Professor Dwight Barkley FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is an applied mathematician whose research lies in nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation, and scientific computation, spanning fluid, chemical and biological systems. #RSFellows https://bit.ly/4xaXpHx

Can advanced experimental biology & mathematical modelling uncover how single cells generate complex extracellular structures with nanometric precision? You bet. Join the interface of applied mathematics, mechanics, developmental biology & quantitative imaging. Apply: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/81373

Ever wondered what's the maths behind your bathroom tiles? 𖣯✨ Professor of Geometry Alain Goriely explores how tiling patterns emerge in nature and the underlying mathematical principles that govern their formation... Watch full lecture: gres.hm/shape-tiles Oxford Mathematics #MathsInNature

Mathematics is a universal language. Isn't it? The Tower of Babel - Episode 1

I am looking for a Post-doc in Oxford to work with me on morphogenesis at the cellular scale, with particular emphasis on growth processes and their mechanical and dynamical consequences. Please circulate my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... This bristle is created by a single cell! Let's model it.

To find out why Sophie Germain was, and is, an important mathematician, you can now watch all the talks from her 250th birthday bash. Starring in order of appearance: Lukas Brantner, Ana Caraiani, Dan Plane, Laura Monk and James Maynard. Watch: www.sophie-germain.com/250/

More calculations reveal that oddness favours additional bifurcations of a 3D Rivlin cube. Our nonlinear results provide a striking contrast to the linear theory: in 2D, new behaviour absent from classical elasticity abounds, but there is no linear isotropic odd elasticity in 3D.

Two open postdoctoral positions in my group at DAMTP, at University of Cambridge: Cell Biophysics & Biological Active Matter: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/job/55046 Active & Intelligent Matter: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/job/55141 Repost is much appreciated ! 🙏🏼 #Postdoc #CellBioPhysics #Robots #ActiveMatter

Our latest work on shape-programmable tissues is out in @science.org. By positioning topological defects in cellular nematics, we encode frustrated 2D force fields that relax into predictable 3D shapes. Collaboration with Marino Arroyo’s lab, led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social at @ibecbarcelona.eu.

A new twist on an old problem. Great paper.

Tickets open! Music of the Body 👉 https://gres.hm/music-body Prof Milton Mermikides on how music & biology are deeply connected. From the natural rhythyms of our heartbeats & movements to it's power to calm or send chills. #Music resonates through the biological world ‪@uniofsurrey.bsky.social ‬

Colva Roney-Dougsl is a talented lecturer. Don’t miss her talk.

Great paper. A beautiful application of homoclinic snaking.

Hot off the press 🚨 Epidemic spreading between regions is often modelled on a network 🕸️ But how do we describe this process properly? Here, we show how to build a linear transport operator at the network scale, by coarse-graining local advection-reaction-diffusion within edges. shorturl.at/0tAN8

Diatom gliding motility is so amazing 🚀 Happy to be together with @lettermann.bsky.social part of this great collaboration 😀 Check out the website of this open access publication to learn how their movement can be fast and flexible at the same time. And to watch many more beautiful movies 😉

Now #published @physreve.bsky.social: "Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure" doi.org/10.1103/qtcv-gk3y #PhD work of Maryam Setoudeh, a model of cell intercalations during epiboly as elastoplastic deformations of a surface. @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

This work has now been published in JSTAT: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... If you are interested in complex systems and stochastic processes out of equilibrium, please take a look!

Oxford Mathematicians Patrick Farrell and Heather Harrington made Fellows of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Read more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80940

Viewing the vertex model through the lens of exterior calculus to investigate monolayer ablation doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Discover the #maths behind tiles! 🟦🟪 Book: https://gres.hm/shape-tiles From beehives to wallpapers, regular & irregular, hard & soft patterns shape nature & design. Join Prof Alain Goriely to explore how they form and the underlying mathematical principles that govern it Oxford Mathematics

As part of this grant I will be looking soon for a Post-doc in Oxford to model nano-morphogenesis. Please RT and contact me directly if it is a good match for you.

Absolutely thrilled that our @univie.ac.at @lifesciencesunivie.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social lab is among this year's @hfspo.bsky.social #HFSPResearchGrants, along with @alaingoriely.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social. A wonderful opportunity to study morphogenesis at nano-scale!

