Assistant Professor of Physics at @cofcphysics. Biomedical physics and mathematical oncology.
Joined September 2020
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16 May 2023
Excited for a new paper at Frontiers in Immunology. We present a first implementation of the sparse identification of non-linear dynamics (SINDy) on biological data of in vitro CAR T-cell killing of cancer cells to discover the underlying dynamics. 1/13
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8 May 2025
Congratulations to our podium winners! You have shown the power of building bridges and solving hard problems within the neuroscience community!
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25 Sep 2024
Dear friends who write NSF GRFP rec letters, this year rec letters are due BEFORE the applications, so about 10 days earlier than normal on Oct. 11. Please don't let NSF's deadline change on rec letters screw over the applicants in your lives.
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5 Sep 2024
In April, I visited Frontier, the world's fastest supercomputer, in Tennessee. It's 35 times faster than Tianhe-2A, which was #1 in 2014, and 33,000 times faster than Earth Simulator, #1 in 2004. Here's my story on what they're doing with it. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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12 Aug 2024
This paper has my vote for Most Interesting & Provocative new ideas in "philosophy of modeling" in the last several years:
frontiersin.org/journals/imm…
My summary: 🧵🧵🧵
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More exciting summer research to highlight! Alyssa Craft is working this summer with Dr. Jennifer Fox in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry to study mitochondrial proteins important for our health. @CofCChem
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26 Jan 2024
Definitely a new personal favorite of mine! Taken yesterday at Sabino Canyon during an epic sunset! #tucson #arizona @azhighways #photography
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28 Dec 2023
How do we express Darwin's theory of Natural Selection in mathematical terms? One of the best and most elegant papers about this came from @univienna and @sfiscience external professor Peter Schuster tbi.univie.ac.at/~pks/Prepri…
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22 Dec 2023
New #antifragility preprint:
"Antifragility as a complex system's response to perturbations, volatility, and time"
wherein we define scales of @nntaleb's antifragility:
arxiv.org/abs/2312.13991
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28 Nov 2023
Why are not all whales dead from cancer? A simple calculation reveals that all other things equal, an animal 1000 times larger than us should be a thousand times more prone to develop cancer. This is not the case. Why? Maths suggests an answer @cmaley royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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28 Nov 2023
A lot of response to this cool post are saying it’s because whales don’t smoke or are not exposed to toxins. That’s wrong because in fact even for humans, ~2/3 of cancer is due to random errors during cell turnover and not due to environment. See: washingtonpost.com/news/to-y…
28 Nov 2023
Why are not all whales dead from cancer? A simple calculation reveals that all other things equal, an animal 1000 times larger than us should be a thousand times more prone to develop cancer. This is not the case. Why? Maths suggests an answer @cmaley royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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20 Nov 2023
A cholla cactus sunrise with some clouds earlier this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Peer Mentoring Center Spotlight!! Geosciences mentor, Sophia Mucci, recently led a session about the Geoinformatics minor, funding opportunities with S.C. Sea Grant Consortium, and GIS research. Come on by and chat with our mentors during their drop in hours!
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7 Nov 2023
[Pls retweet] Interested in pursuing a PhD in biophysics or active matter? The UCSD Biological Physics PhD program is open for application! biophysics.physics.ucsd.edu/ (1/n)
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26 Oct 2023
I'm searching for a postdoc in computational/theoretical quantum materials. See job ad below. We'll do cool science on the prettiest campus in the US: psi-k.net/jobs/postdoc-posit…
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27 Oct 2023
Understand the sacrifices that are so commonplace in this workforce, and realize that focusing on postdocs is only a fraction of the population. Research staff, adjuncts, visiting assistant professors, and many more comprise the temporarily employed and underpaid in higher ed.
Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold.
Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers go.nature.com/3Qtd4hI
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26 Oct 2023
The tufted ground squirrel is noted for having the largest known tail-to-body size ratio of any mammal, with the volume of its tail fluff being 130% the volume of its body. 😊
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25 Oct 2023
Arizona's wildlife is really wild! 👀 Check out these awesome snaps of a bobcat perched atop a saguaro at Lost Dutchman State Park. 🌵 You might think "ouch" but bobcats are adept climbers with tough paw pads.
📸 P. Giebelhausen (closeup) and Ranger Hailey on a hike last winter
ALT Closeup of a Bobcat, with its tan fur, brown markings, and fur ear tufts, perching on top of a tall saguaro cactus.
ALT A bobcat is just barely visible at the top of a tall saguaro cactus in this wide shot.
ALT A zoomed-in shot of a bobcat sitting on the top of a tall saguaro cactus in this wide shot.
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24 Oct 2023
RT @kortizart: !!!
Read this asap:
“This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
The tool, called Nightsh…
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21 Oct 2023
Mechanisms of Disturbance. A reference chapter that might help orient undergrads and grad students interested in disturbance ecology. Out today. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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19 Oct 2023
There’s been plenty of “Physics of Life” postdoc ads recently— high profile places like Max Planck, MIT, Cambridge…
Sounds good, right? Well… can you surf there? 🏄♂️
👇Only 1 day left to apply!👇
20 Sep 2023
**JOB ALERT — Please RT**
Postdoc openings x2, now available in my group!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4d8efyma
Or read-on to find out what we do, and why you should join…
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