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YouTube video by UW eScience Institute Using machine learning to optimize prediction of extubation failure and clinical action

The eScience Institute, UW IT, and IMDS provide cloud computing resources to research projects across the university. Neha Sathe and Lucy Lu Wang's work, which received a IMDS Pilot Award, explores the use of machine learning to help predict extubation failure.
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Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/

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AI research boost: University of Washington expands infrastructure with $10M in federal funding Sen. Patty Murray said the funding will help provide a counterweight to AI development driven primarily by private capital. "If just billionaires are creating and using AI for their own projects that ...

We had the honor of hosting Senator Patty Murray at the eScience Institute after she secured $10 million in federal funds for AI infrastructure at UW. Check out @geekwire.com's coverage to learn more.
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Winter 2026 Data Science Office Hours Drop-In @ 6th Floor Physics/Astronomy Tower Data Science (in-person) - Wednesdays 2-3 PM Data Science (virtual) - Tuesdays 3-4 PM ML/AI (in-person) - Tuesdays 11 AM-12 PM HPC/Hyak (in-person) - Thursdays 2-3 PM Geospatial (virtual) - by appointment Text Mining (virtual) - by appointment 1:1 with a Data Scientist - by appointment

Attention UW researchers! Need data science and AI resources to take your research to the next level? Hit up our weekly office hours. Learn more at escience.uw.edu/oh

We ♥️ our collaborators at @uwescience.bsky.social! Thank you for @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for supporting the partnership. Thanks to them, the calbioscape.org tool is lightening fast and primed for impact 🙌 escience.washington.edu/ca-biositing...

UW Data Science Seminar: Brad Chamberlain YouTube video by UW eScience Institute

Interested in doing exploratory analytics interactively on data sets that exceed your workstation’s capacity? Learn about Arkouda, and how it compares to Pandas, Dask, and Spark, in this talk and demo given at the @uwescience.bsky.social Data Science Seminar:

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Applications for the eScience Winter School are due Wednesday, February 4th. This introductory program is for researchers from domains such as health, social sciences, and business interested in developing basic skills and knowledge of data science tools.
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@schmidtsciences.bsky.social awarded us access to scientific computing support from @uwescience.bsky.social & it has been a game changer. calbioscape.org is fast & allows for high-res feedstock filtering by composition and seasonality. Thank you, team! 🙌 escience.washington.edu/ca-biositing...

Photo of Neel giving a talk in front of a lectern with a slide that says BookTok or RomanceTok that shows a pie chart with the proportion of top 100 hashtags that relate to romance fiction. About half of the pie chart is romance, about half is non-content, and a small slice is other

Neel Gupta (@neel2112.bsky.social) just gave a great talk about BookTok and romance fiction, drawing on large-scale TikTok data.

This research is based on work with @uwescience.bsky.social and Spencer Wood through the Data Science & AI Accelerator. Stay tuned for more soon!

Join us for the #NeuroHackademy Neuroimaging and Data Science networking event at this year's @sfn.org meeting. Tues. Nov. 18th from 7–9pm at the Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom 4. The event is free; food and drink will be available for purchase from the hotel.

Curious about how AI is changing the way we do research? Join our Scientific Software Engineering Center on October 29th at 6:00 pm this #SeattleAIWeek for a community-driven event and panel on building better tools for AI in research.
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Head to IEB G109 tomorrow to hear Elle O'Brien's seminar titled "The Future of Scientific Code in the Era of Generative AI"
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Join us for a 6 session tutorial series on deep learning for images that will demonstrate how to build neural networks capable of addressing common computer vision tasks such as classifying patterns in images, detecting objects, etc. escience.washington.edu/events/pixel...

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

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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YouTube video by UW eScience Institute A Global Database of Seismic Phases: How the Denolle Quake Lab uses Cloud Computing Resources @ UW

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 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...

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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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.

#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...

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 ...

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...

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

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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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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....

🙌 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🌍☁️🧠

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

⏩ @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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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…

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 ⚒️