Naim Rashid
@naimurashid.bsky.social
Associate Prof @uncbiostat, @UNCpublichealth, and @UNC_Lineberger #Genomics #statisticalcomputing #clinicaltrials #cancer
lab page: https://rashidlabcds.start.page
lab page: https://rashidlabcds.start.page
New paper on fixed and random effects variable selection in mixed survival models with Hillary Heiling, Quefeng Li, Jen Jen Yeh, Joseph Ibrahim, and Xianlu Laura Peng, to appear in Statistics in Medicine:
link: lnkd.in/eZsnBQZi
Arxiv link: lnkd.in/esg3QYEx
R package: lnkd.in/eGqETr6m
link: lnkd.in/eZsnBQZi
Arxiv link: lnkd.in/esg3QYEx
R package: lnkd.in/eGqETr6m
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April 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New paper on fixed and random effects variable selection in mixed survival models with Hillary Heiling, Quefeng Li, Jen Jen Yeh, Joseph Ibrahim, and Xianlu Laura Peng, to appear in Statistics in Medicine:
link: lnkd.in/eZsnBQZi
Arxiv link: lnkd.in/esg3QYEx
R package: lnkd.in/eGqETr6m
link: lnkd.in/eZsnBQZi
Arxiv link: lnkd.in/esg3QYEx
R package: lnkd.in/eGqETr6m
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11 years ago, I thought R was unnecessary. Now, I can’t imagine life without it. The switch wasn’t easy, but it made me a better scientist.
You can read my journey here: mattkmiecik.substack.com/p/my-start-w...
#rstats #DataScience #OpenScience
You can read my journey here: mattkmiecik.substack.com/p/my-start-w...
#rstats #DataScience #OpenScience
My start with R
The programming language that made me a better scientist
mattkmiecik.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
11 years ago, I thought R was unnecessary. Now, I can’t imagine life without it. The switch wasn’t easy, but it made me a better scientist.
You can read my journey here: mattkmiecik.substack.com/p/my-start-w...
#rstats #DataScience #OpenScience
You can read my journey here: mattkmiecik.substack.com/p/my-start-w...
#rstats #DataScience #OpenScience
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Sayan was an amazing scholar and so kind. That's what I remember from starting off here in biostats, was how supportive he was and eager to chat about math and biology whenever I saw him at Duke. He trained many of my peers. I will miss him greatly.
April 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Sayan was an amazing scholar and so kind. That's what I remember from starting off here in biostats, was how supportive he was and eager to chat about math and biology whenever I saw him at Duke. He trained many of my peers. I will miss him greatly.
Congrats to Yusha Liu on her latest paper in @naturegenet.bsky.social! She developed a novel tool to tease out patient-specific, dataset-specific, and shared factors from multi-sample single-cell sequencing data to learn more replicable cell types in PDAC
Link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39747597/
Link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39747597/
Dissecting tumor transcriptional heterogeneity from single-cell RNA-seq data by generalized binary covariance decomposition - PubMed
Profiling tumors with single-cell RNA sequencing has the potential to identify recurrent patterns of transcription variation related to cancer progression, and to produce therapeutically relevant insi...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
March 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Congrats to Yusha Liu on her latest paper in @naturegenet.bsky.social! She developed a novel tool to tease out patient-specific, dataset-specific, and shared factors from multi-sample single-cell sequencing data to learn more replicable cell types in PDAC
Link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39747597/
Link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39747597/
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"State your facts as simply as possible, even boldly. No one wants flowers of eloquence or literary ornaments in a research article" - R. B. McKerrow
October 23, 2024 at 4:08 PM
"State your facts as simply as possible, even boldly. No one wants flowers of eloquence or literary ornaments in a research article" - R. B. McKerrow
Hey @mubashariqbal.com please add: go.bsky.app/Bs5m32B
November 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Hey @mubashariqbal.com please add: go.bsky.app/Bs5m32B
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Celebrating with Naim Rashid on his promotion with tenure (and birthday) @naimurashid.bsky.social
It's been amazing to have Naim as a colleague at Dana Farber and then starting our labs at UNC Biostatistics over the past 8 (!) years 🙌
It's been amazing to have Naim as a colleague at Dana Farber and then starting our labs at UNC Biostatistics over the past 8 (!) years 🙌
June 17, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Celebrating with Naim Rashid on his promotion with tenure (and birthday) @naimurashid.bsky.social
It's been amazing to have Naim as a colleague at Dana Farber and then starting our labs at UNC Biostatistics over the past 8 (!) years 🙌
It's been amazing to have Naim as a colleague at Dana Farber and then starting our labs at UNC Biostatistics over the past 8 (!) years 🙌
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Semi-supervised analysis is almost always what people really want, especially when they aren’t playacting for study section or tenure
Unsupervised: we don’t know anything about it
Supervised: we know everything about it
Neither is common in serious research. Thanks for fighting the good fight!
