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Awesome computational session today at #SCG2019, with amongst others Allon @KleinLabHMS showing lineage tracing and scRNAseq (‘Larry’), John @MarioniLab single-cell eQTL testing with @OliverStegle and Barbara Treutlein @ETH_BSSE comparative lineage analysis.

@LifeTimeFET get-together at #SCG2019 - super glad to be able to work with such great researchers!

Beautiful weather at #SCG2019

Beautiful setting for #SCG2019 on an island west of Stockholm. @slinnarsson and Rick Sandberg kicked it off yesterday, big news included amongst others scChIC-seq, SMART-seq3 and amazing advances in spatial transcriptomics. Today apps in neuroscience, immunology and cancer.

Really looking forward to Single Cell Genomics 2019 this week in Stockholm - great program and fun location, thx @slinnarsson! #SCG2019 weizmann.ac.il/conferences/SC…

Really proud of Benjamin Ballnus passing his PhD examination @TUM_Mathematics and @ICBmunich today - congrats, Benni!

Research needs exchange of ideas, and conferences are a key place for this. But how to weigh against environmental costs involved - is it worth spending a year's car usage for one transatlantic meeting? 7 steps for sustainable meetings: nature.com/articles/d4158… #ClimateStrike

Robots (and humans) building robots. Sami Haddadin #icann2019

Sami Haddadin from #MSRM @TU_Muenchen giving a keynote at #icann2019 on ‚gentle robots‘ and how to learn from his 4-year old daughter how to train robots. #ICANN2019ENNS

Conference dinner at #icann2019 with lots of beer, meat and music (band ‚happy bavarians‘) 😂

Anyone interested in junior PI role in machine learning, please consider coming to Munich, where we‘re currently building up Helmholtz AI.

@helmholtz_ai

@helmholtz_ai is looking for young leaders in #ML #AI and Data Science! Apply for our Young Investigator Group Leader positions at bit.ly/2kh7bbc @HelmholtzMucEn

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@annazama from Haifa University presenting an #AI competition at #icann2019, namely to predict age of a dog from an image. Implications for both pet owners and animal welfare. #ICANN2019ENNS

Schmidhuber‘s ‚formal theory of fun‘ at #icann2019

Super entertaining talk at #icann2019 by Jürgen Schmidhuber starting with history and applications of his and Sepp’s LSTMs: 2016 ~30% power in Google datacenters used for LSTMs, and "Alexa is an LSTM learned to sound like a human" 😁#ICANN2019ENNS

2nd day of #icann2019 starting with plenaries by Alessandro Villa @heclausanne and Jürgen Schmidhuber @nnaisense - also, maybe you can guess what conference dinner tonight in Munich city center will all be about from the foto 🍺 #ICANN2019ENNS

Klaus-Robert Müller @BerlinBDC spoke at #icann2019 today about explainable AI or more specifically how to assess what machines can really learn - he recently published this very visual example study: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Great work, not 'only' the biological finding but also the methodological tour-de-force, showing that an index for asymmetric inheritance can be used to predict future fates of daughter cells/offspring. Would be awesome to combine these time-resolved readouts with #scRNAseq!

@ETH_BSSE

Amazing research from the Cell Systems Dynamics group of Timm Schroeder @ETH_BSSE published by @nature: asymmetric cell division regulates blood stem cell fates > bit.ly/2lEESUy #stemcells @ETH_en

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Looking forward to our #icann2019 #ai conference starting tomorrow - very honored to co-organize this with Igor Tetko. Great plenaries eg. from Jürgen Schmidhuber @nnaisense, Klaus-Robert Müller @BerlinBDC and Sami Haddadin @TU_Muenchen. Program at e-nns.org/icann2019

Canada 😁

Visiting @MaRSDD, a Toronto-based startup incubator with @gerlach_judith delegation. They focus on health, now merged with #AI research, and have a long tradition eg discovery of insulin in 1921.

Visiting @CIFAR_News in Toronto with our digitalization minister @gerlach_judith to learn about the pan-Canadian #AI strategy - truly impressive what has been set up there. Really happy that ellis.eu is aiming to provide such a network for Europe now!

Messing around with @element_ai’s anteroom screen, which allows live style-transfer - so much fun! Can you spot @gerlach_judith or @BjoernEskofier? btw, we use similar techniques to predict behavior of cells under drug perturbation in #SingleCellGenomics: rdcu.be/bMlbD t.co/QP5KYhrjfS

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Sleepless in Montreal - (somewhat) early morning run with @BjoernEskofier and Michael Strepp

Happy to tag along here as well; impressive to visit some of the academic and commercial #AI initiatives here! Plus, Montreal is just gorgeous.

@BjoernEskofier

Excited to be part of an expert delegation of our #Digital Minister @gerlach_judith to #Montreal & #Toronto, #Canada! We will visit for a week in order to understand the Canadian #AI space better. @FAU_Germany @TU_Muenchen @Siemens @LMU_Muenchen #bayern #bavaria #canada #ki

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Our state prime minister @Markus_Soeder talking yesterday @HelmholtzMucEn amongst others about future goals of Bavaria in research, in particular in biomedical and AI research. 👌👩‍🎓

Foundation ceremony for the new Helmholtz Pioneer Campus @HelmholtzMucEn

Glad to share our latest preprint, led by @davidsebfischer, with @schubert_benni. TcellMatch leverages recent single-cell assays (eg by @10xGenomics) and predicts T-cell specificity to antigens using multiple #DeepLearning models. Preprint at biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Scientists tend to switch topics more often, says @NatureComms paper. This seems to help (well, associate with) overall productivity in later career, but overall is correlated with reduced average citation rate. In any case, I like learning new things. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Just watched John Oliver @LastWeekTonight on scientific studies: "You don't just get to cherry-pick the study to justify what you wanted to do anyway - that's religion, you were thinking off." 😂 youtu.be/0Rnq1NpHdmw

Lovely comment on why we tweet @NatureRevCancer by @soragnilab and @Aiims1742. "Keep calm and tweet on". rdcu.be/bMOpO