@alexbbrummer

Assistant Professor of Physics at @cofcphysics. Biomedical physics and mathematical oncology.

Joined September 2020
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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 doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1…
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RowlandLab@LabRowland8 May 2025
Replying to @muscmind @MUSChealth @MustafaIsmail_X @alexbbrummer @CofC
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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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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Sophia Chen@sophurky5 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…

A day in the life of the world’s fastest supercomputer

Nature - In the hills of eastern Tennessee, a record-breaking machine called Frontier is providing scientists with unprecedented opportunities to study everything from atoms to galaxies.

nature.com
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@mathoncbro12 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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Definitely a new personal favorite of mine! Taken yesterday at Sabino Canyon during an epic sunset! #tucson #arizona @azhighways #photography
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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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Jeffrey West
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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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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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Van Savage@VanMSavage28 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…

More than two-thirds of cancer mutations are due to random DNA copying errors, study says

"We don't need to add guilt to an already tragic situation," said cancer geneticist Bert Vogelstein. Genes and the environment seem to be responsible for fewer mutations than chance.

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Ricard Solé@ricard_sole28 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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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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Tzer Han Tan@tzerhan297 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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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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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.
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@Nature24 Oct 2023
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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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. 😊 – at Guadalupe, AZ
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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
Closeup of a Bobcat, with its tan fur, brown markings, and fur ear tufts, perching on top of a tall saguaro cactus.

ALT Closeup of a Bobcat, with its tan fur, brown markings, and fur ear tufts, perching on top of a tall saguaro cactus.

A bobcat is just barely visible at the top of a tall saguaro cactus in this wide shot.

ALT A bobcat is just barely visible at the top of a tall saguaro cactus in this wide shot.

A zoomed-in shot of a bobcat sitting on 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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Karla Ortiz@kortizart23 Oct 2023
!!! Read this asap: “This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. “ report by @Melissahei technologyreview.com/2023/10…

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. 

technologyreview.com
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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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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!👇
Richard G. Morris@R_G_Morris20 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… (1/n)
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