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Stephanie Hicks

@stephaniehicks.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins. stephaniehicks.com

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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fantastic new work led by @rphillips3.bsky.social and @jianingyao.bsky.social profiling the human nucleus accumbens in 3D!
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excited to share that @jhubiostat.bsky.social is hiring for postdoctoral fellows and tenure-track Assistant Professors! Details below and committees will start reviewing for both on Oct 1! 🎉
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Jianing Yao @jianingyao.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very excited to finally share our new preprint! It has been a great experience co-leading this work with Robert Phillips and developing a 3D view of cellular organization across the human nucleus accumbens. Please check out our new preprint below!
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Really excited to share new work profiling the human nucleus accumbens with spatial transcriptomics in 3D! 🧵 below
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Excited to be inducted as Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering! Advocacy for the #medical and #biological #engineering #sciences is more important now than ever. Thank you #AIMBE! 🧬 🧪 🖥️ @aimbe-official.bsky.social www.bme.jhu.edu/news-events/...
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Aide Macias-Muñoz @aidemm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I just discovered Quarto (genuine thanks to reviewer 2) and I LOVE IT so much. Anyone who is analyzing data and is not using it should be using it. I sent a general slack message to my lab to start using it immediately. #science #data #bioinformatics
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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What?!!!!! They are ending continuous submission? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-064: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission NOT-OD-26-064. NIH
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Incredibly excited to see this project out! Huge congratulations to the entire team. 🥳 Thank you so much to the donors and their families for enabling this work and thank you to the generous funding that supported the work too!
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Consider submitting an abstract for an invited talk or poster at STATGEN 2026 by December 15th! Amazing keynote speakers and statistical leaders in #genetics and #genomics! 👏 Hope to see you there! statgen26.emory.edu 🧪 🧬 🖥️ 🧠 #statssky #imaging #SingleCell #spatial #omics #DigitalPathology
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STATGEN 2026: Conference on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
STATGEN 2026: Conference on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, May 18-20, 2026. ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics.
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I am very excited to share this book! It has been so much to collaborate on the project. We hope you find it useful!
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
🧪 🧬🖥️ 🧠 #neuroskyence #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM #Autism
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Very excited to share that Department of Biomedical Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social is hiring for open rank tenure-track faculty in #Biomedical #DataScience! 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/177042 Apps starting to be reviewed Dec 5 and ongoing after! 🧪🧬🖥️🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM
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Aki Nishimura @aki-nishimura.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Adding that you are still encouraged to apply even if you can't hit the Nov 15th date! It's just the date we plan to start reviewing, but we'll definitely continue reviewing for some time.
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Come work with me! @jhubiostat.bsky.social is hiring for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position 🥳 Apps due Nov 15 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/176686 🧪🧬💻🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Looking for postdoctoral opportunities? ✅ Interested in working with me or any of the 30 other amazing @jhubiostat.bsky.social faculty? ✅ If yes, I encourage you to apply to our postdoc program in #DataScience and #AI in #Health and #Medicine! 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/174430 🧪🧬💻🧠
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This was a really fantastic collaboration! Congratulations @mictott.bsky.social Rita Cervera Juanes, @svitlanabach.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🧪🧬💻🧠
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Congratulations to @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social @svitlana-bach.bsky.social & all co-authors! Wonderful collab btw @alexisbattle.bsky.social and @martinowk.bsky.social @kr-maynard.bsky.social spatially profiling human nucleus accumbens 🧠 #TeamScience 🧪 🧬 🖥️ Thank you #NIH #NIDA for generous funding 👏
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Thank you for the invitation @sib.swiss! I really enjoyed talking with everyone and I learned a lot over the last few days. I highly recommend this conference to anyone working in Bioinformatics. 🧬🧪💻
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Congratulations @kinnaryshah.bsky.social @mictott.bsky.social @svitlanabach.bsky.social & all co-authors! Wonderful collab btw @jhubiostat.bsky.social @jhu.edu and @lieberinstitute.bsky.social spatially profiling human dACC 🧠 #TeamScience 🧪 🧬 🖥️ Thank you #NIDA #NIMH for generous funding & support 👏
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Excited to share a blogpost summarizing challenges, opportunities & reflections from a course @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social co-taught with @alexisbattle.bsky.social (and huge support from Seraj Grimes!) at the intersection of #deeplearning #genetics #genomics 🧪 🧬 💻 stephaniehicks.com/blog/course-...
