We're recruiting a new faculty member Fred Hutch Cancer Center! We're looking for researchers who use data and data science in new and creative ways. All research areas are welcome, from ML/AI to cancer genomics to tech dev to other topics. apply.interfolio.com/115753

For interested parties, I've made a PCA of the Fred Hutch Cancer Center computational biology faculty... it's a fantastic group! 🧪: small wet lab 🧪🧪: big wet lab.

Jeremy Beaulieu (U Tennessee) and Brian O'Meara (U Arkansas) will be giving the next talk in our sequel series on birth-death identifiability on Tuesday, February 21 at 9:00 AM PST with a talk entitled "Diversification analyses: what can we do, and what should we do?"

Does anyone know if GISAID Initiative registration has stopped? Two key folks in my group requested a registration in January. They have sent emails via the contact form and I have too. No response. This is slowing us down: coders have to hand off code to people with access. 🫤

🚨Suchi Saria & I are embarking on an ambitious multi-year project to develop tools for monitoring & updating clinical AI algorithms, with collaborators from multiple federal agencies. If this sounds exciting to you, please apply at jeanfeng.com/joining & help spread the word!

This seminar has been moved to the following day and 30 minutes later: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM PDT . Please spread the word!

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New blog post: our recent work to understand the somatic hypermutation process that enables antibodies to incrementally improve. A story of running into the limitations of deep learning, but still gaining biological insight along the way. matsen.group/general/2025/0…

I'm excited about AI not as a way to get a big black-box oracle, but as a way to assist development of probabilistic models that inform our understanding of biological mechanisms. New blog post: matsen.group/general/2025/0…

Many of my favorite collaborators are immigrants who face double threats of funding cuts and the anti-immigrant political climate. To them and immigrants generally: we need you, and we want you here. I understand if you want to leave but I hope you will stay and reach out.

Working with Claude Code has been transformative. Yes, it does great on new code and refactoring. VSCode integration is 👍. But the big surprise: it can seamlessly edit notebooks and then view the plots to plan next steps. Time to update my blog post matsen.group/general/2025/0…

Excited to share my new preprint developed with (Fred)erick Matsen, in collaboration with Marius Brusselmans, Luiz Carvalho, Marc Suchard, and Guy Baele, on the biological causes and impacts of tree space ruggedness in phylodynamic inference. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…