Janna Hastings 🏳️‍🌈

UnRealBody zeigt, wie generative KI unser Schönheitsverständnis verändert und welche Risiken daraus für Jugendliche entstehen.
Mehr Informationen www.dizh.uzh.ch/2025/11/17/u...
@jannahastings.bsky.social @schnamo.bsky.social @muhrlizza.bsky.social

🧪 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “Structure-based metabolite function prediction using graph neural networks”   

Explore the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf174

Authors include: @alisaadatv.bsky.social, @jannahastings.bsky.social

Decoding the interactions and functions of non-coding RNA with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Studying RNA function is constrained by limitations of traditional methods. This Roadmap discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the study of how non-coding regions of mRNA regulate its...

New Review Paper Alert! Are you interested in how to use AI to decode RNA? Check it out here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@jannahastings.bsky.social @vincentjung.bsky.social

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Flyer for the APRICOT Launch 17 June 2025 3:30 PM - 5 PM (UK time) Online Event Schedule included

🚨 Registrations are now OPEN for the official launch of the APRICOT Project! 🚨

Join us as we explore how ontologies can advance behaviour change science. 🌍🧠

🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏰ 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (UK Time)

Register here: tinyurl.com/HBCP-APRICOT

💡 Combine symbolic & neural AI to tackle biomedical challenges! Attend this tuto to use knowledge graphs + LLMs for evidence-based discovery with real cases in antibiotics & oncology
🔹Taught by Maxime Delmas & Andre Freitas
(@idiap.bsky.social)
📅 Mon 8 Sep at #bc2
👉Register: tinyurl.com/5n8w3pwb

A screenshot of the zoom meeting of all parts of the APRICOT team

Hello from the APRICOT Full Team Meeting! 🌏 We’re deep in discussion and planning some exciting things. 👀
Stay tuned, exciting updates are coming your way soon!

C3NLP Workshop #NAACL2025:
@iaugenstein.bsky.social will be presenting on tailoring LLM outputs to cultures, including where implicit cultural personalisation based on names leads to over-simplification arxiv.org/abs/2502.11995
@rnv.bsky.social @frimelle.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/frim... #NLProc

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | Data scientists for life As a leading organization in biological and biomedical data science, SIB maximizes scientific impact through FAIR data, biodata resources, and innovation.

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (@sib.swiss) is proud to be organizing the #ECCB2026 in Geneva! 💪

🤔 New to SIB? We provide essential databases, software platforms & services to academia, companies, and hospitals. Learn more: www.sib.swiss

🔜Stay tuned to discover the preliminary programme

AI models miss disease in Black and female patients Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say

I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes.
www.science.org/content/arti...

UZH: PhD Position in AI for Metabolism The Medical Knowledge and Decision Support Group at the University of Zurich is seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate to join the MetaboLinkAI project, jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Fou...

Come work with us! 😎
For the fantastic SNF-ANR collaborative @metabolinkai.bsky.social project, we are looking for a computational PhD student based in Zurich. If you are excited by knowledge-based approaches to AI and metabolomics data, we want to hear from you. To apply jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

A blue and grey slide with the text 'Responsible use of AI in behavioural research'. Dr Janna Hastings Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich. Professor Susan Michie, University College London and Professor Robert West, University College London' What you'll learn: Understand the ethical challenges related to the use of AI in behavioural research How to mitigate these challenges while maximising the benefit

Our third and final #AI webinar is also open for registration. In this webinar our speakers @jannahastings.bsky.social, @susanmichie.bsky.social & @robertjwest.bsky.social will explore ethical challenges in AI for behavioural research.
📅 1pm, 12 May 2025. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🎆 🎉 Great news: Amos Bairoch has been selected to receive the 2025 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award!

Join us in congratulating him 👏 !

[BC]² Basel Computational Biology Conference 2025 will take place on 8-10 September. The conference brings together over 500 international scientists from academia, industry, and healthcare to explore advancements at the intersection of #bioinformatics and artificial intelligence. See bc2.ch

Evaluating Text-to-Image Generated Photorealistic Images of Human Anatomy Background: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models that can produce photorealistic images from text descriptions have many applications in medicine, including medical education and the generat...