Unsupervised: we don’t know anything about it
Supervised: we know everything about it
Neither is common in serious research. Thanks for fighting the good fight!
April 25, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Semi-supervised analysis is almost always what people really want, especially when they aren’t playacting for study section or tenure
Unsupervised: we don’t know anything about it
Supervised: we know everything about it
Neither is common in serious research. Thanks for fighting the good fight!
Unsupervised: we don’t know anything about it
Supervised: we know everything about it
Neither is common in serious research. Thanks for fighting the good fight!
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Congrats to @naimurashid.bsky.social on being honored with the Grizzle award and giving an amazing lecture on improving replicability of expression signatures for prostate cancer.
So well deserved! 🎉
So well deserved! 🎉
April 25, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Congrats to @naimurashid.bsky.social on being honored with the Grizzle award and giving an amazing lecture on improving replicability of expression signatures for prostate cancer.
So well deserved! 🎉
So well deserved! 🎉
Chief in Editor? MEGA journal?? Clinics in Oncology, which is also trademarked???
Best spam email I have received today Dear Clinics in Oncology™️ Chief in Editor, I am submitting something as we speak
Best spam email I have received today Dear Clinics in Oncology™️ Chief in Editor, I am submitting something as we speak
March 22, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Chief in Editor? MEGA journal?? Clinics in Oncology, which is also trademarked???
Best spam email I have received today Dear Clinics in Oncology™️ Chief in Editor, I am submitting something as we speak
Best spam email I have received today Dear Clinics in Oncology™️ Chief in Editor, I am submitting something as we speak
“All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients” nature.com/articles/s4169…
A lot of great points here! You may have heard a few of these from me over the past few years, particularly about using multiomics for clinical prediction
A lot of great points here! You may have heard a few of these from me over the past few years, particularly about using multiomics for clinical prediction
March 19, 2024 at 7:50 PM
“All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients” nature.com/articles/s4169…
A lot of great points here! You may have heard a few of these from me over the past few years, particularly about using multiomics for clinical prediction
A lot of great points here! You may have heard a few of these from me over the past few years, particularly about using multiomics for clinical prediction
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Work from Noor Pratap Singh and Rob @robp.bsky.social on using transcript trees for DE for power and parsimony. Really excited about these applications going forward!
Also including Euphy @fennecpaaaw.bsky.social and Jason Fan
Also including Euphy @fennecpaaaw.bsky.social and Jason Fan
Tree-based differential testing using inferentialuncertainty for RNA-Seq https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.25.573288v1
Tree-based differential testing using inferentialuncertainty for RNA-Seq https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.25.573288v1
Identifying differentially expressed transcripts poses a crucial yet challenging problem in transcri
www.biorxiv.org
December 25, 2023 at 10:05 PM
Work from Noor Pratap Singh and Rob @robp.bsky.social on using transcript trees for DE for power and parsimony. Really excited about these applications going forward!
Also including Euphy @fennecpaaaw.bsky.social and Jason Fan
Also including Euphy @fennecpaaaw.bsky.social and Jason Fan
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Thrilled to witness our work reach publication! Many thanks to @naimurashid.bsky.social for the invaluable guidance!
