Mat Simpson

Today’s scrappy little gang gang

Watercolour painting in a woodland, with an interesting wooden footbridge over a stream. This is the second version: I gave the first version to the person who owned these grounds but she has since moved. I hope it's a nice reminder for her.
#art #watercolour #woodland

Wednesday; Summer. Now age verified 😅

Excited to attend the annual workshop hosted by @arccoesb.bsky.social on the Gold Coast this week.

Congratulations to MACSYS Chief Investigator Adelle Coster for being awarded the Bob Robertson Medal by @aus-soc-biophys.bsky.social! The medal recognises outstanding contributions and service to the field of biophysics in Australia and New Zealand. macsys.org/adelle-coste...

Congratulations to MACSYS Research Fellow Dr Sami Al-Izzi - just awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA): macsys.org/sami-al-izzi...
@r-g-morris.bsky.social

[Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast] Franck Symphony in D Minor #stickyNotesTheClassicalMusicPodcast
podcastaddict.com/sticky-notes... via @PodcastAddict

YouTube video by MACSYS Dr Alex Sneddon - MACSYS Research Fellow, ANU

Meet Dr Alex Sneddon - a MACSYS Research Fellow at The Australian National University. Alex's research focuses on incorporating domain-specific knowledge into the data-driven AI methods that she uses to help MACSYS unlock insights from complex biological datasets.
📹VIDEO: youtu.be/GVsMQ0E3Aok

Sustainability: Last week, Australian Society for Medical Research held its 64th National Scientific Conference - a sold out event in Brisbane. One aspect that I am most proud of are the name tags. They are completely biodegradable - they have seeds in them and will grow when planted!

Really enjoyed hearing @kityates.bsky.social talking about the science of predictions in this episode.

Reports from The British Science Festival in Liverpool England - ABC listen The BA, as it was known, established in 1831, was set up to advance science in the interest of the people, old and young, professional and lay. So, how well is it doing now amid international turmoil.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Programs: Einstein A Go-Go – 12 October 2025, Einstein A Go-Go — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio An episode of Einstein A Go-Go on 12 October 2025

Here is the link to the interview I did with Dame Dr Jane Goodall in 2017 which I played yesterday again on 3RRR. An amazing woman. A privilege to interview her.

www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

Electricity generation from renewables has overtaken coal for the first time in Australia Hand drawn graph Showing terawatt hours of electricty generated per month from coal and renewable sources

Electricity generated from renewable sources has surpassed the amount of electricity generated from coal in Australia for the first time. www.theguardian.com/...

One Big Chart from @nickevershed.bsky.social

#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Columnist Dr Jenna Price & economist Prof Sinclair Davidson join Dr @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Prof @markgkenny.bsky.social to dissect the crisis engulfing Australia's university sector and ask whether it can be fixed before it's too late.

Listen Now 👉 bit.ly/3ItV85C

Meet the minds in MACSYS shaping the future with our series of profiles featuring our Postdoctoral Research Fellows. Dr TrungTin Nguyen is with MACSYS at QUT. His research investigates the mathematical & statistical foundations of #AI: www.linkedin.com/pulse/dr-tru...
@trungtinnguyen.bsky.social

The Australian Society for Biophysics awards MACSYS Chief Investigator Adelle Coster (UNSW) its top honour – the Bob Robertson Award. The award recognises outstanding contributions & service to the field of biophysics in Australia and New Zealand. Congratulations, Adelle!
macsys.org/adelle-coste...

International Day of Mathematics A worldwide celebration of Mathematics on March 14 of every year.

I love the theme of the 2026 International Day of Mathematics: “Mathematics and Hope” 👉🏼 www.idm314.org #mathsky

Sad news! David will be missed 💔

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...

A world map with countries showing where listeners are includes more than 37 countries including: United States, United Kingdom, India, Türkiye, Germany, Australia, Canada, Philippines, Italy, New Zealand, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, Denmark, Hungary, France, Romania, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Austria, Israel, Norway, Argentina, Chile, Poland, Morocco, South Korea, Indonesia, Peru, Finland, Algeria, Hong Kong SAR China, Egypt. The countries in the darkest shades of blue indicating the highest number of listeners are in: US, UK then India.

Graphs showing listener engagement on apple and spotify. Followers: 93 and 219 respectively, time listened (hours) 882 and 162 respectively and number of plays: 1200 and 1225 respectively.

Two graphs showing information about the listeners. The first is a donut chart showing that female listeners make up 50% of the audience, male listeners 45%, 4.5% unknown and 0.7% non-binary. A bar graph of listener age groups shows: 0-17 year olds: 1%, 18-22 year olds: 9%, 23-37 year olds: 23%, 28-34 year olds: 45%, 35-44 year olds: 17%, 45-59 year olds: 6%, 60+: 1%.

Part of its remit is to support the community, so it's cool to see downloads worldwide, reflecting @smbmathbiology.bsky.social's international members. It's also great to see the # of followers on different platforms indicating regular listeners. Go to smb.org/podcast to subscribe if you haven't!

A presentation slide entitled "About the show". The text reads: Biology in Numbers is in part the brainchild of then SMB president Sandy Anderson, realized by Heiko Enderling (also as SMB president), and hosted by Parmvir Bahia. Created for math biologists to connect with each other, the wider scientific community and non-expert audiences. Under the text is a picture of Parmvir and Heiko sitting at microphones in an office. To the right is a graphic of some headphones.

A slide with a montage of all podcast guests to-date. Under their headshots is a little graphic of a microphone and text reading: Our guests have included members and non-members. Scientists from every career stage, nationality and background. We’ve discussed articles, committees, subgroups, mentorship, industry and roles within the society.

This year we wrapped up S2 of Biology in Numbers for @smbmathbiology.bsky.social. I've loved hearing scientists talk passionately about #MathBio. Digging into the data to learn about the podcast’s reach, it seems so do many others.
So here is the podcast by the numbers, starting with an intro. 1/2

Meet the minds👩‍🔬in MACSYS shaping the future! @hilaryhunt.bsky.social is a Postdoc with MACSYS at QUT. Hilary's research integrates mathematical methods, systems biology, & experimental data to understand the mechanisms underlying cellular regulation and behaviour. 👇
www.linkedin.com/pulse/dr-hil...

📢We're Hiring: Project Lead – RNA & Computational Biology Innovation Initiatives
We're seeking a Project Lead to coordinate & deliver high-impact initiatives across MACSYS, the Shine-Dalgarno Centre for RNA Innovation & the Centre for Computational Biomedical Sciences
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/project...

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A picture of me with Daniel, making me look shorter than I already am.

At lunch I found @danielcooney1.bsky.social, who's been diligently sharing all @smbmathbiology.bsky.social related posts. Unsurprisingly, during his episode, we discussed using social media to talk science, and his use of game theory in his work:
smb.org/news/13495634 🧪

#SMB2025 #BiologyInNumbers

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

Our Centre is well-represented at this year's Society of Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in Edmonton, Canada. As part of #SMB2025, we organised a two-session minisymposia: 2025.smb.org/MS03/MS-MFBM...
Well done, team MACSYS!
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social @mjsimpson.bsky.social

Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Mathematics for Quantum Resilience

I am advertising some HDR #scholarships (for Australian citizens and permanent residents or NZ citizens) and would be very pleased to have candidates from #mathematics or theoretical #physics. Please share www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

There’s nothing quite like coming together in person! Researchers from across the MACSYS nodes gathered at the Monash University for the first of two intensive workshop days. Through individual, small-group & whole-group discussions, we’re diving deep into the complex challenges we aim to tackle.