Super happy that my paper on modeling artist networks is out on Harvard Data Science Review. Writing it was such a fun journey (and still so much to be done, which is the best part!) hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/t4txmd81...

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...

🚀 EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Fellowships Looking to launch or strengthen your independent research career in mathematical sciences? Imperial Physics welcomes nominations from all backgrounds. 📌 Submit your EOI & CV: see our fellowships page www.imperial.ac.uk/physics/oppo... #ResearchFellowships

Come fly with us, let's fly, let's fly away. Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74169

Probability can be counterintuitive. Or, to put it another way, plain baffling. But there's always an explanation. Becky Crossley picks her favourite example. And tries to draw a goat. Watch the full video (with extra maths): youtu.be/zf17UgsFYCw

Network representations reveal structured uncertainty in music arxiv.org/abs/2509.14053

New preprint: We study Lotka-Volterra ecological dynamics through computational algebraic geometry. By encoding feasibility & stability on the real Grassmannian, we prove certain ecological networks are mathematically impossible 🧮🌿 arxiv.org/abs/2509.00165

'Every year, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded – making them the most littered item on the planet.' Dr Jonathan Livingstone-Banks and Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on why cigarette filters should be banned ⬇️ #OxfordClimate

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

My take on Belafonte Sensacional's trippy, experimental third album, Llamas llamas llamas. sloucher.org/2025/08/04/r...

Turkish coffee is an unfiltered brewing method that originated in the Ottoman Empire and remains popular across the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, and parts of Eastern Europe. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

It is with great pleasure that I share MAXMINDS 2.0, a new Max Planck program to support scholars in danger of displacement by war or natural disasters, and who have limited access to resources and institutional support. If you know affected scholars, please share. www.maxminds.mpg.de

We’re looking for a mathematical research and collaboration manager to join our new initiative of mathematics in a biology institute in Dresden, Germany! @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @math-mpicbg.bsky.social Please share widely: careers.mpi-cbg.de/jobs/5734151...

Like Stereolab and Moon Duo but wackier. Very interesting Japanese release from 1995. open.spotify.com/track/0InxYN...

We are searching for an AI researcher in lab automation, statistical ML and (theoretical) physics AI for bio/med. Expression of interest and nominations welcome!!!

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Excited for my first #ICWSM! I'll be showing our work on the Twitter to Bluesky academic migration this afternoon at the nextgensocial-workshop.github.io (paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801) @yuan1227.bsky.social will show our paper on incivility on Thursday: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

We're hiring! Michael Wooldridge, Ani Calinescu and I are looking for a Senior Research Associate in Robust, Large-Scale Agent-Based Modelling. Applications by 7 July. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2454-fu... #ABM

Today at #ICWSM session on Networks, Norms and Discovery tune in to hear the great @themiurgo.bsky.social present or work on link sharing and social music discovery on Spotify.

Dear #mathsky, if you repost this, it will let people see the article for free. Thanks! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Panache" is truly a fantastic word. I don't use it as much as I should

My husband’s cell was getting calls from people thinking they were phoning a certain city’s police number. He was puzzled—his number doesn’t appear on any web page. Then he learned that if you Google “[city name] non-emergency police”, the AI overview hallucinates his number. Thanks, Google!

#NetSci2025 keynote Iza Romanowska discusses how the study of our past informs our present and future

I'll be presenting our work on network-based content moderation strategies at the #NetSci2025 poster session today. If you want to learn more, come and have a chat!

Come to the Focus Session "Network Dynamical Systems" at @netsciconf.bsky.social Friday afternoon for a free copy of Bear Networks! www.beyondtheedge.network/resources/be... #NetSci2025

The group of Meritxell Huch @merihuchlab.bsky.social together with the Heather Harrington group @math-mpicbg.bsky.social & @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social develop next-generation organoid model that reconstructs liver architecture to better understand liver disease. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

RIP Sebastião Salgado, legend and one of a kind www.bbc.com/news/article...

Say hello to soft cells. Nature hates sharp corners. It prefers curved edges and non-flat faces. Now mathematicians have cottoned on. Watch Gábor Domokos' brilliant public lecture on the soft cell. Tomorrow, Thursday 22 May, 5pm and any time after: youtu.be/e7b5pAudnKs

Are they sure this freelancer is not Jorge Luis Borges? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: Researchers have created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world. ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-05...

Here's a nice painting by José Maria Velasco ay the national gallery

NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane! If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.

This is so very cool

Amazing list of invited speakers at the 2nd British NetSci Symposium. If you are a PhD student or a Post-doc, please consider sending an abstract! The morning will be entirely dedicated to contributed talks from young researchers. Info and submission link: www.netsci.uk/events.html

Spline tie-decay temporal networks arxiv.org/abs/2408.11913

I brought Beth Gibbons to the Tiny Desk and it feels like a minor miracle. www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...

Given that the new Pope is also a mathematician, I think he should lean on his infallibility and give the Riemann hypothesis a shot

We're looking for a new colleague to join us in Maastricht as an Assistant/Associate Professor in statistical learning in our Data Analytics and Digitalisation department. Deadline to apply: June 8th vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

*Permanent* position in Applied Mathematics at City. We are - of course - particularly interested in profiles in Computational Social Science, Network Science, Data Science, and related fields. The application deadline is June 1st. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/l...

🌟What makes the Stem Cell Center unique? It is globally outstanding in its combination of expertise across stem cells, developmental mechanisms, cell plasticity, and #epigenetics. 👉 t1p.de/eoemr #StemCellResearch @metorrespadilla.bsky.social epihmgu.bsky.social @www.helmholtz.de

Alan Turing is the star of the next set of student lectures we are showing. But not the Turing of computer science or cryptography, but the Turing of zebra stripes. Ruth Baker is talking mathematical biology and, in particular, pattern formation. Lecture 1: youtu.be/ta3pGHqPKkg

Sometimes you just need to listen to a 45-minute 1970s prog song about a lute or something

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

It's an sad but true fact of life that bottled Guinness is abysmally inferior to draught Guinness. The experience is not portable

Unexpected encounter at the Pisa camposanto

A reminder of the newly launched Max Planck postdoc program - applications open for another couple of weeks, see here for details:

I got a bit obsessed over caustics, cardioids, nephroids and the like a while back, ended up making simulators in GeoGebra and talking to @bradyharan.bsky.social on Numberphile about it: youtu.be/hKpa9ntjgeo?...

Are we true individuals? What kind of individuality can be defined when we take into account our microbial symbionts? Check this great paper by Scott Gilbert, Jan Sapp & Alfred Tauber on the holobionts & how this has changed our perspective of individuality. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...