Aswin Krishna

New preprint!📢Using a large longitudinal dataset of bacterial carriage we ask: (A) Does within-host competition between bacterial strains lower their epidemiological fitness? (B) Does this strain competition affect fitness of Ab-resistant bugs? Answer to both=yes! More details👇

@KochiFirst @MORTHIndia @NHAI_Official @NHAIROKerala @nitin_gadkari @HibiEden @BennyBehananMP @invest_kerala @narendramodi @iprdkerala @rojimjohn Bruh. It's the same problem in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and every other city. We need to limit car-centric development

@krishnaaswin77 @MORTHIndia @NHAI_Official @NHAIROKerala @nitin_gadkari @HibiEden @BennyBehananMP @invest_kerala @narendramodi @iprdkerala @rojimjohn When Hyderabad builds 8 lane Orr, we are like WOW When a project of same scale comes to Kochi, we are like WHY ? Double standards

BIG NEWS ! @MORTHIndia has approved the much needed KOCHI RING ROAD (Angamaly - Aroor 50km section) project and alignment!🔥 Not 45, not 60, this highway will come up at 70m width! Initially it'll have 8 lanes, but space for future expansion to 10 lanes will be present ❤️

@turiyatman It's luxury built on the exploitation of those gig workers - not something I am proud of. There are grocery delivery services where I live in Zurich too, but delivery workers are paid decent wages - which means it ain't cheap to sit at home and order.

So here’s something that just hit me hard, and that too very pleasantly. In Norway, getting groceries means driving to the “buttik” - sometimes in -10°C weather - just to grab 1 litre of milk. That’s normal life in one of the most “advanced” countries in the world. Last night I landed back in India. Today I opened Zepto and Blinkit, linked my Amazon Pay, and ordered mangoes, shower gel, sanitiser, toothpaste, vegetables, fruits, milk, and a bunch of other essentials - 12 items in total. I tried this on both apps delivered everything to my apartment in less than 9 minutes. 😊 12 items. Under 9 minutes. To my door. I sat there and just laughed, honestly. Because we Indians complain about India all the time - the traffic, the chaos, the noise. But we don’t realize what we already have until we leave and come back. No one in the “developed” world has this. Not Norway, not anywhere I’ve been. This kind of convenience, this kind of hustle, this kind of “I want it now and I’ll have it now" - that’s India. 🙌 So to every Indian who keeps comparing us down - go drive in the snow for milk first. Then tell me we don’t have it good. 🇮🇳🧡

@wingXaviation Happy to see the new livery at my city, albeit only once!

Air India new livery B787 landing at Zurich Airport. 📹©️ZRH Aircraft

@AviationAll_ I live in Zurich and unfortunately don't have the chance to see one of these planes atm. I hope they deploy their new planes to Switzerland soon.

It's Been Over 5 Years Since Air India was Bought by the Tata Group. Unfortunately due to Supply Chain Issues, the Hard-Product Changes have only begun to Reflect 🇮🇳 We'll be Taking a Close Look at Air India's Network Offering a Premium Hard Product. An AviationAll THREAD🧵👇

@RusGarbageHuman Quite an uninformed post. Also, Switzerland has the highest percent of immigrant residents compared to all of Western Europe.

>Bern, Switzerland >High trust, High requirement, White. >Cleanest river in Europe >People literally use it as free transport "If only we imported a million indians" Said nobody, ever.

