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3/3 If kinesin can encode information, what cellular functions might exploit this hidden channel? Could we harness it for bio‑nanotech computing? Share your thoughts! #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

1/3 What if the tiny motor that ferries cargo inside cells not only walks but also writes information into its steps? Could a single kinesin act as a nanoscale information engine? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

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1/3 Your cell's outer membrane is a fluid — but how fluid? Measuring viscosity in honey is easy. For a 5-nanometer-thick lipid bilayer, it took a new molecular-dynamics method. Would you guess it's closer to olive oil or to water? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

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The complete version of @phaueis.eurosky.social and my BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is now available. It includes 32 commentaries and our response.

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It is widely held that fitness is affected by population size, 'n.' But Grant Ramsey shows, in a new #openaccess paper in @jrnlofphil.bsky.social, that this familiar claim rests on both mathematical and conceptual mistakes.🔥

👇📃 doi.org/10.5840/jphi...

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New paper on why we we are still so limited in predicting cancer risk. By @sergeishevchenko.bsky.social
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1/3 Your cells pull things inside using entropy. Not a chemical lock-and-key — the cytoskeleton's own jiggling nudges receptors together until they're close enough to bind. The first step of endocytosis may be pure statistics. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

This paper, co-authored with Saher Panjwani, is part of the EJPS topical collection on The Pursuitworthiness of Experiments Across the Sciences edited by @ennofischer.bsky.social and @alejandrofabregastejeda.com. #philsci

New preprint: "Human Waste: Bare Life, Abjection, and the Ethics of Classification in Johanna Stoberock’s Pigs".
Exploring abjection, bare life, disposability, and the ethics of classification through Stoberock’s novel.

Link below

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Whether a decision is a free one or whether it is the result of an inner impulse is, in the end, no longer distinguishable!
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clausjanew.substack.com/p/truth-harm...

I'm finally reading Denis Walsh's "Organisms, agency, and evolution" (2015) and some footnotes are just hilarious! 😆
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Further evidence that #ontology is either useless (leading only to a plethora of pleonasms) or just trivial: #StructuralRealism #Realism #OSR #SocialOntology #PhilSky #PhilSci #philosophy

Just accepted:

The Identity of Stem Cell Kinds
– Guglielmo Militello, Louis Paré, Eve Gazave & Lucie Laplane

Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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