There's so many parallel sessions at #JSM2025 that it's hard to choose where to go, so I web-scraped the schedule and made a chatbot to help.

I've made it public, so hopefully it can help you too - try it out 👉 shiny.mitchelloharawild.com/jsm2025/

Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation! It feels surreal to finally reach the end of my PhD journey at @umnsph.bsky.social. Thank you to my adviser Wei Pan and to my committee members @elock.bsky.social, @aazaidi.bsky.social, and Thierry Chekouo for your invaluable mentorship and support!

I'm excited to present my work on rigorous and scalable multiple-testing corrections for complex haplotype scans in WGS at ASA STATGEN 2025!
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I am at StatGen 2025 in Minneapolis. I would be happy to chat with students or postdocs about research or career questions. Send me a DM.

I'm excited to share our latest work, now out in #PLOSGenetics! If you feel limited by linear models in TWAS or PWAS but don't think you can switch to nonlinear methods due to a lack of individual-level phenotype data, this paper is for you.

🔗 journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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So proud of my colleague @jaredhuling.bsky.social for being named a McKnight Presidential Fellow! I'm thrilled to have him as a colleague and look forward to the great things he'll do in the future!

Excited to share new research from my former student Ales Kotalik, along with David Vock, Brian Hobbs, and Nancy Sherwood. Here we discuss how dynamic borrowing methods developed for precision oncology can also be used to improve efficiency in a SMART.

F mechanisms (New and Competitive renewals)

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Congratulations to Leif Verace from the University of Minnesota, the 2025 ENAR Van Ryzin Student Paper Award winner! ⭐️

NIH Reporter data through this morning (grants funded up to March 8th)

First, new and competitive renewal grants...

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Celebrating Black History Month: Initially drawn to combining math and finance, Sandra Safo's path shifted after she discovered data analysis during her studies. Sandra now develops innovative statistical and machine learning methods to advance health care research. magazine.amstat.org/...

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Interested in #statistics in #genomics and #genetics? Join us May 21-23 in Minneapolis for the 2nd annual STATGEN Conference for the ASA's Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics. Registration and abstract submission (deadline February 15th) are open to all.
www.sph.umn.edu/events-calen...

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

Introducing BAMITA: Bayesian Multiple Imputation for Tensor Arrays! Simulate realistic values for missing data in tensors. Applied to longitudinal microbiome data. With PhD student extraordinaire Ziren Jiang, & Gen Li from the "other" U of M. In Biostatistics and on arXiv.
doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Introducing EV-BIDIFAC - decompose low-rank signal across linked matrices efficiently with a model-based framework & no tuning parameters! Reviewer 2 *raves* "my primary concerns have been addressed with this revision". Available now at Machine Learning and arXiv! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trying again with a working link:

We’ve just posted a new Contract Assistant Professor position at UMN Biostat & Health Data Science! Happy to discuss with anyone interested.

#biostatistics #healthdatascience #academicjobs

hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...