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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...

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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

I am entirely blaming the @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social social media team for getting me to do this beautiful beautiful video 😂🎷

I feel seen 😍🫖

Looks like with any luck we might manage to be #DoneByOctober! Although I'm told we have 421 pieces to go...🫣

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...

A reminder that "very keen" ≠ "good" 🏃‍♀️😅

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...

Great first talk of #mathonco session 2 at #UKMathBio from Alexis Farman, who has been modelling B-ALL

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

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

Now time for @kitcgallagher.bsky.social on cool work with @mathonco.bsky.social on clinically applicable mathematical biomarkers using a Lotka-Volterra model #UKMathBio

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

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

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

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

Packed room for the start of the first #UKMathBio conference - looks like the rain hasn't put people off the trip to Birmingham!

Judging by the weather, I think we've found out where Birmingham Float is

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

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! 😅

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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 😅

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!

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

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 :)

The marketing: "Our cutting edge AI can predict what media subsets of people will like with 100% accuracy" The prediction:

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.