Stephanie Hicks

This was a really fantastic collaboration! Congratulations @mictott.bsky.social Rita Cervera Juanes,
@svitlanabach.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🧪🧬💻🧠

Congratulations to @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social @svitlana-bach.bsky.social & all co-authors! Wonderful collab btw @alexisbattle.bsky.social and @martinowk.bsky.social @kr-maynard.bsky.social spatially profiling human nucleus accumbens 🧠 #TeamScience 🧪 🧬 🖥️

Thank you #NIH #NIDA for generous funding 👏

Thank you for the invitation @sib.swiss! I really enjoyed talking with everyone and I learned a lot over the last few days. I highly recommend this conference to anyone working in Bioinformatics. 🧬🧪💻

Thank you so much @mikelove.bsky.social!

Congratulations @kinnaryshah.bsky.social @mictott.bsky.social @svitlanabach.bsky.social & all co-authors! Wonderful collab btw @jhubiostat.bsky.social @jhu.edu and @lieberinstitute.bsky.social spatially profiling human dACC 🧠 #TeamScience 🧪 🧬 🖥️

Thank you #NIDA #NIMH for generous funding & support 👏

Excited to share a blogpost summarizing challenges, opportunities & reflections from a course @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social co-taught with @alexisbattle.bsky.social (and huge support from Seraj Grimes!) at the intersection of #deeplearning #genetics #genomics 🧪 🧬 💻

stephaniehicks.com/blog/course-...

Characterizing efficient feature selection for single-cell expression analysis Abstract. Unsupervised feature selection is a critical step for efficient and accurate analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data. Previous benchmarks used two d

Benchmarking study of single-cell feature selection finds deviance to be an effective criterion: doi.org/10.1093/bib/... . Try it yourself with our ( @kstreet.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @davi1893.bsky.social ) scry package @bioconductor.bsky.social : doi.org/doi:10.18129... #genomics

Vince Carey opening GBCC2025 with a slide highlighting Bioconductor’s technical and community advances.

Charlotte Soneson delivering her keynote titled “From classes to community: how Bioconductor has advanced my research.”

Slide showing GBCC2025 sponsors and supporters - CZI, Limagrain, GalaxyWorks, Bristol Myers Squibb, R Consortium, Gigascience, ELIXIR, NHGRI

Large group photo of GBCC2025 attendees outdoors at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, smiling and gathered on the steps.

Big thanks to everyone who made #GBCC2025 a fantastic week of science, collaboration, and community!

Highlights for Bioconductor included keynotes, hands-on projects, and great conversations 💻🧬

@galaxyproject.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social

Very excited to see this important work out led by the talented @mictott.bsky.social @boyiguo.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social! 🧪🧬🖥️

Genetics and Genomic Sciences External Seminar Series | Stephanie Hicks, MA, PhD

Looking forward to visit Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai tomorrow morning. If you are around NYC and are interested in single cell / spatial genomics, the talk starts at 10am. Hope you see you there! 🧪🧬🖥️

events.mountsinaihealth.org/event/geneti...

Kinnary Shah is a fourth-year PhD candidate and co-president of the Biostats Student Org. Learn more about Kinnary and two of her ongoing research projects, one with the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social, and one with @stephaniehicks.bsky.social, on our website:
publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...

Thank you Amy!

New paper out in @genomeresearch.bsky.social on using contrastive self-supervised learning for spatial domain detection with multi-omics data! Huge congratulations to Jianing Yao and coauthors Jinglun Yu, Brian Caffo Stephanie Page & @martinowk.bsky.social! 🧬 🖥️ 🧪

doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...

a cartoon character from the movie monsters inc is asking is it hard to stay awake ? nap time . ALT: a cartoon character from the movie monsters inc is asking is it hard to stay awake ? nap time .

New article is out! Sleep deprivation is bad for the brain transcriptome, but how quickly can a little sleep reverse this effect? A team effort and fun collaboration with @stephaniehicks.bsky.social (a thread) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40315180/

Stephanie Hicks named fellow of the American Statistical Association Hicks was recognized for her professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistics.

Congratulations to Malone Center affiliate member @stephaniehicks.bsky.social on this distinction from @amstatnews.bsky.social!

. @stephaniehicks.bsky.social giving a master class on spatial genomics analysis - normalization and qc are essential to reveal the underlying biology! #bog25

The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism

I really enjoyed this article: The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism! 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

h/t @boyiguo.bsky.social

2025 ASA Fellows Congratulations Abhirup Datta / Stephanie Hicks

We are thrilled to announce that @dattascientist.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social have been elected Fellows of the American Statistical Association! 🎉 This prestigious honor recognizes outstanding contributions to statistical science. Congrats Abhi & Stephanie! 👏 @amstatnews.bsky.social

April is #Autism Awareness Month. This is a month to accept, understand and love those in the Autism Spectrum. Above all accepting that someone is different and respecting their differences is the most important thing we can do. Here are some facts to help understand (a thread):

Rafa has come out swinging this morning 😂

Always excited to have @rafalab.bsky.social visit Hopkins! He’s talk about statistical challenges in single single and spatial omics. 🧪🧬🖥️

So this weekend I won the veggie category at @jhubiostat.bsky.social annual Chili Cookoff! Huge congratulations to @statsprofo.bsky.social — winner of the meat category! We have the privilege of wearing these hats for the next year 😂 🌶️ #stats 🧪🧬💻

PS thank you @lizstuart.bsky.social for hosting! 🌸

Same. Except I have three boys ranging between 8 and 3 years old and they all just talk at the same time to me lol.

Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.

Still processing what this means. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...

Bioconductor Community Advisory Board – Bioconductor community blog An introduction to the new Co-Chair

📝 New Bioconductor Blog Post on CAB and its new co-chair!

@smped.bsky.social introduces themselves and shares insights about the Community Advisory Board (CAB).
Check it out here: buff.ly/EZWEg0A

#Bioconductor #Bioinformatics #RStats #OpenScience

Op-ed: Gutting NIH Is Hurting Our Community We are living through an era of accelerated medical progress: in just a few decades, childhood leukemia survival has jumped from 10% to over 90%. Yet, more work remains: cancer […]

decided to write an op-ed for our local journal to support federally funded research - I encourage you to spread the good word! riverjournalonline.com/letters/op-e... thanks @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and @sean-ryder-music.bsky.social for the inspiration

Thank you for the reminder! It’s posted!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

Also, consider joining on March 7th!

standupforscience2025.org

NIH serves the US public. If you value the ability to get diagnosed and having treatments to a disease when you or a loved one get sick (cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart or kidney disease, diabetes, etc) please consider calling your representative. This has to be stopped. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠

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