David Basanta

Initially failed to find parking, fought with the printer, but otherwise rather smoothly did the thing with @cancerevo.org this morning. No lines, no stress, and right on the USF campus. All excellent reasons to #VoteEarly. #midterms

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I am biased, @cosmicarturo.bsky.social and I go a long way back. But this is a great listen with a very thoughtful #methodology scientist

Biology in Numbers – Episode 4.2 Arturo Araujo ...where we talk: complexity, the beauty in science and Practical Magic. Listen on Spotify: buff.ly/o5tVVXD Listen on Apple: buff.ly/TntQzOU

Deadline for abstract submission for #SACB2027 is this Friday Oct 16 2026! Don't miss the chance to present your cancer systems biology work sacbmeeting.org

There's stupid, and there's "superintelligence" stupid.

Postdoc opening: My lab at NYU Langone Health is looking for a new postdoctoral fellow with wet-lab experience for an exciting project.

The next @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #MathBioNexus, features Charlotte Taylor Barca from @manchester.ac.uk. She'll describe the modeling process for a regulatory network of transcription factors providing a novel way to inform biological experiments in #melanoma. RSVP: cassyni.com/events/NSKuc...

If true, in the US we would be shooting ourselves in the foot

We should do everything in our power now to avoid the conditions that set unsupervised digital evolution in motion: an international moratorium on RSI, limit unsupervised replication and strategy-sharing, tie persistence to human approval, and treat AI evolvability as an existential risk.

Crystal by name, crystal-clear by nature, at least that is the goal for her science communication work. She's a first-gen Latina scientist that is passionate about viruses, scicomm and her dog and we talk about all these things (minus the pup). Full episode 🎧: 2scientists.org/podcast/crystal-clear

The abstract deadline for #SACB2027 is Friday, Oct 16! Join us Jan 20-23 at CU Anschutz (Aurora, CO). Submissions are open for oral & poster presentations, a special session on Spatial Single-Cell Cancer Systems Biology, and our Postdoc Highlight Session! sacbmeeting.org

UC Irvine's new Department of Systems Biology is seeking an Assistant Professor in that field, whose background could be in maths, physics, engineering, computer science, or any biological subdiscipline. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10377

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The White House considered, but ultimately abandoned, a plan to create a panel that would review NIH grants in an effort to weed out projects the administration regards as “woke.” https://cancerletter.com/news-analysis/20260925_3/

De vez en cuando nos gusta grabar un episodio en español. Y durante nuestra visita a Granada, tuvimos el placer de hablar con Sebastiano, amigo de David, que ahora trabaja como posdoc en la Uni de Granada y que es responsable de comunicación y divulgación de la misión espacial PLATO.

Today's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #MathBioNexus seminar was a fun one, so comes highly recommended. Fortunately, for anyone who missed it, you have a week to join the discussion and get Fred to answer any questions you may have. cassyni.com/events/S1zv5... #MathBio #SciSky 🧪

Thank you to @cancerevo.org for being my co-host today 😄

Check out @cassyni.bsky.social talk: Cells, bureaucracy and corruption presented by Frederick R Adler 📅 Wednesday 23rd Sep 2026 ⏰ 13.00 PM (EDT) It's not to late to RSVP. Looking forward to seeing you then! @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #MathBio #MathOnco

Join us for the next MathBioNexus webinar! Dr. Fred Adler will present “Cells, Bureaucracy and Corruption,” featuring research from the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 📅 September 23 ⏰ 1:00 PM EDT 🔗 Register: buff.ly/yWXSHNa

Better late than never they say... And this will be very VERY late, but looking forward to sharing our chat with Crystal Mendoza. At least we can argue we were timing it for #HispanicHeritageMonth 😬 #SciencePodcast #2Scientists

Pete Hegseth is trying to take funds that save lives and instead use them to end lives. Sign our petition against this heinous plan: tr.ee/uQmeZi www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"the problem with vaccines is that they work too well. The incredible, astounding, profound wonders of vaccines led many people to think of measles as a rash, the flu as a bad cold, mumps as a thing that makes you look like Brando playing Don Corleone. " #VaccinesWork

Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust pluralistic.net/2026/09/09/w...

Delighted to see our latest work out! It’s well understood that our environment can induce mutations in cells. What’s remarkable here is that we observe a shift in the selective landscape as a result of treatment that can be decoupled from the creation of new mutations.

Biology in Numbers – Episode 4.1 SMB 2026 ...where everyone got together to talk MathBio in Graz, Austria. Listen on Spotify: buff.ly/byXRXui Listen on Apple: buff.ly/rXSyZiL

Nerd fight!! www.wired.com/story/openai...

