3/3 If crowding alone can dial molecular mobility, could cells use the same trick — no motors, no signals, just packing — to tune reactions at their own membrane? What would that change about how we model signaling? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

The symposium on @eschwitz.bsky.social's book is now out in the Journal of Consciousness Studies! It is a great exchange. have a look. #philsci

1/3 Press a stiff wire onto a sphere and it fights back — bending costs energy. DNA wrapping around histones faces the same problem, and now there's a general theory for it. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

1/3 Radio waves usually die in water. But at the right frequency, electromagnetic surface waves can surf along the water's boundary instead — bound to the interface, barely leaking away. So a puddle can act as a waveguide. #academicsky #physics #philsci

The Science of Lost Worlds is out! OA! illustrations by the magnificent Jim Robins, audiobook feat the amazing Boo Jackson as Prof Ichthy. Delicious paleontological #philsci for your reading/listening pleasure. So many people helped me make this - much greatful ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/978...

Join us as we sit down with visiting fellow Jamee Elder to learn more about their work here at the Center! #philsci

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GYeql3wpO0A

Don't miss Jamee's Lunchtime Talk next Friday: "The Secret Lives of Mass Gap Black Holes"

Last week, my dear colleague Guido I. Prieto gave a talk on our joint work on model organisms & scientific representation.

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUG...

For those interested, I’ve linked the 📃s below 👇

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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#philsci #HPbio 🧪

3/3 The so-what: a neuron may steer cargo with statistics rather than a map — persistence plus a little randomness gets mRNA where a straight line couldn't. What else in a cell runs on memory-in-motion instead of machinery? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

1/3 A neuron's nucleus ships mRNA down microtubule tracks to thousands of synapses — and there's no address on the package. New modeling says the molecules don't drift like drunks: they walk with momentum. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

#philsci #philjobs

The KU Leuven AI Safety Lab studies the large-scale risks of #AI, from the concentration of power in the companies that build it to the loss of democratic control over its development: www.aisafetylab.eu

📢 You can apply for paid residencies atm 👇 www.aisafetylab.eu/open-calls/

#philsci #philsky 🧪

"this policy rests on a conception of philosophy as a discipline conducted by persons, for persons, and as a discipline that aims to cultivate understanding rather than merely the generation of truths"

We have an AI policy:
www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-...

#philsci #philsky

It's rather wonderful to be back at Harvard (as a visiting scholar this term) where I spent so much time 15-20 years ago. We both have aged and are wiser (and look more upmarket), but the intellectual excitement and inspiration remains the same.

#philsci #hps #sts #metascience #histscie #philsky

1/3 Your cells don't just make 'reactive oxygen species.' They choose between them — superoxide or hydrogen peroxide. A weak oscillating magnetic field can shift that choice, via quantum spin. No heating required. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

This Friday, we continue with our new batch of seminars for the new academic year! Atahan Erbas, one of the organizers of our Brown Bag Seminar, will talk about how Aristotelian diagrams and truth diagrams can interact. Join us!

📆 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...

#logic #philsky #PhDsky #philsci

1/3 Photosynthesis funnels energy through a messy maze of pigment molecules with near-perfect efficiency. Now physicists ask: could that same quantum coherence make computation itself more expressive? #academicsky #quantumbiology #philsci

Join us as we sit down with postdoc fellow Shimin Zhao to learn more about her work here at the Center!

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DrdTvgr4L4E

Don't miss Shimin's Lunchtime Talk on Oct. 13: "From probability raising to actual causation" #philsci

Exited to be joining the Paris Institute for Advanced Study for a writing residency on Artifactual Epistemology— an epistemology that centers computational methods( #AI, etc.) without the anthropocentric/biocentric baggage of conventional epistemology of science. #philsci #philtech #philsky

1/3 Your proteins don't just bump into each other — they shake hands. But each protein has only a few hands, and how many it has decides whether it stays dissolved or condenses into a droplet. Could that number be the whole story? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

🎥 Some highlights from today's Lunchtime Talk with Aditya Jha.

Don't miss Friday's Annual Lecture Series with Serife Tekin: "Stability and Intervention in Psychiatry." #philsci