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AMIA Welcomes Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, as New Board President

Jan 14, 2026 - The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) announces the appointment of Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, as President and Chair of the AMIA Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2026.

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AMIA Welcomes Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, as New Board President

Boston University appoints Joshua Campbell as new director of the Bioinformatics Program

Jan 15, 2026 - Joshua Campbell, Associate Professor at Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, was appointed as the new Director of the Bioinformatics Program, with a secondary appointment in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS).

#bioinformatics #ADSA member #Boston University

Boston University appoints Joshua Campbell as new director of the Bioinformatics Program

11 things UC Berkeley AI experts are watching for in 2026

Jan 13, 2026 - How will AI disrupt the labor market? What will deepfake videos mean for our understanding of truth? Are we in a bubble, and if so, will the bubble burst?

#UC Berkeley #AI

11 things UC Berkeley AI experts are watching for in 2026

UVA Sheng Li Appointed Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of AI

Jan 16, 2026 - Sheng Li received senior member status from AAAI in recognition of his significant accomplishments in the field of artificial intelligence.

#university of virginia #ADSA member

UVA Sheng Li Appointed Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of AI

U of T staff: Level up your AI skills with the Data Sciences Institute!

Jan 13, 2026 - The University’s AI Task Force’s report, Toward an AI-Ready University, calls for AI literacy and training for all employees.

#University of Toronto #ADSA member #AI literacy

U of T staff: Level up your AI skills with the Data Sciences Institute!

UChicago DSI | The Unseminar: A Forum for the Next Generation of AI-Enabled Research Leaders

Jan 14, 2026 - The Unseminar combines some of the program’s greatest strengths: a community of pioneering interdisciplinary researchers, opportunities for professional development, and robust mentorship.

#Schmidt #UChicago #ADSA member

UChicago DSI | The Unseminar: A Forum for the Next Generation of AI-Enabled Research Leaders

UChicago DSI | Who Bears the Burden of Technological Change?

Jan 16, 2026 - Challenging the conventional wisdom that technological disruption primarily affects STEM and high-skill workers whose jobs exhibit greater skill volatility, the researchers found that jobs with fewer skill requirements, lower wages, and less education experience the greatest skill change.

#UChicago #ADSA member #career #economy

UChicago DSI | Who Bears the Burden of Technological Change?

New AI Courses and Partnerships Signal Latest Push in Howard’s AI Initiative

Jan 14, 2026 - Brand new courses, a revamped class with CodePath and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and a partnership with Bowie State are just the latest in the university's mission to be a leader in artificial intelligence.

#Bowie State University #Howard #AI #AI literacy #partnership #education

New AI Courses and Partnerships Signal Latest Push in Howard’s AI Initiative

Annual Updates to the Data and Methodology Used to Produce Population Estimates

Jan 15, 2026 - The U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program produces annual estimates of the population that reflect year-to-year changes.

#data #Census Bureau

Annual Updates to the Data and Methodology Used to Produce Population Estimates

What the Brookings Report Really Means for AI in Schools

Jan 15, 2026 - An Educator's Guide to the Findings, the Warnings, and the Path Forward

#education #GAI #library

What the Brookings Report Really Means for AI in Schools

Research institutions tout the value of scholarship that crosses disciplines – but academia pushes interdisciplinary researchers out

Jan 13, 2026 - Researchers who focus on one specialty are more likely to rise through the academic ranks, even though wicked societal problems require crosscutting work to solve.

#interdisciplinary #higher ed #research

Research institutions tout the value of scholarship that crosses disciplines – but academia pushes interdisciplinary researchers out

Using ChatGPT for Data Science Analyses

Jan 13, 2026 - This paper assesses the potential of ChatGPT for Data Science analyses, illustrating its capabilities for data exploration and visualization, as well as for commonly used supervised and unsupervised modeling tasks.

#GAI #ChatGPT #data science #OpenAI #Python

Using ChatGPT for Data Science Analyses

Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education

Jan 13, 2026 - Around 58% have introduced demonstrations, guided activities, or make extensive use of LLMs in their courses, though most expect change to remain slow and uneven.

#LLM #education #data science #pedagogy

Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education

Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist on Public Data Under Siege

Jan 14, 2026 - Denice Ross, the former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, explains what the recent removal of key public data and reports means for public policy in America.

