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Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology

@ocbe.bsky.social

OCBE develops statistical, machine learning and epidemiological methods to progress science and contribute to a better health @uio.no and Oslo University Hospital https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/centres/ocbe/

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PrefStat 2025: Preference Statistics summer school in Oslo - Integreat As part of the PrefStat summer school, Integreat organises 2nd International Summer School on Preference Learning at the University of Oslo.Β Registration deadline: 2 June 2025 (early bird 30 April)

Kate will also be a lecturer at the upcoming PhD summer school PrefStat in Oslo next week. @valeriavitelli.bsky.social
www.integreat.no/events/publi...

26.06.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful Kate Lee (profiles.auckland.ac.nz/kate-lee) presenting our last OCBE Biostatistical Seminar this semester right now about Generalised Bayesian Inference and how to do more robist inference with model specifications. @ocbe.bsky.social

www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...

26.06.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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The nice weather continues in Oslo - today is the traditional summer party in the research group for occupational/environmental epidemiology

Cancer Registry of Norway
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19.06.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last Epistat group meeting before summer - outdoors!
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18.06.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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KI-milliarden er delt ut. Arnoldo Frigessis TRUST fΓ₯r 200 millioner kroner - Titan.uio.no Statsminister Jonas Gahr StΓΈre delte ut 1,2 milliarder kroner til seks forskningssentre. To av sentrene skal ledes fra Universitetet i Oslo.

Huge congratulations, Arnoldo @frigessi.bsky.social! Absolutely great that statistics is so much at the centre of AI research in Norway, already now with Integreat and now even more. Looking forward for our @ocbe.bsky.social to participate in this adventure. 😊
www.titan.uio.no/teknologi/20...

11.06.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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12.06.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tildelt ti millioner for Γ₯ forske pΓ₯ Klebsiella - Institutt for medisinske basalfag Bakterien Klebsiella kan gi lungebetennelse og blodforgiftning, og mange fΓ₯r den mens de er innlagt pΓ₯ sykehus. NΓ₯ fΓ₯r Jessica Calland ti millioner fra NFRs FRIPRO for Γ₯ forske pΓ₯ den lumske bakterien...

Overjoyed to have received one of the FRIPRO Young Talent grants from the Norwegian research council to investigate the effects of hospitalisation on Klebsiella colonisation! πŸŽ‰πŸ₯³
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11.06.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This is already the second such grant this year (both from Jukka Corander’s group), and the third FRIPRO grant in 2025. 3 out of 3 for @ocbe.bsky.social ! 😊

11.06.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tildelt ti millioner for Γ₯ forske pΓ₯ Klebsiella - Institutt for medisinske basalfag Bakterien Klebsiella kan gi lungebetennelse og blodforgiftning, og mange fΓ₯r den mens de er innlagt pΓ₯ sykehus. NΓ₯ fΓ₯r Jessica Calland ti millioner fra NFRs FRIPRO for Γ₯ forske pΓ₯ den lumske bakterien...

Congratulations to our own fantastic Jessica Calland @ocbe.bsky.social for receiving the prestigious FRIPRO Young Talents grant from the Norwegian Research Council! πŸŽ‰ She will continue her work identifying drivers of Klebsiella colonisation in critically ill patients.

www.med.uio.no/imb/om/aktue...

11.06.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Nordic-Baltic Biometric Conference 2025 (NBBC 2025) The Nordic-Baltic Region of the International Biometric Society welcomes you to the 10th Nordic-Baltic Biometric Conference!Β  The conference will take place June 10-12, 2025, at the University of Oslo...

Thanks for a fantastic first day at www.nbbc2025.com here in Oslo organised by my wonderful colleagues @ocbe.bsky.social! Great talks, interesting chats during breaks and wonderful to catch up with old friends and new contacts! Looking forward to tomorrow!

10.06.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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OCBE newsletter, May 2025 - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences This month we showcase recent publications on physical activity in cancer patients, results of rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials and much more.

Don’t miss the May OCBE newsletter with publications about physical activity and cancer, results of rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials and much more

www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...

02.06.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

JOBS ALERT! PhD position & 3-y postdoc position in statistics within my research group at @ocbe.bsky.social @uio.no
Both are linked to a project funded from the Research Council of Norway on Integrative Bayesian clustering for high-dim data in omics

Deadline: 13 June 2025

More info & links below!

