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(Longish thread. Apologies) I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/

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Thrilled to announce I'm moving to Manchester to lead the Cancer Origins group! If you're interested in how mutations and exposures drive tumourigenesis — come join the adventure

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New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June. research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Those are some meaty selection coefficients! What a fantastic project.

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Amazing initiative for a Crash Course of Evolutionary Biology!

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Not to mention all the NIH grant applications (such as mine, which also aims to improve cancer treatment) that now cannot be submitted.

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Interested (or know anyone interested!) in pursuing a PhD in applied mathematics? Come and join us at Melbourne! A/Prof Doug Brumley and I are advertising a maths + biology project looking at adaptation of bacteria. Find out more 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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The Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics is recruiting group leaders (open rank). IGMM studies fundamental mechanisms underlying cellular processes and their links to human pathologies. Montpellier 🇨🇵 is an absolutely wonderful place to live. Deadline 31st October. jobrxiv.org/job/montpell...

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@zackieachmat.bsky.social is a long-time activist in South Africa and is sounding the alarm. The cuts by #Trump, #Musk, #Vought and #Rubio are going to cost lives. #TheseCutsKill

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"Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."

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A winged queen ant in the UK in May! Exceptionally early by recent historical standards nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

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Playground footfall heatmap

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Now do tempo and mode

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Your regular reminder about why you should publish in @jevbio.bsky.social:

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Just a few days left to apply for the Fall 2025 cohort of the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center Scholars program. Great training in comparative oncology, cancer evolution, and science communication! Open to all, not just Arizona State students.

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Sally Otto (UBC) & @jpodwyer.bsky.social (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) interview Simon Levin, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. Premiering April 14th, 10 AM on SMTPB YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TpJ...

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This postdoc position will be a fantastic mix of computational and mathematical approach towards developing a fitness landscape of the Fabry disease. Hosted by @iimog.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy we will be collaborating intensively on this topic.

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The brand he's talking about here is Tesla. I thought it'd be the USA.

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not sure how to get this across to non-academics but here goes, Imagine if you were suddenly told 'we decided not to pay your salary', that's kind of what the grant cuts felt like. Now imagine if you were suddenly told 'we are going to set your dog on fire', that's what this feels like:

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If you're considering applying for this or other UK faculty jobs and are confused or worried about the HEA Fellowship requirement then please don't let it put you off. Feel free to contact me for further advice.

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Save the date #MathOnco25! October 29th-31st in Tampa, Florida. Directly before the 13th IMO Workshop (November 3rd-7th) - stay the weekend and brainstorm the beaches! More information to follow but @evoltherapy.bsky.social will be a key theme @mathonco.bsky.social @moffittnews.bsky.social

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Big if true in nature: "Strikingly, this phenomenon does not require additional mechanisms like intransitive or higher-order interactions; rather, coexistence arises from dense networks of indirect effects." 🧪 #EvoBio #Complexity #Macroecology

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Enjoying a beer in my favourite pub in Montpellier's écusson with swifts screeching overhead. If only she could get the hang of decent coffee, curries and playgrounds then this city could be heaven on earth.

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Only two weeks left to apply!

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New paper alert. "More is different" & the LLMs. LLMs are usually studied in isolation. But what happens when they start interacting? We explored this by looking at their collective behaviour. Work with @ariel-flint.bsky.social and @lajello.bsky.social 1/

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Great to see this intriguing research by my @citystgeorges.bsky.social colleagues Ariel Flint Ashery and @baronca.bsky.social get news coverage. "AI can spontaneously develop human-like social conventions" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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There is a way to host and manage Overleaf on your own server for free. I've not tried it but it sounds fairly easy for people used to Docker etc. shihabkhan1.github.io/overleaf/int...

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Wikipedia says Jack Sprat is a satire about Charles I but I prefer to think it's meant to teach toddlers elementary set theory. (Smarter toddlers replace "if" with "iff".)

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Every new thing Keir Starmer says makes me more glad to have a Green MP @sianberry.bsky.social

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In the foreword to his immigration white paper, PM Starmer calls immigration a "damage", "failure" and "wound". Until today, I would have described my own migration to the UK with words like "success", "contribution" and "involvement" - but what do I know? This rhetoric feels very 2016. #AcademicSky

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