Amy Willis 😻 amydwillis.bsky.social
@AmyDWillis
Biodiversity-loving, error bar-needing statistician. Associate Professor @UWBiostat. Methods & software for #microbiome & #biodiversity data. She/her.
radEmu is here! ❤️🐦📈🔥 The StatDivLab's best differential abundance method yet! arxiv.org/abs/2402.05231
“We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.” academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…
How are DOGE & Trump planning to permanently decrease the NIH budget, and how do we fight back? -- by a courageous NIH whistleblower. Thank you to this brave person for their clear analysis and constructive suggestions. #NIH #DOGE donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-budg…
AND I wrote a blog post about how to write a great application! I hope to see you there! #STAMPS2025 bsky.app/profile/amydwi…
Looking to improve your #microbiome data analyses skills? Hope to see you at #STAMPS2025 at @MBLScience Applications Due: March 11, 2025 go.mbl.edu/STAMPS
Link to the new StatDivLab blog here: bsky.app/profile/amydwi… PS. My current plan is to only tweet links to my Bluesky posts. Hope to see you over there 😽
No only is this being led by some incredible people, but anvio is a super-empowering platform for microbialomics! If this is interesting and doable for you, I promise it would be worth it!
Come to our free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o! More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/2025… Please apply and/or circulate 😇
Slides from my #ISME19 presentation available at github.com/statdivlab/pre… . Looking forward to continuing the rest of the session in 1.4 at 2:30pm today! Joint work with @davidandacat @sarah_teichman @bejcal and @mikemc423
If you are a microbiologist or have an interest in microbes, please spend 10 minutes of your time to share with us some information! You have time until the end of August to fill this form: forms.gle/v3NBs7YtGbDJYf… Thank you!! #microbialdiversity #taxonomy #ECCOmeeting2024