Check out our recently published paper about evaluating AI-generated images! Wonderful work together with @jannahastings.bsky.social @muhrlizza.bsky.social and more!
www.cureus.com/articles/308...

Join us for BR-UK’s first webinar of 2025 where @jannahastings.bsky.social, @susanmichie.bsky.social and @robertjwest.bsky.social will discuss Artificial Intelligence in Behavioural Research.
📅 28 January 2025
🕦 1:30pm
Book to watch live via Zoom:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨 Upcoming webinar - Join our Director @susanmichie.bsky.social, and CBC Associates @robertjwest.bsky.social & @jannahastings.bsky.social, to explore the ethical challenges in applying AI to behavioural research & potential solutions.
More details & link to register below 👇

A blue slide with the text Artificial Intelligence in Behavioural Research. Dr Janna Hastings Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich. Professor Susan Michie, University College London and Professor Robert West, University College London

BR-UK's January 2025 webinar on artificial intelligence in behavioural research is open for registration now.📅
🎙With speakers @jannahastings.bsky.social, @susanmichie.bsky.social and @robertjwest.bsky.social

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Three Lecturer openings at @citystgeorges.bsky.social: www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a....
Join our new AI center covering, among others: NeSy AI, MAS, Reinforcement Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, KGs, Adaptive Systems.

@arturgarcez.bsky.social @pmadhyastha.bsky.social @ealonso.bsky.social

Cartoon which mimics The Great Wave off Kanagawa, but the wave is made of research papers and the boat is full of lab coated researchers

I'm sure this Science story on how systematic reviews are threatened by paper mills is good, but the illustration by Sara Gironi Carnevale is great

saragironicarnevale.com

Story: https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

A vintage cover for the novel "Eden" by Stanislaw Lem. This one has three suns in the sky and the figure of a person.

A vintage cover for the novel "Eden" by Stanislaw Lem. This one has what looks like an embryo, a planet, and a strange tentacled creature.

A vintage cover for the novel "Eden" by Stanislaw Lem. This one has amorphous colors and shapes with eyes and a person.

A vintage cover for the novel "Eden" by Stanislaw Lem. This one has astronauts, cone shaped plants, and mountains.

Just finished reading Stanislaw Lem's "Eden" which was very very good. The first of his many "social sci fi" novels about failed first contact and the difficulty of communication. Reminded me of Annihilation and Scavengers Reign.

Also I love all the vintage covers and need to collect them all.

xkcd comic on sql injection. A parent names their child Robert'); DROP TABLE Students; and the school calls to complain

Need a prompt version of: imgs.xkcd.com/comics/explo...

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Today, the University of Basel celebrated its Dies academicus and awarded honorary doctorates to seven [WHITE MALE] individuals for their services to science and society.
😢 #EDI

The AI Overview of the classic gothic novel REBECCA claims that in the story, humans are being harvested for their organs

I don't want to cast doubt on the impeccable dependability of google AI, but I don't remember this particular plot twist in du Maurier's REBECCA

Imagine a snail. Imagine 5 snails. Imagine a snail on a sail. Imagine something that isn’t a snail.

now read a new pre-print:

"Relations, Negations, & Numbers: Looking for Logic in Generative Text-to-Image Models"

(by Conwell, Tawiah-Quashie, & me)

arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17066

‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

What We Learned About LLM/VLMs in Healthcare AI Evaluation: A Blog post by Shan Chen on Hugging Face

🩺💡The Bitterman lab has spent much of the past year researching #LLMs for healthcare. This post summarizes our inroads into making LLMs safer and reliable for clinicians and patients: huggingface.co/blog/shanche....
We'll be at #EMNLP2024 - come chat if you have similar interests!

3.5/🧵 Moreover, alignment methods don’t resolve inconsistencies in disease prevalence across languages (EN 🇺🇸, ES 🇪🇸, FR 🇫🇷, ZH 🇨🇳). And tuning on English usually only affects English prompt output

Crosscare is accepted
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
🎉 We showed LLMs are far from grounded with true prevalence, and groundings across languages are so inconsistent!
Also, a dashboard for people to explore the prevalence data across diseases and racial groups: crosscare.net
#NeurIPS2024