Last few days to apply for these 2 fully funded PhD positions in my new group @manchester.ac.uk! Deadline this Saturday 15th Nov.

📢 NEW early view article! Chronic circadian disruption in female mice induces a long-term alteration of the preovulatory LH surge. 🐁 Authors: Simonneaux M, Simonneaux V. onlinelibrary.wiley....

Autumn colours in Birmingham.

Apart from the AI junk part… the notion that one should not offer a potential mechanistic explanation for an observation, without first spending years & (unavailable) $$ trying to test possibilities before sharing the observation with others (who may be better equipped to investigate the mechanism)…

Two weeks left to apply for 2 PhD positions in my group in Manchester. Suitable for maths / computer science / engineering graduates to work on ambitious interdisciplinary projects in digital endocrinology. Contact me for informal enquiries before the deadline on 15th Nov.

📣 Excited to share that my first paper is now published! 📄"Metabolic state shapes cortisol reactivity to acute stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of metabolic and hormonal modulators" You can find the full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

Longer walks linked with less mortality and cardiovascular risk compared with short bouts of physical activity @annalsofim.bsky.social www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Britain has been stripped of the spaces that allow for true social integration. But it’s easier for politicians to blame ‘outsiders’ www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

🚨 I’ve got some exciting news! I have two PhD positions available in my group to advance Digital Endocrinology at @manchester.ac.uk Please help disseminate widely (application deadline 15th Nov): 1. Modelling hormonal dynamics in the human HPA axis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (1/2)

It's the same with computer code and other STEM areas. Who would have thought the demise of civilisation wouldn't be at the hands of an evil Terminator-style sentient AI, but the much more mundane laziness and carelessness of its early human operators.

Happy to announce that from 1st Dec I will join the University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk as a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow @ukri.org, where my group will develop a new theoretical framework for Digital Endocrinology. I'm also looking forward to explore such a beautiful city! 🐝 (1/2)

Just had a very exciting couple of days for the kickstart of UKRI Future Leaders Fellows cohort 9 in Glasgow. Truly impressed by the breadth, originality and quality of fellowship ideas 👌 A lot to live up to.

In the autumn issue of The #Endocrinologist, @ederzavala.bsky.social describes how the key to precision medicine for endocrine conditions may lie in combining the skills of endocrinologists and mathematicians with the power of machine learning and AI. 📐🤖 👉 www.endocrinology.org/endocrinolog...

You can now ready my recent Feature article for The Endocrinologist, the @socendocrinology.bsky.social members magazine. www.endocrinology.org/endocrinolog...

Brief stop at Lancaster castle while attending the EPSRC early career forum on mathematical sciences.

How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨 Delighted to announce I have been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to advance Digital Endocrinology! I will use mathematical and computational tools to bring endocrinology into the era of precision healthcare. Will soon be recruiting PDRAs and PhDs, stay tuned! www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

Here’s @belindombard.bsky.social explaining her poster at the 1st mathematical biology conference in Birmingham. Her work focuses on a data-driven mathematical model of the human HPA axis.

Great time meeting colleagues at the @bsneuroendo.bsky.social meeting in Bradford! Had some really good discussions about mathematical modelling in neuroendocrinology.

Stressomic: A wearable microfluidic biosensor for dynamic profiling of multiple stress hormones in sweat | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Eder Zavala @ederzavala.bsky.social will be speaking on: Mathematical analysis of endocrine rhythms and wearable time series data at #BSNBradford2025 Have you registered yet? bsnbradford2025.oa-e...

