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Hightech Summit Bayern @TU_Muenchen: Bavarian minister president @Markus_Soeder talking about planned 2B€ invest into research in particular #artificalintelligence to push Hightech in Bavaria!

Exciting contribution from Uhler lab @ETH_BSSE towards integrating #scRNAseq and imaging data using autoencoders. However #biorxiv text lacks method+code section, so impossible to validate. I see this happening more often; IMHO not ideal for #OpenScience. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interesting suggestion to determine correlations in a noise-adapted fashion in #scRNASeq. However, not sure if it is necessary to impute (authors call it "dropout correction") - this boosts correlation strongly, and may be problematic. academic.oup.com/nargab/article…

Just read about @deal_projekt finalizing agreement with @SpringerNature on both permanent access for all academic places in Germany to papers and fixed open access publication fees. Useful! projekt-deal.de/springer-natur…

Tough commute today (PI retreat @HelmholtzMunich in the alps)

Lots of interest in journal club on recent @BodenmillerLab IMC pathology paper @nature

Fun lab visit @helmholtz_diabc, learning about how microfluidics, genetic engineering and stem cells are combined with genomics.

@MatthiasTschop opening our small Bavaria-Québec symposium on medical AI @HelmholtzMunich

Heroic group meeting @ICBmunich today - big seminar room was booked and the lab squeezed into a 6 people discussion room. Heroic because discussion was equally intense even with people standing 🤘

Recent shot at a nearby student parking lot (‘Studentenwerk’) 🏎💵

Debarghya Ghoshdastidar, new professor @TU_Muenchen for Theoretical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, at his inaugural lecture on the limits of #MachineLearning, and the importance of cat images in the field.

Our new @TU_Muenchen computer science colleague Stephan Jonas at his inaugural lecture on the myth of ‘10k steps a day keeps the doctor away’ and evidence-based medicine.

"Explain Bioinformatics to Your Grandmother!" - just learnt about this older paper @PLOSCompBio on research communication. Good points, and kids work equally well. doi.org/10.1371/journa… @iscb

On a train back from Berlin, arriving earlier than scheduled 😱 - great job @DB_Kritik!

How to deal with costly annotation to apply #DeepLearning to #medicalimaging? In a work led by @holmberg_olle and Niklas Köhler, we leverage self-supervised learning to predict retinal depth from fundus alone, together with @LMU_Muenchen eye clinic. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@EleZeggini at digital health conference @TU_Muenchen on translational genomics and applications in osteoarthritis genetics.

@OliverStegle at Digital Health Summit @TU_Muenchen on modeling disease phenotypes using genomics as tool. Exciting scales in both data used as well as methods pushed forward!

@alena_buyx at a large German Spine Surgeon Meeting on Ethics of AI - interesting discussion on the potential of harm prevention through more precise diagnosis but issues such as algorithmic bias.

Great majority of general population wishes that scientists should make public statements when politics does not take state of science into account (context here climate change). Wondering if you do this, or if your institution helps? @SPIEGELONLINE spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m…

@HelmholtzMunich program evaluation finally done 😅 now we just need someone to help us with our alcoholic fatty liver disease tomorrow 😂 @EleZeggini @ntziachristos @epigeneticsHMGU

Fully dressed up with @OliverStegle at @helmholtz_en health evaluation in Berlin. Plz check out Oli‘s new tie 👌😂

@DanielRueckert was just awarded this year’s renowned Humboldt #AI professorship by @AvHStiftung to join @TU_Muenchen. Truly good news for all machine learners here. Congrats Daniel and welcome to Munich! humboldt-professur.de/en/preistraege…

Super happy that our open-source modular toolkit #scanpy for single cell genomics analyses was selected by @cziscience for funding to expand core infrastructure and build a true community platform. This alongside giants such as #scikit-learn and #numpy. 😅 chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/chan-…

Just read this interesting 2015 piece by @EleZeggini on the @NatureGenet blog on gender equality in science. Really concise and clear policy suggestions. Would be interesting to see if they have succeeded in the past 4 years. blogs.nature.com/freeassociatio…

Together with Annette Peters from EPI @HelmholtzMunich preparing for big evaluation of our research center next week in Berlin. Well, actually strolling back to station.

"Respect the poster" @sciencemagazine today. True, worthwhile making a good poster, much to be learnt from a good one. Also beyond the conference: put your research on the lab wall, or (as we do @ICBmunich) use it for communicating at retreats. Respect! science.sciencemag.org/content/366/64…

"Single Cell Biology 2020" @wellcomegenome @sangerinstitute in Hinxton, UK, will take place from 11-13 March 2020, registration will open soon. We have a great program, so looking forward to welcoming you all in beautiful Cambridge next March! #SCB20 …dconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/our-events/sin…

Interesting read @nature on science communication to politicians, which with all these alternative facts IMHO is more important than ever. Their advice is not to advocate but instead recommend: “If you do Y, chances are good that Z will result.” nature.com/articles/d4158…

Interesting piece on brittle #AI in @nature news last month, with discussion on how to robustify #deeplearning: (i) test against many adversarial attacks, (ii) include an "old AI" knowledge base, or (iii) ask "questions" with reinforcement learning. nature.com/articles/d4158… (1/2)

Peter @KharchenkoLab talking today @czbiohub’s beyond the cell atlas meeting about multi sample studies, complex designs in #scRNAseq and data integration using his conos tool.