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chrisadami.bsky.social
Professor at Michigan State University. Trying to understand how the universe works, including people and animals. And plants and microbes. So, pretty much everything. (he/him)
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Got my flu and covid vaccine today, while it's still available and covered by insurance.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

For those people that think Nigel is kidding. He's not kidding.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Every once in a while, I'm telling people that there is no black hole information paradox anymore. Nobody appears to be listening. This time I'm saying it by specifically pointing out what mistake Hawking made in his paper. arxiv.org/abs/2502.05642

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 100 comments

Here's a lesson for all of us that the universities are relearning today: Staying silent in the face of fascism will not protect you.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

Since I have way more non-academic followers than I ever would have imagined: a short explainer. TL;DR: Substantially cutting indirect costs will either mean raising tuition and fees, or laying off a bunch of mid- and low-salary staff and students.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Frank Herbert consistently does this. And I can’t help myself.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Pleiotropy AND epistasis. One locus affects many traits, one trait is affected by many loci. Information is encoded non-locally (spread over many loci) and it is non-additive. Until we can predict GWAS nearly perfectly, editing is nuts.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Revisiting the 1978 interview with Hannah Arendt at @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/197...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I totally forgot I did this “Ask Me Anything” many years ago. I think I still stand behind these answers.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

ALIFE 2025 The 2025 Conference on Artificial Life 6-10 October, 2025 Kyoto, Japan #alife

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Incredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉 https://buff.ly/4gyYCzx We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies. 🧵 A thread... 1/n #IDSky #IDModelling

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

Happy birthday to my daughter who is turning eighteen today!

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

If you're on holidays and looking for something to read or watch, why not have a look at the Artificial Life newsletter? On the menu: Ballooning Cacti, Permacomputing, and Killer Bears! alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Open rank position alert (share away): The Dept. of Biology at the U of Maryland, College Park invites applications from individuals studying fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology using microbial systems for a tenure-track or tenured position at any rank bit.ly/ecoevomicro-...

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments