Laurie Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob perform "From the Air" live at Ravenna Festival in 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlW_...

"The critical question is not whether AI can 'do' science but whether science—as a social, evolutionary system that generates trustworthy knowledge—survives the way AI does it," write Julio M. Ottino and Brian Uzzi in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4wDybRP

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced their 2026 Class of SIAM Fellows. One of them is Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social, director @mpi-cbg.de, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, and professor at @ox.ac.uk. Congratulations! 🥳 www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

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

An album length concert film by Charlie Weinmann, capturing the August 2025 Lodge Room performance that became Jeff Parker’s new ETA IVtet album ‘Happy Today,’ will be released on May 29, 2026.

Acoustic Hits is such a fantastic album. Its versions of High and Cut Here are probably my favourite recordings by The Cure ever

🧪My team at Spotify is looking for PhD students for a summer internship in our London office. Potential topics include multimodal content understanding, computer vision, NLP, graph ml, Gen AI content detection, entity resolution and linking, knowledge graphs, etc. jobs.lever.co/spotify/5d94...

You have a background in math/physics/computer science/ML and are looking for an interdisciplinary postdoc fellowship in life sciences with free choice of host groups? Then join us at the CSBD as an ELBE postdoc! The application deadline is the 13 of March

When FB introduced its fact-checking program, it claimed (w/out evidence, despite our asking) that it reduced exposure to debunked content by 80%. When Meta killed fact-checking in the US, Zuck claimed (without evidence) that it didn't work. Both lies. The truth? ~8%: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

My applied math colleague Chris Earls is looking to hire a postdoc. The area — interpretability of emergent behaviors exhibited by AI systems — is fascinating and important. Info below:

The incredible @yyahn.bsky.social is building something special at UVA. 🚨 If you're a fit for this job, I highly recommend applying! Find more details via the link below. www.linkedin.com/posts/yyahn_...

We’re launching the Earth Rover Program - trying to make geophysics actually usable for farmers. That means tackling the ridiculous price of equipment and opening up a global, easy-to-use dataset so anyone, anywhere around the globe, can understand what’s happening under their feet.

Signed Networks: theory, methods, and applications arxiv.org/abs/2511.17247

This week's post is a blast from the past: my now year-ish-old sci am feature about the discovery of new 3D shapes that fill space without corners and which appear in art and nature. Thanks to my contract terms I was able to break it out of paywall jail and share it for free:

Our inaugural Regius Professor of Mathematics, Andrew Wiles, retires in 2026 (not that mathematicians ever truly retire) and we are looking for his successor, starting in October of that year. Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74751

We're looking for a postdoc for our new project on forecasting technological change - more details below

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Economics of Technological Change (2yr) ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social

Our call for ELBE Visiting Faculty at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden is live with deadline 30 November: www.csbdresden.de/join-us/as-a... Please visit us during your sabbatical! @mpi-cbg.de @math-mpicbg.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thursday in Lima, Perú! classic.joinnus.com/events/conce...

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