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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · 1d

Right now, Naghmeh Akhavan from the University of Michigan is giving a talk about collective cell migration in Drosophila egg development.

See the post below for information about the seminar.

Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 6

I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...

Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar

The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...

sites.google.com

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · 8d

Right now, Po-Chun Kuo from Purdue University is giving a talk on "Dynamics of Immersed Interface Interface Problems in Stokes Flow". Please see the link below for more information on joining the talk.

Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 6

I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...

Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar

The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...

sites.google.com

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · 15d

Right now, Maxwell Kreider from Penn State is giving a talk on Synchronization of Stochastic Oscillators at our virtual seminar. See the link here for more information to join the talk

sites.google.com/view/midwest....

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations, Professor @chadisaadroy.bsky.social!

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Chadi Saad-Roy @chadisaadroy.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm super excited to have joined @ubcmath.bsky.social
and @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social !! Please get in touch if you might be interested in graduate studies or postdoctoral research opportunities!

UBC Mathematics @ubcmath.bsky.social · Aug 29

Help us give a warm welcome to Dr. Chadi Saad-Roy, who is joining UBC Mathematics this fall as an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology (‪@ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social‬).

Full details tinyurl.com/4zwdmr8b

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Emma Zajdela @mathemmatician.bsky.social · Sep 2

Exciting news! I am delighted to announce that our paper "Phase Chimera States: Frozen Patterns of Disorder" was published in Chaos
@aip-publishing.bsky.social pubs.aip.org/aip/cha/arti...
@stevenstrogatz.com

Phase chimera states: Frozen patterns of disorder

Coupled oscillators can serve as a testbed for larger questions of pattern formation across many areas of science and engineering. Much effort has been dedicate

pubs.aip.org

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Sep 2

In case anyone is interested in attending, Tin's talk is about to start.

Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 30

Our first talk will be this coming Tuesday (11am Eastern / 10 Central). Tin Phan from Los Alamos National Labs will be speaking on mathematical modeling on the immune dynamics of latently infected viral cells.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...

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Felix Leditzky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @felixled.bsky.social · Aug 26

Open-rank open-area faculty search in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Application deadline: November 3, 2025.

Please share widely!

www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...

MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society

Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.

www.mathjobs.org

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 31

I can't answer from personal experience, but the comedy group Foil Arms and Hog have a video about adults having stressful dreams about the Leaving Certification exams in Ireland.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHum...

When You Have Exam Nightmares

YouTube video by Foil Arms and Hog

www.youtube.com

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thank you for the suggestion. I have added the seminar schedule to researchseminars.org, and the schedule will be public once I get through the endorsement process.

researchseminars.org - Browse talks

Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences!

researchseminars.org

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · Aug 30

Please list your online science, math, etc. seminars on researchseminars.org
(apologies if you have already done it)

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 30

Our first talk will be this coming Tuesday (11am Eastern / 10 Central). Tin Phan from Los Alamos National Labs will be speaking on mathematical modeling on the immune dynamics of latently infected viral cells.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...

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Julian Catchen @jcatchen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 21

Everything I know about identifying birds is based on the mascots of MLB teams. I think I can spot blue jays and Cardinals, but I have been told that the bird I thought was an oriole is actually a robin.

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Harman Jaggi @harmanjaggi.bsky.social · Aug 19

Happy to share our research on traditional farming landscapes in northwest Himalaya is out in Science Advances! Thanks to my advisor Tulja & all the wonderful collaborators- Ale @ornithoale.bsky.social, Katie @kasolari.bsky.social, Akshata, Kullu, Rinchen, Lamaji. 1/7 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congrats, Professor @dcruz-mathbio.bsky.social!

Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 11

With that in mind, was "Urbana" autocorrected to "Ardennes"?

Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Aug 6

I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

Please see the link below for more information.

sites.google.com/view/midwest...

Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar

The Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be a series of virtual talks on mathematical biology featuring speakers from the Midwest region and beyond. All areas of mathematical biology will be repr...

sites.google.com

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Jul 31

I also recommend following Andrei's Youtube channel, which will feature videos related to machine learning, applied mathematics, and data science.

www.youtube.com/@AndreiTeach...

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here is the solution video that Andrei posted for the monthly challenge. A fun video showing some interesting properties of the sums of random variables!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6vC...

Monthly Challenge 1: Highest Median | AndreiTeaching

YouTube video by Andrei Ciupan - Teacher

www.youtube.com

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Jul 23

Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:

figure 1 from https://doi.org/10.1086/737588 describing (a) our conceptualisation of an evolutionary transition in individuality, (b) an interpretation of the traits that we consider in our mathematical model, and (c) a graphical representation of the population dynamics in the model.

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Jul 22

I think this poster could be substantially improved by swapping the New York Rangers logo for a logo from either the Texas Rangers or Rangers FC.

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Jul 18

Wrapping up the session, Carolin Grumbach from Osnabrück University is giving a talk titled
"Allee Pits in Metapopulations: When Increasing Dispersal Can Backfire."

#SMB2025

Photo of Carolin Grumbach gicing an introduction to the talk.

Photo of a slide showing a cartoon of a deer population to serve as an exampls of a generic population.

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · Jul 18

Now Yun Kang from Arizona State University is giving a talk on "Migration Dynamics and Collective Decision-Making in Social Insect Colonies".

#SMB2025

Slide presenting the key variables and a flow chart for the model from Yun Kang's talk.

Photo of Yun Kang presenting the introduction of her talk at the SMB session.

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