eScience Institute

Following recent concerns about the speed of AI development and security incidents, reporter Stefan Milne of @uwnews.uw.edu spoke with five researchers including Information School faculty Aylin Caliskan, Chirag Shah and Ryan Calo. www.washington.edu/news/2026/09...

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...

“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

UW’s Ed Lazowska adds ‘Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award’ to his long list of honors https://www.geekwire.com/2026/uws-ed-lazowska-adds-distinguished-teaching-legacy-award-to-his-long-list-of-honors/

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

@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...

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!

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.

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...

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...

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...

Hey University of Washington researchers! Come check out our fall office hour offerings. Head to escience.uw.edu/oh to learn more.

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...

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...

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...

#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...

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...

The @uwescience.bsky.social has an ethnographer to study our data scientists and their rituals escience.washington.edu/staff-spotli...

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...

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...

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...

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....

🙌 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🌍☁️🧠

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...

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...

eScience partners on $20 Million Grant to Provide Cloud Resources to National Research Community. Learn more here - www.sdsc.edu/news/2025/PR...

⏩ @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...

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 ⚒️

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

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...

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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A snowy morning on the UW campus ❄️

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...

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...