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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The eScience Institute is excited to be part of this multi-institutional team on the National Data Platform. We look forward to working with researchers and educators to shape NDP's workflows around research needs and support a broad community of scholars and learners. today.ucsd.edu/story/nation...
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Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“I’ve always thought that our most important and highest impact role is as educators.” Today, #UWAllen professor emeritus @edlazowska.bsky.social receives UW's Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award for his impact on thousands of students over the years. www.cs.washington.edu/allen-school... #ThisIsUW
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Professor emeritus Ed Lazowska receives Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
The award, which is based on nominations from University of Washington alumni, honors “UW educators whose profound influence continues to shape the lives of their students long after they’ve left the ...
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geekwire.com @geekwire.com · 21/05/2026
UW’s Ed Lazowska adds ‘Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award’ to his long list of honors www.geekwire.com/2026/uws-ed-lazows…
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Register for the A.I. ABCs; a workshop that teaches the many AI/ML tools available for analyzing structured data. The workshop is targeted at researchers with some programming experience but modest exposure to advanced math, stats, and computation. uwescience.github.io/ai-abcs_2026...
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What is the “A.I. ABCs”?
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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 21/04/2026
Nature @nature.com published a technology feature article about tips for debugging scientific code, with insights from Information School Professor and Associate Dean for Academics Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Got bugs? Here’s how to catch the errors in your scientific software
Computer scientists share their advice for ensuring that your scientific software does what it’s supposed to do.
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · 16/04/2026
Thanks to the amazing work by @uwescience.bsky.social's Noah Benson, NeuroHackademy now has a beautiful new website, with an emphasis on improved accessibility: neurohackademy.org
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The Neurohackademy
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Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Corinne Scown grew up running barefoot through Sacramento's smoky days. Now she's making sure her kids won't have to. Through our VIFF program, she's turning agricultural biomass — the organic byproducts from farming — into cleaner air. #WomenInScience youtu.be/E-k36CbsCAo
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · 26/01/2026
Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/ @uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We had the honor of hosting Senator Patty Murray at the eScience Institute after she secured $10 million in federal funds for AI infrastructure at UW. Check out @geekwire.com's coverage to learn more. www.geekwire.com/2026/ai-rese...
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AI research boost: University of Washington expands infrastructure with $10M in federal funding
Sen. Patty Murray said the funding will help provide a counterweight to AI development driven primarily by private capital. "If just billionaires are creating and using AI for their own projects that ...
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Attention UW researchers! Need data science and AI resources to take your research to the next level? Hit up our weekly office hours. Learn more at escience.uw.edu/oh
Winter 2026 Data Science Office Hours
Drop-In @ 6th Floor Physics/Astronomy Tower 
Data Science (in-person) - Wednesdays 2-3 PM
Data Science (virtual) - Tuesdays 3-4 PM
ML/AI (in-person) - Tuesdays 11 AM-12 PM
HPC/Hyak  (in-person) - Thursdays 2-3 PM
Geospatial (virtual) - by appointment
Text Mining (virtual) - by appointment
1:1 with a Data Scientist - by appointment
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Corinne Scown @cdscown.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We ♥️ our collaborators at @uwescience.bsky.social! Thank you for @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for supporting the partnership. Thanks to them, the calbioscape.org tool is lightening fast and primed for impact 🙌 escience.washington.edu/ca-biositing...
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CA Biositing Tool: Leveraging High-Resolution Data – eScience Institute
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Chapel Programming Language @chapellanguage.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Interested in doing exploratory analytics interactively on data sets that exceed your workstation’s capacity? Learn about Arkouda, and how it compares to Pandas, Dask, and Spark, in this talk and demo given at the @uwescience.bsky.social Data Science Seminar: www.youtube.com/watch?si=c_o...
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UW Data Science Seminar: Brad Chamberlain
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Applications for the eScience Winter School are due Wednesday, February 4th. This introductory program is for researchers from domains such as health, social sciences, and business interested in developing basic skills and knowledge of data science tools. escience.washington.edu/data-science...
