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Atul Butte

@atulbutte.bsky.social
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Chief Data Scientist U of CA Health・Director, Bakar Computational Health Sci Institute・Distinguished Prof af UCSF・Entrepreneur・He/him・Opinions ⇨ my own

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William Okech @willyokech.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The African Cancer Atlas (TACA) www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
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Yemaachi Biotechnology Launches The African Cancer Atlas, in Partnership with Roche
Yemaachi Biotech, a pioneering genomics research company based in Ghana, announced today a partnership with Roche to launch The African Cancer Atlas (
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HIPC @hipcproject.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Go look at our #data Free and #FAIRsharing. 144 studies, 10,244 human participants and > 135,000 samples. #systems #immunology @immportdb.bsky.social #IDsky #immunesky Check our #analysis tools at immunespace.org immport.org/resources/hipc
8 colored circles who different scientific assays used in #immune #studies part of Human Immunology Project. Data is free for sharing.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Yeah! All 10 campuses of the @UofCalifornia are now considered R1 research institutions!
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UC Merced achieves R1 classification, bringing all UC campuses to the highest tier among research universities
Each UC campus now resides among the exclusive group of 187 accredited doctoral-granting universities in the United States designated R1 by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher…
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Great new article showcasing how researchers across @UofCAHealth are using @UofCalifornia Health Data Warehouse to study endometriosis, glaucoma, rare disease, cirrhosis, and more! Includes the work of @ManishButte @msirota84 @DrJonWatanabe and many others! bit.ly/4h5lmrh
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Data science is accelerating UC medical research, diagnosis and treatment in California
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
So awesome! “Daily ferry service is sailing toward Mission Bay.”  Imagine commuting directly to @UCSF Mission Bay via high-speed zero-emissions boat! Scheduled to begin service in 2027. Now all we need is service to the South Bay! 😊 www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/01...
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Ferry Service at Mission Bay: When You’ll Benefit From a New Commute Option
A new all-electric ferry to Mission Bay launches in 2027, supported by a $55M EPA grant, aiding UCSF commuters and patients.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Use my starter pack to add about 90 accounts to follow in science, #AI, bioinformatics, and clinical informatics! go.bsky.app/97wmgsZ
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Thinking of and praying for my friends, family, and colleagues in and around Santa Monica and @UCLA @UCLAHealth during these terrible fires…
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Whoa!! @HHSGov drops 125 page HIPAA update for comments: "update[s] HIPAA Security Rule for the first time since 2013"! www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-pr...
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Rohit Vashisht @rohitv.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Join us for Post-Doctoral projects at @atulbutte.bsky.social on a newly funded FDA project on real-world analysis of onco-therapies! If you have a passion for epidemiology, causal inference, LLMs & scientific rigor, we'd love to hear from you. Please DM me. Spread the word. Thank you.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I often wish the default iPad on screen keyboard had arrow keys to navigate in text…
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
2024 saw another record for bioRxiv postings. Thanks to all the CSHL staff, affiliates, authors, funders, and everyone who advocates for the project. Happy New Year and #letsmakethisthenorm ! 🧪
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This ad seemed so hard to believe back in 1999… "all rooms have every movie ever made in any language anytime, day or night."
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Qwest commercial 1999 - Every Movie
Remember how absurd this seemed in 1999 before the internet really took off? When the weary traveler asked the front desk what entertainment was available, t...
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Whoa! In @NEJM_AI: A Multimodal Biomedical Foundation Model Trained from 15 Million Image–Text Pairs… fully open-access foundation model! ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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A Multimodal Biomedical Foundation Model Trained from Fifteen Million Image–Text Pairs
Biomedical data are inherently multimodal, comprising physical measurements and natural-language narratives. A generalist biomedical artificial intelligence (AI) model needs to simultaneously proce...
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Folks moving back to California! “California nets large population increase in 2024 — nearly returning to pre-pandemic level” buff.ly/4fxlMVs
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California nets large population increase in 2024 — nearly returning to pre-pandemic level
It had the third most new residents of any state, by raw numbers.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A great job for someone, for certain. But I am re-posting this because this photo of the Geisel (of Dr. Seuss fame) Library at UC San Diego is a reminder of the twinned seriousness and surreality of my undergraduate education there--and the (re)imagining and (re)visioning it made possible for me.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Great! @UCSD Biomedical Informatics is recruiting new tenure-track faculty! Assistant Professor  buff.ly/49LX6rf ; Associate or Full Professor  
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Associate or Full Professor (Ladder/In-Residence) Biomedical Informatics Research
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Nearly 50 US #AI startups raised $100M+ in 2024!
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Here’s the full list of 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024 | TechCrunch
AI startups continue to dominate the venture capital funding landscape. Here are the all the megarounds so far in 2024.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
$1 million dollars up for grabs from @NIH for the teams that come up with the best measures of research data sharing, also known as a Data Sharing Index (S-index)! www.freelancer.com/contest/nih-... HT @michaelfchiang.bsky.social
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NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge
Check out this contest and enter now!
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart’s Law en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhar...
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Goodhart's law - Wikipedia
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Michael F. Chiang @michaelfchiang.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Here's a website that describes the NIH "s-index challenge" to promote data sharing by developing a robust metric to identify exemplary data sharers. National Eye Institute is excited lead a large group of participating NIH institutes (shown on website). www.freelancer.com/contest/NIH-...
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NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge
Check out this contest and enter now!
