Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDAreeba Patel @areebap.bsky.social · 10/06/20261/n Excited to share our new paper in Nature Cancer 🦀 Meet Hetairos (Greek- “companion”): an AI model that predicts >100 methylation-defined CNS tumour subtypes directly from a routine H&E slide 🧠 State of the art diagnostics- from the slide that’s already on every pathologists’ desk 🧵 386
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDJason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 04/04/2026#anthropic #copyright futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comAnthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude's Source CodeCopyright is suddenly very important to Anthropic now that its AI source code leaked. Just don't ask how it trained its AI in the first place. 073
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDNew Scientist @newscientist.com · 24/03/2026Cortical Labs is building two data centres that will house its neuron-filled chips. The technology is still in the very early stages of developmentnewscientist.comStartup is building the first data centre to use human brain cells 042
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”nytimes.comThe U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and MedicineA quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science. 28721303
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDLukas Groschner @lukasgroschner.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria! Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org #ECMTB’26 @smbmathbiology.bsky.socialecmtb2026.orgEuropean Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology 2026ECMTB is coming to Graz, Austria in July 2026. Registration and Call for Contributions are open! 02715
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDSitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #Biodiversity #Spider🕷️ #NewToScience #NewSpecies #Thailand🇹🇭 #Gynandromorph #Wildlife #Halloween🏮 #SpookySeason😵💫 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...forbes.comHalf Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To ScienceNot only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon in this previously unknown species. 1121162
Kristin Swanson, PhD @gliomath.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Our newly launched Mathematical Oncology Systems Analysis of Imaging of Cancer (MOSAIC) Center @cedarssinai.bsky.social is looking for an agile Program Manager to help support our interdisciplinary research efforts! #EveryPatientDeservesTheirOwnEquation careers.cshs.org/job/los-ange...careers.cshs.orgProgram Manager - Neurosurgery at CEDARS-SINAILearn more about applying for Program Manager - Neurosurgery at CEDARS-SINAI 000
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDSandy Anderson @sandyanderson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Fab closing presentation by friend and #mathonco agitator @gliomath.bsky.social from @cedarssinaicancer.bsky.social presenting cool new work, Every Patient Deserves Their Own Equation: Towards Digital Twins for Neuro-Oncology. 142
Kristin Swanson, PhD @gliomath.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Thankful to receive NOA for next year of our NCI U54 - MOSAIC Center @CedarsSinai We have several openings at the interface of mathematical oncology, AI, data science & oncology, neurosurgery, pathology, and clinical imaging! DM me! #mathonc #EveryPatientDeservesTheirOwnEquation 000
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 22/09/2025For nearly a century, mathematicians wondered whether a conjecture about knots was true. In a paper posted in June, researchers found infinitely many counterexamples, revealing a new layer of complexity in this area of math. Leila Sloman reports: www.quantamagazine.org/a-simple-way...quantamagazine.orgA Simple Way To Measure Knots Has Come Unraveled | Quanta MagazineTwo mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer. 03812
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDTrevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Here's @calumgabbutt.bsky.social's nice thread on our #EVOFLUx paper in @nature.com that uses fluctuating methylation to track cancer evolution 0111
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDEANO @eanoassociation.bsky.social · 09/09/2025🧠 The phase 1/2 N2M2 umbrella trial lead by former EANO president @wickwolfgang.bsky.social has just been published in Nature Medicine 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NeuroOncology #EANOessentials #BrainTumors #CancerResearchnature.comMolecularly matched targeted therapies plus radiotherapy in glioblastoma: the phase 1/2a N2M2 umbrella trial - Nature MedicineIn a phase 1/2a umbrella trial in patients with glioblastoma matching targeted therapies according to tumor molecular profiling, temsirolimus plus radiotherapy improved PFS compared to standard of car... 0134
Kristin Swanson, PhD @gliomath.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Come join us for this exciting meeting to share the latest and greatest in #mathonc ! #EveryPatientDeservesTheirOwnEquation 000
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDGiulia Laura Celora @gcelora.bsky.social · 28/08/2025📣 Delighted to announce the first edition of the 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 Day, to take place in Oxford on 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵, with lots of exciting work at the interface of mathematics and biology. 🔗 For more information: sites.google.com/view/oxwmath... 11210