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Translating the face-paced world of research in deep learning and genetics and genomics to the classroom – Stephanie C. Hicks, PhD
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Will Townes @willtownes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Benchmarking study of single-cell feature selection finds deviance to be an effective criterion: doi.org/10.1093/bib/... . Try it yourself with our ( @kstreet.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @davi1893.bsky.social ) scry package @bioconductor.bsky.social : doi.org/doi:10.18129... #genomics
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Characterizing efficient feature selection for single-cell expression analysis
Abstract. Unsupervised feature selection is a critical step for efficient and accurate analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data. Previous benchmarks used two d
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Big thanks to everyone who made #GBCC2025 a fantastic week of science, collaboration, and community! Highlights for Bioconductor included keynotes, hands-on projects, and great conversations 💻🧬 @galaxyproject.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social
Vince Carey opening GBCC2025 with a slide highlighting Bioconductor’s technical and community advances.Charlotte Soneson delivering her keynote titled “From classes to community: how Bioconductor has advanced my research.”Slide showing GBCC2025 sponsors and supporters - CZI, Limagrain, GalaxyWorks, Bristol Myers Squibb, R Consortium, Gigascience, ELIXIR, NHGRILarge group photo of GBCC2025 attendees outdoors at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, smiling and gathered on the steps.
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Very excited to see this important work out led by the talented @mictott.bsky.social @boyiguo.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social! 🧪🧬🖥️
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Looking forward to visit Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai tomorrow morning. If you are around NYC and are interested in single cell / spatial genomics, the talk starts at 10am. Hope you see you there! 🧪🧬🖥️ events.mountsinaihealth.org/event/geneti...
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Genetics and Genomic Sciences External Seminar Series | Stephanie Hicks, MA, PhD
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Johns Hopkins Dept of Biostatistics @jhubiostat.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Kinnary Shah is a fourth-year PhD candidate and co-president of the Biostats Student Org. Learn more about Kinnary and two of her ongoing research projects, one with the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social, and one with @stephaniehicks.bsky.social, on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
New paper out in @genomeresearch.bsky.social on using contrastive self-supervised learning for spatial domain detection with multi-omics data! Huge congratulations to Jianing Yao and coauthors Jinglun Yu, Brian Caffo Stephanie Page & @martinowk.bsky.social! 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...
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Lucia Peixoto @sciencenlucia.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New article is out! Sleep deprivation is bad for the brain transcriptome, but how quickly can a little sleep reverse this effect? A team effort and fun collaboration with @stephaniehicks.bsky.social (a thread) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40315180/
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a cartoon character from the movie monsters inc is asking is it hard to stay awake ? nap time .
ALT: a cartoon character from the movie monsters inc is asking is it hard to stay awake ? nap time .
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JHU Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare @jhumceh.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Congratulations to Malone Center affiliate member @stephaniehicks.bsky.social on this distinction from @amstatnews.bsky.social!
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Stephanie Hicks named fellow of the American Statistical Association
Hicks was recognized for her professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistics.
