David Basanta Gutierrez

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A #MathOnco conference in beautiful St Pete Beach, FL in the Tampa Bay Area you say? in late October when the weather will be wonderful you say? organized by @sandy and the folks at @math.onco you say?

https://mathematical-oncology.org/mathonco25

The Atlantic - Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/science-empire-america-decline/683711/

"...on a recent visit to MIT. A scientist there, much celebrated in her field, told me that since Donald Trump’s second inauguration she has […]

We had the pleasure of hosting a high school student as part of @mathonco.bsky.social @moffittnews.bsky.social HIP-IMO program led by Dr Renee Brady
www.moffitt.org/education/re...

Ammar Omar did an incredible job this summer, working with our own Dr Tatiana Moto to study the establishment of #metastases in #TNBC (breast cancer). Great job Ammar!

Senate panel rejects Trump cuts to #NIH, other health agencies

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5430915-senate-rejects-trump-nih-cuts/

The world is making impressive progress averting cancer And there are more improvements to come

The world is making impressive progress averting cancer
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/07/17/the-world-is-making-impressive-progress-averting-cancer?giftId=1fe7f1e0-8ed0-499e-b2ed-b3ff85d80899&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Florida surgeon general calls on feds to help the ‘vaccine injured’ In speech in Tampa, Joseph Ladapo calls for more research into the effect of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

It is not that stupid things are not happening in Florida at the moment but it is hard to compete with what's going on at the US national level. Still, they try:

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2025/07/18/florida-surgeon-general-calls-feds-help-vaccine-injured/

Mohit

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Metastasis:responsible for most of cancer deaths

Final #MathOnco keynote at #SMB2025 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social with Mohit K. Jolly taling about Epithelial to Messenchymal Plasticity (EMP). Great talk and of great importance not just for #metastasis (the context in which it is usually studied) but also #treatmentResistance

Riley

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Riley Manning (now at @math.onco) showing her work at University of Minnesota modeling tumor-immune interactions in glioblastoma and how computational models #MathOnco can help us explore how different aspects of these interactions can explain different […]

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Mary

Why Math modeling

atherosclerotic plaques

Plenary this morning @smbmathbiology.bsky.social by Mary Myerscough (U of Sydney) modeling atherosclerotic plaques. Included a great slide showing why #MathModeling. The process of formulating models is key (even if it not always leads to a publication).
#SMB2025

Today's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social business meeting. Giving Jane Heferman a heartwarming farewell and she passes on the reins to inciming prsident Reinhard Laubenbacher #SMB2025

Also...shoutout to the #BiologyInNumbers podcast by @pbiwan

Entertaining and insightful talk @smbmathbiology.bsky.social by Tom Yankeelov including an impassionate defense of mechanistic modeling that incorporate biology. Fully agree with his take
#SMB2025

Excellent minisymposium at #SMB2025 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social on using imaging to parameterize agent-based models in #mathonco. One of the speakers my colleague Kasia Rejniak describing a powerful approach to use histology in modeling #immunotherapy

Photo of Fred Adler presenting slides showing a gene regulatory network and an SMB baseball card corresponding to each gene.

Photo of Fred Adler presenting a slide with the title "How do you cancel natural selection" in refefence to indrstanding cancer immunology.

Leading off the Tuesday programme, Fred Adler (@dendroicap.bsky.social) from the University of Utah is giving the John Jungck Prize lecture on "Education, Bureaucracy and Corruption", explaining the bureaucracy of cell regulation ans intracellular signaling.

#SMB2025

Fred Adler

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Great plenary for this morning at @smbmathbiology.bsky.social by former SMB president and legendary #mathbio person Fred Adler. Burocracy as the way our body tries to stop cancer
#SMB2025

Sandy

Sandy and a slide

Yesterday's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #mathonco minisymp with
@math.onco 's chair and friend @sandy presenting models that capture patient data and help us to understand how to improve treatment schedules in a clinically translatable way #SMB2025

Photo of Mark Lewis on stage and a slide with a coupled PDE model for interaction between two species with directed motion.

Photo of Mark Lweis presenting on a slide about wolves using scent marks to signal within and between packs.

Kicking off the scientific programme, Mark Lewis from the Univeristy of Victoria is giving a plenary talk forvthe Akira Okubu prize, titled "One equation helps solve three paradoxes in the spatial ecology of predators and prey".

#SMB2025

Opening remarks at @smbmathbiology.bsky.social 's #SMB2025 and on the slides: @parmvir.com and the society's podcast #BiologyInNumbers

Getting ready for the @smbmathbiology.bsky.social annual meeting in Edmonton next week by listening to their #BiologyInNumbers #podcast where @pbiwan interviews University of Alberta's Jay Newby. Some cool stochastic maths and ideas of what to do in the northernmost big city in North America […]

Want programs like GPS and mapping? We need support for basic science | Column We can’t create the future without federal support for science.

Tampa Bay Times - Want programs like #GPS and #mapping? We need support for basic #science

https://www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2025/07/09/want-programs-like-gps-mapping-we-need-support-basic-science-column/

Edward Teller is mainly famous as the "father of the hydrogen bomb". But he wasn't dumb. He was invited to speak in 1959 at a big party for the 100th birthday of the oil industry - a party put on by the American Petroleum Institute. Over 300 government officials, economists, historians […]

Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal – Andrew Steele WhatsApp is not private or secure. Please consider using Signal instead.

I am trying to get all my contacts to move from WhatsApp to Signal for privacy and security reasons. I wrote a quick article to help convince people to make the move, and published it on my website in case it helps anyone else make the case to friends and relatives.

Please share if useful!

NPR - The health of U.S. kids has declined significantly since 2007, a new study finds:

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/08/nx-s1-5459910/kids-health-children-chronic-disease

"And now that's going to get worse with kids being removed from Medicaid,"

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Distrust in public-health institutions is not just an American problem […]

I just called my reps with 5 Calls, you should too: 5calls.org

5calls.org

This work is in collaboration with our friends at the #MarusykLab and as usual we had this on biorxiv for a while: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.11.627972v2

(Now Dr.) Malgorzata T. Weh's first publication from her PhD work is finally published. Congrats Gosia!

Her work adds to the idea that the impact of #mutations in #evolution is very context dependent and the position of the population on the fitness landscape is a key aspect of it.

This is […]

Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building Employees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take over their offices

It's odd that even an authoritarian like Trump would want to destroy US science, but there we have it. It is hard to see any other rationale for this random act of chaos.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Give me your tired, your poor…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/20/spain-immigrants-economy-progressive-policies/