Andrew Krause

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!

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So another all-male sweep in Nobels in STEM and economics. The choices were all good ones, but it's still a problem.

This one clips hard this week.

If I remember correctly, this meme originated about 10 years ago, with the Gramsci via Žižek quote perhaps a bit earlier. It seems increasingly relevant for academia, if not the entire state of the world. Hopefully soon we will learn how to slay these monsters...

Thanks for all the kind words! If you're interested in the kind of research mentioned in the blog, I wrote a book this year about procedural generation, game design and making things that make things. I talk a lot about culture, community and people, too: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/next-leve...

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

"What are we even trying to do here?" Is what I have been asking many people in academia more widely lately. It is long past time for us, across *all* fields, to rethink the faux-meritocracy of numerical metrics (# of papers, citations, etc). We really should decide and reward what we truly value.

📢Come work with us in sunny☀️Brisbane! We are looking for an applied mathematician to join our Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT. 👉 qut.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm... @smbmathbiology.bsky.social @mjsimpson.bsky.social

Our latest paper on building models of cell fate decisions -with David Rand, Marine Fontaine & @joadelas.bsky.social- combines developmental biology, dynamical systems theory and bioinformatics. I wrote a short piece to summarise it & explain ideas behind the approach briscoelab.org/blog-quantif...

My PhD advisor Serguei Saavedra has assembled an amazing Editorial to launch a new free-to-read, free-to-publish journal in ecology!

The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM is awarded annually to women recently promoted to Associate Professor or ..equivalent.. in the mathematical sciences. It provides a fellowship to spend a semester in the Math Dept of Cornell University without teaching obligations 👇🏼

We've made some new changes to VisualPDE.com that we hope you'll like. Check out the simulation below of a 5-component "rock paper scissors lizard Spock" model, and see the news post about the changes here: visualpde.com/news/2026-09...

Last week I attended the Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology symposium at Durham University, where I had the pleasure of presenting a poster summarising my work. I also wanted to thank the generous organisers, @blindmath.bsky.social , Denis Patterson, Giulia Laura Celora and Valeria Giunta.

It all started with the lecture I gave at Gresham!

We need to stop personifying and then blaming the AI. It's a terribly complicated machine, but still a machine. Making it some sort of super-organism is simply the tech bros flattering themselves.

Today is the final day of the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology. This has been a great meeting with support from @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social, @durham.ac.uk, L'Oréal-UNESCO, and @esmtbio.bsky.social.

If you're wondering what has been going on in this domain, please do read this.

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

As part of the @durham.ac.uk and @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social symposium, Philip Maini (@oxfordmathematics.bsky.social) will give a Pascal Lecture on "Using mathematics in biology, ecology, and medicine". This event is open to the public, and will be held at 6pm BST in Elvet Riverside ER201. 🧪

This week, @durham.ac.uk is hosting the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology, organized by Giulia Celora, Valeria Giunta, @blindmath.bsky.social, and Denis Patterson. sites.google.com/view/durham-...

And as an inverse to that, as I go on and so much of my job becomes primarily about nurturing talent in others rather than doing my own research, I am now just more inclined to try and look for potential in work and ideas rather than flaws; that's what I do now, that's my primary function.

A letter to the math community, to appear in the Notices. In response to what I view as irresponsible messaging and unfortunate decisions from some mathematical leaders influencing many in my department. www.math.toronto.edu/mgualt/math-...

