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Kids and I woke up at 6am today to reserve our spot in line for Sasha Velour tickets. Olga gets her complimentary ticket as an organizer, but we are left to fend for ourselves. #TheThingsIDoForLove — at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts facebook.com/10000069370600…

Our paper on the Stable Marriage Problem in microbial ecosystems just came out in eLife elifesciences.org/articles/49720. The drama with faithful spouses, star-crossed lovers and unrequited live had to be hidden in Supplementary Materials

Leave it to some physicists and engineers to come up with a model that helps deconstruct the human gut #microbiome and its myriad metabolites and interactions journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a… Genomic Biology Sergei Maslov Tong Wong and colleagues #metagenomics

I promised to explain what physicists or quantitative scientists could do to help in the #Covid_19 pandemic. After a week of 18 hour days, some time to explain. Bottom line: in a country where there is limited testing, you can only see COVID-19 with #mathematics. Please RT.

That forgotten feeling when government sometimes asks scientists for advise... Nigel Goldenfeld. @NigelGoldenfeld.bsky.social and I made a strong case, governor of IL listened and issued "shelter in place" order today before things got completely out of control. guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~nigel/REPRINT…

I am happy to see scientists in Florida demanding early mitigation measures against COVID-19. A similar message sent by Nigel Goldenfeld. @NigelGoldenfeld.bsky.social and me made a difference in Illinois. gainesville.com/opinion/202003…

Plot everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about new COVID-19 cases, all confirmed cases (cumulative), and deaths in different countries and US states both absolute numbers and per capita 91-divoc.com/pages/covid-vi…

Infection controlled by a 2-work day/ 5-lockdown in a SEIR model. Longer schedules, such as 4 /10, show more rapid infection decline, as exposed individuals are no longer infectious. github.com/omerka-weizman….

Another fantastic #COVID19 effort from University of Illinois & the The Grainger College of Engineering team across many departments. Sergei Maslov & I made a very small contribution by calculating ventilator need in Champaign-Urbana and Illinois. Proud of our University & its famous collaborative spirit!

Two Illinois physicists have pivoted to epidemiology, to help their state make scientifically-informed policy decisions. I wrote about how the pandemic models of Nigel Goldenfeld. @NigelGoldenfeld.bsky.social and Sergei Maslov led to a proactive stay-at-home order: aps.org/publications/a…

Last week #UIUC did 1.3% of all #COVID19 tests done in US. University of Illinois has a science-driven way to #ReopenUniversities safely Entry screening Saliva test everyone TWICE a week Results in few hours Contact tracing Masking Hybrid classes Work with local health dept

.Akshit Goyal, Sergei Maslov et al. propose an ecology-based computational method to predict hundreds of new experimentally untested cross-feeding interactions in the human gut microbiome nature.com/articles/s4146…

Modeling COVID-19 Dynamics in Illinois under Nonpharmaceutical Interventions go.aps.org/36GsV4r see also the Viewpoint by Physics Magazine at go.aps.org/3kzqNQT #PRX10Years #PRXComplex #Networks2021 Nigel Goldenfeld. @NigelGoldenfeld.bsky.social Sergei Maslov

Many microbes grow diauxically (using resources one at a time). This study demonstrates a model for making testable predictions for the assembly of diauxically shifting microbial communities Akshit Goyal Sergei Maslov nature.com/articles/s4146…

How do microbes choose from a "menu" of food? By having complementary tastes! Read the full story at bit.ly/3oJwvEb 🦠

Kudos to Alexei Tkachenko for leading this paper and doing most of calculations. Also to my former PhD student Tong Wang for simulations of the Agent Based Model we used to validate our mathematical insights

Why do epidemics have waves and plateaus? The latest publication from the Illinois COVID modeling group shows that heterogeneous social activity as a baseline, plus mean-reverting variations from baseline leads to waves and plateaus similar to observed. physics.illinois.edu/news/43769

Thanks to co-authors, esp. leads Alexei Tkachenko (BNL) and Sergei Maslov, and Ahmed Elbanna, Tong Wang (Harvard) and George Wong (Princeton). Also thanks to Elife editor Marc Lipsitch for expert handling and improvement of our paper, and a generous evaluation of our work.

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