iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How does pressure from below begin? Often quietly, when early-career researchers discover that a calculation they have been making alone is widely shared. New on Academic Renewal: notes from conversations among ECRs. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/how-pressu...

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How pressure from below begins

Notes from conversations among early career researchers

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Matthew Asker @masker.science · 10/12/2025

Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application! Start date September 2026. More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs

Poster advertising doctoral positions in 2026 at the International Max Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology.

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Matthew Asker @masker.science · 14/04/2025

How do bottlenecks affect mutant takeover in spatial metapopulations? Our pre-print reveals that bottleneck strength, frequency, and cell migration intricately drive fixation and extinction - even leading to interesting non-monotonic behaviour. Check it out: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.08433

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Matthew Asker @masker.science · 28/03/2025

Had a great time at the @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social conference in Harrogate this year! Really fantastic to see all the good work ongoing and the community thriving, particularly the ECR part 😄

Photo from the Harrogate Japanese garden of the research group I'm a part of.

Me, caught slightly off-guard, presenting my poster on "Fixation and extinction in time-fluctuating metapopulations".

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Matthew Asker @masker.science · 24/03/2025

If you're at the @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social Physics of Life 2025 conference, come talk to me at my poster (#23) later on today! I'm looking at fixation and extinction on time-fluctuating metapopulations 🦠

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We're advertising a fully-funded PhD project at Durham in understanding microbial ecology from a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective! More details below. Feel free to email me, Denis Patterson, or @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social. March 31st deadline. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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

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

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Oliver Meacock @olimeacock.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Our framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters! A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Environment‐Organism Feedbacks Drive Changes in Ecological Interactions

Ecological interactions are central to our understanding of the composition and function of communities, but attempts to use them as a theoretical foundation for experimental ecology have been confou....

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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Our (@vishuguttal.bsky.social and I) Synthesis of the effects of demographic stochasticity on eco-evolutionary dynamics is now out in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Feel free to message/email me if you need a copy or want to chat about the paper :) 🧬🌍🧪

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Mike Bottery @mbottery.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

PhD studentship alert! Fully funded, co-supervised with @rokkrasovec.bsky.social and Prof Mike Bromley, University of Manchester Exploring routes of horizontal gene transfer in pathogenic fungi Exciting project, will be a bunch of fun! Come & join us 🔬 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Joshua Bull @joshuabull.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Resharing my attempt at a #mathbio starter pack for those (millions?!) of people who've joined in the last week! Please let me know if you'd like to be added (I've not kept up with the incoming hordes well) go.bsky.app/GVkxwBv

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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Check out this #SMB #SocietyMathBio starter pack. This was the default Starter Pack set up on our feed, but we can add to this as well to help build the mathematical biology community on BlueSky. go.bsky.app/2sXtZV4

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Join us in Durham for a fully-funded multidisciplinary PhD studying Metals, Microbes, Maths, and Metabolism! Please pass this along to interested candidates who are welcome to contact us directly. Both theoretical and/or experimental backgrounds welcome! iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

An aerial photo of the centre of Durham city on a snowy winter day. A river encircles the centre containing Durham's Castle and Cathedral.

Photo courtesy of RJX Media.

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Matthew Asker @masker.science · 17/11/2024

Just another part of the mass exodus here starting anew and looking for my people! I'm Matthew, a PhD student at Leeds working on eco-evolutionary models of biology, particularly regarding AMR and cancer. I play & watch football, run, and paint Warhammer. Also, Darwin and I are best buds.

A picture of me with my hand on a statue of Darwin, taken at the Natural History Museum in London. I look far happier about it than he does.

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