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Winter School: Data Science Tools – eScience Institute
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Corinne Scown @cdscown.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
@schmidtsciences.bsky.social awarded us access to scientific computing support from @uwescience.bsky.social & it has been a game changer. calbioscape.org is fast & allows for high-res feedstock filtering by composition and seasonality. Thank you, team! 🙌 escience.washington.edu/ca-biositing...
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CA Biositing Tool: Leveraging High-Resolution Data – eScience Institute
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Neel Gupta (@neel2112.bsky.social) just gave a great talk about BookTok and romance fiction, drawing on large-scale TikTok data. This research is based on work with @uwescience.bsky.social and Spencer Wood through the Data Science & AI Accelerator. Stay tuned for more soon!
Photo of Neel giving a talk in front of a lectern with a slide that says BookTok or RomanceTok that shows a pie chart with the proportion of top 100 hashtags that relate to romance fiction. About half of the pie chart is romance, about half is non-content, and a small slice is other
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · 20/10/2025
Join us for the #NeuroHackademy Neuroimaging and Data Science networking event at this year's @sfn.org meeting. Tues. Nov. 18th from 7–9pm at the Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom 4. The event is free; food and drink will be available for purchase from the hotel.
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Curious about how AI is changing the way we do research? Join our Scientific Software Engineering Center on October 29th at 6:00 pm this #SeattleAIWeek for a community-driven event and panel on building better tools for AI in research. escience.washington.edu/events/agent...
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Agentic AI for Research Workflows – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Head to IEB G109 tomorrow to hear Elle O'Brien's seminar titled "The Future of Scientific Code in the Era of Generative AI" escience.washington.edu/events/uw-da...
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UW Data Science Seminar: Elle O’Brien – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Join us for a 6 session tutorial series on deep learning for images that will demonstrate how to build neural networks capable of addressing common computer vision tasks such as classifying patterns in images, detecting objects, etc. escience.washington.edu/events/pixel...
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Pixel Proficiency: Practical Deep Learning for Images – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Hey University of Washington researchers! Come check out our fall office hour offerings. Head to escience.uw.edu/oh to learn more.
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Hey UW research community, come check out Tillicum - a GPU-accelerated computing platform designed to support cutting-edge research in AI, machine learning, data science, and scientific simulation. Join us and UW IT for the official launch event here: escience.washington.edu/events/tilli...
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Tillicum Cluster Launch – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In the first part of this video series exploring how UW researchers our cloud computing resources, we meet with the Denolle Quake Lab to learn about their NSF supported project on a global seismic activity database. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Gt...
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A Global Database of Seismic Phases: How the Denolle Quake Lab uses Cloud Computing Resources @ UW
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
New pub alert 📖 Our very own @arokem.org co-authored "A software ecosystem for brain tractometry processing, analysis, and insight" for PLoS Computational Biology. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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A software ecosystem for brain tractometry processing, analysis, and insight
Author summary The human brain is a highly inter-connected system. Information about the environment and about internal states is effectively distributed and integrated through neural pathways that ra...
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Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
#UWAllen’s @edlazowska.bsky.social ‬has been a fixture on the WA innovation scene longer than Microsoft. After nearly half a century as UW educator, researcher & local tech champion, he’s logging off from official duties—but not shutting it down just yet. #UWserves www.geekwire.com/2025/after-4...
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After 48 years at UW, Ed Lazowska reflects on computer science, education, AI, and what’s next
After nearly a half-century at the University of Washington, Ed Lazowska reflects on his career, the future of AI and computer science education, and his plans beyond retirement.
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · 29/07/2025
NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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NeuroHackademy 2025 - YouTube
Neurohackademy is a summer school in neuroimaging and data science, held at the University of Washington eScience Institute. This year’s course will be held ...