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDOxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Three Oxford Mathematicians have won 2025 London Mathematical Society (@londmathsoc.bsky.social) Prizes. Left to right, Nigel Hitchin wins the De Morgan Medal, Helen Byrne the Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics and Vidit Nanda a Whitehead Prize. www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72373 0143
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDWinkler Laboratory @winklerlab.bsky.social · 08/06/2025We’re so excited for the Cancer Neuroscience EACR conference! 📍Bilbao, Spain 📅 14-16 Oct 2025 ‼️Upcoming abstract and travelgrant deadline *June 30th* ‼️ Looking forward to seeing many of you there! 🧠🔬 #cancerneuroscience @helloeacr.bsky.social #neuroscience #cancer Submit your abstract here 👇eacr.orgAbstracts and posters | Cancer Neuroscience | The European Association for Cancer Research 02010
Kristin Swanson, PhD @gliomath.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Excited to be making my first presentation as faculty starting a new computational cancer center @cedarssinai.bsky.social today @ascocancer.bsky.social See you at Room E350 at 11:30 for our session on State of the Art in Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Neuro-Oncology #ASCO2025 0100
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDlabrubin.bsky.social @labrubin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025We are excited to share our perspective article out in @natrevcancer.nature.com emphasizing the importance of investigating gender-sex interactions in cancer biology to better understand cancer biology and improve patient care! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comGender and sex interactions are intrinsic components of cancer phenotypes - Nature Reviews CancerIn this Perspective, Joshua Rubin emphasizes the importance of gender–sex interaction (GSI) differences in cancer biology and clinical parameters to enhance precision medicine. He outlines the challen... 031
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDJason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Sworn testimonies from top NIH officials reveal that a DOGE representative directed them to terminate hundreds of specific projects www.nature.com/articles/d41... #NIHnature.comNIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGECourt documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. 045
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDKieran Campbell @kieranrcampbell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Interested in how to infer tumour microenvironment ecosystems from scRNA-seq atlases? I'll be at #AACR25 presenting in the ED06 session this Friday 3-4.30pm. Otherwise would love to meet to chat science for anyone on here attending Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1194
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDNBC News @nbcnews.com · 13/04/2025They donated their brains to science. Then the Trump administration upended the system funding one of the leading Alzheimer's projects.nbcnews.toOne of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardyA pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 brains for research. 13146104
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDMeredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house researchPolicy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs 8365136
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDMing Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 21/02/2025A minimal gene set characterizes TIL specific for diverse tumor antigens across different cancer types www.nature.com/articles/s4... 092
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDWHO @who.int · 11/02/2025Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM 5647231866
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE. To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander. 11453172
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The X-chromosome and impact on the brain's structure and functionality between sexes, from >38,000 UK Biobank participants and >1,000 MRI imaging traits, noting extent of X-inactivation (=DC-dosage compensation) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... open-accessscience.orgThe X chromosome’s influences on the human brainExploring the genetic influence of the X chromosome and sex differences in the human brain. 212919
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDsina b @sina.bio · 17/01/2025An often overlooked point in genomics: "Molecular omics resources should require sex annotation: a call for action" by @gliomath.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comMolecular omics resources should require sex annotation: a call for action - Nature MethodsThe most commonly used omics databases are a compilation of results from primarily male-only and sex-agnostic studies. The pervasive use of these databases critically hinders progress toward fully acc... 141
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDScience News @scinews.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Sex differences in neuron protection could reveal Alzheimer’s target. #Science "Study highlights the critical role of TLR7 in sex-biased Alzheimer’s-related demyelination" News news.cornell.edu/stories/2024... Paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1498
