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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼

@danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu
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Using quantitative computational modeling as scientific instrument. Prof at Uni Duisburg-Essen. Science & art addict. Posts my own. #computationalmodeling #quantitativebiology #bayes #immunesystem #cancer #infections #education #HTseq #art #poetry

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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2026
Would you enroll your baby in this study in a region with high prevalence of hepatitis B? Would you play Russian roulette with your baby? www.theguardian.com/society/2026... #hbv #hepatitisb #vaccines
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026
Quantitative analysis of adaptive immunity: Immensely proud of this paper in eLife: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... More at: mathstodon.xyz/@Daniel_Hoff...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 (@Daniel_Hoffmann@mathstodon.xyz)
Quantitative analysis of adaptive immunity: Immensely proud of this paper in eLife: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.112537.1 The adaptive immune system differs so much between people and is so diverse ...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 25/09/2026
New version of my free ebook / textbook "Quantitative Concepts for Biologists", now with chapter 10 on Common Statistics Problems doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #biology #textbook #biostatistics #reproducibility #quantitativebiology
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Quantitative Concepts for Biologists
An introductory course on quantitative concepts in biology for students in biology and natural sciences.
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 22/09/2026
Planetary health check 2026, a fact-based summary that deserves to be read widely. Still better than Mars, but working on it. www.planetaryhealthcheck.org#reports-sect... #planet #climatecrisis
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
Book recommendation: Victor Klemperers "The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist's Notebook" mathstodon.xyz/@Daniel_Hoff... #books #language #totalitarianism
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 (@Daniel_Hoffmann@mathstodon.xyz)
Book recommendation: Victor Klemperers "The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist's Notebook" is a readable monument of living in a totalitarian state. He describes how language, individuals, and...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
mathstodon.xyz/@Daniel_Hoff... More than 16000 heat-associated fatalities in Germany this year. Seems like an outlier but is in agreement with the trend. #heatwaves #climatecrisis
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 (@Daniel_Hoffmann@mathstodon.xyz)
Attached: 1 image With about 16000 deaths, this year's heatwaves were the deadliest natural disaster in Germany for at least the last 100 years (https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/wissen/so...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 29/08/2026
Tick-borne virus: Virtually the whole biosphere is constrained by basic parameters such as temperature, which is why the #ClimateCrisis affects all life. One example that should be known more widely is the spread of deadly #infections with shifting climate zones: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Deadly tick-borne virus gains ground in Europe as climate warms
Kosovo shows how surveillance can uncover hidden circulation—and help countries prepare before human cases appear
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 25/08/2026
I am mildly obsessed with poetry, which can be an ingenious way of making experience portable by the music of language. Though, I still don't know what a poem is, the concept has no clear boundaries. What is a poem? Today in the mail: a heart, wrapped in paper, red, warm, words beating. #haiku
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 23/08/2026
Mini-essay on "Disrupting the flow of knowledge" #education #populism #climatecrisis mathstodon.xyz/@Daniel_Hoff...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 (@Daniel_Hoffmann@mathstodon.xyz)
Disrupting the flow of knowledge: A newspaper article with a summary of excess deaths from a heatwave is an excellent example of how we gain important knowledge beyond our immediate experience. Inform...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 22/08/2026
We are waking up a monster, not in a novel but for real. One of the consequences of the #climatecrisis is the irreversible thawing of #permafrost. Excellent article: readable & relevant. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to tipping point of permafrost
Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns wildfires could accelerate release of methane and carbon as vast regions approach irreversible thresholds
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 19/08/2026
Populists in government make people poorer than they would have been otherwise, according to this empirical study. www.kielinstitut.de/publications... #economy
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Populist Leaders and the Economy - Kiel Institute
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 19/08/2026
What could possibly go wrong with populists in government? Where's the evidence? This is unbearable. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #climatecrisis
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Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
Backlash from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners in response to deputy leader dismissing efforts to reach net zero
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 16/08/2026
Memories of better summers. #poetry mathstodon.xyz/@Daniel_Hoff...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2026
Newly approved mRNA vaccine against flu works well. Faster development allows better match with dominant seasonal flu strains. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #vaccines #flu
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Will the mRNA flu shot work better than a regular seasonal one? What the science says
Moderna’s newly approved vaccine could allow manufacturers to respond more rapidly to changing influenza strains.
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 10/08/2026
The title resonates www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #climatecrisis
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 09/08/2026
Some thoughts on "ecological amnesia": mathstodon.xyz/@Daniel_Hoff... Interesting article on the topic: www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... #biodiversity #ecology
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L’amnésie environnementale, ou comment notre lente accommodation à une biodiversité dégradée nous fait oublier la nature foisonnante d’antan
Si nous nous rappelons des pare-brise constellés d’insectes morts après un trajet en voiture, que sait-on des loups qui rôdaient dans les campagnes au Moyen Age, ou des saumons dans la Seine au XIXᵉ s...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 08/08/2026
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 (@Daniel_Hoffmann@mathstodon.xyz)
Truth and trust are two pillars of good government. Paul Krugman vividly describes what happens when these pillars crumble https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lying-liars-lie-to-each-other-too. Histor...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 05/08/2026
A Titanic counterfactual to illustrate the absurdity of the response to the #ClimateCrisis: mathstodon.xyz/@Daniel_Hoff...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 (@Daniel_Hoffmann@mathstodon.xyz)
The following Titanic counterfactual makes it painfully clear how absurd the reaction to the #ClimateCrisis is: Imagine most of the crew of the Titanic *knew* that the ship was on a collision course w...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @danielhoffmann.wsocial.eu · 04/08/2026
Some thoughts and observations on wildfires and climate change denial: mathstodon.xyz/@Daniel_Hoff...
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Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 (@Daniel_Hoffmann@mathstodon.xyz)
It is interesting to see how climate change deniers spin the wildfires. 1. Global warming does not exist, but if it does it has nothing to do with human activity (like release of greenhouse gases by...
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