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Second paper! Learning the community-function landscape via regression -- punchline: we can *predict* emergent functional properties of microbial consortia using only knowledge of strain presence and absence. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 
work I presented at #apsmarch in collab with @mikhtikh @asanchez_lab @jdiazc9 Abby Skwara, @KarnaVGowda , Arjun Raman, Mahmoud Yousef.
Communities exhibit emergent functions - pathogen suppression, compound degradation or production. Given the massive complexity of consortia - how can we understand/predict these emergent properties of communities?
Some thoughts on the room-temperature near-ambient-pressure superconductor drama in #APSMarch #APSMarch2023: past and present in high-Tc superconductivity discoveries: Woodstock of physics vs the NDA excuse.
Here comes a thread.
Here comes a thread.
We know that in March of 1987, the academic world was abuzz with news of the discovery of cuprate-based high-temperature superconductors. The discovery was so new that no one could catch the APS March meeting deadline that year. However, APS added a last-minute marathon session.
The marathon session to present and discuss the related findings in the NYC March meeting was called “Woodstock of physics” (ref to the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Festival). This session saw 51 presentations on this groundbreaking discovery from 7:30pm to 3:15am the next day.
When you meet a colleague at #apsmarch, you discuss each other's work, family and war in 🇺🇦.
Then you may say 'oh, have you seen ...' I suggest the subject of that discussion my work with @VincentMourik on investigating unreliable research on the topic of Majorana.
A summary 🧵
Then you may say 'oh, have you seen ...' I suggest the subject of that discussion my work with @VincentMourik on investigating unreliable research on the topic of Majorana.
A summary 🧵
1. The retracted Nature paper from last year is widely known. But do you know that there are several others hopefully headed in the same direction? They are...
2. A second @Nature paper from Delft including a lot of the same authors as the first one, currently under 'Editor's note'. Should be retracted:
This is a very big deal and a huge disruption to the US physics community. Many participants are already there or en route; many others have non-refundable travel booked. 10,000 participants were expected. #APSMarch
The official program was scheduled to kick off in less than 36 hours.
It’s hard to fathom the cost in time and money of 10,000 physicists suddenly canceling plans and trying to talk their funders into giving reimbursements for travel they booked but didn’t take. Not to mention the loss for the APS itself. Maybe necessary, but a really extreme step.
At the #APSmarch meeting? Here's our small ode in its honour: go.nature.com/2NApnqy
Two relevant pieces of further reading: 1) on the history of condensed matter, check out @RandomJetship's @PhysicsToday article on the history of condensed matter physics physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT…
2) Apparently attendees of the 1986 meeting in Las Vegas did indeed disappoint at least one local casino with their low appetite for gambling aps.org/publications/a…
