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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 ⚒️

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
@uwescience.bsky.social in May.

Learn more: scientific-python.org

#CDSSBigGive #CalBigGive #OpenSource #OpenScience

Scientific Software Engineering Opportunity | Echospace @ UW

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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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...

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...

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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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!

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

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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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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Head over to HCK 132 today for the third AI@UW talk at 4:30: "Data-Driven Optimization of Stochastic Computational Experiments: Applications in Hazard Risk Assessment"
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The second installment of AI@UW starts tomorrow at 4:30pm. Come check out "Revealing the Hidden Lives of Cryptic Carnivores with Machine Learning and AI" in HCK 132.

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A snowy morning on the UW campus ❄️

Join us tomorrow at 4:30pm in Hitchcock Hall 132 for the first talk in our AI@UW series, "Trustworthy Human-AI Shared Autonomy: Theory and Modeling."
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Got a research project that could use help with data intensive and AI approaches? Learn more about our accelerator here:
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Hi there, Bluesky! We are the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. We provide data science and AI resources as well as expertise to UW researchers from all fields of study. Follow us to hear more about our upcoming seminars, tutorials, and research collaborations!