Eder Zavala

📢 NEW early view article!

Chronic circadian disruption in female mice induces a long-term alteration of the preovulatory LH surge. 🐁

Authors: Simonneaux M, Simonneaux V.

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Autumn colours in Birmingham.

Apart from the AI junk part… the notion that one should not offer a potential mechanistic explanation for an observation, without first spending years & (unavailable) $$ trying to test possibilities before sharing the observation with others (who may be better equipped to investigate the mechanism)…

Two weeks left to apply for 2 PhD positions in my group in Manchester. Suitable for maths / computer science / engineering graduates to work on ambitious interdisciplinary projects in digital endocrinology. Contact me for informal enquiries before the deadline on 15th Nov.

📣 Excited to share that my first paper is now published!

📄"Metabolic state shapes cortisol reactivity to acute stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of metabolic and hormonal modulators"

You can find the full paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

Step Accumulation Patterns and Risk for Cardiovascular Events and Mortality Among Suboptimally Active Adults | Annals of Internal Medicine Background: Although physical activity recommendations increasingly consider daily step counts, it remains unclear whether step accumulation patterns—short versus sustained longer bouts—affect associa...

Longer walks linked with less mortality and cardiovascular risk compared with short bouts of physical activity
@annalsofim.bsky.social
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...

Britain has been stripped of the spaces that allow for true social integration. But it’s easier for politicians to blame ‘outsiders’ www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

(Bicentenary) Identifying surrogates of endocrine function using wearable device signals at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - (Bicentenary) Identifying surrogates of endocrine function using wearable device signals at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

and:

2. Identifying surrogates of endocrine function using wearable device signals.

These interdisciplinary positions are ideal for STEM graduates interested in computational and mathematical biomedicine. Follow the links for informal enquires.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(2/2)

(EPSRC CASE) Modelling hormonal dynamics in the human HPA axis at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - (EPSRC CASE) Modelling hormonal dynamics in the human HPA axis at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨 I’ve got some exciting news! I have two PhD positions available in my group to advance Digital Endocrinology at @manchester.ac.uk Please help disseminate widely (application deadline 15th Nov):

1. Modelling hormonal dynamics in the human HPA axis.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(1/2)

It's the same with computer code and other STEM areas. Who would have thought the demise of civilisation wouldn't be at the hands of an evil Terminator-style sentient AI, but the much more mundane laziness and carelessness of its early human operators.

I have also been appointed Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biomedicine at the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Gastroenterology, in affiliation with the Centre for Biological Timing sites.manchester.ac.uk/bio-timing/ Stay tuned for PhD positions opening this week! (2/2)

Happy to announce that from 1st Dec I will join the University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk as a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow @ukri.org, where my group will develop a new theoretical framework for Digital Endocrinology. I'm also looking forward to explore such a beautiful city! 🐝 (1/2)

Just had a very exciting couple of days for the kickstart of UKRI Future Leaders Fellows cohort 9 in Glasgow. Truly impressed by the breadth, originality and quality of fellowship ideas 👌 A lot to live up to.

In the autumn issue of The #Endocrinologist, @ederzavala.bsky.social describes how the key to precision medicine for endocrine conditions may lie in combining the skills of endocrinologists and mathematicians with the power of machine learning and AI. 📐🤖

👉 www.endocrinology.org/endocrinolog...

You can now ready my recent Feature article for The Endocrinologist, the @socendocrinology.bsky.social members magazine. www.endocrinology.org/endocrinolog...

Perhaps I should clarify this was not the venue of the event!

Brief stop at Lancaster castle while attending the EPSRC early career forum on mathematical sciences.

How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices “Every cleaned data set, debugged script, and refined figure deserves acknowledgment,” this researcher writes

How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

🚨 Delighted to announce I have been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to advance Digital Endocrinology! I will use mathematical and computational tools to bring endocrinology into the era of precision healthcare. Will soon be recruiting PDRAs and PhDs, stay tuned! www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

Here’s @belindombard.bsky.social explaining her poster at the 1st mathematical biology conference in Birmingham. Her work focuses on a data-driven mathematical model of the human HPA axis.

Great time meeting colleagues at the @bsneuroendo.bsky.social meeting in Bradford! Had some really good discussions about mathematical modelling in neuroendocrinology.

Stressomic: A wearable microfluidic biosensor for dynamic profiling of multiple stress hormones in sweat A wearable sensor enables dynamic and noninvasive monitoring of multiple stress hormones to personalize stress management.

Stressomic: A wearable microfluidic biosensor for dynamic profiling of multiple stress hormones in sweat | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Eder Zavala @ederzavala.bsky.social will be speaking on:

Mathematical analysis of endocrine rhythms and wearable time series data

at #BSNBradford2025

Have you registered yet? bsnbradford2025.oa-e...

The advert for Head of School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham (@uob-sop.bsky.social, working closely with @thechbh.bsky.social) is currently open, deadline August 6th #neurojobs

Multimodal AI correlates of glucose spikes in people with normal glucose regulation, pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes - Nature Medicine Multimodal data from 347 deeply phenotyped individuals including healthy, prediabetic individuals and individuals with T2D report remotely acquired patterns of glucose control via continuous glucose m...

Our @naturemedicine.bsky.social paper on glucose spikes (CGM sensor) and their relationship with physical activity, gut microbiome, genomics, food intake, and sleep via multimodal A.I. Helps identify people with prediabetes who have high risk of progression (cf HbA1c)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

See the latest #BSNBradford2025 programme!

Symposium 3| Beyond traditional models in neuroendocrine research includes:

🧠Dr Chris Faulkes - Social control of reproduction

🧠Tabinda Islam - Evolution of kisspeptin

🧠Eder Zavala - Endocrine rhythms

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Male mice can grow ovaries if their pregnant mums are iron deficient The study is the first to show that low iron levels can affect fetal sexual development.

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy

https://go.nature.com/43N7f4s

I will be soon advertising a highly competitive PhD position on mathematical endocrinology, to start in the academic year 2026. Stay tuned! (3/3)

As the Birmingham lead, we will model the crosstalk interactions between the HPA axis, the renin-angiotensin system and the menstrual cycle, predicting their rhythmic behaviour as well as their dynamic responses to stimuli from clinical tests to environmental factors associated to disease. (2/3)

🚨 A bit of delayed news: I'm happy to announce we have secured an EU Marie Curie doctoral network grant 🍾 🇪🇺 Together with an European consortium of endocrinologists, engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians, we will train the next generation of innovators in digital endocrinology. (1/3)