Jacob S. Zelko

Jacob S. Zelko

@thecedarprince.bsky.social

πŸ€“: Applied Math & Biomed Engineer; Research Affl @usask.ca πŸ”Ž: Health informatics, public health, applied cat. theory & open source/science πŸ“: EN/ES/DE/AR 🌐: Blog @ https://jacobzelko.com πŸ“Ή: Twitch @ https://www.twitch.tv/thecedarprince

1,453 Followers 45 Following 397 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Bringing Julia to Health: A Concise Overview of JuliaHealth Zelko et al., (2026). Bringing Julia to Health: A Concise Overview of JuliaHealth. The Proceedings of the JuliaCon Conferences, 8(81), 194, https://doi.org/10.21105/jcon.00194

Published a JuliaHealth proceedings paper: "Bringing Julia to Health: A Concise Overview of JuliaHealth"! πŸŽ‰

As the ecosystem continues to grow, I am excited to have this as a community reference and overview. 🌐

Would love your thoughts! πŸ€“

Catch us @juliacon.org!

#julialang #academicsky πŸ§ͺ πŸ“ŠπŸ›Ÿ

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Bringing Julia to Health: A Concise Overview of JuliaHealth Zelko et al., (2026). Bringing Julia to Health: A Concise Overview of JuliaHealth. The Proceedings of the JuliaCon Conferences, 8(81), 194, https://doi.org/10.21105/jcon.00194

Published a JuliaHealth proceedings paper: "Bringing Julia to Health: A Concise Overview of JuliaHealth"! πŸŽ‰

As the ecosystem continues to grow, I am excited to have this as a community reference and overview. 🌐

Would love your thoughts! πŸ€“

Catch us @juliacon.org!

#julialang #academicsky πŸ§ͺ πŸ“ŠπŸ›Ÿ

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Are you a life scientist? Do you use code in your work? Then this conference is for you! Come find out why julia should power your next project

And don't forget to check out the Health-sciences and Pharma-focused minisymposia too! πŸ§ͺ

bsky.app/profile/thec...

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Comic. Conjecture: It’s possible to construct a convincing proof without words, pictures, or content of any kind. Proof: [empty box] [caption] Proofs without words are cool, but we can go further.

Proof Without Content

xkcd.com/3201/

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JuliaCon 2026 Health Mini-Symposium If you are using Julia for health, medicine, or biomedical research, consider submitting an abstract to the 🩺 Health Mini-Symposium at JuliaCon 2026 (10–15 August 2026, Mainz, Germany). Abstract J...

Join JuliaHealth @juliacon.bsky.social 2026 in Mainz, Germany this summer! 🌍

Submit your #julialang poster & talk proposals by Feb 28! We would love to see you there! πŸ€—

See @cncastillo.bsky.social announcement's for topics & details! πŸ€“

Post or DM if you have ❓'s!

#opensource #academicsky πŸ§ͺ πŸ›Ÿ πŸ“ŠπŸ©Ί

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JuliaCon 2026 Health Mini-Symposium If you are using Julia for health, medicine, or biomedical research, consider submitting an abstract to the 🩺 Health Mini-Symposium at JuliaCon 2026 (10–15 August 2026, Mainz, Germany). Abstract J...

Join JuliaHealth @juliacon.bsky.social 2026 in Mainz, Germany this summer! 🌍

Submit your #julialang poster & talk proposals by Feb 28! We would love to see you there! πŸ€—

See @cncastillo.bsky.social announcement's for topics & details! πŸ€“

Post or DM if you have ❓'s!

#opensource #academicsky πŸ§ͺ πŸ›Ÿ πŸ“ŠπŸ©Ί

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If you are working with #JuliaLang in health, medicine, or biomedical research, consider submitting an abstract to the 🩺 Health Mini-Symposium at JuliaCon 2026 (10–15 August 2026, Mainz, Germany). @thecedarprince.bsky.social

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BlueSky friends, need your opinion:

@juanlam.com challenged me to write a #newsletter. Questions I have:

✍️

- Suggestions for getting started?
- Balancing time and schedule?

πŸ“–

- What topics are interesting?
- How do you want to engage?

#academicsky #mathsky #medsky #writing πŸ§ͺ

More thoughts πŸ‘‡

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Some of my interests:

- Applied Category Theory
- Systems Engineering
- Philosophy of Science
- Geospatial Health Informatics
- Pandemic Science
- Population Dynamics & Modeling
- Christian Faith & Practice
- High Performance Computing

I tend to write hundreds of personal notes on these subjects.

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BlueSky friends, need your opinion:

@juanlam.com challenged me to write a #newsletter. Questions I have:

✍️

- Suggestions for getting started?
- Balancing time and schedule?

πŸ“–

- What topics are interesting?
- How do you want to engage?

#academicsky #mathsky #medsky #writing πŸ§ͺ

More thoughts πŸ‘‡

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PhD Studentships in Health Analytics and Modelling | LSHTM The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Imperial College London and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are pleased to invite applications for two PhD studentships in real-time

Two more fully funded PhDs in real-time infectious disease modelling & forecasting β€” developing methods for operational use by @ukhsa.bsky.social and others in outbreak response. UK home students, starting April or September 2026.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

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2 months ago

Great! I think @oxinabox.net would like this -- I think you wrote a blog about Julia + BlueSky if I remember right?

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3 months ago
"Congratulations, this project has been selected this time (by the random script)."

Much excitement to be had in JuliaHealth world!

