tillicum - a GPU-accelerated computing platform designed to support cutting-edge research in AI, machine learning, data science, and scientific simulation. Join us and UW IT for the official launch event here:
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Tillicum Cluster Launch – eScience Institute

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Aug 27

In the first part of this video series exploring how UW researchers our cloud computing resources, we meet with the Denolle Quake Lab to learn about their NSF supported project on a global seismic activity database.
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A Global Database of Seismic Phases: How the Denolle Quake Lab uses Cloud Computing Resources @ UW

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Aug 19

New pub alert 📖
Our very own @arokem.org co-authored "A software ecosystem for brain tractometry processing, analysis, and insight" for PLoS Computational Biology.
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A software ecosystem for brain tractometry processing, analysis, and insight

Author summary The human brain is a highly inter-connected system. Information about the environment and about internal states is effectively distributed and integrated through neural pathways that ra...

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Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · Aug 11

#UWAllen’s @edlazowska.bsky.social ‬has been a fixture on the WA innovation scene longer than Microsoft. After nearly half a century as UW educator, researcher & local tech champion, he’s logging off from official duties—but not shutting it down just yet. #UWserves www.geekwire.com/2025/after-4...

After 48 years at UW, Ed Lazowska reflects on computer science, education, AI, and what’s next

After nearly a half-century at the University of Washington, Ed Lazowska reflects on his career, the future of AI and computer science education, and his plans beyond retirement.

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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Jul 29

NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

NeuroHackademy 2025 - YouTube

Neurohackademy is a summer school in neuroimaging and data science, held at the University of Washington eScience Institute. This year’s course will be held ...

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Abraham D. Flaxman @healthyalgo.bsky.social · Jul 27

The @uwescience.bsky.social has an ethnographer to study our data scientists and their rituals

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Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer – eScience Institute

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Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · Jul 24

Congratulations to #UW #UWAllen professor Magda Balazinska on her election to the WA State Academy of Sciences, which honored her contributions in data management and data science—including the award-winning Borealis stream processing engine. #UWdiscovers news.cs.washington.edu/2025/07/23/m...

Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences for contributions in data management and data science research and education - Allen School News

Magdalena Balazinska, professor and director of the Allen School, has been elected a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) in recognition of her “contributions in data management f...

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Data Science & AI Accelerator pairs eScience data scientists with UW researchers from any disciplinary field to work on collaborative projects. Project proposals for Fall 2025 must be received by August 14th. Check out the link below for more details!
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Data Science and AI Accelerator – eScience Institute

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Jul 16

Recently, SSEC offered an interactive session to over 90 researchers at the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Science Summit to help shape a grounded, practical, and scientist-centered vision for AI in scientific discovery. schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/growing...

Growing Interdisciplinary Community at Our Largest Ever Summit • Schmidt Science Fellows

Our 2025 Interdisciplinary Science Summit was our largest and most engaged event ever, growing and galvanizing a community of interdisciplinary researchers and supporters ready to change how science i...

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Jul 10

The 2025 edition of OceanHackWeek will be held from August 18th to 22nd. Applications close July 14th. The OceanHackWeek program consists of hands-on tutorials, visual presentations, and collaborative hack projects throughout a 5-day period. Apply here: oceanhackweek.org/ohw25/index....

OceanHackWeek 2025 (OHW25) — OceanHackWeek

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CAMERA MRI Africa @cameramriafrica.bsky.social · Jun 20

🙌 Thrilled to announce $20K in Azure Service Credits from @uwescience.bsky.social @microsoft.com for #SPARK2025!

Thanks to Dr.Mehmet Kiurt @kurtlab.bsky.social , SPARK Faculty & Mentor, this award supports 300 trainees across 36 countries with cloud tools for #MICCAI research & submissions🌍☁️🧠

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · May 6

New pub alert!📖
Researchers at eScience and the Outdoor R&D Lab released a report on visitor estimation with federal co-authors from the US Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center and the US Department of the Interior Office of Policy Analysis.
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How Busy are National Parks and other Public Lands? Researchers Hone Methods for Estimating Visitation – eScience Institute

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Apr 18

Call for Proposals: Applications for the summer cycle of the Data Science and AI Accelerator are due by Sunday, April 27th. An informational meeting for summer Accelerator projects will take place on Monday, April 21st.