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Karandeep(Singh) @kdpsingh.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
There’s a lot to unpack in the Bipartisan House Task Force Report on AI. It’s clear that progress will require collaboration to ensure a healthy evaluation/adoption pipeline. Glad to see @ucsdhealth.bsky.social’s work in sepsis AI highlighted in this report. Link: www.speaker.gov/wp-content/u...
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Francesco Iorio @francescoiorio.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
After nearly 15 years since its publication, #MANTRA (the tool for drug repositioning I designed during my PhD in Diego di Bernardo's lab at TIGEM) still goes strong! @atulbutte.bsky.social and colleagues using it for drug repurposing in skin inflammation here 👇 👍 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Repurposing an epithelial sodium channel inhibitor as a therapy for murine and human skin inflammation
Computational and molecular analysis identified benzamil as a potential treatment for skin inflammation in murine and human xenograft skin models.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Woah! New Microsoft python packages convert from Office documents into Markdown! github.com/microsoft/ma...
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GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown
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Julian Hong @julianhong.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Excited to share our latest paper evaluating large language models in assessing oncology radiology reports. Led by superstars Travis Zack and CPH student Li-Cheng Chen! @atulbutte.bsky.social Annotated reports included @ucsf-bcshi.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
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Assessing Large Language Models for Oncology Data Inference From Radiology Reports | JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
PURPOSEWe examined the effectiveness of proprietary and open large language models (LLMs) in detecting disease presence, location, and treatment response in pancreatic cancer from radiology reports.ME...
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Very cool! One genomic test can diagnose nearly any infection! Comes out of the lab of Charles Chiu @ucsfhealth.bsky.social www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/11...
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1 Genomic Test Can Diagnose Nearly Any Infection
A decade-long effort has resulted in a new, rapid genomic test to diagnose rare infectious diseases in the brain and lungs.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Whoa… @Snowflake expanding into Menlo Park? "The 773,000 square feet that Snowflake subleased from @Meta is enough office space for 3,000 to 3,800 workers." buff.ly/3CSJq15
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Tech firm signs huge Menlo Park office deal, enough space for thousands
A tech company has signed a mammoth office deal in the South Bay.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The nerd in me loves this! Nearly 400 logos in this Space Exploration Logo Archive… buff.ly/3ZA8qmP
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Whoa! @Amazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup @Anthropic!
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Amazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic
Amazon is investing an additional $4 billion in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic as major technology companies rush to fund generative AI.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Tens of thousands of sounds and sound effects freely available for your creations, courtesy of the @BBC! sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk
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BBC Sound Effects
BBC Sound Effects
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
WOW! @UCLAHealth hiring Associate Dean for Health AI Innovation & Strategy and Director, @UCLA Center for AI & Smart Health! Tenure-track and non- options available. Opportunity to shape and drive #AI vision and strategy. Apply soon! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10032
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Associate Dean for Health AI Innovation & Strategy and Director, UCLA Center for AI & Smart Health (non-tenured track)
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Great! Passing 100 publications reusing data sets from @ImmPortDB!
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Publications - ImmPort Documentation
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Jessie Tenenbaum @jessiet1023.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Duke is hiring #Informatics faculty! 2 positions- Clinical Research Informatics (data harmonization, linkage, etc.) and Collaborative #AI. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29227 #jobs #faculty #academia
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Duke University, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So thrilled (and surprised) to be featured in 2024 UCSF State of the University, highlighting the Baker Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bksky.social helping “to create a world that is safe regardless of race, ethnicity, social determinants of health.” www.ucsf.edu/state-univer...
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State of the University Address
Live viewing page of the annual UCSF Chancellor's State of the University Address.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Presenting today from my lab at 8:30 AM in #AMIA2023 Grand Ballroom D: @Harry_S_Sun on DeepHeme: A generalizable, bone marrow classifier with hematopathologist level performance #deeplearning #AI
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Whoa… Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors! (via slashdot) buff.ly/3PYi6CE
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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares this report from Futurism: Training large language models is an incredibly power-intensive process that has an immense carbon footprint. Keeping data centers running requir...
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
The strike by the Writers Guild of America has ended. Here’s how they negotiated for protection against #AI… (via Engadget) t.co/U7TMdUrePR
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The WGA strike ends with protections against AI set in place
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has voted to officially lift its strike order, over half a year since it stopped work and demanded a better contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Televisi...
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Finally available in California! Sign up to join the pilot California’s mobile driver’s license / ID card is a “free, secure, and convenient digital ID”, supposedly works at SFO and LAX. Doesn’t (yet?) work with Apple Wallet like other states… www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/ca-dmv-wallet
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CA DMV Wallet & mDL Pilot - California DMV
The CA DMV Wallet app holds your mobile driver’s license (mDL) - a free, digital, secure, and convenient version of your California DL/ID.
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
SO great to see MakerFaire back in the Bay Area once again! Our kiddo got some much out of these every year, seeing adults so happy with their work, their creations, and their jobs! makerfaire.com/bay-area/?mc_cid=99e…
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Atul Butte @atulbutte.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
So great to see the new NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal, enabling researchers to find infectious and immune-mediated disease #opendata sets, including those from ImmPort! data.niaid.nih.gov
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NIAID Data Discovery Portal
Find and access allergic, infectious and immune-mediated disease data by searching across biomedical data repositories with the NIAID Data Discovery Portal
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