Excited to share our recent work profiling clinically-relevant mutations in CRC patients receiving SOC therapies in CALGB 80405, highlighted in @JCO_ASCO. Kudos to UNC Bios student Wancen Mu for her critical contributions to this work!
Paper: tinyurl.com/yhsvntkj
Editorial: tinyurl.com/2554u4yx
Paper: tinyurl.com/yhsvntkj
Editorial: tinyurl.com/2554u4yx
December 12, 2023 at 9:04 PM
Thrilled to witness our work reach publication! Many thanks to @naimurashid.bsky.social for the invaluable guidance!
Excited to share our recent work profiling clinically-relevant mutations in CRC patients receiving SOC therapies in CALGB 80405, highlighted in @JCO_ASCO. Kudos to UNC Bios student Wancen Mu for her critical contributions to this work!
Paper: tinyurl.com/yhsvntkj
Editorial: tinyurl.com/2554u4yx
Paper: tinyurl.com/yhsvntkj
Editorial: tinyurl.com/2554u4yx
December 12, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Excited to share our recent work profiling clinically-relevant mutations in CRC patients receiving SOC therapies in CALGB 80405, highlighted in @JCO_ASCO. Kudos to UNC Bios student Wancen Mu for her critical contributions to this work!
Paper: tinyurl.com/yhsvntkj
Editorial: tinyurl.com/2554u4yx
Paper: tinyurl.com/yhsvntkj
Editorial: tinyurl.com/2554u4yx
Happy thanksgiving from…@PeppaPigFlorida!
Any yes, there is an entire theme park devoted to @peppapig, and yes, we did actually go there
My idea of roast pig for dinner tonight was flatly rejected
Any yes, there is an entire theme park devoted to @peppapig, and yes, we did actually go there
My idea of roast pig for dinner tonight was flatly rejected
November 24, 2023 at 4:00 AM
Happy thanksgiving from…@PeppaPigFlorida!
Any yes, there is an entire theme park devoted to @peppapig, and yes, we did actually go there
My idea of roast pig for dinner tonight was flatly rejected
Any yes, there is an entire theme park devoted to @peppapig, and yes, we did actually go there
My idea of roast pig for dinner tonight was flatly rejected
Our work developing formal methods to handle (non)ignorable missing data in supervised #deeplearning is now online at JCGS!
Great work by former @uncbiostat student David Lim, now
@GSK. Was not an easy problem to tackle but David did a great job!
link: shorturl.at/dflrV
Great work by former @uncbiostat student David Lim, now
@GSK. Was not an easy problem to tackle but David did a great job!
link: shorturl.at/dflrV
October 26, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Our work developing formal methods to handle (non)ignorable missing data in supervised #deeplearning is now online at JCGS!
Great work by former @uncbiostat student David Lim, now
@GSK. Was not an easy problem to tackle but David did a great job!
link: shorturl.at/dflrV
Great work by former @uncbiostat student David Lim, now
@GSK. Was not an easy problem to tackle but David did a great job!
link: shorturl.at/dflrV
Excited to share the news of my appointment to associate prof with tenure @uncbiostat!
Milestones like this don’t happen alone, and are made possible by amazing mentors, colleagues, collaborators, students, and especially family
Thank you for everything, and for believing in me
Milestones like this don’t happen alone, and are made possible by amazing mentors, colleagues, collaborators, students, and especially family
Thank you for everything, and for believing in me
October 5, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Excited to share the news of my appointment to associate prof with tenure @uncbiostat!
Milestones like this don’t happen alone, and are made possible by amazing mentors, colleagues, collaborators, students, and especially family
Thank you for everything, and for believing in me
Milestones like this don’t happen alone, and are made possible by amazing mentors, colleagues, collaborators, students, and especially family
Thank you for everything, and for believing in me
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We have a cool new tool (in rust!) for bulk sequencing-based quantification brewing (github.com/COMBINE-lab/...). It should work well for RNA-seq quantification, metagenomic abundance estimation & related problems. Will put up quickstart guide soon for those interested in testing. Feedback welcome!