This is a VERY big one. (And yes, the fights over academic credit and what happened in the race for the proof needs to be resolved, but it is still appears that this is a big one, if true.) openai.com/index/navier...

Our next #MathBioNexus event is up on the Cassyni platform. Use the link to RSVP and hear from Dr. Fred Adler about "Cells, bureaucracy and corruption". cassyni.com/events/S1zv5.... Of particular interest to anyone in: #SystemsBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #CancerBiology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social

Nice to see this properly published: a framework for designing therapies targeting tumor-level dynamics rather than cell number. Led by Fred Thomas with contributions from @amdujon.bsky.social, @jdegregori.bsky.social, me, and many others apparently not on Bluesky. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists turn mosquitoes into "flying vaccines" www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

Excited to work with Clinical Science towards increasing our Cancer Research portfolio. Clinical Science is the Biochemical Society journal emphasizing mechanistic research in Biochemistry, Physiology and Medicine. Consider Clinical Science for your next Cancer Research paper

Applications are open for the 14th Integrated Mathematical Oncology workshop at the Moffitt Cancer Center, Florida, in early November. They offer deluxe travel awards covering flights and accommodation. I found it exhausting, rewarding, and a lot of fun. Apply now! www.eventbrite.com/e/imo-worksh...

In the process of looking up this work to get some primers for this conversation, I found this super cute video on Alan Turing's work on morphogenesis. Something to enjoy even if folks know about this subject in depth 😀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya6R...

In 3h! John Tyson revisits one of the foundational papers in #mathbio

Our most recent release stars Dr. Julie Dragon, a bioinformatician @uvmvermont.bsky.social. She talked to us about her unusual career path, the joy of working as the head of a core facility, and transmissible melanomas in catfish 🐟 Link here: 2scientists.org/podcast/catf... #2Scientists #WomenInSTEM

The first @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #MathBioNexus event is live folks! Join us to hear from John Tyson on "How the leopard got its spots: Revisiting Turing’s Chemical Basis of #Morphogenesis" 🐆 cassyni.com/events/WaXAp.... Of interest to anyone in: systems bio, developmental bio, population bio.

Biology in Numbers – Episode 3.10 With Veronica Ciocanel ...where we talk about a paper studying: parameters for glow in the dark cells. Listen on Spotify: buff.ly/IrAxaFC Listen on Apple: buff.ly/Bykcqat

What new evidence is this based on? Which experts were consulted? If the data is compelling - why resort to an exec order? The White House & HHS continue to let misinformation and ideology drive vaccine policies and action taking - putting families & children at risk. 🎁 wapo.st/45REqVL

The Trump government shut down one of its most popular climate websites. So the scientists who ran it built their own. Climate.us has launched as an independent replacement for much of what disappeared when NOAA’s Climate dot gov was effectively dismantled.

And use the link to sign up to cassyni while you aré at it

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

Speaking of the end of S3, I try and get selfies with the current season's guests at the annual @smbmathbiology.bsky.social meeting. Alas this year there were only three, but it was lovely to meet Gary An, Daniel Cruz and @lukasgroschner.bsky.social in person 🤳 #BiologyInNumbers #GottaCatchThemAll

Loved speaking with Veronica Ciocanel about her award-winning paper " Parameter Identifiability in PDE Models of Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching." for @smbmathbiology.bsky.social's pod. Or as I read it "Parameters for glow in the dark cells" 🦠 Find links here: smb.org/news/13658897

Normal Fucking Sunglasses are the Paso Robles model from Knockaround, $35 with polarized lenses and UV400 — the DuckDuckGo logo is the only thing marking them. No AI, no cameras. The first batch is gone; pre-orders are open for the next one.

Biology in Numbers – Episode 3.9 With Lukas Groschner …where we talk: an induction to MathBio, neuroscience in flies, and optimizing coffee breaks. Listen on Spotify: buff.ly/awnr6aL Listen on Apple: buff.ly/pdMBMZi

DHS has been relentless in its pursuit of people who are critical of the administration’s immigration policies, and the government continues to attempt to unmask its critics. New from @regret.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...

So, bluesky, where is the discussion of the absolute insane things AI is doing in the realm of mathematics? It seems like we're nearly at the inflection point where the models are as good as human domain experts, and soon may well be better. Is that discourse only happening on twitter?

Biology in Numbers – Episode 3.8 With Denise Kirschner …where we talk: time at Los Alamos, modeling TB, and tips for international flights. Listen on Spotify: buff.ly/bTfdBWq Listen on Apple: buff.ly/rD8f6lD

Science funding has still not reached gender equality: "Projects led by male PIs received roughly twice the mean funding compared to female PIs." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...