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Data Science & AI Accelerator Program Details – eScience Institute

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Apr 10

eScience partners on $20 Million Grant to Provide Cloud Resources to National Research Community. Learn more here - www.sdsc.edu/news/2025/PR...

UC San Diego Leads $20M Grant to Provide Commercial Cloud Resources to National Research Community

CloudBank 2 will be a service-based resource, providing commercial cloud resources, from Jupyter Notebooks and secure data to the latest GPUs and quantum computers.

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Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute @uusci.bsky.social · Apr 8

⏩ @pennyatkinsphd.bsky.social keeps SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative moving forward through her laser-focused work w/ folks across campus, industry, & gov. Hear her discuss RAI cyberinfrastructure progress & more at an @academicdatasci.bsky.social "listen & lunch" Thurs:
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Apr 5

Stone tools found in East Asia challenge long-held beliefs about ancient humans’ technology. A discovery in China reveals that people were innovating 60,000 years ago, much like in Europe and the Middle East.

#archaeology @Ben Marwick, University of Washington ⚒️

Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic, like in Europe and Middle East

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with technology during the Middle Paleolithic era as those in other parts of the…

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our mission at BIDS is to convene experts to facilitate collaboration. Our Executive Director (@kirstiejane.bsky.social) is supporting Scientific Python developers to work together
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#CDSSBigGive #CalBigGive #OpenSource #OpenScience

Scientific Python

SPECs Scientific Python Ecosystem Coordination documents are a mechanism by which practices are discussed and propagated throughout the ecosystem. Summits At the summits, we get together both virtuall...

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Mar 11

The UW Echospace research group is seeking a student or an early career professional to help develop open-source scientific software for processing large-scale ocean sonar data to accelerate marine ecosystem research. Learn more about this opportunity here:
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Scientific Software Engineering Opportunity | Echospace @ UW

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Mar 6

This quarter we are offering a special office hour in data science and public policy. Come by on Tuesdays from 9-11am to meet our expert, Dr. Jose Manuel Magallanes. RSVP here: escience.washington.edu/using-data-s...

eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Mar 4

Learn more about our Neurohackademy, a data science and neuroimaging workshop, from this Flux podcast episode featuring our very own @arokem.org and Noah Benson.

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S3 Ep Bonus! Behind the scenes at Neurohackademy! - Sensitive Periods: A Flux Society Podcast

This bonus episode takes a behind-the-scenes glimpse at last year's Neurohackademy, a data science and neuroimaging workshop hosted by the University of Washington's eScience Institute. Often attended...

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Mar 3

Vani Mandava, head of engineering for the Scientific Software Engineering Center within the eScience Institute, was nominated for co-leading the team that developed the COMET post-award dashboard for tracking grant expense and award reporting in the Office of Sponsored Programs. Congrats to all!

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Feb 25

Hey researchers, want to learn how to build a data server to promote open science through data sharing? Join CloudBank on Zoom this Thursday at 11:30am for Cloud Clinic 2.

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CloudBank Presents Cloud Clinic 2: Data Publication and Access on the Public Cloud – eScience Institute

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Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu · Feb 24

Coming up from 5:30-6:30 p.m. PST: @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social will present the 2025 UW Faculty Lecture, "A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations." Event is in person and livestreamed.

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Kate Starbird is seated in a chair holding a smartphone and there's text above reading "A Spotlight on Rumors"

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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Feb 20

Happening tonight: Dr. Sheng Wang presents the final talk in the AI@UW special series of our UW Data Science Seminar. Come to Hitchcock Hall at 4:30pm to hear more about “Generative AI for Multimodal Biomedicine.”

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UW Data Science Seminar: Sheng Wang – eScience Institute

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