#data #policy #Trump

Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist on Public Data Under Siege

Rachel Levy named as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Jan 16, 2026 - Levy is recognized "for her exceptional leadership and her contributions to knowledge, education, mentorship, communication, programs, professional development and policy advocacy to broaden the appreciation of and participation in the mathematical sciences."

#ADSA member #NCSU #math

Rachel Levy named as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Howard University and Bowie State partner on $4M initiative to Build AI Literacy

Jan 15, 2026 - Howard University and Bowie State University are partnering on ASCEND-AI, a $4M, four-year initiative to build ethical AI literacy and career-ready skills, supported by the U.S. Department of Education.

#Howard #AI #Bowie State University #partnership #DoE #Department of Education #ADSA member

Howard University and Bowie State partner on $4M initiative to Build AI Literacy

UVA SDS MSDS Residential Student Profile

Jan 14, 2026 - From Navy officer to data scientist, Ryan Dallas shares his path to UVA’s MSDS, hands-on learning, career goals in AI, and advice for future students.

#university of virginia #ADSA member

UVA SDS MSDS Residential Student Profile

Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead

Jan 15, 2026 - Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.

#Zhejiang University #Harvard #student visas #Trump #China #MIT #Princeton #University of Cambridge #Oxford University #Stanford #Tsinghua University #Peking University

Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead

Helping AI systems recover from mistakes and find optimal solutions

Jan 14, 2026 - A team of scientists funded by Asari AI, with researchers from Caltech and MIT, has developed a new tool that gives programmers working with AI agents a way to more easily backtrack and experiment with search strategies to identify the best pathways in their code.

#CalTech #MIT #AI

Helping AI systems recover from mistakes and find optimal solutions

Autonomous AI agents developed to detect early signs of cognitive decline

Jan 15, 2026 - In testing including 3,300 clinical notes from 200 patients; electronic health records, the system identified early cognitive decline with 98% specificity

#healthcare #AI

Autonomous AI agents developed to detect early signs of cognitive decline

A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect

Jan 14, 2026 - This report explores the potential risks generative AI poses to students and outlines what we can do now to minimize them.

#ChatGPT #GAI #education #pedagogy #EdTech

A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus

Jan 14, 2026 - AI boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich areas and potentially limiting broader scientific exploration.

#GAI #science #Tsinghua University

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus

How data science competitions accelerate brain health discovery

Jan 15, 2026 - This Comment explores the challenges faced by competition organizers and how they can harness diverse expertise to address data heterogeneity, assess modeling strategies and translate findings into practice.

#data science #program management #health #data

How data science competitions accelerate brain health discovery

Generative AI guide for civil society

Jan 9, 2026 - The Digital Justice Network produced a guide that originated from the realisation that civil society organisations and activists need help in establishing generative AI policies and properly utilise these tools when necessary.

#GAI #policy

Generative AI guide for civil society

Lucy Family Institute Releases Policy Brief Urging Action on AI Distortion of Historical Information

Jan 14, 2026 - Researchers released a policy brief warning that AI systems systematically distort historical information, posing a serious threat to democratic discourse and participation both nationally and internationally.

#Notre Dame #ADSA member #policy

Lucy Family Institute Releases Policy Brief Urging Action on AI Distortion of Historical Information

Data Analyst vs Data Scientist… what’s the difference?

Jan 14, 2026 - Although similar in several ways, data analysts and data scientists perform different functions in an organization.

#NCSU #data science

Data Analyst vs Data Scientist… what’s the difference?

AI’s Memorization Crisis

Jan. 9, 2026 - Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

#GAI #LLM #Gemini #Claude #ChatGPT

AI’s Memorization Crisis

What a Virtual Zebrafish Can Teach Us About Autonomous AI - Carnegie Mellon University

Jan 12, 2026 - The virtual zebrafish replicated animal-like brain activity and exhibited animal-like autonomy in a simulated environment.

#CMU #AI #ADSA member

What a Virtual Zebrafish Can Teach Us About Autonomous AI - Carnegie Mellon University

New video dataset to advance AI for health care

Jan 12, 2026 - Penn Engineering’s multimodal medical dataset, Observer, links video, audio, and transcripts to clinical data and electronic health records.

#UPenn #healthcare

New video dataset to advance AI for health care

AI at UC Irvine ICS: Making a Splash

Jan 9, 2025 - 2025 was a big year for artificial intelligence, and nowhere more so than at ICS.

Padhraic Smyth as the inaugural Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence

#UC Irvine #ADSA member #AI

AI at UC Irvine ICS: Making a Splash