Randomly listening to #BiologyInNumbers episodes (by @parmvir.com for @smbmathbiology.bsky.social) and really enjoyed @suzannesindi.bsky.social's! I wish I'd heard it during my Ph.D. - esp: "most of the time what you try does not work... it feels like you're always solving a puzzle".

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Applications are now open for the @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Programme. If you are interested in our project ‘Reprogramming Plasticity in Colorectal Cancer’ feel free to get in touch! www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph...

Being interviewed for a podcast is as fun as nerve wracking (as you all can hear! 😅), but... what an experience! And what a lovely mashup of stories from amazing people. Thanks @parmvir.com for letting me be a part of it!

Really enjoyed talking about mathematical biology (and a little about being an associate dean) in @parmvir.com's Biology in Numbers podcast on the 2025 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social annual meeting! Bolero superfans, don't @ me! 🧪 (I'm at 33:43) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

This was fun and great to learn about the research (and trivia) of colleagues from #SMB2025 this summer in Edmonton. Thanks to @parmvir.com for hosting a great podcast 🙌 🧬 🔢 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

This year's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social meeting provided us with another delightful mashup of math biologists (and me) talking about science, and in Amy's case, ultra-running and conference coffee ☕ Thanks to all the excellent attendees who agreed to speak with me for Biology in Numbers. #scicomm

#Antifragility in #cancer #treatments one step closer to clinical reality. By Jeff West writing on his #MathOnco research with @andriy-marusyk.bsky.social @sandyanderson.bsky.social et al

I do regret not asking @parmvir.com about her ultra-running in the podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/7rpv... but even better, she's interviewed here too!

Excited to be this week's cover for the Math Oncology Blog (# 345): a 3D @physicell.bsky.social simulation written entirely in a new model grammar without code. Jointly made with @heberlr.bsky.social, based on our recent @cp-cell.bsky.social paper. #Mathonco #mathbio 🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Thanks to @cancerevo.org and @stroblmar.bsky.social for inviting us to write the blog post and cover image! And thanks to Jeffrey West (not on BlueSky?!) and the math oncology blog for their service to the community! Subscribe to the weekly newsletter at mathematical-oncology.org/newsletter

If you are interested in learning more about what an IMO Workshop is like check out our dedicated website: imoworkshop.org. Note the workshop this year runs directly after our #MathOnco25 meeting: mathematical-oncology.org/mathonco25.

Excited to announce that registration for the 13th @mathonco.bsky.social workshop on Treatment Revolution is now open. Held onsite @moffittnews.bsky.social Nov 2-Nov 7 #MoffittIMO more details: imo13.eventbrite.com. Deluxe travel awards are available on a competitive basis, apply by 10/03!

Hello Everyone - if you are in Tampa and have no plans for tomorrow consider dining at Glory days - up to 20% of sales will go to support life saving research at the Moffitt Cancer Center - eat well, have fun and support a wonderful cause - what could be better

Join @cmaley.bsky.social, @lucielaplane.bsky.social, Joel Brown and Benjamin Spada for a live EvoChat discussion about "How we define cancer matters", hosted by the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer (ISEEC). Oct 1st at 8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CEST ucsb.zoom.us/j/8313111375...

🧪🧪 Just a reminder, a 2024 study published in JAMA that included over 2 million children found that using acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, during pregnancy was not associated with increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in children. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I love listening to the #CancerInOurCommunity podcast from @moffittnews.bsky.social COE but for these two episodes I had to wait until I was ready. I am glad I listened and thankful that there is a podcast that tells these powerful stories and illustrate the role of family members as care givers

Interested in doing a PhD in #MatOnco next year? Our department at @moffittnews.bsky.social is a great place to do research and we offer fully-paid tuition and fees. Apply before the deadline 12/1 at Moffitt.org/CancerPhD

Lots of great research from the #blackboard to the #bedside at @mathonco.bsky.social

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Serious question: Now that our government is actively censoring things they don't like, should we stop submitting scientific papers to U.S. journals susceptible to such practices? Maybe European or UK journals would be safer? #publishing #ethics #censorship

Good friend @sandyanderson.bsky.social is giving the 1st keynote address on virtual cancer trials, virtual tumor boards, and using patient-calibrated models to plan individual treatments to delay therapeutic resistance. Groundbreaking work making a difference in real patient trails! #mathonco

Grammar to develop #mathbio #mathonco models? Color me interested. Great work by @mathcancer.bsky.social, @fertiglab.bsky.social and others

I very much enjoyed thinking about how to present this introductory guide, as well as speaking with IMO folks yesterday about #SciComm. And I may have included one or more melodramatic messages to impress upon people the need for more and better communication 🫣

Probably not standard in many PhD courses (that should change!) but our @moffittnews.bsky.social @mathonco.bsky.social students had a lecture on science communication and outreach by the one and only @parmvir.com @scientistsinc.org

In Florida alone, a 15% decline in vaccinations against measles over 25 years would lead to 1 million measles cases. www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/h...

