I am working on my 'recap of 2025' post for the @mathonco.bsky.social blog and found that many of last year's posts had to do with #AI in one form or the other. In this #BiologyInNumbers podcast, @smbmathbiology.bsky.social president Laubenbacher talks about the promises and challenges for us

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

My sisters have spent years telling me I'm tiny with examples of me posed with perfectly normal sized things. For example 🎒

Our last blog post of 2025 is a look back on everything we did this year - a recap of our ongoing work supporting human infrastructure in STEM and, more recently, scientific open-source projects: www.cscce.org/2025/12/17/2...

The second part of this blog from The Ideas Fund is now online, looking at the importance of care, support, and wellbeing in helping brokers navigate their roles: theideasfund.org/news/role-of...

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to."

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

"You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked." - Foucault

"The circadian rhythm extends far beyond sleep. It controls metabolism, your mood, how sharp you are at what time of the day, your alertness, all kinds of things." www.americanscientist.org/article/fixi...

Reading that more than 24,000 grant reviews are being rescheduled due to the shutdown. Because of that only 30-35% (vs 50%) will be discussed at study sections.

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research! For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in! I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply! 🧪🧠

A PhD in #MathBio at an NCI designated cancer center and hospital? If you are interested in that there's no other place to be

The first rule of communications is clarity 😉

It always seems a little unfair to boil a week long workshop into 5 minutes or less, but these videos are always a fun way to capture the spirit of #MoffittIMO.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

I love the idea of a "super-facilitator". Not sure I am there, but this would qualify as a serious life goal.

Hear hear.

Me doing my best to regulate my body clock using that sweet sweet Florida sunshine! Thanks again @oliviawalch.bsky.social for the time and the chat for @smbmathbiology.bsky.social's podcast #BiologyInNumbers. It was super cool learning about your work @arcascope.bsky.social ⏰☀️💊 #scicomm

Excited to be in Florida for #MathOnco25 starting today. Nice place for it.

With all this talk about gerrymandering in the US at the moment and yet @parmvir.com had to remind me that we do have a @2scientists.org podcast with Thomas Weighill that uses #MathModeling to study precisely that

You can take the girl out of the lab... Despite leaving the lab more than 2 years ago, last week saw the publication of a study I was co-author on: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/... An intricate piece of work tracking nerve fibers in the lungs, and a reminder of how long science takes!

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Coming to SD 🌴 for #SfN25 🧠?! Join @storiesofwin.bsky.social for our first in-person event 🤩. We’ll have a keynote, panels, & time for networking! Won’t be in SD? You can still register to receive a recording! Speaker/panelist announcements coming soon 👀 Register by Nov 1: forms.gle/CJPcKZNZY7uU...

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This is happening tomorrow!

Whereas what I took away from that conversation was "read more science fiction and go to more parties. And that will help your scientific career." 😂 You can all get links to @suzannesindi.bsky.social's episode here: smb.org/news/13442398 #Scicomm #BiologyInNumbers

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...

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!

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...

Also starring: @adamlmaclean.bsky.social @gosiaweh.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @thomasewoolley.bsky.social Luis Sordo Vieira Mobolaji Williams Kira Pugh and Francisca Olajide @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #scicomm #BiologyInNumbers

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

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

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The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

This is so depressing. "it is easy to see that given an orderly society and a functioning economy, democratic politics may become a low priority. The answer to the question “will ‘the people’ tolerate authoritarian rule?” is yes, absolutely."

now is the time for every media personality to stand up and speak out, because what this shows is that nothing will save you they’re coming for all of you, unless you’re a true believer your days are numbered and your bosses are eager to comply do something you can be proud of on your way out

Conference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.

The police told Trey Reed's family that he'd been found dead in his dorm room. They found out from the media that he'd actually been found hanging from a tree in the middle of campus. www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-f...

I too tend to apply my nerdy capabilities to my hobbies, including running. So I love this little bit on converting miles to km while you're in the middle of a race. Although depending on how much I'm suffering, the even most basic arithmetic can be a challenge 😂 Nice work @joshuabull.bsky.social

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 🫣

An excellent and very comprehensive resource for grad students-to-be!

I didn't realize this was a genre, but how interesting...

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

And in the process we get to announce the launch of our newly formed Atlanta chapter! 🍑🚀 Learn more about our Emory and Georgia Tech based team, and sign up to their mailing list to stay up to date with their upcoming in-person events. tasteofscience.org/atlanta

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

hahahaha omfg AI sucks so much

Ask me what I did yesterday and I'd struggle to tell you. Put on this song after years since I last heard it and I can sing every word without even knowing what I'm saying. Muscle memory is wild! Also I have no fucking clue why I don't listen to Fiona Apple more often www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Wn...

what Americans seem to want is to be able to buy whatever product they want without government interference but also an ironclad guarantee that all store-sold products are safe, and we just need to recognize that these are contradictory ideas and we're gonna have to make people mad about the former