I love listening to the #CancerInOurCommunity podcast from @moffittnews.bsky.social COE but for these two episodes I had to wait until I was ready. I am glad I listened and thankful that there is a podcast that tells these powerful stories and illustrate the role of family members as care givers

Lots of great research from the #blackboard to the #bedside at @mathonco.bsky.social

This is not an optional skill for scientists in the 21st century and @parmvir.com has been working on this for 12+ years

Probably not standard in many PhD courses (that should change!) but our @moffittnews.bsky.social @mathonco.bsky.social students had a lecture on science communication and outreach by the one and only @parmvir.com @scientistsinc.org

The Economist: Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/02/scientists-are-discovering-a-powerful-new-way-to-prevent-cancer?giftId=b0327e5d-5194-4ffb-baa4-57aa8ceb43e6&utm_campaign=gifted_article Which is why […]

Clever use of Waze : https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-15/icy-roads-how-waze-users-are-warning-migrants-of-ice-raids.html

The Economist: RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA technology endangers the world. Gift link: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/08/20/rfk-jrs-attack-on-mrna-technology-endangers-the-world?giftId=eb7c95b6-024c-4e79-92a4-0144e1f9bb9a&utm_campaign=gifted_article

The Guardian - An existential threat’: US health workers call Robert F Kennedy Jr a risk to public health https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/health-workers-robert-f-kennedy-jr

Look who's here now

A #MathOnco conference in beautiful St Pete Beach, FL in the Tampa Bay Area you say? in late October when the weather will be wonderful you say? organized by @sandy and the folks at @math.onco you say? https://mathematical-oncology.org/mathonco25

The Atlantic - Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/science-empire-america-decline/683711/ "...on a recent visit to MIT. A scientist there, much celebrated in her field, told me that since Donald Trump’s second inauguration she has […]

We had the pleasure of hosting a high school student as part of @mathonco.bsky.social @moffittnews.bsky.social HIP-IMO program led by Dr Renee Brady www.moffitt.org/education/re...

Ammar Omar did an incredible job this summer, working with our own Dr Tatiana Moto to study the establishment of #metastases in #TNBC (breast cancer). Great job Ammar!

Senate panel rejects Trump cuts to #nih, other health agencies https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5430915-senate-rejects-trump-nih-cuts/

The world is making impressive progress averting cancer https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/07/17/the-world-is-making-impressive-progress-averting-cancer?giftId=1fe7f1e0-8ed0-499e-b2ed-b3ff85d80899&utm_campaign=gifted_article

It is not that stupid things are not happening in Florida at the moment but it is hard to compete with what's going on at the US national level. Still, they try: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2025/07/18/florida-surgeon-general-calls-feds-help-vaccine-injured/

Final #MathOnco keynote at #SMB2025 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social#MathOnco#smb2025ith Mohit K. Jolly taling about Epithelial to Messenchymal Plasticity (EMP). Great talk and of great importance not just for #Metastasis (the context in which it is usually studied) but also #TreatmentResistance

Riley Manning (now at @math.onco) showing her work at University of Minnesota modeling tumor-immune interactions in glioblastoma and how computational models #MathOnco can help us explore how different aspects of these interactions can explain different […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Plenary this morning @smbmathbiology.bsky.social by Mary Myerscough (U of Sydney) modeling atherosclerotic plaques. Included a great slide showing why #mathmodeling. The process of formulating models is key (even if it not always leads to a publication). #smb2025

Today's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social business meeting. Giving Jane Heferman a heartwarming farewell and she passes on the reins to inciming prsident Reinhard Laubenbacher #smb2025 Also...shoutout to the #biologyinnumbers podcast by @pbiwan

Entertaining and insightful talk @smbmathbiology.bsky.social by Tom Yankeelov including an impassionate defense of mechanistic modeling that incorporate biology. Fully agree with his take #smb2025

Excellent minisymposium at #SMB2025 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social#smb2025on using imaging to parameterize agent-based models in #MathOnco. One of the speakers my colleague Kasia Rejniak describing a powerful approach to use histology in modeling #Immunotherapy