JuliaHealth won a @numfocus.bsky.social Small Dev Grant! πŸŽ‰

We'll be developing workflow guides, providing accessible on-ramps for new members, and improving org infra! βš’οΈ

If you're doing health work in #rstats or #python, excited to share where #julialang comes in! 🀠

#medsky #opensource πŸ§ͺ πŸ›Ÿ πŸ©ΊπŸ“Š

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Improving JuliaHealth Documentation Accessibility for Community Onboarding Β· Issue #59 Β· numfocus/small-development-grant-proposals Project The Julia Language (JuliaHealth) Summary The JuliaHealth ecosystem is rapidly expanding, with more than 50 community packages, over 300 members across Slack, Zulip, and Discourse, and tools...

If you want to know the details of our grant, here is our full proposal: github.com/numfocus/sma...

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"Congratulations, this project has been selected this time (by the random script)."

Much excitement to be had in JuliaHealth world!

JuliaHealth won a @numfocus.bsky.social Small Dev Grant! πŸŽ‰

We'll be developing workflow guides, providing accessible on-ramps for new members, and improving org infra! βš’οΈ

If you're doing health work in #rstats or #python, excited to share where #julialang comes in! 🀠

#medsky #opensource πŸ§ͺ πŸ›Ÿ πŸ©ΊπŸ“Š

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Congrats Markian Hromiak, Aradhya Rajanala, & Katy Sadowski -- won a best community contribution award! πŸŽ‰

Showed how to shrink 220GB of synthetic medical data to 20GB w @duckdb.org, host on constrained machines, & use it via #rstats #julialang #python wrappers πŸ§ͺ

#academicsky #publichealth #datasci

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Congrats Markian Hromiak, Aradhya Rajanala, & Katy Sadowski -- won a best community contribution award! πŸŽ‰

Showed how to shrink 220GB of synthetic medical data to 20GB w @duckdb.org, host on constrained machines, & use it via #rstats #julialang #python wrappers πŸ§ͺ

#academicsky #publichealth #datasci

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meme driven problem solving

Me: High five, me! πŸ‘‹
Old Me: Way to go, me! πŸ‘‹

Shout out to the #julialang Discourse for being a treasure trove of info -- check it out if you have not!

Link: discourse.julialang.org

Anyhow, back to automating everything with my #raspberrypi

#meme #programming #academicsky

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meme driven problem solving

Me: High five, me! πŸ‘‹
Old Me: Way to go, me! πŸ‘‹

Shout out to the #julialang Discourse for being a treasure trove of info -- check it out if you have not!

Link: discourse.julialang.org

Anyhow, back to automating everything with my #raspberrypi

#meme #programming #academicsky

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4 months ago

To Banff & Saskatoon for maths this spring! πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ

"Realizing the Promise of Agent-based Modeling via Categorical Observer Processes" πŸ”Ž

Explores category theory framing of ABMs; implementation via AlgebraicJulia! Excited to integrate SDoH data w/ ABMs. πŸ§ͺ

#mathsky #medsky #publichealth #academicsky

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To Banff & Saskatoon for maths this spring! πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ

"Realizing the Promise of Agent-based Modeling via Categorical Observer Processes" πŸ”Ž

Explores category theory framing of ABMs; implementation via AlgebraicJulia! Excited to integrate SDoH data w/ ABMs. πŸ§ͺ

#mathsky #medsky #publichealth #academicsky

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4 months ago

This is pretty incredible work by @cncastillo.bsky.social!

Really exciting to see #medical #imaging continue to grow within #julialang -- especially the GPU acceleration via KomaMRI.jl (link: github.com/JuliaHealth/...)

Plus, the @makie.org plots look fantastic!

#dataviz #academicsky

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I am on the job market and wanted to advertise myself here! 🀠

Looking for full-time or contracting roles!

Historically, my work spans population dynamics, healthcare informatics, robust adaptive controls, software engineering, and community engagement. πŸ§ͺ

#STEMjobs #academicsky #publichealth

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4 months ago

If my skills/background sound of interest to anyone hiring, I'd be keen to chat!

Happy to pass along more details too! πŸ“

Feel free to drop me a comment below or a DM here on BlueSky. ✍️

Thank you so much!

#jobs #contracting

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Additionally, I lead JuliaHealth & am community manager for AlgebraicJulia while serving as co-admin for Google Summer of Code for #julialang.

For years, I've also been involved in @ohdsi.bsky.social and have lead health research efforts using various medical informatics methods.

#medsky #mathsky

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Currently, I’m a Research Affiliate at the @usask.ca Computational Epi & Public Health Informatics Lab βš—οΈ

Previously worked in a dual role at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and was a Trainee Affiliate at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute. πŸ€“

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I am on the job market and wanted to advertise myself here! 🀠

Looking for full-time or contracting roles!

Historically, my work spans population dynamics, healthcare informatics, robust adaptive controls, software engineering, and community engagement. πŸ§ͺ

#STEMjobs #academicsky #publichealth

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4 months ago

This is pretty incredible work by @cncastillo.bsky.social!

Really exciting to see #medical #imaging continue to grow within #julialang -- especially the GPU acceleration via KomaMRI.jl (link: github.com/JuliaHealth/...)

Plus, the @makie.org plots look fantastic!

#dataviz #academicsky

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AAS 247: Registration | American Astronomical Society

Would you or your colleague like to improve the performance of your data analysis? Then please join us at our @julialang.org workshop at the 247th @aas.org meeting on Jan 3, 2026 in Phoenix, AZ. The regular registration deadline is Nov 7.

aas.org/meetings/aas...

#aas247 #JuliaLang #astrocode

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4 months ago
The most aesthetically pleasing photo of Hagoromo chalk I have ever seen.

Be me:

*Gets text notification*

Friend: I did a photo shoot for a piece of chalk.
Me: What?
Friend: It's Hagoromo.
Me: Understandable.
Friend: Wanna see the photos?
Me: YES.

#mathsky #scisky πŸ§ͺ #academicsky

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