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDMaria Secrier @mariasecrier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Delighted to introduce our new spatial transcriptomics tool, SpottedPy, allowing the identification of tumour hotspots at different scales and the exploration of distances and overlap with tumour microenvironment niches: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 2639
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/11/20242 new studies on brain aging with sex-specific findings —Angiogenesis factors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... —Loss of gray matter press.psprings.co.uk/jnnp/novembe... 414545
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDMathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Excited to launch a new Gordon Research Conference on synthetic lethality in oncology. Great cutting edge program, superb speakers and lots of networking opportunities. Applications open. www.grc.org/synthetic-le...grc.org2025 Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology Conference GRCThe 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot. 13212
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 24/11/2024To overcome resistance to allyship, use storytelling which helps to normalize male allyship behaviors. For example a leader can share a story about a male employee speaking up about a biased promotion process. theconversation.com/allyship-eff...theconversation.comAllyship efforts can face pushback in the workplace. Here’s why it happens and what leaders can do about itAllyship is most needed in male-dominated environments, where gender equity efforts are often met with the greatest resistance. 0196
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDAndrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Ever wanted an interactive lightning-fast solver for models in physics, chemistry, or biology? Do you have a web browser? I'm thrilled to share our website visualpde.com, built explicitly to create interactive spatial models on most devices. Follow @visualpde.com for cool updates!visualpde.comVisualPDEVisualPDE brings interactive science and mathematics to the web. Explore topics including waves, viruses and reaction—diffusion patterns, or create your own simulation. 25318
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDAlex Best @bestieboy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024As my follower count creeps towards that of the old place, an unashamed plug for the FREE online textbook I wrote for #mathbio students. 'Introducing Mathematical Biology' is FREE, interactive, accessible and FREE. Please feel free to share with students. sheffield.pressbooks.pub/introducingm... 715363
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDJohanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Many thanks to The Scientist for covering our recent paper on fibrotic scarring and brain tumor recurrence 🙏 Here's the #openaccess link for our original paper in Cancer Cell led by Watson*, Zomer* et al: www.cell.com/cancer-cell/... #scicomm 🧪🔬 www.the-scientist.com/blocking-sca...the-scientist.comBlocking Scar Formation Prevents Glioblastoma RecurrenceA combination of three therapies prevented scar tissue and stopped glioblastoma in its tracks in mice. 16913
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDJon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 20/11/2024#AACRBlog ▶️ Intersting read re: "Peto’s paradox" 🐘...and the recent #CancerDiscovery story from Compton et al. re: cancer prevalence across vertebrates! aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov... 0128
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDDarryl Yong (he/him/his) @dyong.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Ex-Twitter-BlueSky-Migrants: Use this Chrome extension to easily find people that you used to follow here on BlueSky chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...chromewebstore.google.comSky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web StoreInstantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky. 062
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform 392909620
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDAjit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 19/11/2024DeepCellTypes from Van Valen Lab, a new language-informed vision model, leverages the power of AI to accurately identify cell types in spatial proteomics data across diverse datasets and imaging platforms. 🧪https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.02.621624v2.full.pdf+html 0144
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDDenis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities. For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship). Good luck! Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... 1211125
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024My new study (N=913) finds 30 identity factors as basis for discrimination against women leaders. Women leaders are “never quite right” as almost any facet of their identity can be declared problematic for a specific woman in a specific context. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 913158
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhDAlison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Sharing again for new followers - check out this fully-funded postdoc to work with any Fred Hutch comp bio faculty members! Pre-apps due Dec 20 to start next year! www.fredhutch.org/en/research/...fredhutch.orgMahan FellowshipFred Hutch is dedicated to the development and advancement of biomedical research to eliminate cancer and other potentially fatal diseases. As part of that goal, we offer the Mahan postdoctoral fellow... 02519