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Kristin Swanson, PhD
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Math Oncologist = Solving 🧠 Brain Cancer with Patient-Specific Predictive Models

Founding Director, MOSAIC Center @Cedars-Sinai

#MathOnc #AI #glioma

#EveryPatientDeservesTheirOwnEquation

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lukasgroschner.bsky.social
Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria!

Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org

#ECMTB’26
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology 2026
ECMTB is coming to Graz, Austria in July 2026. Registration and Call for Contributions are open!
ecmtb2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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grrlscientist.bsky.social
Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#Biodiversity #Spider🕷️ #NewToScience #NewSpecies #Thailand🇹🇭 #Gynandromorph #Wildlife #Halloween🏮 #SpookySeason😵‍💫 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science
Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon in this previously unknown species.
www.forbes.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
gliomath.bsky.social
Our newly launched Mathematical Oncology Systems Analysis of Imaging of Cancer (MOSAIC) Center
@cedarssinai.bsky.social
is looking for an agile Program Manager to help support our interdisciplinary research efforts!

#EveryPatientDeservesTheirOwnEquation

careers.cshs.org/job/los-ange...
Program Manager - Neurosurgery at CEDARS-SINAI
Learn more about applying for Program Manager - Neurosurgery at CEDARS-SINAI
careers.cshs.org
September 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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sandyanderson.bsky.social
Fab closing presentation by friend and #mathonco agitator @gliomath.bsky.social from @cedarssinaicancer.bsky.social presenting cool new work, Every Patient Deserves Their Own Equation: Towards Digital Twins for Neuro-Oncology.
September 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
gliomath.bsky.social
Thankful to receive NOA for next year of our NCI U54 - MOSAIC Center @CedarsSinai We have several openings at the interface of mathematical oncology, AI, data science & oncology, neurosurgery, pathology, and clinical imaging! DM me! #mathonc
#EveryPatientDeservesTheirOwnEquation
September 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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quantamagazine.bsky.social
For nearly a century, mathematicians wondered whether a conjecture about knots was true. In a paper posted in June, researchers found infinitely many counterexamples, revealing a new layer of complexity in this area of math. Leila Sloman reports: www.quantamagazine.org/a-simple-way...
A Simple Way To Measure Knots Has Come Unraveled | Quanta Magazine
Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.
www.quantamagazine.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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trevorgraham.bsky.social
Here's @calumgabbutt.bsky.social's nice thread on our #EVOFLUx paper in @nature.com that uses fluctuating methylation to track cancer evolution
calumgabbutt.bsky.social Calum Gabbutt @calumgabbutt.bsky.social · Sep 10
Cancer is an evolutionary disease, but does knowing a cancer’s evolutionary past help predict its future? Out today in @nature, we learnt the evolution of 2000 lymphoid cancers and found it was highly correlated with clinical outcomes! (1/7)
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Fluctuating DNA methylation tracks cancer evolution at clinical scale
Nature - Cancer evolutionary dynamics are quantitatively inferred using a method, EVOFLUx, applied to fluctuating DNA methylation.
rdcu.be
September 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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eanoassociation.bsky.social
🧠 The phase 1/2 N2M2 umbrella trial lead by former EANO president @wickwolfgang.bsky.social has just been published in Nature Medicine
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NeuroOncology #EANOessentials #BrainTumors #CancerResearch
Molecularly matched targeted therapies plus radiotherapy in glioblastoma: the phase 1/2a N2M2 umbrella trial - Nature Medicine
In a phase 1/2a umbrella trial in patients with glioblastoma matching targeted therapies according to tumor molecular profiling, temsirolimus plus radiotherapy improved PFS compared to standard of car...
www.nature.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
gliomath.bsky.social
Come join us for this exciting meeting to share the latest and greatest in #mathonc ! #EveryPatientDeservesTheirOwnEquation
sandyanderson.bsky.social Sandy Anderson @sandyanderson.bsky.social · Sep 1
#MathOnco25 Abstract submission is being extended until this Friday the 5th of September! So please go ahead and submit asap to have a chance of getting one of our travel awards! mathematical-oncology.org/mathonco25
September 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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gcelora.bsky.social
📣 Delighted to announce the first edition of the 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 Day, to take place in Oxford on 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵, with lots of exciting work at the interface of mathematics and biology.

