Please help share and encourage trainees to attend!! SSR is launching a new initiative where trainee first authors share their recently published work and discuss their publishing experiences. I’ll be moderating the first session, presented by my colleague and friend Ryan from NIEHS 🤩
Corey Maley's 'How and Why to think that the brain is literally a computer'. Analog representation is hands down the most empirically tractable model to explain and predict how biological systems solve problems through their structure and dynamics.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
How long (on average) would fertilization take if only one sperm were inseminated at a time? About 1,902 years! No wonder evolution parallelized this process! Used a geometric distribution to estimate with 2 hrs per fertilization attempt and success probability of 12/10^8. #Maths #ReproRocks
Cool paper modeling local self organization by enzymes depending on local substrate concentration. Macromolecules only do one thing... Stick to stuff. The range of behaviors that simple property produces is astounding. #ComplexSystems #Biochemistry journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
#Repro friends, I'm hosting a series of podcasts for
@ssrepro.bsky.social ! In this series we'll explore how scientists from different fields approach the study of sperm, eggs, and embryos! First episode with Dr. Pablo Visconti! Link below or wherever you get your🎙️
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What a biological system does at any given moment is encoded by evolution, but entrained by circumstance. All of our experiments necessarily shape the behaviors we observe. This lack of useful reference point is what makes experimental biology difficult. #ComplexSystems
Just listened to an incredibly interesting conversation on the Jim Rutt show about representation and some potentially relevant concepts for the future of machine intelligence scaling. The biological implications really resonated with me🤔 #ComplexSystems
www.jimruttshow.com/ken-stanley-3/
William Bialek on emergence of macroscopic behaviors as an evolving theme in physics👏🔥 #ComplexSystems
journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
We're looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Machine Learning & Women’s Health in partnership with MIT’s Female Medicine through Machine Learning (FMML fmml.mit.edu ) to build multi-modal ML models related to ovarian aging and its impact on overall health using large, real-world datasets.
Not as pretty, but now completely sourced from Amazon or Walmart, except for the syringe pump... Just a few cents per device. Leak testing with mineral oil, so I'm very pleased this didn't devolve into a mess😋
Making a microfluidic device for isolation of sub-microliter droplets to trap sperm for long-term motility imaging in a single field. This is the science version of posting pictures of food😋 #BestJobEver #ReproRocks
Interesting take from James Holehouse @sfiscience.bsky.social on how deterministic definitions of behavioral modes may be misleading in biological systems with significant noise. #ComplexSystems #Biochemistry
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From Shosei Yoshida's beautiful talk @ssrepro.bsky.social. Differentiation waves in mouse seminiferous tubules (Stra-8 eGFP). Absolutely spectacular👏 #ReproRocks #ComplexSystems #Microscopy
Darrell, Kelsey, and Joe McClung recently moved to wake med, so it definitely has a different feel. But I'm excited to see where it goes next💜
#Statistics
Looks super interesting🔥 Model that characterizes bidirectional causation in scale entwined systems by iteratively combining microstate dynamics with macrostate information entropy🤔 #ComplexSystems
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
15 cumulative years of time lapse videos of different plants growing from seeds. Very cool👏 Highlights the importance of state space exploration in organismal biology. #ComlexSystems
youtube.com/watch?v=NtsJ...
Haven't worked through this yet, but it looks amazing👏🔥 ##MDSim #Biochemistry
mdcourse.github.io/index.html
Made this #DataScience crash course notebook as a homework assignment for my graduate #Biochemistry course. From variables to data frames and plotting in just a few easy steps💻 Uses some tabular data from Pubchem #Python
github.com/CAS-ReproLab...
To fertilize, sperm must locate and recognize an egg. How? The structure of each sperm cell encodes a latent representation of this task. We use fertilization as a simple model process to study the nature of latent encoding. #ComplexSystems #ReproRocks
youtu.be/c1aoQ4aILIw?...
Jupyter notebook with four examples of animated plotting using Matplotlib FuncAnimation. Includes- a sine wave, 1D random walk, Conway's game of life, and a damped harmonic oscillator. Great skill for your seminar presentations😎 #PythonUtils #FunWithModels