The advert for Head of School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham (@uob-sop.bsky.social, working closely with @thechbh.bsky.social) is currently open, deadline August 6th #neurojobs

Our @naturemedicine.bsky.social paper on glucose spikes (CGM sensor) and their relationship with physical activity, gut microbiome, genomics, food intake, and sleep via multimodal A.I. Helps identify people with prediabetes who have high risk of progression (cf HbA1c) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

See the latest #BSNBradford2025 programme! Symposium 3| Beyond traditional models in neuroendocrine research includes: 🧠Dr Chris Faulkes - Social control of reproduction 🧠Tabinda Islam - Evolution of kisspeptin 🧠Eder Zavala - Endocrine rhythms bsnbradford2025.oa-e...#BSNBradford2025

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s

🚨 A bit of delayed news: I'm happy to announce we have secured an EU Marie Curie doctoral network grant 🍾 🇪🇺 Together with an European consortium of endocrinologists, engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians, we will train the next generation of innovators in digital endocrinology. (1/3)

Probably because data ≠ insight. This is why we need rigorous mathematical analysis of multimodal data in biomedicine.

A new Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) report into consumer wearables and disease prevention. The report finds that wearable devices could help support the government's 10 Year Health Plan by preventing, detecting, and mitigating diseases. doi.org/10.58248/PN741

Check out "The cortisol awakening response: Fact or fiction?" Interesting commentary on our CAR paper. Always pleasing when work is cited in a meaningful way :D journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Nature asked computer scientists and bioinformaticians what advice they would give to researchers who recognize the need to pick up some coding skills but don’t know where to start. Here are four key questions to help you decide. #Academicsky #Compsky 🧪

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

We @hughp.bsky.social have a 3 year postdoc in rodent circadian behaviour and ageing at University of Bristol www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in... deadline 15 April join our BBSRC sLola on CircadiAgeing: circadian rhythms, clock excitability & healthy ageing www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...

Elbows up, Canada.

Really exciting science from the chronobiology community in the UK clock club yesterday. Here’s Belinda with her poster on a data driven mathematical model of the HPA axis in humans @bioclocksuk.bsky.social

At Warwick university for the UK Clock Club 2025. Looking forward to hear about @bioclocksuk.bsky.social activity and showcase our work on HPA axis rhythms.

A computer contained in a thin thread of stitchable fabric could be used to record, and understand, all sorts of information about the body that devices like Apple watches can't. And it's being tested on Canadian and US soldiers right now, in the Arctic. www.newscientist.com/article/2470...

Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @thechbh.bsky.social 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

That’s a wrap up for our workshop on modelling endocrine systems. Really grateful to the students from all over Mexico for their enthusiasm and dedication, and to CIMAT, CINVESTAV Mty and ITAM for contributing to a successful event. Already planning the 2nd edition!

Day 3 of our workshop, this time talking about HPA axis rhythms and bifurcation analysis methods to understand the origin of rhythmic behaviour. So far getting great feedback from students 😀

Day 2 of our workshop on modelling endocrine systems, today focusing on metabolic models and uncertainty quantification methods.

First day of our workshop on Mathematical Modelling of Endocrine Systems at the beautiful CIMAT centre for research in mathematics in Guanajuato, Mexico. Delighted to see so much enthusiasm from students attending from all over the country. modeladomsendocrino.eventos.cimat.mx/programa_mod...

‘There is a worldwide shortage of scientists and because it’s a worldwide shortage, there’s worldwide competition,' says our Foreign Secretary Professor Alison Noble, as she warns that the UK's visa process and costs could put off scientists from moving to the UK: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Looking forward to deliver this workshop on modelling endocrine systems to maths students in Mexico. Current challenges in endocrinology need a critical mass of researchers with interdisciplinary skills! Thanks Research England (ODA) for funding. modeladomsendocrino.eventos.cimat.mx/programa_mod...

Really like these 'maths in a minute' resources from Plus: plus.maths.org/content/tags... Including this handy collection on disease modelling: plus.maths.org/content/epid...

News coverage of our latest paper. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01...

Relevant to this audience! @nature.com asks: “Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll”: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Link to press release: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...

🚨 Fresh from the press! "Awakening not associated with an increased rate of cortisol secretion", where together with @tjupton.bsky.social and members of the #ULTRADIAN consortium we call for caution when using the #CAR in human studies. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...