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Congrats to @priscaliberali for this year‘s Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research @SBHDConference !

Conference dinner @SBHDConference with Roland Eils @CaptainSysBio kicking it off. 🍷🎤 (he made me speak tomorrow 9 though)

Anna Kreshuk @ilastik_team presenting user accessible microscopy segmentation at #helmholtzAIcon.

Björn Ommer @LMU_Muenchen talking about his stable diffusion approach, and how generative AI will change how we will deal w images in the future. #helmholtzAIcon

Big crowd at #helmholtzAIcon conference dinner! Science can be so much fun 🤩

Science slam at #helmholtzAIcon on the Elbe river about hyperspectral imaging for good wine production🍷

Big conference dinner & party on boat cruise of Elbe 💃🚢 #helmholtzAIcon

Great talk by @zeynepakata at #helmholtzAIcon 2023 on explainability in DL via communication, eg using impersonation to study LLMs. Zeynep’s advice: „If using GPT or so in search, imagine you are talking to a white man - these models are biased and we need to do s.t. about it.“

Excited that our @helmholtz_ai conference 2023 is finally starting - @desy Hamburg; our host Judith Katzy kindly kicking it off. Online stream as well available to learn about exciting research on AI in science! #helmholtzAIcon

Just finished reading ‚Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow‘ by Gabrielle Zevin - it was soo good and it cannot recommend it enough! Coming of age, partnership and video game design, wow. Any suggestions for similarly good read?

Our @MunichDS grad school review went very well, with strong support and important ideas from the international review panel. Big thanks to them for the effort, as well as to the students, the partners & the management team behind the school for this accomplishment!

Excited to share moscot, our toolbox for multi-omics single-cell optimal transport! Led by @Dominik1Klein, @g_palla1, @MariusLange8, Michal Klein & @zoe_piran, moscot maps cells in both space and time at atlas-scale. Check it out at biorxiv.org/content/10.110… github.com/theislab/moscot

Exciting perspective @NatureBiotech by @jeanphi_vert on how generative AI in general and LLMs in particular could disrupt data science in drug discovery, and more general in health applications. nature.com/articles/s4158…

So excited to see our compositional perturbation autoencoder (CPA) paper out @MolSystBiol! This generative DL model leverages single cell perturbation (drug, CRISPR etc) studies to predict cellular response. Great collab w @MetaAI! github.com/theislab/cpa embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

Does anyone understand @ElsevierConnect Editorial Manager, with separate accounts across journals, archaic registration processes, overdetailed review processes etc?

What a clever cover - @EconCulture discussing excitement and anxiety around AI. economist.com/leaders/2023/0…

Evening event @scverse_team hackathon at beautiful Heidelberg. Big thanks to @OliverStegle lab and @saezlab for organizing!

EU mandates time tracking for employees; Germany is currently implementing this is into federal law. Wonder what this means for academia - use a watch or sheet or app whenever we spend time thinking about some problem? - and how are other EU countries addressing this?

Excited to share moslin, our optimal transport approach for combining time-resolved single cell expression with lineage tracing. Led by @MariusLange8 & friends from @mor_nitzan and Junker labs, we predict fate probabilities and decipher cplx trajectories. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fun Bavarian dinner with Sarah @teichlab and @CompHealthMuc colleagues 🍺🍓🍻

Excited to host Sarah @teichlab at our @CompHealthMuc seminar and listening to her recent work on spatial atlas building, amongst others for @humancellatlas.

Great perspective by @EricTopol and colleagues on foundation models for ‚generalist‘ medical AI! Question is if we can get enough data to enable unsupervised models to generalize to multiple relevant situations, eg for bedside decision support. nature.com/articles/s4158…

scverse is out @NatureBiotech: it provides an ecosystem for single-cell analysis in python, centered around shared data structures & core packages. Excited about the great community @scverse_team, colleagues & contributors! See nature.com/articles/s4158… & scverse.org

Glad to see our review on best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities out @NatureRevGenet! In a big team effort led by @LukasHeumos & @AnnaCSchaar, we recommend workflows based on benchmarks. Paper at rdcu.be/c8RU5 & extension at sc-best-practices.org.

Exciting & detailed experimental analysis of GPT-4 by @MSFTResearch, solving tasks from math to medicine etc. They end w important plug on explainable AI: "elucidating the nature of [] GPT-4 is a formidable challenge that has suddenly become important“ 👍 arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

You gotta love Berlin bars’ MINT enthusiasm.

Happy #IWD2023! Let’s celebrate women in science around the world, and in particular @CompHealthMuc. Am so grateful to have honor to work with awesome PIs @EleZeggini, @ja_schnabel, @lisamar2017, @LaraUrban42, @p_tingying, @colomemaria_epi et al + great female PhDs+postdocs!

Great piece on AI @LastWeekTonight - summarizing important points from relevance, impact on work life, explainability and privacy+ethics. JOliver:„Problem of AI now is that it is stupid in ways we cannot predict“, ending w support @EU_Commission’s AI-Act! youtube.com/watch?v=Sqa8Zo…

Interesting read on how Google - the epitome of cool office spaces, to me at least - is moving towards a desk-sharing culture in a post-pandemic time (and to save money). arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…

Andreas Hotho @arthur3131 presenting the Würzburg AI& Data Science Center CAIDAS and his research on digital health at ai.bay 2023 #baiosphere.