New centre, founded by @gsk.bsky.social together with @ox.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, aims to embed a ‘mathematical modelling-first’ mindset towards the development of new therapies for lung, liver, kidney and cartilage diseases. Read more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80814

Join us on 1 April at the Royal Institution to wish pioneering mathematician Sophie Germain a happy 250th birthday. Talks about her life and work by Lukas Brantner, Ana Caraiani, James Maynard and Laura Monk, plus a demonstration and panel discussion. Book your place: www.sophie-germain.com/250/

Oxford Mathematician Torin Fastnedge has won the Gold Medal for Mathematical Sciences at the 2026 STEM for Britain poster competition held in the House of Commons on March 17th for his poster 'Mathematical Modelling of Microfibre Release by Washing Machines'. More: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80797

New #preprint: "A mechanical bifurcation constrains the evolution of cell sheet folding in the family Volvocaceae" arxiv.org/abs/2603.15171 The next chapter in the #Volvox saga: work done by Valens Tribet during his internship in my group. @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

"Some philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity.... We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing." - Alfred Binet 1909

1 April 2026 is Sophie Germain's 250th birthday. Sophie made major contributions to mathematics, from number theory to elasticity theory. This lecture by Fields Medallist James Maynard is part of an afternoon dedicated to Sophie's work. Find out more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80642

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

Five year Astro career development fellowship in Oxford open for applications, broadly in survey astronomy including transients and cosmology. College teaching and research. Do think about joining us. Happy to answer questions! 🔭

It is a wonderful feeling when a math lecture resonates beyond its confine to inspire artists www.gresham.ac.uk/about-us/new...

A very thoughtful take on AI development: "Machines can be immensely useful tools, but there are many things that we can only do for ourselves, and we cannot afford to lose the motivation to do so."

Also featured in #SciLight: pubs.aip.org/aip/sci/arti... Congratulations and thank you to all involved Matthew W. Cotton, @alaingoriely.bsky.social and David Klenerman!

Why can cells keep protein aggregation under control for years and then suddenly tip into disease? Our new JCP paper introduces a simple phase-plane model for in vivo protein aggregation that captures the tug-of-war between aggregate formation and clearance in cells. pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...

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By capturing the balance between aggregate formation and cellular clearance, our model explains decades of stability before sudden runaway dynamics, and offers a framework to predict disease onset and therapeutic efficacy. Mostly driven by Matthew Cotton and Georg Meisl doi.org/10.1063/5.03...

🚨PREPRINT In our new paper, we link RNNs and neural manifolds by introducing the DDM framework. We can train networks to embed an arbitary dynamical system in a latent subspace. We illustrate this with simple models of input-driven and autonomous associative memory. Enjoy! arxiv.org/abs/2602.14885

When it comes to the brain's conservation of energy, practice makes perfect. Watch Dani Bassett's lecture on our brain's neural system function and its implications for health, disease and neural computation. Online now: youtu.be/7uGxRE7kmHI

In-person tickets open: The Shape of #Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical? Professor Alain Goriely* explores how gravity shapes planets, from Earth’s squashed form to the limits of spherical worlds https://gres.hm/shape-gravity *also of Oxford Mathematics‬ #astronomy #maths

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An unlikely collab between famous rapper J Cole and (very famous) mathematician Andrew Wiles (or Big AW as he is known in the rap world). www.youtube.com/watch?si=qir...

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Why is it that small animals like insects have a landspace body plan when viewed head-on, but larger animals like elephants are taller than wide? With @m-v.bsky.social, we find out in our new preprint titled 'Size and shape of terrestrial animals' - arxiv.org/html/2602.00...

The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences has announced its first cohort of fellows, 100 in total from academia, teaching, science communication and business. Twelve of those fellows are from Oxford. Who's who: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80068

Clash of the titans. Chaplain and Preziosi on my left at 856 pages vs Keener and Sneyd on my right at 1222 pages.

Global brain activity links subcortical degeneration to cortical tau progressively across Braak regions over early Alzheimer disease stages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.23.701360v1

Job alert🚨I am advertising a 2-year postdoctoral position to work on the mathematics of plant morphogenesis @mpipz.bsky.social. Candidates with interests in mathematical modelling, mechanics, or biophysics are strongly encouraged to apply. 🌱Reposts are appreciated! jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/4...