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The California Department of Public Health is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 4th Annual Western States Modeling Symposium, to be held virtually on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, from 10am PT.
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New pre-print describing a model-informed target product profile for population modification gene drives for malaria control. Current homing rates are adequate, but assessing field readiness is challenging. Awesome work from @AgastyaMondal & @chipdelmal! medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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After tons of optimizations I was able to get it up to 10% of the data I have. I’ve intentionally introduced a bias towards winning builds. Very slight for now, but it’s slightly improved this. Once complete I’ll offer an API for inference on both weapon and builds embeddings.
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holy shit this worked way better than it had any reason to. This is only on 4% of the data I have and it's already surprisingly good. What the fuck lmao. This is weapon similarity via kit choice as per @/stat.ink data
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X Battle Top 500 player activity. Note that the increase after 6.0.0 is due to the changes in the way XP is calculated after series, which shows the Top 500 is significantly more volatile ever since they implemented those changes. This is a bad thing for a ranking system.
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Ever wonder who the strongest players using a weapon are and how often they used it to get their xp? Want to compare peaks? Wonder no more! I've released a leaderboard for this. It's late so I can't fix a bug that says "Service Unavailable" but it works! splat.top/top_weapons
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More yap coming soon, courtesy of applying economics to a video game about squid kids
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Check out this awesome new software package from @chipdelmal that optimally distributes mosquito traps to minimize time to detection for a gene of interest (e.g. gene drive or insecticide resistance allele). With @ProfDavidLSmith. Out now in @PLOSCompBiol! journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
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Here's a preview of the upcoming rework of splat.top! Ontop of everything you can see in SplatNet, I've added which region the player belonged to last season!
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I made a video of the evolution of the Top 500 distribution vs X Power, each frame represents a different day. You can see how it evolves, it's kinda neat actually
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Here is the final, true distribution of SendouQ Season 1. Lots of work went into this, I'm happy with it. But the neat thing is I can finally debunk the argument I see everywhere online, that skill is distributed normally. It is not, it is distributed log-normally.
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More SendouQ data! Here we have the distribution of scores (and the tier borders) for Season 1 for all players who had a calculated score.
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New in @eLife: Targeting Sex Determination to Suppress Mosquito Populations. Great work by @NikolayKandul @MINGLI08019428 @zhenxinzaoyi @elena_DB87 @Daniel_J_Brogan @MarshallJohnM @chipdelmal @CraigMontell1 @ucsdbiosciences @GenomicsCaltech @igisci and others.
doi.org/10.7554/eLife.90199.…
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Please join us for the 2nd annual MGDrivE webinar, Tues 12 Sep, 8-10am PDT! Learn how to set up & run sims of genetic constructs for malaria control with @AgastyaMondal (MGDrivE 3) & to optimize trap placement with @chipdelmal (MGSurvE). berkeley.zoom.us/j/345825035…. Details in flyer!
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Eliminating Malaria Vectors with Precision Guided Sterile Males biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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New paper 🔥 - Cost-effectiveness of Precision Guided SIT for Control of Anopheles gambiae in the Upper River Region, The Gambia. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🔥
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Hmm given @Splatoon3ink’s rotation and top 500 data, it should be possible to relate weapons with the best map/mode based off of changes in xpower. Since it doesn’t decay, any changes are guaranteed to be from play.
Good thing I’ve already scraped all that data, now to analyze :P
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Using a Cas9/guide-RNA-based gene drive system, researchers have produced mosquitoes that produce antimalaria antibodies. If released, models suggest the mosquitoes could reduce malaria incidence by roughly 90% within three months. In PNAS: ow.ly/TQLq50P9rGG
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Check out our new study out this week in Science Advances!
Our new system, IFEGENIA, demonstrates inducible female-elimination making it useful for vector control.
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