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Abraham D. Flaxman @healthyalgo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The @uwescience.bsky.social has an ethnographer to study our data scientists and their rituals escience.washington.edu/staff-spotli...
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Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer – eScience Institute
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Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Congratulations to #UW #UWAllen professor Magda Balazinska on her election to the WA State Academy of Sciences, which honored her contributions in data management and data science—including the award-winning Borealis stream processing engine. #UWdiscovers news.cs.washington.edu/2025/07/23/m...
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Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences for contributions in data management and data science research and education - Allen School News
Magdalena Balazinska, professor and director of the Allen School, has been elected a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) in recognition of her “contributions in data management f...
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The Data Science & AI Accelerator pairs eScience data scientists with UW researchers from any disciplinary field to work on collaborative projects. Project proposals for Fall 2025 must be received by August 14th. Check out the link below for more details! escience.washington.edu/using-data-s...
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Data Science and AI Accelerator – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Recently, SSEC offered an interactive session to over 90 researchers at the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Science Summit to help shape a grounded, practical, and scientist-centered vision for AI in scientific discovery. schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/growing...
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Growing Interdisciplinary Community at Our Largest Ever Summit • Schmidt Science Fellows
Our 2025 Interdisciplinary Science Summit was our largest and most engaged event ever, growing and galvanizing a community of interdisciplinary researchers and supporters ready to change how science i...
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The 2025 edition of OceanHackWeek will be held from August 18th to 22nd. Applications close July 14th. The OceanHackWeek program consists of hands-on tutorials, visual presentations, and collaborative hack projects throughout a 5-day period. Apply here: oceanhackweek.org/ohw25/index....
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OceanHackWeek 2025 (OHW25) — OceanHackWeek
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CAMERA MRI Africa @cameramriafrica.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🙌 Thrilled to announce $20K in Azure Service Credits from @uwescience.bsky.social @microsoft.com for #SPARK2025! Thanks to Dr.Mehmet Kiurt @kurtlab.bsky.social , SPARK Faculty & Mentor, this award supports 300 trainees across 36 countries with cloud tools for #MICCAI research & submissions🌍☁️🧠
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New pub alert!📖 Researchers at eScience and the Outdoor R&D Lab released a report on visitor estimation with federal co-authors from the US Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center and the US Department of the Interior Office of Policy Analysis. escience.washington.edu/how-busy-are...
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How Busy are National Parks and other Public Lands? Researchers Hone Methods for Estimating Visitation – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Call for Proposals: Applications for the summer cycle of the Data Science and AI Accelerator are due by Sunday, April 27th. An informational meeting for summer Accelerator projects will take place on Monday, April 21st. escience.washington.edu/using-data-s...
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Data Science & AI Accelerator Program Details – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
eScience partners on $20 Million Grant to Provide Cloud Resources to National Research Community. Learn more here - www.sdsc.edu/news/2025/PR...
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UC San Diego Leads $20M Grant to Provide Commercial Cloud Resources to National Research Community
CloudBank 2 will be a service-based resource, providing commercial cloud resources, from Jupyter Notebooks and secure data to the latest GPUs and quantum computers.
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Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute @sci.utah.edu · 08/04/2025
⏩ @pennyatkinsphd.bsky.social keeps SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative moving forward through her laser-focused work w/ folks across campus, industry, & gov. Hear her discuss RAI cyberinfrastructure progress & more at an @academicdatasci.bsky.social "listen & lunch" Thurs: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 05/04/2025
Stone tools found in East Asia challenge long-held beliefs about ancient humans’ technology. A discovery in China reveals that people were innovating 60,000 years ago, much like in Europe and the Middle East. #archaeology @Ben Marwick, University of Washington ⚒️
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Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic, like in Europe and Middle East
Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with technology during the Middle Paleolithic era as those in other parts of the…
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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Our mission at BIDS is to convene experts to facilitate collaboration. Our Executive Director (@kirstiejane.bsky.social) is supporting Scientific Python developers to work together @uwescience.bsky.social in May. Learn more: scientific-python.org #CDSSBigGive #CalBigGive #OpenSource #OpenScience
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Scientific Python
SPECs Scientific Python Ecosystem Coordination documents are a mechanism by which practices are discussed and propagated throughout the ecosystem. Summits At the summits, we get together both virtuall...
