Matthew Asker

I came across this parody of a rumored upcoming press release by OpenAI: "OpenAI Releases the Final Ten Minutes of 500 Previously Unreleased Films, Ushering in a New Era of Movie Watching" : x.com/Endings500/s...

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

How does pressure from below begin? Often quietly, when early-career researchers discover that a calculation they have been making alone is widely shared. New on Academic Renewal: notes from conversations among ECRs. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/how-pressu...

Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application! Start date September 2026. More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs

How do bottlenecks affect mutant takeover in spatial metapopulations? Our pre-print reveals that bottleneck strength, frequency, and cell migration intricately drive fixation and extinction - even leading to interesting non-monotonic behaviour. Check it out: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.08433

Had a great time at the @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social conference in Harrogate this year! Really fantastic to see all the good work ongoing and the community thriving, particularly the ECR part 😄

If you're at the @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social Physics of Life 2025 conference, come talk to me at my poster (#23) later on today! I'm looking at fixation and extinction on time-fluctuating metapopulations 🦠

We're advertising a fully-funded PhD project at Durham in understanding microbial ecology from a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective! More details below. Feel free to email me, Denis Patterson, or @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social. March 31st deadline. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters! A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our (@vishuguttal.bsky.social and I) Synthesis of the effects of demographic stochasticity on eco-evolutionary dynamics is now out in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Feel free to message/email me if you need a copy or want to chat about the paper :) 🧬🌍🧪

PhD studentship alert! Fully funded, co-supervised with @rokkrasovec.bsky.social and Prof Mike Bromley, University of Manchester Exploring routes of horizontal gene transfer in pathogenic fungi Exciting project, will be a bunch of fun! Come & join us 🔬 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Resharing my attempt at a #mathbio starter pack for those (millions?!) of people who've joined in the last week! Please let me know if you'd like to be added (I've not kept up with the incoming hordes well) go.bsky.app/GVkxwBv

Check out this #SMB #SocietyMathBio starter pack. This was the default Starter Pack set up on our feed, but we can add to this as well to help build the mathematical biology community on BlueSky. go.bsky.app/2sXtZV4

Join us in Durham for a fully-funded multidisciplinary PhD studying Metals, Microbes, Maths, and Metabolism! Please pass this along to interested candidates who are welcome to contact us directly. Both theoretical and/or experimental backgrounds welcome! iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Just another part of the mass exodus here starting anew and looking for my people! I'm Matthew, a PhD student at Leeds working on eco-evolutionary models of biology, particularly regarding AMR and cancer. I play & watch football, run, and paint Warhammer. Also, Darwin and I are best buds.