My lab is moving to #JuliaLang, and I’ll be putting together some R => Julia tips for our lab and others who are interested. Here are a few starter facts. Feel free to tag along! Julia draws inspiration from a number of languages, but the influence of R on Julia is clear.

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

Just published by #AACR23 Plenary speaker @FertigLab— Converging on a Cure: The Roads to Predictive #Immunotherapy (with Genevieve Stein-O'Brien, Dung Le, Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee and Dr. Neeha Zaidi) bit.ly/3ohmIIM Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

Congratualtions to Atul Deshpande and @FertigLab on the release and publication of their new #machinelearning software #SpaceMarkers that identifies molecular interactions among distinct types of cells in and around a tumor. hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/…

We're preparing a PhysiCell 1.13.0 release to go out tonight. Most importantly, it includes PhysiMeSS by Cicely Macnamara, Vincent Noël (@vincent-noel.fr on BlueSky), and collaborators as an official addon for ECM modeling. #opensource IMO

“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.” Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (Katalin Kariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges. Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her

Want to do a postdoc at JHU? Come join my lab! Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Johns Hopkins University Do you know someone looking for a great opportunity to work in immunology and macrophages? Please share!! #sciencejobs More info👇!!

The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.

The Convergence Institute at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center just announced that the Convergence Fellowship Program is open! Multiple postdoc opportunities are now open to scientists who seek engagement in a multidisciplinary setting, encompassing basic, computational, and translational research.

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

Proud of Arjun Gupta who took this concept as his original idea & ignited a movement in oncology Using a Real-Time Location System, his team demonstrates even the simplest of clinic appts can take up hours of patients' time academic.oup.com/oncolo/advance…

I’m a Dutch science journalist, and I watched @climatethemovie. It’s full of crap. 😂 Here’s my step-by-step walkthrough, translated by popular request! 👍 Enjoy the ride! 🧵

In a pair of bioRxiv preprints just posted w/ sina and Angel Galvez Merchan, we describe algorithms for an open data Commons Cell Atlas and demonstrate how a Human Commons Cell Atlas can be used for discovery. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/🧵

Yesterday evening, a 44 year old man riding a bike was struck and killed by a driver at the intersection of Bank and Caroline Streets. The impact was severe enough to throw the bicyclist onto two other vehicles. If you know the victim or their family, please contact us.

Very excited to share our recent work with amazing collaborators @EloiseGrasset and Andy Ewald showing key spatial relationships between metastasis-initiating cancer cells and macrophage subtypes! hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/… nature.com/articles/s4138…

Our commentary "A renewed call for open artificial intelligence in biomedicine" is now available as a preprint. We call for sharing training data, code, and model weights in biomedical artificial intelligence research. 1/

(1/n) Are you ready to plunge into depths of our oceans with us! This is the story of “hidden comet tails” & our discovery of how a crucial biological process across our planet can put brakes on carbon capture in our oceans. Latest in Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Really excited to share our new Cell Press Cell paper with Elana Fertig and colleagues. 1/n cell.com/cell/fulltext/… National Cancer Institute NIH JKTG Foundation Mathoncoblog SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology IU Bloomington IU Luddy The Breast Cancer Research Foundation