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Welcome to the fortieth ever issue of Monday Morning Data Science from the Fred Hutch Data Science Laboratory. We are excited to show you what we have been working on (Fresh from the Lab), plus links that we think you would be interested in (Our Weekly Bookmarks Bar). Part of the purpose of this newsletter is to start conversations, so if you have a question or there is something you would like to share with us please let us know by responding directly to this email.

Fresh from the Lab

• [Last Chance! Opportunity for Labs: Openscapes Champions Program] Watch the New Program Introduction Video Here! DaSL is extremely excited to partner with Openscapes to bring their Champions Program to your lucky lab this autumn! The Openscapes Champions Program is a remote cohort-based mentorship experience for labs interested in developing their skills in doing more collaborative, inclusive, reproducible, open data science. Read the linked blog post and watch the introduction video above for more information. We are also hosting an Ask Me Anything event with the Openscapes Staff this Tuesday August 22 from 1pm to 2pm PT at this teams link. Make sure to register your interest here before August 23rd.

Our Weekly Bookmarks Bar

• [Gist: Anti-hype LLM reading list] It’s no secret we are fans of Vicky Boykis’ work in the Data Science Lab. She has been maintaining a reading list of LLM literature that minimizes the hype and focuses on the facts.

As always you can contact us by replying directly to this email, you can email Jeff Leek, Amy Paguirigan, and Sean Kross at data@fredhutch.org, or you are welcome to join us on the Fred Hutch Data Slack Workspace. For more information about the Fred Hutch Data Science Lab, visit our website: https://hutchdatascience.org/. See you next week!

- The Fred Hutch Data Science Laboratory