GitHub - COMBINE-lab/piscem-infer
Contribute to COMBINE-lab/piscem-infer development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 30, 2023 at 3:45 PM
We have a cool new tool (in rust!) for bulk sequencing-based quantification brewing (github.com/COMBINE-lab/...). It should work well for RNA-seq quantification, metagenomic abundance estimation & related problems. Will put up quickstart guide soon for those interested in testing. Feedback welcome!
Post-#AACRPan23, a trip to @MikesPastry is a must for the fam back home
Still trying to figure out how the lines work, 10 years later
Still trying to figure out how the lines work, 10 years later
September 30, 2023 at 6:18 PM
Post-#AACRPan23, a trip to @MikesPastry is a must for the fam back home
Still trying to figure out how the lines work, 10 years later
Still trying to figure out how the lines work, 10 years later
Side benefit of being at #AACRPan23 in Boston: getting to celebrate stellar @uncbiostat @UNCpublichealth student Hillary Heiling's successful doctoral defense!
Best of luck @dfcidatascience, they are lucky to have you!
Best of luck @dfcidatascience, they are lucky to have you!
September 30, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Side benefit of being at #AACRPan23 in Boston: getting to celebrate stellar @uncbiostat @UNCpublichealth student Hillary Heiling's successful doctoral defense!
Best of luck @dfcidatascience, they are lucky to have you!
Best of luck @dfcidatascience, they are lucky to have you!
#rstats folks: any experiences with writing grants in Rmarkdown/quarto?
So far its been way smoother than writing in latex, and I am hoping that citations/bibliography management will be much more straightforward than Word (endnote...)
Any tips/pitfalls to watch out for?
So far its been way smoother than writing in latex, and I am hoping that citations/bibliography management will be much more straightforward than Word (endnote...)
Any tips/pitfalls to watch out for?
September 29, 2023 at 6:14 PM
#rstats folks: any experiences with writing grants in Rmarkdown/quarto?
So far its been way smoother than writing in latex, and I am hoping that citations/bibliography management will be much more straightforward than Word (endnote...)
Any tips/pitfalls to watch out for?
So far its been way smoother than writing in latex, and I am hoping that citations/bibliography management will be much more straightforward than Word (endnote...)
Any tips/pitfalls to watch out for?
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I'm excited to announce that the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology has TWO openings for tenure track Assistant Professors using genomics-informed methods to study critical questions in Plant and/or Microbial Biology.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...
Assistant Professor
The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill (https://bio.unc.edu/) is searching for two tenure track Assistant Professors using genomics-informed methods to study critical questions in Plant and Micr...
unc.peopleadmin.com
September 27, 2023 at 12:17 AM
I'm excited to announce that the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology has TWO openings for tenure track Assistant Professors using genomics-informed methods to study critical questions in Plant and/or Microbial Biology.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...
A friend was at an early career researcher workshop on grant writing and heard tapping from the window. She turned to see a large vulture staring at her, later joined by three more vultures, each tapping their beaks on the window. Can anyone think of symbolism more demoralizing??
September 25, 2023 at 5:39 PM
A friend was at an early career researcher workshop on grant writing and heard tapping from the window. She turned to see a large vulture staring at her, later joined by three more vultures, each tapping their beaks on the window. Can anyone think of symbolism more demoralizing??
Had a great visit to Michigan biostats last week! Talked about our latest work in cancer precision medicine, replicability, and clin. implementation of algorithms. Big thanks to Veera B. and Jeremy Taylor for the invite and swag! Lots of really awesome faculty, students, and research going on at UM
September 19, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Had a great visit to Michigan biostats last week! Talked about our latest work in cancer precision medicine, replicability, and clin. implementation of algorithms. Big thanks to Veera B. and Jeremy Taylor for the invite and swag! Lots of really awesome faculty, students, and research going on at UM
Please spread the word! UNC biostatistics and UNC Genetics are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to engage in statistical genetics/genomics methodological and collaborative research
Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...
Details below
Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...
Details below
September 18, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Please spread the word! UNC biostatistics and UNC Genetics are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to engage in statistical genetics/genomics methodological and collaborative research
Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...
Details below
Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...
Details below