Liam U. Taylor

As a North American Ornithologist I would like to Formally Announce that I do Not know how to pronounce Chough

one can only assume that the last three letters are silent, like Dough. however, I cannot shake the possibility that the h is silent and it is pronounce like Cough

a rare double back to back l o l

don't forget, technology (let me check my notes here) does not operate with respect to private interests and (uh) human bias cannot be identified.

Who would've guessed, who ever ever could've guessed that something like this was in the works from the lovely biologists at Colossal! "Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey had an idea to genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military" techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/b...

having failed to impress any actually cool scientist with the profound achievement of (checks notes) breeding a big dog, they decided that the only reasonable next step was to escalate to complete global technoviolence

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY HEAD TO HEAD Title match Me vs. Richard Dawkins & four ex-wives & his AI bride

Hours later in a furious BTS scandal the match results will be discounted for not being 'generalizable,' but at least we'll all have the VHS clip of me swinging a shiv someone tossed me from the crowd, from just behind the bench, a split henge of Haldane's tibia

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY HEAD TO HEAD Title match Me vs. Richard Dawkins & four ex-wives & his AI bride

As we enter the pit we each get one weapon - a longbone from the evolutionary biology heroes of yore. Dawkins chooses Fisher's humerus. A poor choice. Narrow and brittle; Richard should have known; one look at Fisher's pale cheek blush and you'd know his liver & marrow are weakwilled and immoral.

I'm now quite a ways into DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE @rossbrooks.co.uk Really enjoying it. We've come through a wave of "penguins can be gay!" writing that has left many young people excited about queer biology, but with few real weapons to face the world about it. This book will help!!

something I find slightly humorous in my profession, which involves studying how animals behave, is that animals are allowed to be (1) absolute dumb as a brick idiots that don't know nothing (2) super duper cyberguys with infinite information streams but animals are not allowed to be, say, sad

one time one of the founders of life history theory told me that a seminal result about the genetics of lifespan in flies was lowkey probably just because the flies were depressed. I've cherished that moment ever since.