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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
. @stephaniehicks.bsky.social giving a master class on spatial genomics analysis - normalization and qc are essential to reveal the underlying biology! #bog25
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I really enjoyed this article: The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism! 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @boyiguo.bsky.social
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The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism
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Johns Hopkins Dept of Biostatistics @jhubiostat.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
We are thrilled to announce that @dattascientist.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social have been elected Fellows of the American Statistical Association! 🎉 This prestigious honor recognizes outstanding contributions to statistical science. Congrats Abhi & Stephanie! 👏 @amstatnews.bsky.social
2025 ASA Fellows
Congratulations
Abhirup Datta / Stephanie Hicks
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Lucia Peixoto @sciencenlucia.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
April is #Autism Awareness Month. This is a month to accept, understand and love those in the Autism Spectrum. Above all accepting that someone is different and respecting their differences is the most important thing we can do. Here are some facts to help understand (a thread):
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Rafa has come out swinging this morning 😂
Rafa showing a UMAP
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Always excited to have @rafalab.bsky.social visit Hopkins! He’s talk about statistical challenges in single single and spatial omics. 🧪🧬🖥️
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
So this weekend I won the veggie category at @jhubiostat.bsky.social annual Chili Cookoff! Huge congratulations to @statsprofo.bsky.social — winner of the meat category! We have the privilege of wearing these hats for the next year 😂 🌶️ #stats 🧪🧬💻 PS thank you @lizstuart.bsky.social for hosting! 🌸
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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Still processing what this means. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...
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Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute
The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
📝 New Bioconductor Blog Post on CAB and its new co-chair! @smped.bsky.social introduces themselves and shares insights about the Community Advisory Board (CAB). Check it out here: buff.ly/EZWEg0A #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics #RStats #OpenScience
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Bioconductor Community Advisory Board – Bioconductor community blog
An introduction to the new Co-Chair
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Timothée Lionnet @successprocess.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
decided to write an op-ed for our local journal to support federally funded research - I encourage you to spread the good word! riverjournalonline.com/letters/op-e... thanks @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and @sean-ryder-music.bsky.social for the inspiration
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Op-ed: Gutting NIH Is Hurting Our Community
We are living through an era of accelerated medical progress: in just a few decades, childhood leukemia survival has jumped from 10% to over 90%. Yet, more work remains: cancer […]
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠 www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This week our class had an awesome discussion on this review article discussing #transformers for #SingleCell. One of my favorite parts was discussing Figure 3 on current strategies for how to transform the counts to a format that can be used by transformer. 1/n 🧪🧬💻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Transformers in single-cell omics: a review and new perspectives - Nature Methods
This Perspective presents a comprehensive and in-depth overview of computational models based on the deep learning architecture of transformers for single-cell omics analysis.
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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We are now accepting applications for scholarships to the @cshlaboratory.bsky.social Biology of Genomes meeting from the @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social. Open to students worldwide in support of open science. Please help spread the word! jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-2-...
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JXTX + CSHL 2025 Biology of Genomes Scholarship
JXTX + CSHL 2025 Biology of Genomes Scholarship
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 05/02/2025
National Science Foundation "is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months," Politico reports. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
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RLadies+ Bot @rladies-bot.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
📝 "Where does the U.S. Government Keep its Data?" 👤 Sam Tyner-Monroe 📖 US Govt data sources: R packages & agency APIs for economic, justice, labor, & more! Unlock data insights. 🔗 sctyner.me/post/2018-11-16-us-govt-… #rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Does anyone have any favorite reviews of autoencoders or VAEs for genomics data?
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Spent the day at the Maryland Science Center & a German Christmas along the Baltimore waterfront today! 🎄🧬🖥️🧪
German Christmas market in downtown Baltimore
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Lindsay Hayes @lnhayeslab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hayes Lab circa summer 2024! Excited to be growing.
Hayes Lab circa summer 2024
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Super huge congrats to postdoc in our group Bernie Mulvey and co-leads Kristen Maynard & @kasperdhansen.bsky.social on this absolute tour de force paper profiling sex differences in the human hypothalamus. Really important biological insight about gene expression differences in sex-biased disorders.
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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I’m told burnout comes less from having too much to do but rather feeling like what you have to do is out of your control (and/or unpleasant work). So, working out substantial changes in what you’re obligated to be doing is the best way out. Thus making space for something new/interesting!
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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Incredibly honored to be interviewed in this special issue @naturemethods.bsky.social and have work from the lab highlighted! Also, thanks for letting me share some thoughts on spatial atlases and where we are as a community to extract meaningful info from the these valuable data resources! 🧪🧬💻
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