is there a chance to submit the abstract? (curious)

But when Hakuho won his tournament as a Shin-Ozeki, he was Mongolian

A really nice paper with a very interestingly complicated dataset. Lots of modelling details to dig into in the SI.

Some pictures

Recently, Taiwanese government sent a scary book asking their citizens to prepare for war. A lot of money has been spent on that book and there QR codes in it, which would not be working in case of war. Anyway, let's wish the peace will remain

Precisely, when the original letter is very short, and then this secondary commentary opens with the sentence: "The authors present a concise and timely summary of the global emergence of mpox, emphasizing ...."

I think there should be indeed the AI statement even for the comments in the journals

I have not been really against using AI, but first time I thought of it, when I read someone's comment on another comment published in the journal. Especially, when the opening of the letter looks "familiar":
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Indeed, checking with Grammarly gave a score of 42%

Epidemic Momentum Infectious disease outbreaks have precipitated a profusion of mathematical models. We introduce a unifying concept of "epidemic momentum" -- prevalence weighted by the capacity to infect in the future...

Nice preprint by David Earn and Todd Parsons (H/T @jmccaw.bsky.social) showing how the SIR model can be related to a more general class of renewal process models that don't assume exponentially distributed infectious period.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.01939

it's not even like "Airborne HIV" but like "Airborne AIDS" :/

Here is a map of transportation from the affected farm in Taichung showing a route even to Yunlin

African swine fever confirmed at pig farm in Taichung - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

News from Taiwan www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

Following the first report of African Swine Fever (#ASF) in Taiwan, here is a reminder of our paper on the 2018-2019 ASF outbreak in China. It took about 6 months to for ASF to get reported in every province of China. Long-distance tranmissions were driving the outbreak: doi.org/10.1017/S095...

Energy constraints and neural strategy transitions in Alzheimer’s: A game-theoretic model While many mechanisms have been proposed to drive Alzheimer’s disease, particularly the accumulation of amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylation of ta…

source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A nice subsection, "Let us consider the following framework". My student said, it is cute

And possibly, +seasonality

Quite interesting perspective!

A graph of HIV prevalence vs. Year, showing prevalence increasing rapidly from 1990-1998, then slowly until 2010. A curve follows closely the increasing portion, then shoots off the top of the graph. Text at the top reads R0=5.66

My dynamical modeling slides from the NCTS course on Infectious Disease modeling github.com/dushoff/dise...

Great to have very interesting lectures during this year summer school at NTU! And great to have the summer school back after COVID-19 pandemic!

I think it is similarly to historical plague pandemics

www.britannica.com/science/chol....

Does Copilot really help? I have been struggling with coding recently, let's see...

Young coal miners suffering from black lung YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning

good video is also here www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hxY...

Oh, it's appeared - I received the first invitation to review for Discover journal. See details the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

However, the genetic testing for FMF was perform anyway XD

This NEJM episode about angioedema is quite interesting. youtu.be/8Ds16fscqKQ?...

The patient had reoccuring of abdominal pain, and it was a mystery. One of the explanations was Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), which was unlikely because the patient didn't report any fever.

An interesting title with "China and its provinces" doi.org/10.1016/S221... Although it assumes some external provinces, they are not part of the study: all analysis is about PRC and two SARs.

I think good, otherwise, we have already would see many waves and many more hospitalizations

That mistake when you read Australia instead of Austria... :o

1/3 676/325/351 = 4/81/25 = 4/2025 ah! :)

ah, I thought the solution was obviously near (1/3 + 1/5) 1/270 = 8/15/270 = 4/15/135 = 4/3/675 = 4/2025. No?

1/975 + 1/1053 = 1/3 (1/325 + 1/351) = 1/3 676/325/351 = oh, this one looks not very beautiful

quite sad