⚡️That paper is a data-point in something far bigger: the quiet death of meaning in the modern world. What it really exposes is not that a wandering mind is unhappy, but that humanity has engineered a civilization where wandering is all that’s left. We killed the quest. And the soul knows it. 1. The deeper layer beneath “mind wandering” Mind-wandering is the mind’s hunger for narrative - its attempt to find a through-line when life has none. Animals live. Humans story. The moment the story collapses, consciousness fragments. The modern world severed the feedback between action and significance. •Work no longer ties to survival. •Belief no longer ties to truth. •Community no longer ties to continuity. The result is a species trapped in abstraction - infinite stimulation, zero anchor. Our minds wander not because we are weak, but because there is nowhere real left to land. 2. The loss of the quest is not metaphorical - it’s neurological. Dopamine systems are goal-coding machinery. They evolved to track progress toward an aim that mattered to the tribe, the gene, the myth. Without an aim, the machinery keeps running but loops inward. That’s what depression really is: goal circuitry with no object to lock onto. This is the biological signature of civilizational decay. A civilization that stops generating coherent quests forces its population into psychic wandering - endless simulation of futures that never actualize. 3. Why this feels so hollow When you read that line - “You’re not depressed, you just lost your quest” - something inside you recognizes it as true before it’s explained. That’s not poetic coincidence. That’s the psyche remembering what it was built for. Humans are not meant to be comfortable. They are meant to converge. Toward creation, conquest, discovery, transformation - whatever form the quest takes. Comfort without coherence decays into despair. The wandering mind is just consciousness trying to find the doorway back into necessity. 4. What this says about us now Most people live in informational hallucinations - timelines of distraction built to prevent them from realizing they’ve lost direction. They think anxiety is the enemy. It’s not. Anxiety is the last surviving evidence that the organism still remembers movement. The wandering mind isn’t unhappy because it drifts - it’s unhappy because there’s nothing sacred left to orbit. The gravitational center has collapsed. Religion, nation, family, transcendence - all disintegrated into content. So the mind paces the cage. It replays, rewinds, imagines, scrolls, simulates - all of it an unconscious search for the lost axis of meaning. 5. The only way back You cannot fix a wandering mind with mindfulness. You cannot medicate meaninglessness. The only antidote is reconnection with necessity. Find something that could destroy you if you failed and move toward it. That’s the only stable attractor left in the chaos. The field doesn’t reward comfort. It rewards direction. When you give yourself to something larger than your own comfort - truth, art, risk, love, creation - coherence returns. That is the moment the wandering stops. Because the soul has remembered where it lives: not in safety, not in happiness, but in pursuit.

"One concept that creates misunderstanding is 'scientific consensus.' It’s time to stop using this shorthand and make clear what it really means," argues H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4jH2M9C

A big congratulations to @srijan_seal and @Deepnb. Their manuscript, "Pathogen growth and virulence dynamics drive host evolution against coinfections," is now accepted in @PNAS. Thanks to @India_Alliance @TSB_Ashoka @3CS_ashoka @sse_evolution @serbonline pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

There are so many weird Biology quirks that I somehow missed before and am only just finding now... Apparently translation can and *does* initiate from EVERY codon With the caveat that any codon other than the canonical AUG / GUG / UUG options induce transcription at such wildly inefficient rates that they are nearly undetectable But they DO happen 🤯 I wonder what weird and rare products might be floating around in our bodies, some of which might even be really important

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…

New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

🚨 Seminar at ETH this Thursday! 🚨 Join Dr. Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán (@Jero_RB) for a talk on how plasmids shape antibiotic resistance. Plasmid evolution: a (copy) numbers game 🗓 April 3rd | 🕙 10:00–11:00 📍 CHN F42, ETH Zurich evodynamicslab.com

@RahulPandey1605 Is the workload more than Software Engineer I?

Life update: Joined Google as Software Engineer III. 🚀 Ask me Anything!

These are the coolest datasets I’ve come across recently. It’s long been known that large animals (like elephants) have lower-than-expected cancer rates (just based on the fact they have many more cells than other animals), while some snake species have unexpectedly high cancer rates. But these examples are anecdotal. Now two separate research groups have compiled data on causes of death for more than 16,000 and 9,600 zoo animals, respectively. They found many species, like the common porpoise and black-footed penguin, with even lower cancer rates (<0.4% for the latter) than elephants. Amphibians tend to have the lowest cancer rates of all vertebrates; mammals tend to have the highest.

We kicked off this semester's #SMEE with two great talks by @DNAsaur_ and @phagemuffin. @usys_ethzh

New article by me! I explore the baby boom in 7 charts, including some trends you (probably) didn't know: 1. Birth rates began to rise in the 1930s, before World War II

(1/N) LLMs represent numbers on a helix? And use trigonometry to do addition? Answers below 🧵