I find it personally very much easier to be here. But also the audience is increasingly small & what I learn here increasingly narrow as pre-emptive blocklists grow. I don’t think the only solution to the culture problem here is “never interact with or see anyone who has a different view than you”

I told CBC News about the public health threat presented by Florida’s new policy to end vaccine mandates. As fewer people get vaccinated, more people will get sick. More people will die. It is un-American to deny people freedom from disease. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Operation Warp Speed was enabled by decades of basic science research. Scaling up vaccine production is not possible without mRNA vaccine technology in the first place. Get back to principles. It's not either-or. Support science & partnerships. nam.edu/news-and-ins...

#RFKjr hearing affirms him as the most perversely ill-suited person imaginable to head HHS, all pseudoscience & antivaccine quackery. The one thing he was ALMOST right on proved he remains too stupid to realise you can't fix systemic inequality with crystals & enemas..

Florida Moves to End Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren. Gift link: nyti.ms/465eaab

The Economist: Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/02/scientists-are-discovering-a-powerful-new-way-to-prevent-cancer?giftId=b0327e5d-5194-4ffb-baa4-57aa8ceb43e6&utm_campaign=gifted_article Which is why […]

taste of science is excited to present our next online event with the most excellent @ahnaskop.bsky.social. Join us on September 4th at 7pm eastern to find out more about how one cell divides into three: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Ov... #tasteOfSci #SciComm

Today’s @mathonco.bsky.social research in progress is from Jeffrey West lab member Ari Barnett presenting, Moment-Informed Radiotherapy: Inferring inter-patient radiosensitivity with probability convolution @moffittnews.bsky.social

I will never get over the irony of seeing what ends up behind a paywall. #SciComm

#MathOnco25 Abstract submission is being extended until this Friday the 5th of September! So please go ahead and submit asap to have a chance of getting one of our travel awards! mathematical-oncology.org/mathonco25

This Labor Day, I’m thinking about all my colleagues in the US federal government who lost their jobs due to the Trump administration’s cruel and unconstitutional dismantling of our democracy. Solidarity and gratitude for your service to our country.

can memes get us through this?

📣 Delighted to announce the first edition of the 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 Day, to take place in Oxford on 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵, with lots of exciting work at the interface of mathematics and biology. 🔗 For more information: sites.google.com/view/oxwmath...

Fucking ICE just disappeared two of our neighbors from their car; they had the courtesy to put the car back in the driveway , but left their 5 lb dog inside the house to die. Is America great again now‽ #MAGA

The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly

Harvard is not the enemy. Nor is UPitt, UNC Chapel-Hill, Baylor College of Medicine, or UVA. But that is how the administration is treating the entire landscape of federally supported research & the next generation of scientists. They and we will lose out. 🎁 www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

The Economist: RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA technology endangers the world. Gift link: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/08/20/rfk-jrs-attack-on-mrna-technology-endangers-the-world?giftId=eb7c95b6-024c-4e79-92a4-0144e1f9bb9a&utm_campaign=gifted_article

“Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research” - a partnership between Promega and Moffitt’s Departments of Metabolism and Physiology and Drug Discovery - great speakers, travel awards and career panels for trainees - join us free in beautiful Tampa on 9/23 promega.foleon.com/pats-sandbox...

The Guardian - An existential threat’: US health workers call Robert F Kennedy Jr a risk to public health https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/health-workers-robert-f-kennedy-jr

New in the Guardian, pushing back on the bad-faith rationale used by the NIH Director to defend and justify cuts to mRNA vaccine research, story by @skirchy.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This paper took the scenic route to publication: paused for maternity leave, rerouted by other work priorities, and finally dusted off like a forgotten treasure in the attic when my brilliant student Amy came on board.

🚨BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. is a danger to this nation. Don’t give in to Trump & his cronies: we are NOT trading innovation for ideology. We demand the immediate IMPEACHMENT and REMOVAL of RFK. Stop the quack. Protect Science. Protect Democracy Sign & share here: zurl.co/PEPyD #StandUpForScience

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.