Joshua Bull
@joshuabull.bsky.social
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Spatial biology + maths, finally starting to give up on The Bad Place
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!
14 days ago
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Alain Goriely
20 days ago
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...
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WE'VE ONLY GONE AND DONE IT!!! (Apart from the two pieces that have sadly gone missing in the last 2.5 years 😅🥲)
21 days ago
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Schapiro Lab
24 days ago
And that’s a wrap
#EMBLSpatialBiology
#ESSB2025
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Owe Jessen
about 1 month ago
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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
25 days ago
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@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
26 days ago
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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
26 days ago
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No photos, please!
27 days ago
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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!
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27 days ago
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Josh Moore
27 days ago
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)
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We're exploring spatial biology at multiple scales here today - the auditorium is huge, but the powerpoint presentation is several orders of magnitude smaller
27 days ago
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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 :)
27 days ago
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Oxford Medical Sciences Division
about 1 month ago
GET INVOLVED: Science Together 2025-26 ⭐Are you interested in using your research and public engagement skills to support Oxfordshire communities? If so, then apply now to be part of our community engagement programme!
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Get Involved with Science Together 2025-26!
Would you like to seek innovative solutions to societal challenges through collaboration? Are you interested in using your research and public engagement skills to support Oxfordshire communities? Do you want to develop your skills and gain new insights and perspectives? If so, then apply now to be part of our community engagement programme!
https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/public-engagement/science-together-oxford-researchers-and-communities/public-engagement-with-research-opportunity
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Some MuSpAn fun with
@visualpde.com
!
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about 1 month ago
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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
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MuSpAn: A Toolbox for Multiscale Spatial Analysis
Advances in multiplex imaging and spatial omics have revolutionised spatial data generation in biology, revealing complex tissue organisation across multiple scales. However, methods for analysing the...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.06.627195
about 2 months ago
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I am entirely blaming the
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.social
social media team for getting me to do this beautiful beautiful video 😂🎷
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about 2 months ago
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I feel seen 😍🫖
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about 2 months ago
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Looks like with any luck we might manage to be
#DoneByOctober
! Although I'm told we have 421 pieces to go...🫣
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about 2 months ago
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Lovely to have a talk on home turf from the great
@mathcancer.bsky.social
, presenting some of his developments around a grammar for developing agent based models! If that sounds interesting, check out the paper here:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
about 2 months ago
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A reminder that "very keen" ≠ "good" 🏃♀️😅
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2 months ago
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Great start to day two of
#UKMathBio
- after
@profruthbaker.bsky.social
's opening talk we now have Katie Bentley from
@crick.ac.uk
introducing us to the lunatic fringe hidden in the mouse retina...
2 months ago
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Great first talk of
#mathonco
session 2 at
#UKMathBio
from Alexis Farman, who has been modelling B-ALL
2 months ago
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We're back up and running after lunch - after David Rand's talk on the neural tube (which I forgot to get a photo for, sorry) we're now hearing about Weini Huang's work on ecDNA
#UKMathBio
2 months ago
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Our final talk of the morning at
#UKMathBio
is from Nikolaos Sfakianakis, who presents some very cool (and slightly gruesome) modelling of a hybrid 3D framework to describe tumour metastasis
2 months ago
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Now time for
@kitcgallagher.bsky.social
on cool work with
@mathonco.bsky.social
on clinically applicable mathematical biomarkers using a Lotka-Volterra model
#UKMathBio
2 months ago
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The first set of parallel sessions are kicking off now at
#UKMathBio
- this morning I'm in the
#mathonco
session, kicked off by Einar Bjarki Gunnarsson on optimal dosing strategies
2 months ago
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Next up at
#UKMathBio
is
@gibin.bsky.social
with our first foray of the conference into
#mathonco
, with hybrid ABMs modelling the bystander effect in radiotherapy
2 months ago
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Now Anne Skeldon is here to tell us how bad getting up at 6am to come to
#UKMathBio
was 😅 - Mathematical modelling of sleep for healthy human function in the 21st century
2 months ago
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First up at
#UKMathBio
is Tiina Roose, who makes a great case that maths can be central to every stage of experimental data collection, particularly imaging!
#MathBio
shouldn't just be an endpoint where we take fully processed experiments and model them completely separately from everything else
2 months ago
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Packed room for the start of the first
#UKMathBio
conference - looks like the rain hasn't put people off the trip to Birmingham!
