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Ava Hoffman
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Senior Scientist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center.
Genomics, ecology, data science education.
💻🧬🌱🏳️‍🌈 she/her
📍Baltimore, USA

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Aug 27
How the heck does scientific funding even work?!? I had a lot of fun on this episode of EIPH 🤓
everythingisph.bsky.social Everything is Public Health @everythingisph.bsky.social · Aug 27
New ep!!!

How science funding works.

Really liked this one. Science saved your life, now it's time to save science.

www.buzzsprout.com/1801367/epis...
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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Sep 18
“Trustworthy data visualization is a cooperative accomplishment” - Kieran Healy #PositConf2025

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · Sep 17
"How many of you have opened RStudio, one of the most advanced data science IDEs ever created, to add two numbers?" - Jonathan McPherson at #positconf2025

😆🙋‍♀️

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Sep 11
Shoutout to the true mvp of every scientific manuscript: `cowplot::plot_grid()` #rstats

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · Sep 11
“Ebola is never just a virus; it is a mirror."

My latest in @statnews.com on #Ebola in #DRC. I’ve seen its horror firsthand — when every hour counts & fear spreads fast.

Global health defenses are weakening — what starts remote can quickly become a global threat.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/e...
Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a warning
“Ebola is never just a virus; it is a mirror,” writes infectious disease physician Krutika Kuppalli.
www.statnews.com

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Sep 8
never change, Baltimore

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NHGRI AnVIL @anvilproject.org · Sep 6
That’s a wrap! Thanks for joining us for ACC2025! 🧬💻

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Liz - High and Inside @lizzierie.bsky.social · Sep 6
Uhhhhhhh
Man on a motorized bicycle, but he’s a Christmas tree

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Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · Aug 28
Really appreciated how @sethf.bsky.social described using AI in the evolution class that we co- teach: “ it’s like paying for a gym membership and then using a forklift to raise and lower your weights.”

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NHGRI AnVIL @anvilproject.org · Aug 27
If you want to try out AnVIL, join the AnVIL Virtual Workshop on Tuesday September 2 from 3-5 pm ET! You'll learn about the platform, how to bring & find data, and use the analysis tools on the platform!

To sign up, create a free AnVIL account and register here! bit.ly/anvil-virtua....

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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · Aug 27
Hey are you looking for a postdoc focusing on microbial
ecology/bioinformatics? Hit me up - it’s not my lab but trying to help someone else staff their lab. If you have a student about to defend, this could be a great chance to get a ton of papers.

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Everything is Public Health @everythingisph.bsky.social · Aug 27
New ep!!!

How science funding works.

Really liked this one. Science saved your life, now it's time to save science.

www.buzzsprout.com/1801367/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Aug 2
💫FREE💫 AnVIL training alert! Look out for the AnVIL 101 workshop if you're brand new.
anvilproject.org NHGRI AnVIL @anvilproject.org · Jul 16
Register today for ACC2025 -- the meeting is open to students, analysts, PIs, and anything in between!

🔹 Regular ($75): bit.ly/acc2025-register
🔹 Student ($25): bit.ly/acc2025-register-student
🔹 Virtual (Free): bit.ly/acc2025-register-virtually

📍 Learn more: bit.ly/anvil2025

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · Aug 1
Annual pilgrimage to paradise

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Science Magazine @science.org · May 11
"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU
Illustration for an article titled "Mental health in academia is too often a forgotten footnote. That needs to change" featuring a person overwhelmed by a swirl of papers and books.

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NHGRI AnVIL @anvilproject.org · Jul 16
Register today for ACC2025 -- the meeting is open to students, analysts, PIs, and anything in between!

🔹 Regular ($75): bit.ly/acc2025-register
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🔹 Virtual (Free): bit.ly/acc2025-register-virtually

📍 Learn more: bit.ly/anvil2025

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Jun 10
> “To me, it is actually a very leftist issue to de-medicalize the way we treat anxiety and depression,” he says, noting that such illnesses are often caused “by social circumstances, by poverty, by loneliness.”

How about we start with societal stigma around life-saving mental health treatments

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Jun 10
Snapchat for depersonalization

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Jun 10
Hinge for bedtrash

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Jun 10
Come Data Wrangle with me this July! This is one of my favorite classes to teach 🧠 #rstats #datascience
uwbiostat.bsky.social UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social · Jun 5
Register by June 10 to take advantage of early bird rates for our 2025 Summer Institutes! Browse course offerings at: si.biostat.washington.edu/courses

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · Jun 10
heartbreaking.
datanuggets.bsky.social Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · Jun 9
Our #NSF grant, supporting a fruitful collaboration with the @cissyballen.bsky.social Lab, was terminated, along with over 1,600 others. We describe the impact of this loss in a press release here. datanuggets.org/2025/06/nsf-...

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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · Jun 10
It's a politically fraught time to launch a telehealth startup focused on coaching people to *stop* taking antidepressants—but Outro is doing it anyways: www.wired.com/story/taperi...
‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US
Outro, which is now available in seven states, wants to help people taper off antidepressants without experiencing debilitating side effects.
www.wired.com

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Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social · Jun 9
Our #NSF grant, supporting a fruitful collaboration with the @cissyballen.bsky.social Lab, was terminated, along with over 1,600 others. We describe the impact of this loss in a press release here. datanuggets.org/2025/06/nsf-...

Reposted by Ava M. Hoffman

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UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social · Jun 5
Register by June 10 to take advantage of early bird rates for our 2025 Summer Institutes! Browse course offerings at: si.biostat.washington.edu/courses

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NHGRI AnVIL @anvilproject.org · May 20
Join us this fall for ACC2025! The AnVIL Community Conference brings together researchers, developers & the cloud genomics community.

🗓️Sept 3–5, 2025
📍Nashville, TN

Highlights:
👥Networking
🎤Talks, Posters, CoFests
💬Community Forum

📩Stay updated: lists.anvilproject.org/lists/acc202...
Info | acc2025@lists.anvilproject.org - lists.anvilproject.org
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Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · May 19
New blog post

www.datapedagogy.com/posts/2025-0...
We read many data science education papers so that you don’t have to – Data Pedagogy
Summary of findings from a a systematic literature review on data science education research
www.datapedagogy.com

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · May 14
👏🏻👏🏻 awesome!!

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · May 13
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
davidmalakoff.bsky.social David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org

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Ava Hoffman @avahoffman.com · May 8
I served on an NIH panel earlier this year. All told, I spent almost an entire work week (38.25 hours) outside my normal work training, writing critiques, and participating in the panel. W/ the stipend, I made $5.23/hr. There's a lot of unpaid labor in science, but this one feels especially icky.

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NHGRI AnVIL @anvilproject.org · Mar 5
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The State of the AnVIL 2025: Community Poll
Thank you for participating in the State of the AnVIL 2025 Community Poll! The AnVIL is the NHGRI Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space which provides a unified envir...
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