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Andrew Krause
@blindmath.bsky.social
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Chronically-Ill Nearsighted Mathematician and Amateur Human.

Co-creator of VisualPDE.com (irony!)

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https://www.andrewkrause.org
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blindmath.bsky.social
You may enjoy @philipcball.bsky.social's excellent Éloge on Evelyn Fox Keller, which calls for a rethink of metaphors for how we conceptualize biology. A good counterpoint to this oldschool view of theory in biology.
A photo of text which reads: It is rather ironic, then, that Bird (2013) claims that 'in biology, ideas are relatively cheap'. I would suggest that rather, in biology (especially molecular biology and neuroscience) ideas are rather rare. It is data that are, if not cheap, then abundant to the point of excess, and it is possible to make a career collecting data that one is never obliged to interpret. It is rather in physics that ideas tend to come cheaply and almost casually, especially when data are scarce - witness the flood of theoretical papers always submitted to the physics preprint servers to 'explain' some new, tentative anomaly in high-energy physics that turns out to evaporate on closer inspection.
December 8, 2024 at 12:31 PM
blindmath.bsky.social
A quote from Turing's 1952 "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis":
A quote which reads: 1. A model of the embryo: Morphogens In this section a mathematical model of the growing embryo will be described. This model will be a simplification and an idealization, and consequently a falsification. It is to be hoped that the features retained for discussion are those of greatest importance in the present state of knowledge.
November 25, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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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!

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An aerial photo of the centre of Durham city on a snowy winter day. A river encircles the centre containing Durham's Castle and Cathedral. Photo courtesy of RJX Media.
November 17, 2024 at 7:01 PM
blindmath.bsky.social
New additions to my office thanks to my partner and her mom! Getting into the Halloween spirit with monsters and spooky asymptotics 😉.
A photo of several crocheted creatures surrounding the textbook "Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory." The crocheted creatures include a red and gray squirrel, a mimic chest, a beholder, and a munchkin kitten in a munchkin pumpkin.
October 23, 2023 at 9:39 PM