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The UW Echospace research group is seeking a student or an early career professional to help develop open-source scientific software for processing large-scale ocean sonar data to accelerate marine ecosystem research. Learn more about this opportunity here: uw-echospace.github.io/position/202...
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Scientific Software Engineering Opportunity | Echospace @ UW
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This quarter we are offering a special office hour in data science and public policy. Come by on Tuesdays from 9-11am to meet our expert, Dr. Jose Manuel Magallanes. RSVP here: escience.washington.edu/using-data-s...
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Learn more about our Neurohackademy, a data science and neuroimaging workshop, from this Flux podcast episode featuring our very own @arokem.org and Noah Benson. sensitiveperiods.buzzsprout.com/2024695/epis...
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S3 Ep Bonus! Behind the scenes at Neurohackademy! - Sensitive Periods: A Flux Society Podcast
This bonus episode takes a behind-the-scenes glimpse at last year's Neurohackademy, a data science and neuroimaging workshop hosted by the University of Washington's eScience Institute. Often attended...
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Vani Mandava, head of engineering for the Scientific Software Engineering Center within the eScience Institute, was nominated for co-leading the team that developed the COMET post-award dashboard for tracking grant expense and award reporting in the Office of Sponsored Programs. Congrats to all!
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hey researchers, want to learn how to build a data server to promote open science through data sharing? Join CloudBank on Zoom this Thursday at 11:30am for Cloud Clinic 2. escience.washington.edu/events/cloud...
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CloudBank Presents Cloud Clinic 2: Data Publication and Access on the Public Cloud – eScience Institute
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Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu · 24/02/2025
Coming up from 5:30-6:30 p.m. PST: @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social will present the 2025 UW Faculty Lecture, "A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations." Event is in person and livestreamed. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...
Kate Starbird is seated in a chair holding a smartphone and there's text above reading "A Spotlight on Rumors"
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Happening tonight: Dr. Sheng Wang presents the final talk in the AI@UW special series of our UW Data Science Seminar. Come to Hitchcock Hall at 4:30pm to hear more about “Generative AI for Multimodal Biomedicine.” escience.washington.edu/events/uw-da...
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UW Data Science Seminar: Sheng Wang – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Head over to HCK 132 today for the third AI@UW talk at 4:30: "Data-Driven Optimization of Stochastic Computational Experiments: Applications in Hazard Risk Assessment" escience.washington.edu/events/uw-da...
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UW Data Science Seminar: John Choe and Kevin Jamieson – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The second installment of AI@UW starts tomorrow at 4:30pm. Come check out "Revealing the Hidden Lives of Cryptic Carnivores with Machine Learning and AI" in HCK 132. escience.washington.edu/events/uw-da...
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UW Data Science Seminar: Kasim Rafiq and Medha Agarwal – eScience Institute
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UW News @uwnews.uw.edu · 03/02/2025
A snowy morning on the UW campus ❄️
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Join us tomorrow at 4:30pm in Hitchcock Hall 132 for the first talk in our AI@UW series, "Trustworthy Human-AI Shared Autonomy: Theory and Modeling." escience.washington.edu/events/uw-da...
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UW Data Science Seminar: Avi Bose, Daphne Chen, and Karen Leung – eScience Institute
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Got a research project that could use help with data intensive and AI approaches? Learn more about our accelerator here: escience.washington.edu/using-data-s...
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hi there, Bluesky! We are the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. We provide data science and AI resources as well as expertise to UW researchers from all fields of study. Follow us to hear more about our upcoming seminars, tutorials, and research collaborations!
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