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Sandy Anderson @sandyanderson.bsky.social · May 21

Save the date #MathOnco25! October 29th-31st in Tampa, Florida. Directly before the 13th IMO Workshop (November 3rd-7th) - stay the weekend and brainstorm the beaches! More information to follow but @evoltherapy.bsky.social will be a key theme @mathonco.bsky.social @moffittnews.bsky.social

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · May 21

What a great #Abelprize week again! Congratulations Prof Kashiwara!

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Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · Apr 25

We have started a new monthly newsletter, the OCBE newsletter!!! where will be showcasing our recent publications and other relevant news. Check out the first edition here:

www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...

OCBE newsletter, April 2025 - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences

Welcome to the OCBE newsletter! This month we showcase our recent publications on environmental exposures and cancer risk, drug repurposing, bacterial DNA sequencing and much more.

www.med.uio.no

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · Apr 18

At Princeton University we are being clear about our continued commitment to diversity and nondiscrimination, in full compliance with law (as opposed to executive order) and consistent with our ethical responsibilities as educators for the entire nation. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

University websites updated to reflect commitments to diversity, non-discrimination

Many University websites, including those affiliated with admissions, academic departments, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, have been updated to reflect Princeton’s ongoing com...

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Apr 9

On my way to @princetonupress.bsky.social to speak in a workshop on Machine learning for Clinical Research hosted by Olga Troyanskaya and Vessela Kristensen at Princeton Precision Health

pph.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

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Machine Learning In Clinical Research Workshop - Day 2

PPH Visiting Faculty Scholar Vessela Kristensen is hosting a workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Research on Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11, in Carl Icahn Lab and at 252 Nassau Street. F...

pph.princeton.edu

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Apr 2

I am very excited to start my new roles as associate professor @uio.no @ocbe.bsky.social and group leader at the Oslo University Hospital (Departmemt of Medical Genetics). This would have not been possible without the support and help of all my mentors, colleagues and collaborators. Thank you all!

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Mar 26

First Abel prize to a Japanese mathematician: Masaki Kashiwara

abelprize.no

…and first time I am invited to the Abel Prize Banquet! Anybody has a smoking I could use? 😎

Home | The Abel PrizeFacebookInstagram

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MathOnco @mathonco.bsky.social · Mar 24

Learning Dynamics with Neural Networks with @alvarokohn.bsky.social @gibin.bsky.social and others:
mathematical-oncology.org/blog/learnin...

Learning Dynamics with Neural Networks

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Mar 21

What is the difference between PINNs, Universal PINNs, Neural Differential Equations (DEs) and Universal DEs?

Don’t miss this blog post that I wrote with a bunch of amazing colleagues from a #MechanisticLearning workshop in Canada

mathematical-oncology.org/blog/learnin...

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Learning Dynamics with Neural Networks

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Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · Mar 7

Today, we all stand up for science! To support our colleagues in the US and to remember that public access to data and knowledge, academic freedom and science- and fact-based society can never be taken for granted standupforscience2025.org @standupforscience.bsky.social @manuelazucknick.bsky.social

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Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · Mar 2

Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs
from Matthias C. Rillig

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs

Research lab groups are hotspots for the education of the next generation of scientists, and making these units work as creatively as possible is essential for solving pressing issues in biology, the ...

journals.plos.org

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Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · Feb 13

This law is totally insane! Let's push back this nonsense!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists fight Norway’s language law, warning of talent exodus

Mandatory language courses for foreign researchers could harm Norway’s ability to attract the best talent, Nobel laureate says, as rule prompts legal challenge.

www.nature.com

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Jan 21

Happy to be part of the scientific committee of this Turkish initiative for young mathematicians from all over the world to organize their own research meetings. I look forward to many cool proposals!

Nurdan Kar, PhD @nurdankar.bsky.social · Jan 20

YMATRS Platform (ymatrs.org) invites young mathematicians from all over the world to design and run their own research symposia!

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your colleagues and students.

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Jan 12

I am excited to join the editorial board of JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics. Looking forward to more mathematical and computational oncology submissions ascopubs.org/cci/about/ed...

Editorial Roster | JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics

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MathOnco @mathonco.bsky.social · Dec 29

Last post of this year on the #MathOnco blog by @younessazimzade.bsky.social for those of you using clinical trial data and interested in modeling tumor #response to treatment
mathematical-oncology.org/blog/tumor-m...

Tumor Microenvironment and Response to Treatment

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Dec 12

Follow this interesting and needed discussion about peer review. My take, let’s each of us in our own roles keep all the good things but also start eliminating all the negative aspects and bad practices related to peer review, which are many!

James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Dec 11

I wrote some thoughts about why peer review matters

It shapes scientific standards, maintains field coherence & trains new researchers

Yes, it needs improvement—but it's the glue that holds scientific progress together

briscoelab.org/2024/12/11/i...

In Praise of Peer Review

As an Editor of the journal Development, I often hear complaints about peer review. We all know the problems – from lengthy review times to requests for seemingly unnecessary experiments. I a…

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Osvaldo Chara @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social · Dec 11

Excited to share this mini-review on dynamic mechanical stress inference of tissues written with @borgesaugust.bsky.social!!
doi.org/10.1042/BST2...
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Peeking into the future: inferring mechanics in dynamical tissues

Cells exert forces on each other and their environment, shaping the tissue. The resulting mechanical stresses can be determined experimentally or estimated computationally using stress inference metho...

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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · Dec 10

Congratulations also to the supervisors @alvarokohn.bsky.social and Arnoldo Frigessi!

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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · Dec 10

Congratulations to Dr Even Myklebust for a wonderful PhD defence! @ocbe.bsky.social www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Sep 22

We're continually surprised by which scientific investigations lead to practical benefits. This is the story about how investigating how electric fields affect bacterial growth led to the development of the stalwart chemotherapy drug cisplatin 🧪

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Sep 21

'Barnett Rosenberg wasnt trying to cure cancer. He wasnt working on cancer. He wasnt working on any disease-related problem. He wasnt even working with human cells. All he was trying to do was to test a hypothesis about what would happen when dividing bacteria were placed in a strong electric field'

A Christmas Carol - Genome Biology

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Nov 27

Thank you!

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Nov 27

Could you please add me?

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Alvaro Köhn-Luque @alvarokohn.bsky.social · Nov 25

I have been very fortunate to supervise the PhD thesis of Even Moa Myklebust. He will defend his thesis on December 9th in front of a superb committee and will do his trial lecture about Bayesian neural networks in biomedical applications. Don’t miss it if you are in Oslo @uio.no @ocbe.bsky.social

Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · Nov 25

Even Moa Myklebust: Statistical modeling of cell population dynamics for personalized cancer medicine (3/3)

www.med.uio.no/imb/english/...

Public Defence: Even Moa Myklebust - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences

M.Sc. Even Moa Myklebust at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Statistical modeling of cell population dynamics for personalized cancer medicine” for the degree of PhD (...

www.med.uio.no

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Christoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social · Nov 24

I feel like not enough people know about Quarto for creating documents.

How it works: Write in markdown and use Quarto to convert it to html, pdf, epub, ...

I produce my books with Quarto (web + ebook + print version). But you can also use it for websites, reports, dashboards, ...

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Quarto

An open source technical publishing system for creating beautiful articles, websites, blogs, books, slides, and more. Supports Python, R, Julia, and JavaScript.

quarto.org

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Alex Best @bestieboy.bsky.social · Nov 21

As 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...

Cover of textbook. Photo of path in a forest. Text overlaid saying 'Introducing Mathematical Biology, An Open Education Resource by Alex Best'

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