A colleague in Durham maths is hiring a 3.5-year postdoc to work on wind energy modelling. A strong candidate with scientific computing and mathematical modelling is needed, with familiarity in geophysical fluids a plus. durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=26000968&src=JB10200

I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Excited to be launching #MathBioNexus a new webinar series for @smbmathbiology.bsky.social, dedicated to highlighting some of the best papers in the Bulletin of Mathematical Bio. Please share with your colleagues to help broaden participation in the field of #MathBio. cassyni.com/s/mathbionexus

I don't just want to list papers. I want to understand how people have thought about the problem and how this has evolved as our knowledge has increased. This helps situate my work into the larger arc of research. It almost always hints at interesting questions I hadn't thought of. 3/

An important piece about how LLMs are exposing the rot in academic institutions, and we should take this seriously. A bit too confident in AI inevitability, but the focus on pre-existing issues is spot-on, from misaligned teaching to the rot of academic publishing. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

🚨Job Alert: PhD in Theoretical Biophysics 🚨 we are looking for a PhD student to join our group at Uni Münster to work on models of multi-layered active materials @uni-muenster.de More details here: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6... Please share and contact me if interested!

1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

We have an open postdoc position to study phase transitions in embryos and/or biological time, broadly understood. We are looking for experimental physicists/biologists (or similar fields). If you are interested, please email or DM me. Join us! 😀

My new book! Written w my pal Alex Townsend, it's about the math behind enormous systems (medical scans, AI, etc.) and what happens when they outgrow our ability to understand them. Pre-order at @barnesandnoble.com for 25% off -> www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-math-s... @littlebrown.bsky.social

"Unputdownable" is an apt description of quite a lot of @stevenstrogatz.com's writing! I'm glad to see such passion from a student who asked for summer reading recommendations 😀.

It's just obvious that there is no good reason, at all, for the government to legislate what toilets you can go into. This is a thing that civil society was quite capable of working out. We're here because the GCs found civil society didn't share their rabid obsessive hatred so they played the refs.

Incredible post by @mastroianni.bsky.social. “The most important ‘rigor-enhancing practice’ is caring about getting things right, and without that nothing else matters.” (A teaser only barely touching the lessons of the piece). www.experimental-history.com/p/shame-them...

Beyond that it's just the normal slow generational work of living together in a multi cultural society. Being willing to learn from and about each other and get along, presuming good will and letting each others quirks be while gaining the cultural and economic and interpersonal fruits of diversity.

Andrew's talk will highlight the use of @visualpde.com for visualizing numerical solutions to PDEs and related work informing a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations. You can check out the VisualPDE platform to try out your own simulations. visualpde.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o... This Ezra Klein piece on how the adopters are using— being used by?— LLMs is horrifying. It hardens my resistance to ever turning one of these toys on at the same time that it makes me more sure that I'm going to be completely out of step and behind as a result.

Did you think that small gene regulatory networks are only capable of very simple dynamics? Guess again! Even very simple networks are capable of a rich dynamics. Check out our brand new review paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @perez-carrasco.bsky.social

"The institution built to nurture enquiry has increasingly become one that merely measures, audits and verifies it. We produce abundant evidence of learning, but not necessarily more learning itself." Even before LLMs, this was increasingly problematic! www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/bure...

Right now, Professor Longhua Zhao from Case Western is giving a talk on fluid-structure interaction. Please see below for information about joining the seminar.

Join us this September 8-11th for the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology! Organized with @gcelora.bsky.social @valeriagiunta.bsky.social and Denis Patterson. This will be an exciting and interactive discussion-driven event! sites.google.com/view/durham-...

I haven't encountered this too much (that I can tell!) but it's also more than zero, and I have a similar reaction to Rose here. As she says... it's just very bizarre to do a philosophy degree if you don't actually want to think and work through ideas. What... what are you doing here?

The fact that I could have genuine friends I knew only through plain text (no one had profile pics or avatars yet) felt like some kind of utopian dream at the time when I was an awkward kid irl. I think that dynamic is still one of the things that draws me to text-based social media over video/pics.

Next, a glorious combo of maths, metals, and microbial ecology. This one is supervised by Denis Patterson and @blindmath.bsky.social, also at Durham. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Lots of PhD opportunities for UK + international students involving my lab. Topics relate to metals & microbiology. First up: TonB-dependent receptors in commensal Neisseria in my lab at Durham, with @kjosts.bsky.social and @mattbashton.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...