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Rob Noble
@robjohnnoble.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer (≡ associate professor) in applied maths, investigating the evolution and ecology of cancer. Dad of two small kids. On sabbatical @isemevol.bsky.social‬ 🇫🇷 (otherwise @citystgeorges.bsky.social 🇬🇧)
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Fantastic! This could be useful for making figures for a paper we're preparing. If so, would it be OK for us to use your tool and cite it?
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As always, the ISEEC Conference will embrace comparative oncology, transmissible cancers, and all other aspects of cancer evolution and ecology. This edition will also focus on human–tech cooperation for the evolutionary management of cancer, in collaboration with the Cooperative Futures Institute.
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I now see you already have a "Node dots" option. My suggestion would be extend this by allowing the user to set the size of each individual node. But the tool is already very useful as it is. Thank you!
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Very nice! If I were to suggest an enhancement, it would be an option to draw nodes (internal nodes and leaves) as discs with variable sizes. I've been unable to find any software that plots trees with both variable branch lengths and variable node sizes. But node sizes don't fit in Newick format.
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I'd consider doing this to learn more about what the journals are looking for. This could help me improve my submissions.
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I hear it's a good package (though someone should get round to fixing the deprecated dplyr verbs)
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sometimes people instead call them fish plots
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It says something that the UK is functionally more anti-COVID-vax even than Florida
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Good question! If you have basic health insurance here (as nearly all permanent residents do) then it costs nothing
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I guess I shoud wait for the preprint!
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Also there's no standard definition of oncology. It can include only diagnosis and treatment (e.g. according to the NCI) or "the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and study of cancer" (e.g. Merriam Webster). Why exclude diagnosis and prevention?
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
On second thought, I think I see where he's coming from: mathematical oncology is not the same as mathematical cancer research; the former is a subset of the latter. That's consistent with the definition of oncology. But it risks excluding some mathematical cancer researchers from the community.
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sorry to miss this one as the taxi was waiting. That definition seems rather narrow! Is there a related preprint?
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Sarah Brüningk explains that "agent-based model" has very different meanings in mathematical biology and AI. Perhaps we can combine the two model types? #MathOnco25
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM