Chris Adami
Chris Adami
@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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Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
"Whether Shannon’s conceptualization of information transmission ultimately proves to be a fundamental organizing principle of living systems remains uncertain..." It's like my book doesn't even exist.
"Philosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciences" elifesciences.org/articles/112... @zdblount.bsky.social shared this thought-provoking paper with the lab group.
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mRNA vaccines are perhaps the biggest medical breakthrough of my lifetime.
A cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.
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I wrote a paper about how to build the quantum teleporter... journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
I think I've finally got a pretty good feel for how to explain quantum teleportation so assuming this week doesn't end up completely fucked I'll try to write a blog post about it.
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Still quite proud of this paper, even though it is clear nobody has read it, or will ever read it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Putting text, figures, and figure captions into separate sections of the manuscript means that as a reviewer, I have to have three copies of the manuscript open at the same time if I don't want to endlessly scroll. Do better @pnas.org !
Call for Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior (EEB) is open at Michigan State University. If you are interested in working with me, we can craft a proposal together. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
Sure thing, it's super legit that Joe Rogan would like to discuss my book "The Evolution of Biological Information" on his show "The Joe Rogan Experience". I should reply to info.joerogan.host@gmail.com right away, right?
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MGI Prof. Chris Adami will be one of the speakers at this year's Megacampus Summit in Dubai on Nov. 18-21. He will join speakers such as filmmaker James Cameron and chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen at the event, which draws 10,000 people! summit.megacampus.com/dubai26/
The idea that all super intelligence necessarily would want to destroy humanity has always struck me as shallow in the extreme.
What is the name of this fallacy? I was at a workshop dinner and a group was discussing about how superintelligence means you should want to destroy humans. Then someone asked the people one by one: "would you make yourself superintelligent?" and they all answered yes!
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Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Frankly, it's not even shocking anymore. Just look at the results for "what happens to information absorbed by a black hole"? We've known the answer to this for over 20 years (it was conclusively proved and published) and yet in the minds of physicists it's a big mystery. Frustrating.
I get that academia forces you to specialize and professionalize and generally put aside childish things, but I remain astonished that most senior physicists have accepted the idea that it's not our job to understand the nature of reality at a deep level.
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New book "A Primer for Experimental Evolution" with coauthors Michael Rose, Margarida Matos, and Joe Graves. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... A compact primer for students and colleagues interested in planning and designing experiments to address questions in evolutionary biology.