Our latest PNAS article with @landismj.bsky.social and Ammon Thompson on a new mathematical model for studying infectious disease dynamics with travel has been covered by WashU Arts and Sciences on its news site. Read it here: artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/ne...

New study reveals how COVID-19 likely spread between countries

A model developed by WashU biologists suggests infected foreigners were not the primary drivers of international outbreaks

artsci.washu.edu

It is great to see such enthusiasm from Indonesian scholars wanting to pursue their PhDs. We received more than 200 mentee applications and over 40 mentors registered with different research backgrounds for our upcoming mentorship program. All within one-month period!

Very proud of my sister, who got the opportunity to teach as a tutor in the mathematics department at the University of Melbourne as a first-year master's student 😊

Wrote a short article about our latest publication on a new phylogenetic model for infectious disease spread with visitor dynamics. Read it here: link.growkudos.com/1f72d9fhji8

Understanding how short-term travel drives the spread of infectious diseases

People travel between cities and countries every day, and these movements influence the spread infectious diseases. However, it is often unclear whether outbreaks in a new location are brought by infe...

link.growkudos.com

I'm excited to share that our latest paper is now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... It was a pleasure working with @landismj.bsky.social and Ammon Thompson on this project, developing a new phylogenetic model for infectious disease transmission with realistic host movement dynamics. #evobio

Had a fun time presenting a talk and a poster at this year's #Evolution2026 in Cleveland. Links to my talk and poster are available in the comment section of this thread.

Our lab has several #Evolution2026 presentations this year! Topics include SSE models, character maps, ancestral states, and deep learning Presenters: Raymond Castillo (@raymondcast.bsky.social), Sean McHugh (@phyllurus.bsky.social), Anna Nagel, Albert Soewongsono (@albertchristian.bsky.social)

To all Indonesians who come across this post here, we are currently accepting a mentor application for our mentorship program for future Indonesian PhD scholars. Apply by July 15 (Western Indo time) Application form: bit.ly/IMPhDMentor2... Further info: indonesiamengglobal.com/phd-mentorsh...

Join us on May 27th for the next Funk Biogeography Seminar! Dr. Michael Landis from Washington University in St. Louis will be speaking about the use of phylogenetic models to explore the biogeography of the past. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ma...

Preprint from Feburary by the talented @albertchristian.bsky.social on modeling diversity-dependent speciation, extinction, and dispersal in a GeoSSE framework while using deep learning for inference: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Working on a revision for a biology-focused paper, and somehow ended up with proving propositions and lemmas 😅. Sadly, they all will need to go to the supplement.

New preprint on a new diversity-dependent biogeographic diversification model using deep learning. Joint work with my amazing advisor @landismj.bsky.social. Details of the paper in the comment section. #evobio www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Decided to add some non-academic content to my personal site. Right now, it features personal photos of (mostly Indonesian) food I made, batiks, and (anime) figures! More here: sites.google.com/view/albert-...

Some of my favorites Indonesian Batiks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batik_i...

Last January, I gave a seminar talk at Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency on mathematical and statistical approaches to study evolutionary processes. The slides (in English) are available on my website for anyone interested: sites.google.com/view/albert-... #evobio

Forests and mountains of West Timor

Beaches of West Timor - I

Orchids of West Timor, Indonesia - II

Orchids of West Timor, Indonesia - I

New preprint modeling biogeo diversification of Hawaiian Kadua 🌱🏝️🌋 w/ @ca-naturalist.bsky.social @sswiston.bsky.social @fabiology.bsky.social @phylogeny.bsky.social Warren Wagner, Bruce Baldwin, Ken Wood @ninaronsted.bsky.social @fzapata.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694722

New preprint on a new infectious disease model with visitor dynamics using phylogenetic approach 😊

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Inferring epidemiological parameters under an infectious phylogeography model with visitor dynamics https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.25342415v1

Giving a public lecture to math students and lecturers, introducing the use of mathematics in evolutionary biology and infectious disease modeling. It's good to contribute back to my almamater in Indonesia. For Indonesian viewers, my materials can be accessed here: sites.google.com/view/albert-...

An honest mistake by mathematician 😆

Some screenshots from this year's Phylomania - great to see familiar faces and names, even through a virtual screen :) Also, my talk can be accessed here: sites.google.com/view/albert-... (preprint is hopefully out soon) #evobio

Phylomania will kick off in a few hours. Will be presenting my work with @landismj.bsky.social on a biogeographic model wiith diversity-dependence for modeling species diversification 😊 www.maths.utas.edu.au/phylomania/p... (By the way, Joe Felsenstein is among the presenters) #evobio

It always feels nice to be able to give something back to your alma mater. It has been 10 years since an 18 yo me completed his undergraduate and got introduced to the wonderful world of evolutionary biology and phylogenetic inference 😊 #evobio

Today at WashU’s EEB seminar, I presented a new species diversification model that incorporates regional species diversity into rates of evolution through time (a joint work w/ @landismj.bsky.social). Slides here: sites.google.com/view/albert-... Preprint hopefully will be here this month #evobio

[1/11] A quick rundown to our density-dependent biogeographic model of species diversification below: P.S. Preprint coming up soon! #Evol2025

What a blast attending my first in-person Evolution meetings! Had the opportunity to present our work on: 1. A new biogeographic model of species diversification that accounts for species richness. 2. Phylogeography model for infectious disease transmission with visitor dynamics. #Evol2025

Honored to be elected as a member of the @sigmaxi.bsky.social - one of the oldest honor societies in science. Thank you to the two anonymous committee members for the nomination!