🚀 (1/8) Excited to share our ALife 2024 paper on studying the spatio-temporal continuity of Neural Cellular Automata (NCA). We propose NoiseNCA and show that it learns dynamics that correspond to PDEs. This enables many cool features (shown in the thread) noisenca.github.io

📢Two postdoc positions available in the shiny new Morgan group!!! Looking to hire 1 x biochemist and 1 x cytologist/microscopist to study the mechanism of meiotic crossover formation. Interested?? Apply here: okt.to/PwuWXJ okt.to/OkrDRL Email me for more info

An absolutely fascinating talk about how we can model cold sensing mechanisms in plants by Rea L. Antoniou-Kourounioti WOW #cbc24

Had an amazing time at the UofG computational biology conference last week, and was super pleased to receive the best presentation award! Thanks to the organisers for putting on a great event 💻🌿

Ever tried creating an image with exactly N objects? It’s nearly impossible with current text-to-image methods. In our latest work, we address this challenge and introduce a new iterative counting optimization for SD. Try our colab: colab.research.google.com/drive/1ILVrX28… Project page:

Predictions are very important but I also think parameters are important for capturing the ‘theoretical content’ of models. Here’s a brief summary article on models etc, as well as an attempt to link param & predictions. 1 researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/hand… and 2 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Great to be able to share this preprint! Once again, influenza A viruses seemingly get the last laugh. This time, by puppeteering a dying cell to facilitate its intercellular transmission. Thanks to everyone involved! 🦠🔬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 Latest preprint: "Where's Ben Nevis?" 🏔️🏔️!! A fun paper by Yuhang Wei that started as his summer undergraduate project, and Michael Clerx, using Ordnance Survey open Terrain50 data as a benchmark 2D optimisation function (optimum=Ben Nevis!) doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… 🧵1/7

🚀Join us for the first AIBIO-UK Hacky Hour on Thursday, 10th October 2024, at 3-5pm! An informal space to solve problems & share ideas in research & programming. ✉️Email Charlie Harrison ([email protected]) with “AIBIO-hackyhour” to sign up! 💻 #AIBIOUK #HackyHour

Find out more about Plant Science ⁦University of Glasgow⁩ 🌱🔬🧪🧫 plantscienceglasgow.org

nature.com/articles/s4146… Lint, a new tool to measure Crossover Interference, the greatest mystery in the field of #Meiosis4ever. Lint is complementary to the classical coefficient of coincidence (CoC). Bonus, a easy online tool to plot both CoC and Lint from your data 👇

LLMs play pictionary!

Nice discussion on how cell painting can be replaced by simpler and cheaper bright field imaging - see also the ISBI lightmycells challenge lightmycells.grand-challenge.org

PhD studentship available on “Mathematical modelling of environmental information processing in hybrid aspen” with Prof Peter Stewart (UoG) and Prof Rishikesh Bhalerao (SLU). gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvls/…

"Doing arithmetic with floating-point numbers is like moving piles of sand. Each time you do it, you lose a little sand and pick up a little dirt." from "Dirty Pixels", Jim Blinn, 1989

Big & Clean Labeled Data is everything in AI, in this project we tried to go to the extreme and reached the 1 Billion mark, which was done before in natural images in LAION, CLIP, diffusions, SAM, etc.. but this is the first in medical imaging that a BILLION is reached

SIGBOVIK 2025 is out A live thread of papers that make me lightly smile: 1/ UPPERCASE IS ALL YOU NEED

(almost) legit cool research? In *my* sigbovik?? "A Creeper Hole is Worth 16x16x16 Words: Transformers for Block Deterioration at Stale" Using a diffusion model to inpaint the holes left by creeper explosions

This makes me happy royalsociety.org/people/john-ki… Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN Nottingham Maths The Royal Society royalsociety.org/people/john-ki…

Inspired by 2swap's Klotski visualization video, I asked claude to make interactive state-space adjacency graph visualization, using Three.js and InstancedMesh for optimized rendering. It nearly zero-shot it. Absolutely wild time we live in.