Leading off the Tuesday programme, Fred Adler (@dendroicap.bsky.social) from the University of Utah is giving the John Jungck Prize lecture on "Education, Bureaucracy and Corruption", explaining the bureaucracy of cell regulation ans intracellular signaling. #SMB2025

Great plenary for this morning at @smbmathbiology.bsky.social by former SMB president and legendary #mathbio person Fred Adler. Burocracy as the way our body tries to stop cancer #smb2025

Yesterday's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #MathOnco minisymp with @math.onco 's chair and friend @sandy presenting models that capture patient data and help us to understand how to improve treatment schedules in a clinically translatable way #smb2025

Kicking off the scientific programme, Mark Lewis from the Univeristy of Victoria is giving a plenary talk forvthe Akira Okubu prize, titled "One equation helps solve three paradoxes in the spatial ecology of predators and prey". #SMB2025

Opening remarks at @smbmathbiology.bsky.social 's #SMB2025 and on the slides: @parmvir.com and the society's podcast #BiologyInNumbers

Getting ready for the @smbmathbiology.bsky.social annual meeting in Edmonton next week by listening to their #biologyinnumbers #podcast where @pbiwan interviews University of Alberta's Jay Newby. Some cool stochastic maths and ideas of what to do in the northernmost big city in North America […]

Tampa Bay Times - Want programs like #gps and #mapping? We need support for basic #science https://www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2025/07/09/want-programs-like-gps-mapping-we-need-support-basic-science-column/

I am trying to get all my contacts to move from WhatsApp to Signal for privacy and security reasons. I wrote a quick article to help convince people to make the move, and published it on my website in case it helps anyone else make the case to friends and relatives. Please share if useful!

NPR - The health of U.S. kids has declined significantly since 2007, a new study finds: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/08/nx-s1-5459910/kids-health-children-chronic-disease "And now that's going to get worse with kids being removed from Medicaid,"

You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. Distrust in public-health institutions is not just an American problem […]

I just called my reps with 5 Calls, you should too: 5calls.org 5calls.org

(Now Dr.) Malgorzata T. Weh's first publication from her PhD work is finally published. Congrats Gosia! Her work adds to the idea that the impact of #mutations in #evolution is very context dependent and the position of the population on the fitness landscape is a key aspect of it. This is […]

It's odd that even an authoritarian like Trump would want to destroy US science, but there we have it. It is hard to see any other rationale for this random act of chaos. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Give me your tired, your poor… https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/20/spain-immigrants-economy-progressive-policies/

@theverge - RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines. https://www.theverge.com/health/688503/rfk-jr-vaccines

Judge orders many #nih #grants restored, calling cancellation unlawful https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5353385-trump-administration-grants-ruling/

Pretty well attended #nokings march in #tampa this afternoon

Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book […]

Just signed this supporting the #nih scientists that signed the #bethesdadeclaration: https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration?utm_source=pressrel&utm_campaign=bethesdadec #science #future

When we released post editing for #mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the […]

Great seminar by Jake Scott from the Cleveland Clinic (and director of the Theory Division) at @math.onco https://www.youtube.com/live/4TuudO_qmqs?feature=shared

Good! https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/may/23/harvard-university-sues-trump-administration-ban-foreign-students

MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/05/22/magas-assault-on-science-is-an-act-of-grievous-self-harm?giftId=48fa310e-2292-40e5-8c17-c2c198929a2c&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Great interview of @dbcooney by @pbiwan for the Society of Mathematical Biology's podcast #biologyinnumbers. I love hearing about people using #evolutionarygametheory in #mathbio ! https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/d431ebf0-fd91-013b-f558-0acc26574db2/9aacc4ac-40a7-4ce8-8b00-18529e5aa385

Well, this is good news...if you hate people that is: https://www.theverge.com/news/670980/fda-vaccine-approval-covid-trump-rfk

Excellent seminar by Jake Scott highlighting the importance of time scales to understand the distinct but interplaying roles of ecology and evolution in cancer. Also for remembering the importance of Дiversity, Еquity and Иnclusion

What a day: my first Moffitt/USF PhD student, Dr. Gosia Weh, defending her work on mutations and cancer from a #theoreticalbiology perspective. Congrats Gosia, well deserved!