The hepatitis B vaccine is amazing. It was the first viral protein subunit vaccine, the first recombinant vaccine, AND the first vaccine to prevent a type of cancer. That's right: we've had a cancer vaccine for over 40 years. Our new three-hour episode of Hard Drugs is all about it:

The online gallery for 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings Exhibition of Mathematical Art is now live: gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/....

One proposed strategy to promote a youthful immune system and human healthspan is to rejuvenate our thymus gland. Can we learn from this exceptional (and peculiar looking) vertebrate that can do this? science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With nearly 10 million neurons & 26 billion synapses, a supercomputer-powered virtual brain model, developed by our scientists and collaborators, could allow risky or impossible experiments to be run safely in software. @reuters.com reports: www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

Emergence and Self-organisation across biological scales! I hope you are ready for next year conference! It will be an incredible event April 20-22 2026. The first of many #LakeConference organised by @ehannezo.bsky.social @alleninstitute.org and James Sharpe @embl.org

Another thing that is making this an "interesting" time to be the head of Integrity in Publishing at a scientific publisher 🥲 We really need major oversight at institutions, before things are sent for publication. Data provenance is key.

Competitor enters a major AI competition (RNA folding) GPU poor so can't train an AI Builds a "classic" eng pipeline instead. (90s tech) Wins and beat everyone using DL 💀 Their winning "hybrid" model had an AI in it. Their original one did not and had a higher score So they won despite the AI 😂

What are your favourite biographies of mathematicians? 🧪 📚💙

Two leading voices in medicine – Lee Hood and Eric Topol – will explore what it means to live longer and healthier in a free virtual conversation hosted by @isbscience.org. 🗓️ November 4, 10-11 a.m. PT 💻 Register here – isbscience.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #Longevity #DigitalHealth #SuperAgers

bioRxiv partners with Dryad to enable easier, better linking to curated datasets connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/09...

Manu Prakash practices “recreational biology,” a scientific approach that explores life in the same playful way that puzzles probe math. “Basic science is not at the service of something, but the groundwork that is our entire society’s foundation.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...

Opinion: Susan Stamberg, trailblazer and NPR Founding Mother, retires - NPR

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #Reproducibility

Are different cell types like oil and water? Over a century ago, researchers found that dissociated sponges and embryonic tissues can self-assemble into functional structures. Join me, @benswedlund.bsky.social to explore the differential adhesion hypothesis & its applications in tissue engineering!

My recent postdoctoral work is out today in @nature.com! We found that physical confinement makes melanoma cells more invasive and drug tolerant. Thanks to all who made this work possible @whitefishlab.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social #NIH #NCI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For some three billion years, unicellular organisms ruled Earth. Then, around one billion years ago, a new chapter of life began go.nature.com/3JyRV4S

We need (good) science journalism now more than ever. And you'll find me and other journalists saying just that in this smart piece.

I love the theme of the 2026 International Day of Mathematics: “Mathematics and Hope” 👉🏼 www.idm314.org #mathsky

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

Ok, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro

Fantastic work, @mathcancer.bsky.social ! phys.org/news/2025-07...

Wow! For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an exoplanet by directly imaging it. The newfound world has a mass similar to Saturn and orbits inside the debris disk surrounding a very young star just 111 light years away. via @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Key Innovation: Getting beyond descriptive trajectories. DLA generates a geometric dynamical model—a Waddington landscape—that provides mechanistic insights without needing every molecular detail It bridges microscopic gene expression to macroscopic cell behaviour

Scientists love to use the expression "emergent behaviour" when they talk about complex systems (as I do) But what it means is not clear As a way to start a conversation, here is a definition: a behaviour is emergent if it cannot be easily guessed through naive reasoning. What is your definition?

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Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team. Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Shaping epithelial tissues by stem cell mechanics in development and cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many believed that EU would not be able to reach its ambitious 2030 climate goal Now: EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Extremely happy to see our work on the collective chemotaxis of cell groups out! Such an incredible and fun collaboration leading to exciting interdisciplinary science #biophysics #mathbio #cellbiology 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

One of the reasons I love #DevelopmentalBiology is that it's so visually engaging. I had the pleasure of organising an image competition at the GRC last March, and share this passion. You can now check out these images on @the-node.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/grs-developm...

Rose-breasted Grosbeak, male & female (and red headed woodpecker)

Do not adjust your screen. Viewing this tree does not require special 3-D glasses. That's just what the 'Rising Sun' redbud (Cercis canadensis) looks like. Native to North America, it was found growing wild & propagated. The trippy 3-D movie effect is a consequence of two factors:

The STIM paper is out! We build on established computer vision techniques to automatically create 3D volumes of spatial transcriptomics datasets with human-level accuracy, and useful, interactive visualizations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social

Downy woodpecker and yellow finch

The Evolution of Graph Learning research.google/blog/the-evo...

A 📸 from last night's CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize lecture delivered by Dr. Leah Edelstein-Keshet. Watch her full talk, Mathematical Biology of Cells: Structure, Movement, and Collective Behaviour, here: shorturl.at/H4bGG

And cite the model organism databases and other resources you use!

Roman Frigg and I have revised our entry on Models in Science for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is now online. plato.stanford.edu/entries/mode...

“Let’s take a moment to exhale, shall we?…I’m focusing for a moment on works of art—paintings in particular—that nourish, provide strength, give insight and offer uplift.” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-paint...

Mossy leaf-tailed gecko, Uroplatus sikorae, Madagascar. These lizards have some of the most amazing camouflage in nature. I especially love the fractal fringing on the bottom jaw, feet, and body, which helps break up the lizard's outline. 🦎🌿 #herps

Wren and cardinal with rare coloring

12 examples of how developmental biology research led to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. There are many more! Download ppt & jpg versions on @socdevbio.bsky.social website. Use & modify as needed. Poster formats are also posted to print & hang in your lab!

Eastern bluebird with lovely feet

Delighted to introduce our new spatial transcriptomics tool, SpottedPy, allowing the identification of tumour hotspots at different scales and the exploration of distances and overlap with tumour microenvironment niches: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Excellent set of guidelines for anyone developing software for life scientists, from @jwpylvanainen.bsky.social, @lankylaste.bsky.social and @guijacquemet.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Borrowed our daughter’s camera and almost feel like I’ve joined the professional birders photography club

Here's my interview with @stevenstrogatz.com on @quantamagazine.bsky.social's Joy of Why podcast. This was *so much fun*. I was nervous going into it (I really look up to Steve!), but I had a blast and I think this is the best interview I have ever done. Thanks for having me on, folks!

AI will soon demand more energy than the world can currently supply. Unlike AI, biology solves problems efficiently, without massive energy consumption—our brains are not digital computers. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #neuroscience #analogcomputing

The CompactTree paper is out in Gigabyte! TL;DR: Header-only C++ tree library that's super fast and memory-efficient doi.org/10.46471/gig...