> EpiFusion uses particle filtering to simulate epidemic trajectories over time and weight their likelihood according to both case incidence data and a phylogenetic tree using separate observation models, resulting in the inference of trajectories in agreement with both sets of data.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012528

ChrisRR•8 minutes ago

From their about page

https://scienceblog.com/about-us/

"Every published piece is editorially directed and reviewed before it goes live. We use AI tools in research, drafting, and editing. Editors decide what claims, framing, and pieces make it to publish."

telesilla•about 1 hour ago

Definitely AI written, though it got the point across and it wasn't terrible to read and it was new information to me so I was glad to read it.

At this point what news site isn't AI written? Except for the few remaining human blogs (which are a delight and a pleasure). Why I detected AI: it said "The honest footnote.." at the end. That's how Claude always ends our long-rambling discussions.

albumen•about 1 hour ago

Lots of news sites aren't AI written; or if AI is involved, it's not as blatant as in this article. The 'papers of record' largely remain AI-free. You increasingly have to pay for good journalism.

pluc•20 minutes ago

Refreshing to see there are other outcomes than asking AI what it is these days.

Tade0•about 1 hour ago

Using nitrogen-fixing bacteria is not a new concept and it's the life's work of Dr Mariangela Hungria, who recently received the 2025 World Food Prize for her achievements in the field:

https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/20202026_laureat...

metalman•about 1 hour ago

"Hungria" cant have a better name for food research. Nitrogen fixing is one of the more frustrating things to work on as there is such a massive ready supply of unfixed nitrogen to work with everywhere on our planet and all in all we need such a tiny proportion to dramiticly improve agriculture.The whole thing is so finly balanced that herbivors can likely smell the diference in plants that have been given nitrogen fertiliser and raid our crops and gardens for the fixed nitrogen that then facilitates there own internal bacteria and thereby achive better nutrition for themselves. But to my frustration and anger, nothing eats alder bushes, which are a never ending problem in taking over fields, but when after employing machinery to uproot them,( it bieng the only way to kill them), reveals there bright orange knobly roots, that host the nitrogen fixing bacteria that they contain. There is enough nitrogen and other nutrients in alder that the area's where they are piled and burnt will remain significantly more fertile for many years after. One of my(many) projects is to experiment with "terra preta" and build a charcoal kiln, primarily for alder and hopefully be able to retain a greater portion of the "good stuff™" that is otherwise lost to rotting or combustion.

GaryBluto•about 1 hour ago

Is the letter 'g' designed to appear as if the bottom loop is missing, or is that a rendering error on my end?

invalidusernam3•41 minutes ago

It's just how the font looks: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Syne

teekert•38 minutes ago

Haha, feels indeed like the bottom of the G is overlapped by something. A bit weird.

modernerd•41 minutes ago

It's a design choice / affectation.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Syne

vintermann•27 minutes ago

That's a qreat discovery by these three qirls. But what IS it with websites that use a font with utterly weird g's? Do they think they need it to stand apart?

retsibsi•14 minutes ago

Studies show that your concentration remains sharper if your visual processing system is jarred out of its complacency at frequent, semi-random intervals, preventing you from lapsing into a low-effort 'skim-reading' mindset. It's something to do with the predictive processing model; over time, your brain comes to rely increasingly on top-down processing if its expectations are consistently met, and I guess there is some interplay between visual processing and semantic comprehension in this context.

(Just kidding! I think it is simply an annoying affectation.)

CalRobert•about 2 hours ago

I thought this was going to be an eats, shoots, and leaves style discussion.

A wart-covered pea plant is what they refer to (near Cork, Ireland)

spiderfarmer•about 1 hour ago

Cool a science blog! But it's a rehashed article, followed by an infinite amount of random Taboola scams, arbitrage posts, clickbait articles with jarring content.

Why does shit like that work better than quality contextual advertising?

rmason•about 3 hours ago

For years the holy grail has been for corn to produce its own nitrogen. This could be a small step in the right direction. Interested to see what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment.

dofm•about 2 hours ago

Putting aside the cultural imperialism (this happened in Ireland, which is in Europe, which is also where two of the greatest agricultural schools in the world, if not also the two greatest for this, are based), it also happened over a decade ago, so I guess everyone has tried furthering it by now.

KaiserPro•about 2 hours ago

I thought all those school/systems of colleges had their budgets cut last year?

blooalien•about 1 hour ago

> ... what happens when some of the great American agricultural schools further this experiment.

"Brawndo! It's got what plants crave!"