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“(...) what I like most about mathematics: there is room for many different trajectories, as long as you keep following questions that genuinely interest you.” - Mikaela Iacobelli

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#MathematicalPhysics #PDEs #KineticTheory #HerMathsStory @ethz.ch

Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

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La Matematica’s ‘Tensor Methods’ collection is issuing its second call for papers!
Explore work already published in the collection and learn more about submitting your paper here:
link.springer.com/collections/...

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“Becoming part of a mentoring scheme is also some of the advice I would give to my 18-year-old self too — to look out for networking opportunities and mentorship programmes; to find people who have chosen a similar path.” - Christina Runkel

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Dynamical analysis of an age-structured COVID-19 transmission model with voluntary vaccination strategies and evolutionary game COVID-19 infection exhibits significant age-related differences. In this paper, we consider an infectious disease model with age-structure in susceptibility and evolutionary game and analyze the im...

Dynamical analysis of an age-structured COVID-19 transmission model with voluntary vaccination strategies and evolutionary game www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Marvellous microbes, memory and the multiverse: Books in brief Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Books in brief 📚 Marvellous microbes, memory and the multiverse

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Comparing a computational model of visual problem solving with human vision on a difficult vision task Author summary Human vision is not just about passively receiving information from the environment. Rather, it also involves actively making sense of what we see. When faced with unclear or incomplete...

Under challenging conditions, human vision turns into iterative problem solving. Typical deep learning algorithms don't do this.

Our paper out now in Plos Computational Biology journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

work led by @tarunkhajuria.bsky.social

#visionscience #neuroAI

A dark blue celebratory graphic marking the 5-year anniversary of Her Maths Story. The HMS logo appears at the top. Large white text reads “5 years” in the centre, surrounded by yellow star shapes. Additional text highlights milestones: 99 contributors, 200K website visitors, 194 countries reached via the website, and 4.9K followers across social media platforms.

5 years ago today, Her Maths Story went live with our 1st story. What started as a small idea has grown into a global, supportive community celebrating #WomenInMaths. We’re deeply grateful to everyone who has shared, read, supported & believed in this journey. Here’s to the stories still to come 💛✨

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“Representation shapes what seems possible, even when no one says it out loud. I feel so incredibly lucky to have crossed paths with (...) incredible women.” - Surya Mathialagan

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#Cryptography #USA #Math #TheoreticalComputerScience #hermathsstory

The picture shows the Her Maths Story logo on top, below is a photo of participants of the AWM Workshop as they pose for a photo. The background is beige, participants are lined up in three rows and are smiling. All are wearing a name badge with a turquoise lanyard with the SIAM logo. Beneath the photo it says “Association for Women in Mathematics at the SIAM/CAIMS 2025 Annual Meeting - by Jamie Haddock & Anna Little”.

“The AWM Workshop…[created] a space where early-career researchers felt seen and supported...and where the entire AWM–SIAM community could come together.”

@jamiehadd.bsky.social and Anna Little wrote a blog post about AWM at #SIAMAN25: hermathsstory.eu/association-...
@awm-math.org @hmc.edu

The picture shows the Counted Out film logo, with the text ‘Her Maths Story presents A Special Virtual Screening of the Award-Winning Film Counted Out October 17th, 12pm ET / 6pm CEST Free with RSVP. There is a link on the bottom right corner to the film website, www.CountedOutFilm.com. There is a quote below the announcement, ‘“Our inability, as citizens, to speak the language that is math is truly risky to us a society.” - Julia Angwin’.

🎥 Don’t miss out - our #CountedOutDoc + Her Maths Story screening is tomorrow (Oct 17, 12 PM EST)! Join the Zoom, watch the film, and stay for the live Q&A. It’s a unique chance to reimagine how we see math. 🎟️ Register now 👉 watch.showandtell.film/watch/her-ma... #ReImagineMath

The picture shows the Counted Out film logo, with the text ‘Her Maths Story presents A Special Virtual Screening of the Award-Winning Film Counted Out October 17th, 12pm ET / 6pm CEST Free with RSVP. There is a link on the bottom right corner to the film website, www.CountedOutFilm.com. There is a quote below the announcement, ‘“Our inability, as citizens, to speak the language that is math is truly risky to us a society.” - Julia Angwin’.