2 months ago
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Judging by the weather, I think we've found out where Birmingham Float is
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2 months ago
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On a train full of mathematical biologists heading to
#UKMathBio
! Excitingly we're about to pass through Birmingham Int station, one of the few mainline UK stations which has to be explicitly type cast so that it isn't mistaken for a floating point
2 months ago
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Looking forward to heading to Birmingham tomorrow where I think the big question of the UK Mathematical Biology conference will be answered... ...is it
#UKMathBio
or
#UKMathsBio
? The anglophile side of me feels like it should have an s, but it just doesn't match up with anything else! 😅
2 months ago
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Some big progress this week on the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology's attempts to solve the puzzle of pattern formation! I'm starting to get more optimistic that it'll be
#DoneByOctober
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.social
3 months ago
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It must be Monday. Walked into the office today and noticed a sealion on the roof in the distance. That's the kind of thing that only happens before I've had my first cup of tea on a Monday morning.
3 months ago
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Oxford Mathematics
3 months ago
Remember all those kids who aced maths in school and went on to university to study, shock horror, maths? Well, no doubt they aced it there too because it was just more of the same. No doubt...
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Paul Macklin
3 months ago
Really excited to share our new
@cellpress.bsky.social
Cell paper with
@fertiglab.bsky.social
and colleagues. 1/n
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@jktgfoundation.bsky.social
@itcrtraining.bsky.social
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
#mathbio
#mathonco
@mathonco.bsky.social
@deniswirtz.bsky.social
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Human interpretable grammar encodes multicellular systems biology models to democratize virtual cell laboratories
We developed a plain text modeling language—a cell behavior hypothesis grammar—to easily build virtual cell models and connect them to data, helping scientists to unlock the hidden dynamics of tissues...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00750-0
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Oxford Mathematics
4 months ago
You're a 13 year old girl sitting in a maths class thinking 'what has this got to say about my life?' You get home and say the same to your family who get a bit twitchy because they think a bit of maths might be useful. Part 2 of our chat with students Ellie Guha and Sienna Jacobs.
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Oxford Mathematics
4 months ago
Mathematicians are all the same. They look the same. They only like other mathematicians. They only like maths. They did nothing but maths from the age of two. Etc.
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It's been a while since I dipped into the wonderful world of Terry Pratchett, and I have to say the Unseen University definitely hits differently now that I've got a bit more experience of academia 😅
4 months ago
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I couldn't make it to
#SMB2025
this year, but my sources tell me
#MuSpAn
managed to make the journey over to Canada! If you enjoyed Sergio's talk, do take a look at
docs.muspan.co.uk
and see if it'd be useful for your data / agent based models / anything else spatial that you've got lying around!
4 months ago
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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology
4 months ago
Next up, Simon Martina-Perez is giving a Lee Segel Prize lecture on "Modelling cell differentiation in neuroblastoma: data-driven insights into development, malignancy, and treatment relapse".
#SMB2025
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4 months ago
We didn't get to publicize it in time, but try the app for
#SMB2025
here:
beta.axy-app.com/smb2025
It has recommendations, agenda management, poster buddies, ability to see what's trending, job posts, and more :)
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Axy
Axy attendees website
https://beta.axy-app.com/smb2025
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The marketing: "Our cutting edge AI can predict what media subsets of people will like with 100% accuracy" The prediction:
4 months ago
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Dr Dean Burnett
4 months ago
Got a short term job emailing people who live near Wimbledon to encourage them to go to the tennis to fill empty seats due to the weather. But for some reason nobody is replying to my "Hot singles in your area" messages.
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Threaded Theorems
4 months ago
The Koch snowflake is a fractal with an infinite perimeter but finite area. Each iteration adds smaller triangles to every edge, making the perimeter grow endlessly while the added area grows very slowly, approaching a limit of about 1.6 times the original triangle’s area. 🧶 🧮
#MathSky
#embroidery
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If you're at
#BAMC2025
today, come along to
#MS06
this afternoon! With
@gcelora.bsky.social
and a cast of stellar speakers, we'll be Modelling and Quantifying Pattern in Living Tissue 🔬🦓🧮 I have no idea what PCC/2.1-2 is, but I assume it's the room we're in 😅
sites.exeter.ac.uk/bmc-bamc2025...
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Mini-Symposia
We list minisymposia (MS) sessions with their draft timings. The sessions are as follows: Day1PM: 15:10-17:10 Mon 23rd June 2025 Day2AM: 10:30-12:30 Tues 24th June 2025 Day2PM: 15:40-17:40 Tues 24th J...
https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/bmc-bamc2025/mini-symposia/#MS06
5 months ago
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Oxford Mathematics
5 months ago
Our favourite Uninfluencer is back and he has a quiz for you. Obviously it involves maths, but you don't have to know any. And even if you do, your brain might get in the way.
@joshuabull.bsky.social
, over to you.
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Moose Allain
5 months ago
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