GSF Spotlight: Read about how @BU_Tweets researcher Eddie Ruiz leveraged his Graduate Student Fellowship to build dbverse—speeding up massive biological data analyses by up to 1,000x on a standard laptop—and help secure a $3.4M NIH award. Read the full story: spr.ly/6011BHpc89

Congratulations to Chuanfei Dong, a Boston University Assistant Professor of Astronomy and researcher at @BUCSPIAR, who has been elected a 2026 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)—one of the society’s highest honors recognizing outstanding contributions to physics: spr.ly/6019BHr9ul

The Hariri Institute is pleased to announce that there will be a Distinguished Seminar with Marzyeh Ghassemi on Friday, November 13th. Register now: spr.ly/6015BHHlfS

How can we organize AI scientist agents into collaborative communities that drive scientific discovery at scale? Join us for an engaging seminar with James Zou, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, as he explores the future of AI-powered research collaboration. spr.ly/6013BG2It9

This Thursday, Jianyang Gu, a postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University and visiting postdoc at MIT, will visit Boston University for an AI Research Seminar. Gu will discuss how moving from samples to concepts can offer a more expressive interface between data and models, and how concept-centric representations can support more interpretable scientific learning. 📆 10-11am in Room 1101 spr.ly/6010BGLgCY

Please join us in welcoming Mona Jalal—the new leader of our Data Science Mentoring Circles Program! Learn more about Mona: spr.ly/6011BGvedd Additionally, applications for DSMC mentors and mentees closes this Monday!

Join us for light refreshments and insightful presentations: Our Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative (AIR) has a series of seminars this month starting Monday, October 5th! spr.ly/6010BGQpEw

Featured Event: Michael Dietze and Jonathan Huggins will host the "Accelerating Environmental Forecasting Symposium" on Tuesday, October 27 at the Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences from 10 am - 7 pm. View agenda and register now: spr.ly/6018BGtrjg

This Tuesday, 9/29, Fuxin Li, Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at @oregonstate, will present "From Heatmaps to Structural and Counterfactual Explanations" as part of our Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative. This talk will be held in CDS 1101 from 2-3PM.spr.ly/6015BG97ef

Researchers from @BU_Tweets, @SpauldingRehab, @MassGenBrigham, @harvardmed, and @PSburnsurvivors along with @hicsail have developed LIBRE GO!, a smartphone app that allows burn survivors to assess their social recovery, monitor changes over time, and connect with evidence-based resources. Learn more: spr.ly/6014BG9NPn

Could the combination of data science and cosmology uncover one of the universe’s greatest mysteries? Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Dillon Brout shares insight into dark energy and the need for convergent research in the field: spr.ly/6017BGurnt