🔗 For more information: sites.google.com/view/oxwmath...
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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oxfordmathematics.bsky.social
Three Oxford Mathematicians have won 2025 London Mathematical Society (@londmathsoc.bsky.social) Prizes. Left to right, Nigel Hitchin wins the De Morgan Medal, Helen Byrne the Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics and Vidit Nanda a Whitehead Prize.

www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72373
July 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhD
winklerlab.bsky.social
We’re so excited for the
Cancer Neuroscience EACR conference!
📍Bilbao, Spain
📅 14-16 Oct 2025

‼️Upcoming abstract and travelgrant deadline *June 30th* ‼️

Looking forward to seeing many of you there! 🧠🔬

#cancerneuroscience @helloeacr.bsky.social #neuroscience #cancer

Submit your abstract here 👇
Abstracts and posters | Cancer Neuroscience | The European Association for Cancer Research
eacr.org
June 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
gliomath.bsky.social
Excited to be making my first presentation as faculty starting a new computational cancer center @cedarssinai.bsky.social today @ascocancer.bsky.social

See you at Room E350 at 11:30 for our session on State of the Art in Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Neuro-Oncology

#ASCO2025
June 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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labrubin.bsky.social
We are excited to share our perspective article out in @natrevcancer.nature.com emphasizing the importance of investigating gender-sex interactions in cancer biology to better understand cancer biology and improve patient care! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gender and sex interactions are intrinsic components of cancer phenotypes - Nature Reviews Cancer
In this Perspective, Joshua Rubin emphasizes the importance of gender–sex interaction (GSI) differences in cancer biology and clinical parameters to enhance precision medicine. He outlines the challen...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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moorejh.bsky.social
Sworn testimonies from top NIH officials reveal that a DOGE representative directed them to terminate hundreds of specific projects www.nature.com/articles/d41... #NIH
NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
www.nature.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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kieranrcampbell.bsky.social
Interested in how to infer tumour microenvironment ecosystems from scRNA-seq atlases?

I'll be at #AACR25 presenting in the ED06 session this Friday 3-4.30pm.

Otherwise would love to meet to chat science for anyone on here attending

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A pipeline for inferring reproducible tumour microenvironment ecosystems from scRNA-seq atlases
April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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nbcnews.com
They donated their brains to science.

Then the Trump administration upended the system funding one of the leading Alzheimer's projects.
One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 brains for research.
nbcnews.to
April 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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tommytang.bsky.social
A minimal gene set characterizes TIL specific for diverse tumor antigens across different cancer types www.nature.com/articles/s4...
February 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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who.int
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.
February 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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boghuma.bsky.social
Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE.
To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander.
February 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The X-chromosome and impact on the brain's structure and functionality between sexes, from >38,000 UK Biobank participants and >1,000 MRI imaging traits, noting extent of X-inactivation (=DC-dosage compensation)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... open-access
The X chromosome’s influences on the human brain
Exploring the genetic influence of the X chromosome and sex differences in the human brain.
www.science.org
January 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Reposted by Kristin Swanson, PhD
sina.bio
An often overlooked point in genomics:

"Molecular omics resources should require sex annotation: a call for action"

by @gliomath.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Molecular omics resources should require sex annotation: a call for action - Nature Methods
The most commonly used omics databases are a compilation of results from primarily male-only and sex-agnostic studies. The pervasive use of these databases critically hinders progress toward fully acc...
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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scinews.bsky.social
Sex differences in neuron protection could reveal Alzheimer’s target. #Science

"Study highlights the critical role of TLR7 in sex-biased Alzheimer’s-related demyelination"

News
news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

Paper
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 25, 2024 at 8:29 AM