Join us for a special screening of #CountedOutDoc, a powerful documentary that explores how math shapes our everyday lives. Don’t miss this chance to be part of an important conversation.

Reserve your spot today, register at: watch.showandtell.film/watch/her-ma...

#CountedOut #ReImagineMath

We are excited to announce a special issue call on Open Source Software and Code in Mathematical Biology, open until 1st March 2026.
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Taylor and Francis are currently supporting a 100% waiver for all submissions.

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🌟 We're looking for a new team member. Could it be you?

Her Maths Story is growing — and we’re looking for a passionate, creative volunteer to help us amplify women’s voices in mathematics across our social media platforms. 1/5
#HerMathsStory #CallForVolunteers #WomenInMaths #SocialMediaOpportunity

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“Although maths may appear too abstract (…), everybody has been exposed to (…) digital security or artificial intelligence, which (…) rely (…) in mathematics. I (…) believe that maths is invaluable to our society (…).” - Mihyun Kang

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@randomstructures.bsky.social‬

Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall? It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...

Your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligibility criteria. Please send a letter to your members of Congress today and help spread the word. actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

📣 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...

Our team member and co-founder @joanagrah.bsky.social was invited to take part in a discussion round with Women in Vision Siegen. What a great initiative! 🫶 Looking forward to following your activities!

#WomeninMaths #WomeninComputerScience #WomeninVision

Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

Trump’s NOAA Budget Cuts Could Gut Critical Climate Modeling Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

(Published April)

Dismissed members of CDC vaccine committee call Kennedy's actions 'destabilizing' The 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel say Health Secretary Robert F.

All 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel published an essay Monday decrying “destabilizing decisions” made by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that could lead to more preventable disease spread.

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Happy Women in Maths Day! 🥳 🎊 🙌 Today we celebrate all the incredible women like Maryam Mirzakhani that paved the way for new generations and everyone who supports women in maths today! #womeninmaths #womeninstem #celebratewomen #mathsisbeautiful #womeninscience #hermathsstory 1/7

Summary of the distribution of journals. A tree map of the 341 focal manuscripts by journal, grouped by publisher family. BioMed Central is part of the Springer Nature publishing group but is shown as the BMC family of journals here.

#AI & national health databases offer opportunities, but can be exploited by unethical agents like #PaperMills. This study reveals an explosion of formulaic research articles, with inappropriate study designs & false discoveries, using data from US #NHANES resource @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3RWgNog

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The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

McClellan Introduces RESEARCHER Act to Address Financial Insecurity for Graduate and Postdoctoral Researchers Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) reintroduced the Relieving Economic Strain to Enhance American Resilience and Competitiveness in Higher Education and Research…

AWIS endorses the RESEARCHER Act (Relieving Economic Strain to Enhance American Resilience and Competitiveness in Higher Education and Research Act), a critical step towards addressing the financial instability faced by graduate and postdoctoral researchers. buff.ly/GSgJDZr @mcclellan.house.gov

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“Of course, at the end of the day it’s all about hard work, determination and family support —but sometimes, it’s also about that one email that changes everything in your life.” - Kateryna Marynets

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#FractionalDifferentialEquations #WomenInMaths #HerMathsStory

So thrilled to share JoAnne Growney's #math journey on @hermathsstory.bsky.social, highlighting the contribution of a supporting math #teacher showing how nurture goes a long way! Make sure you also check out her #math themed #poems, one of her favorite on #EmmyNoether is linked in the story below-

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is the nation’s largest University Affiliated Research Center, and it’s right here in #MD03!

It's all connected – climate change and the spread of diseases We know climate change can impact our lives through weather events and food security, but it can also impact on the spread of diseases. We talk to Helena Stage from the University of Bristol to find o...

We're at the annual meeting of the JUNIPER partnership
of disease modellers! Currently talking about the impact of #climate change on the spread of diseases. Find out more in our #Maths on the Move #podcast plus.maths.org/content/its-...

Happy weekend! ☀️

We‘ve created a starter pack for #HerMathsStory contributors so it‘s easier for you to interact and network on here. Please let us know if we‘s missed anyone. 🔍

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