Happening in SR11.33 after the coffee break! If my thread below isn't incentive enough, the preceding talk is modelling artificial insemination of Water Buffalo - bet you haven't been to any other talks on that this week #EMCTB26

Are you at #ECMTB26? Do you like topology? Do you like the idea of topological data analysis, but worry that it's too computationally expensive and that you wouldn't be able to interpret the output? If you said "Yes" to any of these, you might like my talk at SR11.33 at 11:50am on Wednesday =)

If you're at #ECMTB26 (or wish you were), you might be interested in our modelling paper out today in Plos Comp Biol! In which talented (ex-)student Nic Fan develops a #Chaste agent-based model to describe vascular remodelling in tumour growth models! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

There is no try, there is only do (I'm always funny, I don't know what the Oxford Maths admin is trying to say here 🤔🥲)

I've been through the programme for Monday at #ECMTB2026, and am quintuple booked for one session already. Why are there so many parallel sessions, and can I have a time machine to watch them please?! 😅 On to Tuesday...

Great to see so many inspiring talks & posters at the recent OCION Symposium! 👏 Congrats to Oxford Cancer DPhil students Nicholas Lai & Eva Hanlon on their award wins, & to DPhil student Haofeng Chen, who won the Public Choice Best Poster award. Read more 👇 www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/OCION-2...

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

I guess this bus must be full?

What can spatial patterns tell us about tumor growth or dryland ecosystem resilience? Are there bridges and opportunities between these apparently distant disciplines? This wednesday June 17 we'll have the 3rd Session of Eco-Onco Exchange, with @joshuabull.bsky.social and Benoît Pichon !

In 2022 Fantasy Premier League winner @joshuabull.bsky.social made his World Cup predictions. They were okay, but no cigar. However, in the intervening four years he has really honed his mathematical skills. Now he is 100% confident he's found the secret sauce.

Tour du force on how #fibroblast subsets can drive rheumatoid arthritis in #natureimmunology. Huge congrats to @arthritisbham, Mark Coles and team at #Oxford. Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The World Cup is almost here and everyone has an opinion about likely winners. But being mathematicians, we have insisted on looking at the data, and we think we have found the secret to predicting results. @joshuabull.bsky.social is our analyst in the studio.

This very much sums up my work this week...

I am greatly enjoying the Peer Review Experience.

🚨 The deadline to submit an application for the 2026 Emmy Noether Fellowship is TOMORROW! Thanks to the Liber Foundation, grants of up to £10,000 are open to mathematicians with current or recent caring responsibilities. Further details ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/grants/lms-e...

How do tumors or bacteria modulate their environment, and how does that translate into their growth? What can we learn from maths, and what are the implications for cancer therapy or ecosystem resilience? Register here for the first Eco-Onco session, April 22nd forms.gle/B77tZmyzCzmp...

Excited to announce Eco-Onco Exchange — a virtual seminar series bridging mathematical ecology and oncology. Each session pairs two speakers from each field around a shared theme, followed by joint discussion. First three sessions coming soon! Register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This seems like a very dangerous place to be holding a trial.

We are looking for a Postdoc to join our lab at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. This is a dry-lab focused post on the computational analysis of long read single-cell sequencing data to understand the role of transposable elements (TEs) in early development. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #TEsky

If you've put in a #MuSpAn code request in the last few days and haven't heard anything, please let me know - looks like there was an issue with our hosting which meant the requests weren't coming through! I think I've sorted the backlog but please shout if you're still waiting for code access :)

🎉 The SMB #MathOnco Subgroup is launching its inaugural Early Career Awards! Grad student or postdoc presenting at #ECMTB2026 / #SMB2026 in Graz? Apply by April 30th! 🔗 smb.org/call-for-award-nominations/

Many thanks to everyone from the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network who participated in our #MuSpAn hackathon in York last week - fantastic to see how much everyone was able to discover in just one week! A big shout out to the National STEM learning centre and the NMGN for hosting/organising!

Our work in mathematical biology spans many areas of this increasingly important field. This role will focus on combining theoretical and computational approaches to understand collective cell behaviours. And you get to hang out with the team. Find out more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80472

Please sign my petition to remove one letter from the word "Middlesbrough" so that the kerning on the BBC Sport app is better. Does it really need both Ds? Or maybe one of those silent letters near the end could be quietly dropped?

Damian Hall began loop 3 barefoot at 22:54:26. Mathieu Blanchard and Sébastien Raichon began loop 3 shortly thereafter. #BM100

Great fun doing an @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social Masterclass for local Year 9 students this morning! Featuring The Puzzle, a human cellular automaton, some nice fractals, and a bit of @visualpde.com

Hi everyone, MuSpAn v1.2.2 is now available! Featuring lots of nice quality of life updates behind the scenes. Enjoy! docs.muspan.co.uk/latest/tutor... #spatialbiology #spatial #biology 🧬🧪👨‍🔬

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

In case you were wondering why academic robes have hoods... #TheTraitors

Yes, my wedding has a website Yes, I have also included modelling of the expected temperature on the day Yes, I did this by fitting a Bayesian model to 45 years of temperature data Yes, the wedding website has an easter egg with a little link to find a writeup of how I got the numbers

🦃❄️🎄

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

FRS

Just pulling in to Glasgow for a week at @cruk-si.bsky.social - we're running a MuSpAn training week for the MRC Mouse Genetics Network, looking forward to a week of talking all things spatial biology, maths, and MuSpAn!

We just advertised the Hooke Fellowships for exceptional researchers (typically after their first post-doc). You are completely free to set up your own research agenda for three years. RT please my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

WE'VE ONLY GONE AND DONE IT!!! (Apart from the two pieces that have sadly gone missing in the last 2.5 years 😅🥲)

And that’s a wrap #EMBLSpatialBiology #ESSB2025

Current mood

If you're at #ESSB2025 and are curious about alternative existing tools with the capacity to combine cell networks into larger objects for further analysis, and much much more, please come and talk to me about #MuSpAn at poster 58 this afternoon

@sergiosdhi.bsky.social takes to the #ESSB2025 stage to demonstrate TopROI, a new mathematical tool for preserving structure when dividing large point clouds into multiple regions of interest! #EMBLSpatialBiology

Great to see some exciting applications of #MuSpAn in action in @pathologop.bsky.social's talk at #ESSB2025 today! Come and say hi if you'd like to find out more about the software, or to have a chat about how MuSpAn might be able to help with your data analysis :) #EMBLSpatialBiology

No photos, please!

Lots of opportunities to chat about #MuSpAn at #ESSB2025 this week! In the Wednesday poster session go find Josh at p151, and come and talk to me at p58 on Thursday!

Looking forward to a busy week of spatial biology at EMBL. If you’re at #ESSB2025 and interested spatial analysis and/or its use for identifying drug response, come find me at p151 (helix b)

We're exploring spatial biology at multiple scales here today - the auditorium is huge, but the powerpoint presentation is several orders of magnitude smaller

Just pulling into Heidelberg for #EMBLSpatialBiology #ESSB2025... Really looking forward to meeting more of the #SpatialBiology community this week! If you want to chat with a friendly mathematician, do say hi if you see me wandering around, or drop me a message on here and we can coordinate :)

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Some MuSpAn fun with @visualpde.com !

Our new MuSpAn preprint is now live, featuring additional examples and with expanded supplementary information: doi.org/10.1101/2024... This accompanies the release today of v1.2.0 of MuSpAn with new features, optimisations, and bug fixes: docs.muspan.co.uk/latest/Insta... 🧪🧬🖥️ #SpatialBiology