The role of stomata in the ability to detect olfactory signals... botany.one/2023/06/discov…

loving this book so far... the Kant chapter is exquisite and I know it is only going to get better

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just heard a great topic by Rupik, where he articulates the same 'oscillating' view between 3d and various 2d approaches to biology that I try to enact in teacher ed.

Philosopher Helen De Cruz was permanently suspended from this platform for absolutely no good reason. Either some automated glitch or a malicious actor. No recourse or explanation @x. She had 33K followers. If the platform really wants to become a reliable part of our social

One of my intellectual idols passed away yesterday. Nobody has managed to integrate the history and philosophy of biology as effectively and as elegantly as Evelyn Fox Keller. Her work from the 90s/00s is unrivalled and has long served as a model and inspiration for my own. RIP.

ok here is a recent article I published. "Aesthetic knowing and ecologies"... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Naturalizing Relevance Realization: Why Agency and Cognition are Fundamentally not Computational, with Anna Riedl, Alex Djedovic, @vervaeke_john & Denis Walsh. osf.io/preprints/osf/… It's massive indeed! I'll do a TL:DR thread on its argument one of these coming days.

An amazing time lapse of fungi growing on a decaying nectarine by Wim van Egmond. 🔁 Repost by Merlin Sheldrake: Fungi devouring the skin of a nectarine! This is a time lapse video from the amazing Wim van Egmond, one of the people making the most incredible time lapses of

absolute masterpiece

Plotter working on the notes of Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune [📹 Duncan Lockerby / axidrawn]

A textbook example of what George Monbiot calls the Pollution Paradox. The more polluting a company is, the more money it must spend on politics to ensure it's not regulated out of existence. Campaign finance becomes to be dominated by dirty companies, crowding out cleaner rivals

A reminder that proteins are highly dynamic molecules. ◼ We have made progress in measuring & predicting static protein structures, but the dynamics that animate life remain challenging to measure & model.

C.S. Lewis with one of the most insightful paragraph ever written

Why ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine? Are they more "natural" than other pharmaceuticals? Are there any decisive studies showing their effectiveness? More than vaccines? Or are they on the list simply by virtue of being advocated by right-wing contrarians and endorsed by Trump?

New article on some of my antics when teaching: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article, enjoy: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In a study published in #BiologyLetters, researchers taught toy names to several #dogs and then hid the toys away for two years to learn more about the dogs’ long-term memory. Read our 3rd most popular paper of 2024: ow.ly/yuzn50Uu0jG #RSPopPapers

HOLY SHIT IT'S HAPPENING AI can now write genomes from scratch. Arc Institute an NVIDIA just published Evo-2, the largest AI model for biology, trained on 9.3 trillion DNA base pairs spanning the entire tree of life. it doesn’t just analyze genomes. it creates them 1/

My new article: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…