How do tumors or bacteria modulate their environment, and how does that translate into their growth? What can we learn from maths, and what are the implications for cancer therapy or ecosystem resilience? Register here for the first Eco-Onco session, April 22nd forms.gle/B77tZmyzCzmp...

Excited to announce Eco-Onco Exchange — a virtual seminar series bridging mathematical ecology and oncology.
Each session pairs two speakers from each field around a shared theme, followed by joint discussion.
First three sessions coming soon! Register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Trial starts in case of explosives sent to UK and Poland

This seems like a very dangerous place to be holding a trial.

We are looking for a Postdoc to join our lab at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. This is a dry-lab focused post on the computational analysis of long read single-cell sequencing data to understand the role of transposable elements (TEs) in early development. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #TEsky

If you've put in a #MuSpAn code request in the last few days and haven't heard anything, please let me know - looks like there was an issue with our hosting which meant the requests weren't coming through!

I think I've sorted the backlog but please shout if you're still waiting for code access :)

🎉 The SMB #MathOnco Subgroup is launching its inaugural Early Career Awards!

Grad student or postdoc presenting at #ECMTB2026 / #SMB2026 in Graz? Apply by April 30th!

🔗 smb.org/call-for-award-nominations/

Group shot of participants at the hackathon standing in the entrance to the National STEM learning centre, York

Group shot of participants at the hackathon standing outside the entrance to the National STEM learning centre, York

Many thanks to everyone from the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network who participated in our #MuSpAn hackathon in York last week - fantastic to see how much everyone was able to discover in just one week!

A big shout out to the National STEM learning centre and the NMGN for hosting/organising!

Our work in mathematical biology spans many areas of this increasingly important field. This role will focus on combining theoretical and computational approaches to understand collective cell behaviours. And you get to hang out with the team.

Find out more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80472

(Does this count as "kerning"? It's a good word and feels kind of appropriate even if it's just regular "misalignment", so I'm sticking with it)

Screenshot of tomorrow's Championship fixtures on the BBC Sport app, with an irritating misalignment of the Middlesbrough vs Oxford match...

Please sign my petition to remove one letter from the word "Middlesbrough" so that the kerning on the BBC Sport app is better.

Does it really need both Ds? Or maybe one of those silent letters near the end could be quietly dropped?

Damian Hall began loop 3 barefoot at 22:54:26. Mathieu Blanchard and Sébastien Raichon began loop 3 shortly thereafter. #BM100

A puzzle featuring curvy blue lines, the solution of the Schnakenberg equations

White and red pieces of card on the floor in an 8x8 grid, showing the patterns made from a basic differential adhesion model made of 64 people

Great fun doing an @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social Masterclass for local Year 9 students this morning!

Featuring The Puzzle, a human cellular automaton, some nice fractals, and a bit of @visualpde.com

Hi everyone,

MuSpAn v1.2.2 is now available! Featuring lots of nice quality of life updates behind the scenes. Enjoy!

docs.muspan.co.uk/latest/tutor...

#spatialbiology #spatial #biology 🧬🧪👨‍🔬

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.

Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠

3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Epic handshake meme: "The Secret Traitor" and "Me as peer reviewer", bonding over "Secretly sabotaging team work while wearing a cool red cloak"

In case you were wondering why academic robes have hoods...

#TheTraitors

Text on the website answering how hot it will be: 80% chance of between 21.0 and 31.5 degrees C.

Some of the maths of the model fit on the easter egg page (there's SO MUCH MORE LOL I AM A NERD), including a little linear fit with the CI shown.

Yes, my wedding has a website

Yes, I have also included modelling of the expected temperature on the day

Yes, I did this by fitting a Bayesian model to 45 years of temperature data

Yes, the wedding website has an easter egg with a little link to find a writeup of how I got the numbers

🦃❄️🎄

The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

No, I wish I did though!

Dear All Have you seen Prof Biscuit recently? Professor Biscuit is roaming Main Building or more likely, is asleep somewhere cosy. Have you seen him recently? If so, could he be persuaded to be returned to the Bursary, please?

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

I don't remember the exact details of St Hugh's getting AF/PB, but IIRC the rescue centre promoted Biscuit to full Professor when they found he was moving to Oxford, prompting a college wide competition to decide on an appropriate rank for Flapjack.

Oxford Clarion's "Cat map" of Oxford cats

I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack

oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

FRS

Just pulling in to Glasgow for a week at @cruk-si.bsky.social - we're running a MuSpAn training week for the MRC Mouse Genetics Network, looking forward to a week of talking all things spatial biology, maths, and MuSpAn!

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...

WE'VE ONLY GONE AND DONE IT!!!

(Apart from the two pieces that have sadly gone missing in the last 2.5 years 😅🥲)

And that’s a wrap #EMBLSpatialBiology #ESSB2025

Current mood

If you're at #ESSB2025 and are curious about alternative existing tools with the capacity to combine cell networks into larger objects for further analysis, and much much more, please come and talk to me about #MuSpAn at poster 58 this afternoon

@sergiosdhi.bsky.social takes to the #ESSB2025 stage to demonstrate TopROI, a new mathematical tool for preserving structure when dividing large point clouds into multiple regions of interest! #EMBLSpatialBiology