I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint. I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

Coffee mug Saturday! In the grand tradition of @gbosslet.bsky.social, post your Saturday mug. Thrilled this survived the flight home last week. :-)

Had a nice clear moonless night in Bloomington! Getting calibration frames after a night of 180" filterless exposures on Barnard 150. 🔭

Excited to be this week's cover for the Math Oncology Blog (# 345): a 3D @physicell.bsky.social simulation written entirely in a new model grammar without code. Jointly made with @heberlr.bsky.social, based on our recent @cp-cell.bsky.social paper. #Mathonco #mathbio 🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Only just noticed @crossref.bsky.social posted their interview with me talking about winning one of the inaugural Crossref Metadata awards was finally published on my last day of work. It's always good to end on a high! www.crossref.org/blog/raising...

A technology feature in Nature describes how scientists are outfitting cells with the molecular equivalent of flight records, which allows them to log, in real time, the signals that cells receive, the paths they travel and the decisions they make. 🧬 🧪

Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!

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

Feeling inspired to discover now .... (At Newton's apple tree at Cambridge, or a sapling thereof ...) 🧪

Back at the Isaac Newton Institute this morning for the final day of our digital twin workshop. Starting off with a superstar and great friend Trachette Jackson, presenting her work to create virtual patient cohort for virtual immunotherapy trials. 🧪

Next up is friend and community player extraordinaire @mathcancer.bsky.social from Indiana University presenting, Advances in building patient-specific agent-based models in cancer.

So excited to be at the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University for the first time! For a terrific workshop in cancer patient digital twins. 🧪 www.newton.ac.uk/event/ooew07/

My contribution @joshuabull.bsky.social & @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social :-)

Thanks, @joshuabull.bsky.social! It was an absolute pleasure to immerse in the beautiful mathematical biology work here at @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social. Thank you for coming to my talk and great discussions! Wish I could be here in this amazing place much longer than 2 days! 🧪

Congratulations to Dr Sam Oliver, who passed his viva with no corrections! Well done Sam! Thanks to @mathcancer.bsky.social for visiting us in Swansea and for the excellent feedback..

Reasons to keep some duct tape on your suitcase #352

Well, I've been in Paddington Station for a few hours, and no bear. Time to move on ...

On my way to the UK, and always a pleasure to find an Illy Cafe! First stop will be Samuel Oliver's PhD defense with @gibin.bsky.social at Swansea! Fantastic ovarian cancer simulation models in @physicell.bsky.social! And my first time in Wales! :-) 🧪

Congrats Margherita on completing her @physicell.bsky.social model investigating the effect of ECM organisation and remodelling and the interplay with chemotaxis on invasion www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Great collaboration with @jmetzcar.bsky.social , @mathcancer.bsky.social and Pradeep

UB40's Red Red Wine is persistently stuck in my head

Microbiomes are interactive, multispecies communities, but bulk analysis obscures functional diversification from environmental and genetic heterogeneity. In our new review we describe how single-bacterium transcriptomics dissects microbiomes at cellular resolution. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

for folks who might end up having hard time due to all crazy weather happening over on asia for the upcoming #totallunareclipse here's a one from this past march I took from my location.. wish you folks clear skies.. #astronomy #astronomy hi-res img on astrobin app.astrobin.com/u/mrkhagol?i...

By popular request, here's some science art: 🧪 This is the cover design we submitted to Cell when our paper was published. The editors ultimately chose another cover, but we're still fond of our entry! Created jointly with @heberlr.bsky.social. mathcancer.darkroom.com/products/oth...

