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Yu-Ying Chen @taniokinn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Please help share and encourage trainees to attend!! SSR is launching a new initiative where trainee first authors share their recently published work and discuss their publishing experiences. I’ll be moderating the first session, presented by my colleague and friend Ryan from NIEHS 🤩

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Corey Maley's 'How and Why to think that the brain is literally a computer'. Analog representation is hands down the most empirically tractable model to explain and predict how biological systems solve problems through their structure and dynamics. www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

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Frontiers | How (and why) to think that the brain is literally a computer

The relationship between brains and computers is often taken to be merely metaphorical. However, genuine computation can be implemented in virtually any medi...

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

How long (on average) would fertilization take if only one sperm were inseminated at a time? About 1,902 years! No wonder evolution parallelized this process! Used a geometric distribution to estimate with 2 hrs per fertilization attempt and success probability of 12/10^8. #Maths #ReproRocks

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

#Repro friends, I'm hosting a series of podcasts for @ssrepro.bsky.social ! In this series we'll explore how scientists from different fields approach the study of sperm, eggs, and embryos! First episode with Dr. Pablo Visconti! Link below or wherever you get your🎙️ ssr.org/ssr-resource...

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a cartoon of homer simpson in a circle

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

What a biological system does at any given moment is encoded by evolution, but entrained by circumstance. All of our experiments necessarily shape the behaviors we observe. This lack of useful reference point is what makes experimental biology difficult. #ComplexSystems

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Just listened to an incredibly interesting conversation on the Jim Rutt show about representation and some potentially relevant concepts for the future of machine intelligence scaling. The biological implications really resonated with me🤔 #ComplexSystems www.jimruttshow.com/ken-stanley-3/

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EP 316 Ken Stanley on the AI Representation Problem - The Jim Rutt Show

Jim talks with Ken Stanley about the Fractured Entanglement Representation hypothesis in deep learning neural networks. They discuss open-endedness in AI systems & evolution, the Picbreeder experiment...

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Pépin Lab @pepinlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Machine Learning & Women’s Health in partnership with MIT’s Female Medicine through Machine Learning (FMML fmml.mit.edu ) to build multi-modal ML models related to ovarian aging and its impact on overall health using large, real-world datasets.

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Postdoc Research Fellow Pepin Lab

Site: Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Inc. Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and syste...

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Not as pretty, but now completely sourced from Amazon or Walmart, except for the syringe pump... Just a few cents per device. Leak testing with mineral oil, so I'm very pleased this didn't devolve into a mess😋

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Making a microfluidic device for isolation of sub-microliter droplets to trap sperm for long-term motility imaging in a single field. This is the science version of posting pictures of food😋 #BestJobEver #ReproRocks

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Interesting take from James Holehouse @sfiscience.bsky.social on how deterministic definitions of behavioral modes may be misleading in biological systems with significant noise. #ComplexSystems #Biochemistry www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

From Shosei Yoshida's beautiful talk @ssrepro.bsky.social. Differentiation waves in mouse seminiferous tubules (Stra-8 eGFP). Absolutely spectacular👏 #ReproRocks #ComplexSystems #Microscopy

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Looks super interesting🔥 Model that characterizes bidirectional causation in scale entwined systems by iteratively combining microstate dynamics with macrostate information entropy🤔 #ComplexSystems www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

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Dynamical theory of complex systems with two-way micro–macro causation

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

15 cumulative years of time lapse videos of different plants growing from seeds. Very cool👏 Highlights the importance of state space exploration in organismal biology. #ComlexSystems youtube.com/watch?v=NtsJ...

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Made this #DataScience crash course notebook as a homework assignment for my graduate #Biochemistry course. From variables to data frames and plotting in just a few easy steps💻 Uses some tabular data from Pubchem #Python github.com/CAS-ReproLab...

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BIOL_6240/Homework/HW5_Intro_DataSci.ipynb at main · CAS-ReproLab/BIOL_6240

This Repository Supports BIOL 6240 - Graduate Biochemistry (East Carolina University) - CAS-ReproLab/BIOL_6240

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

To fertilize, sperm must locate and recognize an egg. How? The structure of each sperm cell encodes a latent representation of this task. We use fertilization as a simple model process to study the nature of latent encoding. #ComplexSystems #ReproRocks youtu.be/c1aoQ4aILIw?...

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Human Sperm Differential Interference Contrast (DIC)

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Cameron A. Schmidt PhD (He/Him) 🇺🇲 @cas-reprolab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Jupyter notebook with four examples of animated plotting using Matplotlib FuncAnimation. Includes- a sine wave, 1D random walk, Conway's game of life, and a damped harmonic oscillator. Great skill for your seminar presentations😎 #PythonUtils #FunWithModels

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