Kristin Swanson, PhD

I literally just found a pile of similar in my unpacking.

Three Oxford Mathematicians have won 2025 London Mathematical Society (@londmathsoc.bsky.social) Prizes. Left to right, Nigel Hitchin wins the De Morgan Medal, Helen Byrne the Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics and Vidit Nanda a Whitehead Prize.

www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72373

We’re so excited for the
Cancer Neuroscience EACR conference!
📍Bilbao, Spain
📅 14-16 Oct 2025

‼️Upcoming abstract and travelgrant deadline *June 30th* ‼️

Looking forward to seeing many of you there! 🧠🔬

#cancerneuroscience @helloeacr.bsky.social #neuroscience #cancer

Submit your abstract here 👇

Excited to be making my first presentation as faculty starting a new computational cancer center @cedarssinai.bsky.social today @ascocancer.bsky.social

See you at Room E350 at 11:30 for our session on State of the Art in Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Neuro-Oncology

#ASCO2025

Gender and sex interactions are intrinsic components of cancer phenotypes - Nature Reviews Cancer In this Perspective, Joshua Rubin emphasizes the importance of gender–sex interaction (GSI) differences in cancer biology and clinical parameters to enhance precision medicine. He outlines the challen...

We are excited to share our perspective article out in @natrevcancer.nature.com emphasizing the importance of investigating gender-sex interactions in cancer biology to better understand cancer biology and improve patient care! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

Sworn testimonies from top NIH officials reveal that a DOGE representative directed them to terminate hundreds of specific projects www.nature.com/articles/d41... #NIH

A pipeline for inferring reproducible tumour microenvironment ecosystems from scRNA-seq atlases

Interested in how to infer tumour microenvironment ecosystems from scRNA-seq atlases?

I'll be at #AACR25 presenting in the ED06 session this Friday 3-4.30pm.

Otherwise would love to meet to chat science for anyone on here attending

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 brains for research.

They donated their brains to science.

Then the Trump administration upended the system funding one of the leading Alzheimer's projects.

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A minimal gene set characterizes TIL specific for diverse tumor antigens across different cancer types www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE.
To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander.

The X chromosome’s influences on the human brain Exploring the genetic influence of the X chromosome and sex differences in the human brain.

The X-chromosome and impact on the brain's structure and functionality between sexes, from >38,000 UK Biobank participants and >1,000 MRI imaging traits, noting extent of X-inactivation (=DC-dosage compensation)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... open-access

Molecular omics resources should require sex annotation: a call for action - Nature Methods The most commonly used omics databases are a compilation of results from primarily male-only and sex-agnostic studies. The pervasive use of these databases critically hinders progress toward fully acc...

An often overlooked point in genomics:

"Molecular omics resources should require sex annotation: a call for action"

by @gliomath.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sex differences in neuron protection could reveal Alzheimer’s target. #Science

"Study highlights the critical role of TLR7 in sex-biased Alzheimer’s-related demyelination"

News
news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

Paper
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted to introduce our new spatial transcriptomics tool, SpottedPy, allowing the identification of tumour hotspots at different scales and the exploration of distances and overlap with tumour microenvironment niches: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

2 new studies on brain aging with sex-specific findings
—Angiogenesis factors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
—Loss of gray matter
press.psprings.co.uk/jnnp/novembe...

Excited to launch a new Gordon Research Conference on synthetic lethality in oncology. Great cutting edge program, superb speakers and lots of networking opportunities. Applications open.
www.grc.org/synthetic-le...

Allyship efforts can face pushback in the workplace. Here’s why it happens and what leaders can do about it Allyship is most needed in male-dominated environments, where gender equity efforts are often met with the greatest resistance.

To overcome resistance to allyship, use storytelling which helps to normalize male allyship behaviors. For example a leader can share a story about a male employee speaking up about a biased promotion process.
theconversation.com/allyship-eff...

VisualPDE VisualPDE brings interactive science and mathematics to the web. Explore topics including waves, viruses and reaction—diffusion patterns, or create your own simulation.

Ever wanted an interactive lightning-fast solver for models in physics, chemistry, or biology? Do you have a web browser?
I'm thrilled to share our website visualpde.com, built explicitly to create interactive spatial models on most devices.

Follow @visualpde.com for cool updates!

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

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...

Blocking Scar Formation Prevents Glioblastoma Recurrence A combination of three therapies prevented scar tissue and stopped glioblastoma in its tracks in mice.

Many thanks to The Scientist for covering our recent paper on fibrotic scarring and brain tumor recurrence 🙏

Here's the #openaccess link for our original paper in Cancer Cell led by Watson*, Zomer* et al:
www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

#scicomm 🧪🔬

www.the-scientist.com/blocking-sca...

#AACRBlog ▶️ Intersting read re: "Peto’s paradox" 🐘...and the recent #CancerDiscovery story from Compton et al. re: cancer prevalence across vertebrates!

aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

Ex-Twitter-BlueSky-Migrants: Use this Chrome extension to easily find people that you used to follow here on BlueSky chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

DeepCellTypes from Van Valen Lab, a new language-informed vision model, leverages the power of AI to accurately identify cell types in spatial proteomics data across diverse datasets and imaging platforms. 🧪https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.02.621624v2.full.pdf+html

Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities.

For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship).

Good luck!

Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Human Resource Development Quarterly: Never quite right: Identity Factors experienced by women leaders in the United States by Amy Diehl, Leanne Dzubinski, Amber Stephenson

My new study (N=913) finds 30 identity factors as basis for discrimination against women leaders. Women leaders are “never quite right” as almost any facet of their identity can be declared problematic for a specific woman in a specific context.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sharing again for new followers - check out this fully-funded postdoc to work with any Fred Hutch comp bio faculty members! Pre-apps due Dec 20 to start next year!

www.fredhutch.org/en/research/...