27.05.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

Only 4 days left to the deadline: Become our new colleague as associate professor in biostatistical machine learning at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social and our Centre of Knowledge-driven Machine Learning Integreat!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

14.05.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

Join us in beautiful Oslo!
Associate Professor @ocbe.bsky.social
@uio.no
Deadline May 18th
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

08.05.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Tomorrow last day for early-bird registration to PrefStat 2025, 2nd International Summer School on Preference Learning for Ranking and Ordinal Data (www.prefstat.org)! In Oslo, 30.06 – 04.07. Register here: www.integreat.no/events/publi...
@valeriavitelli.bsky.social @ocbe.bsky.social @uio.no

29.04.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Find out about new publications from my fantastic colleagues in our new @ocbe.bsky.social newsletter! And follow us all by following our starter pack: go.bsky.app/6bqMnLQ

29.04.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Researcher with statistical competence in causal inference for infectious disease | FINN.no The Section for Modelling and Bioinformatics, in the Department of Method Development and Analytics, is recruiting a researcher for a permanent position. In

Open permanent position as researcher in causal inference for infectious diseases at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health! Deadline May 16.

www.finn.no/job/fulltime...

25.04.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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OCBE newsletter, April 2025 - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Welcome to the OCBE newsletter! This month we showcase our recent publications on environmental exposures and cancer risk, drug repurposing, bacterial DNA sequencing and much more.

We have started a new monthly newsletter, the OCBE newsletter!!! where will be showcasing our recent publications and other relevant news. Check out the first edition here:

www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...

25.04.2025 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Machine Learning In Clinical Research Workshop - Day 2 PPH Visiting Faculty Scholar Vessela Kristensen is hosting a workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Research on Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11, in Carl Icahn Lab and at 252 Nassau Street. F...

On my way to @princetonupress.bsky.social to speak in a workshop on Machine learning for Clinical Research hosted by Olga Troyanskaya and Vessela Kristensen at Princeton Precision Health

pph.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

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09.04.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

🏹 Job alert: Associate Professor in Machine Learning for Biomedical Application

The @ocbe.bsky.social seeks experts in statistical machine learning with a strong interest in medical applications. This is a permanent, tenured position.

πŸ“ Oslo
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➑️ by May 18

04.04.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am very excited to start my new roles as associate professor @uio.no @ocbe.bsky.social and group leader at the Oslo University Hospital (Departmemt of Medical Genetics). This would have not been possible without the support and help of all my mentors, colleagues and collaborators. Thank you all!

02.04.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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PhD Research Fellow in Epidemiology (278150) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Epidemiology (278150), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2025

3-year PhD position @ocbe.bsky.social in beautiful Oslo.

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate interested in statistial applications and occupational epidemiological research

Join our team!

Deadline: April 21

More information:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

28.03.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is interesting! @ocbe.bsky.social

28.03.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Bayesian Belief Network model for the estimation of risk of cardiovascular events in subjects with type 1 diabetes Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) represent a major risk for people with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Our aim here is to develop a new methodology that overcom…

A Bayesian Belief Network model to predict CVD in subjects with T1D, from our Horizon 2020 collaboration
Ornella Moro
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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IUIBS

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24.03.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Learning Dynamics with Neural Networks mathematical-oncology.org

What is the difference between PINNs, Universal PINNs, Neural Differential Equations (DEs) and Universal DEs?

Don’t miss this blog post that I wrote with a bunch of amazing colleagues from a #MechanisticLearning workshop in Canada

mathematical-oncology.org/blog/learnin...

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21.03.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My fantastic colleagues! πŸ’ͺ @ocbe.bsky.social reseacher Niki Marjerrison is studying cancer risks for firemen.

20.03.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do firefighters get prostate cancer because of their work? - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences When it comes to lung cancer, we know of more than 30 substances that are carcinogenic. But when researchers began investigating why there is a higher incidence of prostate cancer in firefighters, the...

Kreftregisteret
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20.03.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Welcome to BlueSky from @ocbe.bsky.social ! πŸ“ŠπŸ§¬πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»

17.03.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Come join us at @ocbe.bsky.social in beautiful Oslo!

12.03.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Important meeting today discussing the continued increase in melanoma incidence & sun safety - general population & outdoor workers

Norwegian Cancer Society
Cancer Registry of Norway
DSA
STAMI
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11.03.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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