And today trying to catch up as a scientist a bit ... * Abstract for Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge: done * Abstract for Oxford Uni talk: writing * Interpreting production editors in accepted paper: attempted * Prep for lab meeting: soon * Revisions for @mathonco.bsky.social blog: soon

Some final stats on placing undergraduate students in research labs at IU Luddy School this Fall: * 125 student applications * 102 suggested matches * 84 matches accepted by faculty * 77 placements confirmed by students This puts us around a 62% placement rate. 🧪 #deanlife

It's a hectic time of year, but a favorite: we're in the process of matching undergraduate students to faculty mentors at the IU Luddy School. 100s of emails over the course of a few days, but I *love* seeing the stream of "I accept" messages. Exciting research times ahead for all! 🧪#deanlife

Saturn this morning from my Indiana backyard, as viewed from an 8" SCT with a 2.5x Televue PowerMate. 2 min of 480p video (50 ms exposures, 325 gain, ~20 fps). Integrated w 3x drizzle. Saturn was edge-on earlier this summer, and now we're increasingly viewing it from "below" 🧪🔭

Apropos of nothing, any idea what happened to @kevinmkruse?

Dayum that is one fat robin!

Dayum that is one fat robin!

The new issue is out 👉 cell.com/cell/current On the cover: Xin et al. provide an organismal example of a synonymous mutation controlling domesticated traits through epitranscriptomic regulation.

The GOP needs to understand the economic impact of the cuts from the Trump administration. Higher education drives economies. “If you include the hospital systems, [our impact] is well over $60 billion, and it's 7% of our whole economy — literally more than coal and natural gas combined.”

I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time). Please see the link below for more information. sites.google.com/view/midwest...

Join me for an astro live stream: www.youtube.com/live/jrIggtd... #astronomy #astrophotograly #livestream

Finally, a good clear night (even if plenty of moon). Guiding is not terrible! Here’s a 5 min Ha/[OIII] exposure just now .. Hoping to get enough 5 min exposures to wrap up a project on the Tulip Nebula and neighborhood. 🔭

To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable. For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.

You heard it here first! We already showed last December that this nebula was in the Milky Way, not in Andromeda. Here is the paper: 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2412.08327 With the @gtctelescope.bsky.social we measured the speed of the nebula, and found that it was much too slow to be related to Andromeda

Congrats to our IGS team @fertiglab.bsky.social @danielrbergman.bsky.social @jeanettejohnson.bsky.social and the whole scientific team including @mathcancer.bsky.social for this research published in @cp-cell.bsky.social and written up in @genomeweb.bsky.social. www.genomeweb.com/informatics/...

We are very pleased to share that our paper on sexual dimorphism in circadian rhythms has been published in @plosbiology.org. This work was led by the very talented Aishwarya Iyer and includes contributions from three undergraduate co-authors. You can read the full study here:

Nice writeup of our new @cp-cell.bsky.social article on an intuitive, plain language "grammar" to make simulation modeling of complex multicellular systems more accessible. Huge thx to Forest Ray and @genomeweb.bsky.social ! Joint work by @fertiglab.bsky.social, Genevieve Stein-O'Brien & team! 🧪

Excited for this @cp-cell.bsky.social article co-led by @fertiglab.bsky.social and Genevieve Stein-O'Brien, on creating a plain language "grammar" to easily write simulation models as virtual laboratories for complex systems like cancer. Fully open access and open source! 🧪 #mathonco #mathbio

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

A plain text modeling language—a cell behavior hypothesis grammar—to easily build virtual cell models and connect them to data, helping scientists to unlock the hidden dynamics of tissues @cellcellpress.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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

Technical / production issues at journal. DOI will be active a bit later than planned. Stay tuned!

Finally got a chance to add my newest sticker. Thanks @MathCancer (Sticker is a @PhysiCell ABM model)

Given the low payline, maybe it's more appropriate to say "May the odd ever be in your favor". "Odds" seems extravagant.

Check out this link after 11 am (US Eastern) tomorrow. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... More soon! :-) @physicell.bsky.social

Very likely that we have more rain and storms on the way this evening, Bloomington -- find the "BMG" in the middle of the image. Severe thunderstorm watch (hail and/or wind) and flood watch (self explanatory) until all these storms clear us after midnight.

@mathcancer.bsky.social speaking in the last session on the last day of #SMB2025 - the room is full though so I know I'm not the only one excited ;)