Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fantastic new work led by @rphillips3.bsky.social and @jianingyao.bsky.social profiling the human nucleus accumbens in 3D! 051
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Excited 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! 🎉 1810
Reposted by Stephanie HicksJianing Yao @jianingyao.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Very 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! 0123
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Really excited to share new work profiling the human nucleus accumbens with spatial transcriptomics in 3D! 🧵 below 061
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Excited 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/... 1283
Reposted by Stephanie HicksAide Macias-Muñoz @aidemm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I 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 181
Reposted by Stephanie HicksVinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026What?!!!!! They are ending continuous submission? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-26-064: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous SubmissionNIH 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 4147
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Incredibly 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! 061
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Consider 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 #DigitalPathologystatgen26.emory.eduSTATGEN 2026: Conference on Statistics in Genomics and GeneticsSTATGEN 2026: Conference on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, May 18-20, 2026. ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics. 0128
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I am very excited to share this book! It has been so much to collaborate on the project. We hope you find it useful! 0227
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 15/11/2025🧪 🧬🖥️ 🧠 #neuroskyence #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM #Autism 041
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Very 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 #WomenInSTEMapply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 02619
Reposted by Stephanie HicksAki Nishimura @aki-nishimura.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Adding 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. 111
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Come work with me! @jhubiostat.bsky.social is hiring for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position 🥳 Apps due Nov 15 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/176686 🧪🧬💻🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEMapply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 11615
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Looking 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 🧪🧬💻🧠apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 087
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This was a really fantastic collaboration! Congratulations @mictott.bsky.social Rita Cervera Juanes, @svitlanabach.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🧪🧬💻🧠 1114
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Congratulations 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 👏 0184
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Thank 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. 🧬🧪💻 1162
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Congratulations @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 👏 092
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Excited 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-...stephaniehicks.comTranslating the face-paced world of research in deep learning and genetics and genomics to the classroom – Stephanie C. Hicks, PhD 23013
Reposted by Stephanie HicksWill Townes @willtownes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Benchmarking 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... #genomicsdoi.orgCharacterizing efficient feature selection for single-cell expression analysisAbstract. Unsupervised feature selection is a critical step for efficient and accurate analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data. Previous benchmarks used two d 0122
Reposted by Stephanie HicksBioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Big 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 093
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Very excited to see this important work out led by the talented @mictott.bsky.social @boyiguo.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social! 🧪🧬🖥️ 1225
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Looking 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...events.mountsinaihealth.orgGenetics and Genomic Sciences External Seminar Series | Stephanie Hicks, MA, PhD 020
Reposted by Stephanie HicksJohns Hopkins Dept of Biostatistics @jhubiostat.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Kinnary 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/... 0115
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 21/05/2025New 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... 1194
Reposted by Stephanie HicksLucia Peixoto @sciencenlucia.bsky.social · 06/05/2025New 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/media.tenor.coma 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 . 42810
Reposted by Stephanie HicksJHU Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare @jhumceh.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Congratulations to Malone Center affiliate member @stephaniehicks.bsky.social on this distinction from @amstatnews.bsky.social!malonecenter.jhu.eduStephanie Hicks named fellow of the American Statistical AssociationHicks was recognized for her professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistics. 24012
Reposted by Stephanie HicksMike 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 0244
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I really enjoyed this article: The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism! 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @boyiguo.bsky.socialnature.comThe synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism - Molecular PsychiatryMolecular Psychiatry - The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism 0162
Reposted by Stephanie HicksJohns Hopkins Dept of Biostatistics @jhubiostat.bsky.social · 22/04/2025We 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 0405
Reposted by Stephanie HicksLucia Peixoto @sciencenlucia.bsky.social · 21/04/2025April 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): 1148
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Rafa has come out swinging this morning 😂 66813
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Always excited to have @rafalab.bsky.social visit Hopkins! He’s talk about statistical challenges in single single and spatial omics. 🧪🧬🖥️ 0121
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025So 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! 🌸 2513
Reposted by Stephanie HicksMike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Still processing what this means. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...statnews.comEric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research InstituteThe longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes. 85936
Reposted by Stephanie HicksBioconductor @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 #OpenSciencebuff.lyBioconductor Community Advisory Board – Bioconductor community blogAn introduction to the new Co-Chair 0104
Reposted by Stephanie HicksTimothée Lionnet @successprocess.bsky.social · 04/03/2025decided 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 inspirationriverjournalonline.comOp-ed: Gutting NIH Is Hurting Our CommunityWe 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 […] 35625
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Friends, 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...science.orgNIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house researchPolicy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs 301095332
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025This 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...nature.comTransformers in single-cell omics: a review and new perspectives - Nature MethodsThis Perspective presents a comprehensive and in-depth overview of computational models based on the deep learning architecture of transformers for single-cell omics analysis. 2406
Reposted by Stephanie HicksMike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025We 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-...jxtxfoundation.orgJXTX + CSHL 2025 Biology of Genomes ScholarshipJXTX + CSHL 2025 Biology of Genomes Scholarship 01521
Reposted by Stephanie HicksCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 05/02/2025National 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...politico.comScience funding agency threatened with mass layoffsNational Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday. 67849
Reposted by Stephanie HicksRLadies+ 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 2206
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgTrump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiringResearchers facing 11710
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Does anyone have any favorite reviews of autoencoders or VAEs for genomics data? 4398
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Spent the day at the Maryland Science Center & a German Christmas along the Baltimore waterfront today! 🎄🧬🖥️🧪 7581
Reposted by Stephanie HicksLindsay Hayes @lnhayeslab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Hayes Lab circa summer 2024! Excited to be growing. 0102
Reposted by Stephanie HicksKeri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Super 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. 03914
Reposted by Stephanie HicksAnne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024I’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! 2477
Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Incredibly 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! 🧪🧬💻 2475