In bioinformatics, you don’t always need deep learning. Simple models often work better for text and tabular data. Here's why 🧵👇

france's new high-speed trains were just revealed and... they look *incredible*

Congratualtions to Phebe and Hannah for winning both Quantitative Science poster awards at the 2025 #MoffittScientificSymposium IMO Moffitt Cancer Center

Today David Basanta lab member Gosia Weh defends her Moffitt Ph.D. Graduate Program on, The Only Constant is Change: the Role of Genetic Diversification in Cancer and Beyond. Here David introduces the external examiner Jake Scott. Gosia starts with the moth example of evolution IMO

You may ask: “why study ancient enzymes? Who cares what life looked like 3 billion years ago?” Because evolution may hold answers to problems we still struggle with, and it can guide our efforts. New paper from our lab! 🧵

New 30% mouse lifespan extension paper just dropped! Another example of rapamycin + something increasing mouse lifespan more than rapamycin or something alone. In this case, the something is trametinib, an anti-cancer drug:

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🎓Congrats to Thomas Veith, PhD Thomas Veith on the successful defense of his dissertation entitled, "Karyotype-Driven Tumor Dynamics: Understanding Cancer Evolution Through Copy Number Alterations and Selective Pressures". Tommy was mentored by Noemi Andor during his PhD.👏🏼

A visual–omics foundation model to bridge histopathology with spatial transcriptomics nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are all somatic mutation mosaics. "There are trillions of cells in a human body and so the total number of somatic mutations acquired in a single individual may well exceed quadrillions, millions of times the size of the human genome." nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Lung cancer screenings save lives. Moffitt is taking lung screenings on the road with our new mobile low-dose CT scan, ensuring easy access for eligible individuals in Florida. Join us in Bartow and Sun City Center for our next mobile lung screening events! Schedule your

The math oncology newsletter is BACK from summer break, starting off with an epic art design from Kevin Painter, Chiara Villa and Tommaso Lorenzi -- based on the paper "Phenotype structuring in collective cell migration: a tutorial of mathematical models and methods"

An evolutionary medicine and life history perspective on aging and disease: Trade-offs, hyperfunction, and mismatch academic.oup.com/emph/article/1…

Just a year ago, the U.S. was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But now, @ZoeSchlanger reports, the country is rapidly losing state-of-the-art forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

HERNANDEZ: What did you see in ‘Alligator Alcatraz’? SMITH: We saw a lot of people are getting very rich. And it’s the Republican donors being given $450 MILLION in contracts to build and run this site.

"Using spatial statistics to infer game-theoretic interactions in an agent-based model of cancer cells" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Cable bacteria link together (thousands of cells, end-to-end) to conduct electrons across distances up to 7 centimeters. They are living batteries. They were discovered in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. I visited Aarhus last year to see them in person, and wrote about it today.

More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝 annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Attending “Math for Medicine (against cancer)” workshop at the Wolfgang Pauli Institute in Vienna. First up is friend and former IMO member Heiko Enderling discussing, PRISM: Personalized radiotherapy with integrated scientific modeling.

✅✅ A reminder by Dr. Rahaf Ajaj: She wasn’t on the Stanford list… but she made it to the Nobel stage. 🏅 Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. She never appeared in Stanford’s ranking of the