I don't just want to list papers. I want to understand how people have thought about the problem and how this has evolved as our knowledge has increased. This helps situate my work into the larger arc of research. It almost always hints at interesting questions I hadn't thought of. 3/

An important piece about how LLMs are exposing the rot in academic institutions, and we should take this seriously. A bit too confident in AI inevitability, but the focus on pre-existing issues is spot-on, from misaligned teaching to the rot of academic publishing. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The University After AI

The postwar bargain at the heart of higher education is coming undone. What replaces it?

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🚨Job Alert: PhD in Theoretical Biophysics 🚨 we are looking for a PhD student to join our group at Uni Münster to work on models of multi-layered active materials @uni-muenster.de More details here: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6... Please share and contact me if interested!

Doctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L, 67%)

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1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning

Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e

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We have an open postdoc position to study phase transitions in embryos and/or biological time, broadly understood. We are looking for experimental physicists/biologists (or similar fields). If you are interested, please email or DM me. Join us! 😀

My new book! Written w my pal Alex Townsend, it's about the math behind enormous systems (medical scans, AI, etc.) and what happens when they outgrow our ability to understand them. Pre-order at @barnesandnoble.com for 25% off -> www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-math-s... @littlebrown.bsky.social

"Unputdownable" is an apt description of quite a lot of @stevenstrogatz.com's writing! I'm glad to see such passion from a student who asked for summer reading recommendations 😀.

It's just obvious that there is no good reason, at all, for the government to legislate what toilets you can go into. This is a thing that civil society was quite capable of working out. We're here because the GCs found civil society didn't share their rabid obsessive hatred so they played the refs.

Incredible post by @mastroianni.bsky.social. “The most important ‘rigor-enhancing practice’ is caring about getting things right, and without that nothing else matters.” (A teaser only barely touching the lessons of the piece). www.experimental-history.com/p/shame-them...

Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them!

OR: crock pots and lightning bolts

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Beyond that it's just the normal slow generational work of living together in a multi cultural society. Being willing to learn from and about each other and get along, presuming good will and letting each others quirks be while gaining the cultural and economic and interpersonal fruits of diversity.

Andrew's talk will highlight the use of @visualpde.com for visualizing numerical solutions to PDEs and related work informing a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations. You can check out the VisualPDE platform to try out your own simulations. visualpde.com

VisualPDE

VisualPDE brings interactive science and mathematics to the web. Explore topics including waves, viruses and reaction—diffusion patterns, or create your own simulation.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o... This Ezra Klein piece on how the adopters are using— being used by?— LLMs is horrifying. It hardens my resistance to ever turning one of these toys on at the same time that it makes me more sure that I'm going to be completely out of step and behind as a result.

Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco

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Did you think that small gene regulatory networks are only capable of very simple dynamics? Guess again! Even very simple networks are capable of a rich dynamics. Check out our brand new review paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @perez-carrasco.bsky.social

Simple systems, complex dynamics: lessons from minimal gene regulatory networks

Small gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are well-established biological modules that underpin cellular decisions and dynamical function. Their theoretic…

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🚨 SMTPBconnect Event: Linking Theory and Practice in Eco-evolutionary Modelling 😳 Tomorrow (Weds March 18 2-5PM Pacific Time, Thurs March 19 8-11AM Australian Eastern Time) 🤠 Sponsored by @smtpb.bsky.social, hosted by Maria Kleshnina smtpb.org/event-6562940

"The institution built to nurture enquiry has increasingly become one that merely measures, audits and verifies it. We produce abundant evidence of learning, but not necessarily more learning itself." Even before LLMs, this was increasingly problematic! www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/bure...

Bureaucracy is putting universities on the wrong track to respond to AI

We cannot bureaucratise our way into producing better thinkers, any more than we can automate wisdom, says Akhil Bhardwaj

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Right now, Professor Longhua Zhao from Case Western is giving a talk on fluid-structure interaction. Please see below for information about joining the seminar.

Daniel Cooney@danielcooney1.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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 us this September 8-11th for the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology! Organized with @gcelora.bsky.social @valeriagiunta.bsky.social and Denis Patterson. This will be an exciting and interactive discussion-driven event! sites.google.com/view/durham-...

I haven't encountered this too much (that I can tell!) but it's also more than zero, and I have a similar reaction to Rose here. As she says... it's just very bizarre to do a philosophy degree if you don't actually want to think and work through ideas. What... what are you doing here?

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think

The fact that I could have genuine friends I knew only through plain text (no one had profile pics or avatars yet) felt like some kind of utopian dream at the time when I was an awkward kid irl. I think that dynamic is still one of the things that draws me to text-based social media over video/pics.

Join us this September 8-11th for the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology! Organized with @gcelora.bsky.social @valeriagiunta.bsky.social and Denis Patterson. This will be an exciting and interactive discussion-driven event! sites.google.com/view/durham-...

Next, a glorious combo of maths, metals, and microbial ecology. This one is supervised by Denis Patterson and @blindmath.bsky.social, also at Durham. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Metals, Microbes, and Mathematics: Understanding Coexistence with Toxic Nutrients at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Metals, Microbes, and Mathematics: Understanding Coexistence with Toxic Nutrients at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Lots of PhD opportunities for UK + international students involving my lab. Topics relate to metals & microbiology. First up: TonB-dependent receptors in commensal Neisseria in my lab at Durham, with @kjosts.bsky.social and @mattbashton.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Nutrient uptake in commensal bacteria: exploring uncharacterised TonB-dependent transporters. at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Nutrient uptake in commensal bacteria: exploring uncharacterised TonB-dependent transporters. at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Some lecture notes on spatial and temporal modelling, illustrated using R - darrenjw.github.io/spatio-tempo... - #rstats #rspatial #quarto

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

Some festive vortices to spin you into the new year! visualpde.com/fluids/vorti...

This is obviously disgusting and racist shows utter contempt towards vulnerable people. But as one of the high earners (for now) who is supposedly (still) welcome here: I'm not actually here to "give" to a country that would kick me out if they could. I'm here cause I got a job, a fiance and friends

Jonathan Kingham@jonkingh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is so disgusting.

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Development's Pathway to Independence Programme

Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...

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And like... this is the shit that never gets accounted for in tenure applications for women. How many times you were trying to have men treat you as colleagues with ideas and they were not serious about anything except trying to fuck your body.

Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men

🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity: Physics, biology & ecology of toxic dinoflagellate blooms 🦠. Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...