Great time last week at the Modernizing Undergraduate Math Summit docs.google.com/document/d/1... organized by TPSE Math (Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics) at Harvard www.linkedin.com/company/tpse... Big shout-outs to organizer @dtkung.bsky.social and host Brendan Kelly

Thrilled to announce the publication of our non-conventional statistics text. The text takes a pure computer-intensive simulation and resampling approach to statistical tests, confidence intervals, power analyses, with an intro to Bayesian methods at the end. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#DynamicsClub in January: 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗙. 𝗠𝘂𝗻̃𝗼𝘇 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝘂𝘀 will share his work with Fernando Santana on calcium and metabolic dynamics in myocytes of sinoatrial node (PMID: 40894732) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40894732/ Jan 20 (Tuesday) at 11am PT / 2pm ET Join us on Zoom: lingyunxiong.github.io/DynamicsClub/

If you’re going to the JMM in DC in Jan, check out the COMAP session on 1/5 for math teachers wanting to develop or strengthen a “modeling first” approach to calculus, one that has been shown to increase student interest and performance. Speakers are outstanding!! meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2026...

The bias is really baked in here

O...M...G, SciRep please tell us this is a joke. But it isn't, is it? You are really claiming that 'runctitional features' and 'factor fexcectorn' play a role in ASD diagnosis? Thanks, Stephen, for calling this out, and yes, this is truly embarrassing for them.

ChatGPT offered to make an image for me of how the cerebellum interacts with other brain predictive processing pathways and this amazingly confused diagram was the result--mislabeling almost every brain structure & even inventing new ones. 😱 Let's hope our future doctors aren't using LLMs to study!

#DynamicsClub in June: 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺 from Purdue University will share her work on dynamic neuromodulation. www.nature.com/articles/s42... June 12 (Thur) at 11am PT / 2pm ET Join in person at UCLA or on Zoom: lingyunxiong.github.io/DynamicsClub/

Delighted to share that I will give a department seminar at UCSD 𝑺𝒉𝒖 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒏 - 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒚 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒊𝒐𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 on Friday, June 6th. be.ucsd.edu/seminar/2025... Join us in La Jolla at 2pm in The FUNG Auditorium.

I have been selected by the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute for the 2025 Boyer/Parvin Posteoctoral Award. 🥳🥳🥳 Initiated by Paul Boyer since his Nobel Prize in 1997, this honor is now supported by the Parvin foundation to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Boyer, beyond ATP synthase and the sodium pump.

#DynamicsClub in May: 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱 @ox.ac.uk will share her recent work on the glymphatic system during sleep. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39788123/ May 7 (Wed) at 9am PT / 5pm BST Join us on Zoom: lingyunxiong.github.io/DynamicsClub/

I'm aiming to get some thoughtful biologists together (there's no lack of them!) to discuss what kind of narratives might best reflect the nature of their field in the 21st century. Here's a preview of the goals; I'm excited and optimistic about it. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/after-t...

My article with @agarfinkel.bsky.social titled "𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡?" has ranked as a Top Viewed Article by Wiley. Check it out if you haven't done so: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #TopViewedArticle

Pleased to host 𝗗𝗿. 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗠𝗰𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 for the first IBP Departmental Seminar on Thursday, April 3rd. Join us in person at UCLA to find out the 𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘺 and meet members of the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology!

Quick video summary of my research: We develop computational and experimental methods to discover drugs for heart disease 🧪 youtu.be/nmpFDiE4GSg

🚨Our latest preprint: "Continuation methods as a tool for parameter inference in electrophysiology modeling" by @MattJOwen_ and me: doi.org/10.48550/arX... You fitting models to data related to limit cycles? Tweetorial follows... 🧵 1/9

Eight years ago, I worked on mathematical modeling of gene regulation. Always, thought why the relevant literature and lessons from this field are not present in popular science. Well, now here it is. A moving piece by @philipcball.bsky.social #biology #gene #emergence nautil.us/how-life-rea...

Thoughts from leaders of systems #immunology how mechanistic models can leverage omics/ML for deeper understanding of how our immune system works #sysbio @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-systems...

The math world lost a giant in September, with the death of Ralph Abraham. Ralph’s paradigm-changing Foundations of Mechanics (with Jerry Marsden) laid out the differential geometric and topological foundations of global analysis. (1/n)

Something that's been bugging me for a while in bioinformatics data analysis is this overreliance on packages, workflows and what's been called "cargo cult science". Can we have more conceptual thinking, more theory? Asking for what we really want to achieve and what we need to do gets us there.

This is priceless! tylervigen.com has long been a wonderful source for spurious correlations, but now it has added these totally bs "explanations" generated by AI!

Wild!

thrilled that Ivy Xiong’s poster was chosen to represent basic science at UCLA Dept of Medicine’s annual Research Day: intravital imaging (thanks, Natalie Porat-Shliom!) and mathematical modeling to identify key sex differences in kidney function. connect.uclahealth.org/dom/2024/10/...

Delighted to post this article (open access), which takes direct aim at the doctrine of homeostasis, and argues for the fundamental role of oscillatory processes. Also discusses the math needed to understand the mechanisms of oscillatory processes, which is nonlinear dynamics.

Why is there no bookmark feature here? It would be really useful to save insightful posts, for our own learning and to refer to when challenging misleading claims and narratives especially those peddled by the ruling class. It’s an essential tool for accountability.