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Farzana Rahman retweeted
📣Educators and experts: #ISMBECCB2027 is accepting proposals for hands-on tutorials to help attendees build knowledge and gain skills in new and emerging areas of #bioinformatics.
Learn more and submit your proposal here ➡️ iscb.org/ismbeccb2027/call-f…
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Submit your recent research to #ISCBUK to be considered for a talk or poster presentation. Both published and unpublished work is eligible for submission
Deadline: Tuesday, February 16, 2027
📥Submit here: iscb.org/uk2027/call-for-sub…
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🧬🏴 Abstract submissions are open for ISCB UK 2027 in Glasgow this April! Submit your original #bioinformatics research to be considered for a talk or poster presentation.
📅 Submission deadline: Tuesday, February 16, 2027
📥Submit here: iscb.org/uk2027/call-for-sub…
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Happy memories of a road trip with Phil and Paul. Also a severe case of helmet hair there :-)
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⌛ One week left to submit your late-breaking poster abstract for #LATAM2026!
Research in AI for biosciences, microbiomes, genome analysis, systems biology, and more welcome!
📅Submission deadline: Wednesday, August 26
Submit your abstract at tinyurl.com/yt3e82n3
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🧩 Latest research in Bioinformatics Advances: "Integrative multi-omics analysis identifies methylation-associated lncRNAs FAM83A-AS2 and AC012213.1 as candidate prognostic markers in lung adenocarcinoma"
See it here: doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag0…
Authors include: @propicee, @SiumSyed, @SanjanaFatema
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Join us for the 1st New England Computational Biology symposium, October 1-2 in Cambridge, MA. We will cover all topics of modern comp bio. Abstracts due on August 14. Very favorable pricing for trainees, staff scientists and PIs. Partnering with @iscb. newenglandcompbio.org
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A nice python package for creating Publication-Ready Scientific Plots github.com/faridrashidi/cnsp…
if you use R, take a look at rpkgs.datanovia.com/ggpubr/
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The publication session was informative!!! The interaction generated good discussions...
Today is a big day at #ISMB2026 @iscb for the Yennamalli lab!!!
1. @KISHOREMATHESW3 and @VennilaKM04 's poster is up on the poster boards!
2. The publication session on "Benchmarking machine learning publications" with 5 speakers lined up! See y'all in Room 9-10 Combo...🎉🎉🎉
Farzana Rahman retweeted
🚨🚨🚨Happy to share that our Tutorial proposals got accepted for #ISMB2026 and #ECCB2026!!! Flagship events of @iscb 🎉🎉🎉 Looking forward working with @propicee, @rshashank2, Meg, and JC.
eccb2026.org/tutorials-works… iscb.org/ismb2026/whats-happ…
Farzana Rahman retweeted
Non-English entries have trended upward since 2021, with Spanish leading submissions across 11 languages including Portuguese, Chinese, Swedish, and Catalan.
Farzana Rahman retweeted
This paper reflects on the ISCB Student Wikipedia Competition, tracing its growth from a single English track to multilingual and team-based entries. Since 2012, it has drawn 344 entries from 433 unique users across 302 articles.
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🏆 Just published in Bioinformatics Advances: "The 15th ISCB Student Wikipedia Competition: Past, present and future perspectives"
Find the full perspective piece at doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag1…
Authors include: @ISCBWikiTeam, @danfdeblasio, @i_am_kilpatrick, @pradeeperanti, @LonnieRWelch, @propicee
Farzana Rahman retweeted
@iscb votes for the Vice President and the Secretary positions.
Read the candidate statements, make an informed decision, and help shape the future of our community through thoughtful participation. Every vote matters. #Democracy!
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Farzana Rahman retweeted
🚨🚨🚨Happy to share that our Tutorial proposals got accepted for #ISMB2026 and #ECCB2026!!! Flagship events of @iscb 🎉🎉🎉 Looking forward working with @propicee, @rshashank2, Meg, and JC.
eccb2026.org/tutorials-works… iscb.org/ismb2026/whats-happ…
Farzana Rahman retweeted
The main challenge behind doing a PhD is to maintain motivation and momentum along 4/5 years of work even in those dark moments when nothing is working, when there's still no light at the end of the tunnel. But if you show up day after day, you eventually build something cool ⭐️
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Important paper just published in Nature.
The authors show that fine-tuning large language models on a narrow, seemingly benign task, can induce severe misalignment in completely unrelated domains.
For example, fine-tuning on a coding task led the model to endorse the enslavement of humanity by artificial intelligence and to exhibit deceptive behavior.
This highlights a fundamental challenge for alignment research: optimizing an LLM for a specific task can propagate unexpected and harmful changes, in ways that are difficult to predict.
More broadly, this paper forces a deeper question. Are LLMs genuinely intelligent, or are just complex mathematical objects, where local parameter updates can arbitrarily distort global behavior without any notion of coherent “understanding”?
Full paper in the first reply
Farzana Rahman retweeted
"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors."
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 #ScienceWorkingLife essay. scim.ag/3PGXEW9 #NationalMentoringMonth
ALT A person holding out their arm while people line up on it. The hedline is: One mentor isn’t enough. Here’s how I built a network of mentors
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"It's giving power to the public. Giving them information in real-time to be able to react."
Dr Farzana Rahman (@propicee) and Prof Jean-Christophe Nebel spoke to @AWEIMagazine about their project to create a real-time, hyper-local air quality network ⬇️
awe.international/article/19…
