Phage on toast

Translated from its latin roots astrophage reads something along the lines of “star-eater”.

2025 was a big year, with the biggest change in my life being my welcome to parenthood – a rollercoaster of joy and chaos and love beyond description.

Infections are different but so is transmission.

As 2-D (Damien Albarn) sings in the chorus of MF DOOM’s collaboration with Gorillaz: “Well you know November has come when it’s gone away”.

In this post I write on a couple of esoteric points regarding modularity scores — how many ways are there to partition a network into modules, and what modularity scores are possible — with a specific focus on those in bipartite networks (note: a previous…

The following has been done many times before in many different languages, but I think it is useful to showcase how easy it is to construct models that can utilize state-of-the-art numerical integration solvers using the Julia language.

We have a new paper out in Nature Communications titled: “Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre“.

Way back in 2020, during the early phases of COVID-19 pandemic we developed data-driven estimates of exposure risk for events based on group size using US county-level case data which we deployed on a publicly accessible website: covid19risk.biosci.gatech…

I wanted to try and spur myself into reading more and thought posting my book list to a public place may be a good motivator.

Our new paper “Contrasting controls on microzooplankton grazing and viral infection of microbial prey” is now out in Frontiers in Marine Science.