Mihai Todor

Mindscape Ask Me Anything | October 2026. We talk about philosophical naturalism, what Einstein would think about Many-Worlds, and the impact of AI on science and math. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Mindscape 370 | Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter. The LZ experiment has seen one intriguing event - should we get excited? #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

We don’t want to suggest that all of Emily Wilson’s subsequent good fortune is due to appearing as a guest on #MindscapePodcast. preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

Mindscape 361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together. Quorum sensing is one of the vivid differences between even the simplest organism and non-living stuff. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Mindscape Ask Me Anything | July 2026. Boltzmann Brains, science in science fiction, uses of LLMs, confronting the forces of anti-science, and more. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Mindscape 358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant. I start talking about why the universe is accelerating -- but there was too much to say, so next week we'll have a follow-up episode. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Mindscape 356 | Andrea Wulf @andreawulf.bsky.social on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

I just signed european.social as well. Regardless of whether you think EU governments are too prone to weaken privacy protections or not, it's clear that - monopolistic, authoritarian #SocialMedia platforms are a problem #europe

Mindscape 355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball. I argue that QM is even farther from the everyday world than we generally assume, but connecting them is an ongoing and promising project. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Mindscape 352 | Bing Brunton @bingbrunton.bsky.social on Connecting the Connectome to the Body. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Mindscape 350 | J. Eric Oliver @ericoliver.bsky.social on the Self and How to Know It. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

𝗣𝗗𝗕𝗲 𝗺𝗺𝗖𝗜𝗙 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: validate your mmCIF files against PDBx/mmCIF dictionary ✅ Real-time check ✅ Metadata completeness indicator pip install pdbe-mmcif-validator install VS code extension: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... GitHub - PDBeurope/mmcif-validator: github.com/PDBeurope/mm...

NEW VIDEO youtu.be/uiGIbdrQjbI?...

The AlphaFold Database, jointly developed with Google DeepMind, now contains datasets from specialist communities. This includes rich datasets for microbes, viruses & parasites associated with tropical diseases. Explore the new datasets in the AlphaFold Database. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

Mindscape 342 | Rachell Powell on Evolutionary Convergence, Mind, and Morality. Do social structures, like eyes and fins, arise independently from evolutionary pressures? #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Mindscape 341 | Stewart Brand on Maintenance as an Organizing Principle. Yes, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance comes up. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

🚨Our first talk this new year would be a joint theory/experiment talk by Prof. Marino Arroyo and Prof. Xavier Trepat @xaviertrepat.bsky.social describing some of their recent work together on active morphogenesis🧫. Sign up to our mailing list for a zoom link to this talk and other upcoming talks🚨

Stunning 4K Drone Footage Over Iceland’s Mystical Landscapes and Seascapes laughingsquid.com/iceland-4k-d...

This event was amazing! Thank you for organising it @tlmcambridge.bsky.social!

FOSDEM 2026 added a developer room for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: fosdem-bioinformatics.github.io/cfp.html 🧬

End-to-end protein design in the browser through evedesign. Generate and interactively explore designs in 2D/3D and export them as codon-optimized DNA. The underlying open source framework (released soon) is build to easily add new methods, more on that soon. 🌐 evedesign.bio

ripgrep 15 is out! Mostly a host of bug fixes, particularly around gitignore. Some minor perf improvements. A couple small features. And (partial) Jujutsu support for gitignore. github.com/BurntSushi/r...

My project coordinator, Jennifer Fleming, did a detailed podcast on AlphaFold: www.linkedin.com/posts/artifi...

Very insightful research into social networks

Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

The latest in a long series of Nobels for work in immunology - and it won’t be the last (!)

Do you study proteins? The new PDBe entry pages make it easier to explore protein structures. 🟢 Visualise ligands & macromolecules with improved 3D viewers 🟢 Get background info from AI-based annotations 🟢 Add your own annotations to viewers without leaving the browser @pdbeurope.bsky.social 🧬🖥️

Making structural biology data accessible to everyone — from specialists to first-time explorers. ✨ Discover the new interactive, personalised & mobile-ready PDBe Entry Pages. 📖 Read more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... 🔍 Try it: www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/p...

Spot on and really well written!

Thanks for the visit Nobel laureate John Jumper & colleagues Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and Lindsay Willmore from Google DeepMind. Always interesting to hear and discuss #AlphaFold and protein structure predictions.

Mindscape 323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics. We go on for a while. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Mindscape 320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe. Our cosmos was once simple, and someday will be simple again. We currently live in the complicated, exciting era of universal history! Enjoy it while it lasts. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Laser Danger xkcd.com/3108/

Mindscape 318 | Edward Miguel @tedmiguel.bsky.social on the Developing Practice of Development Economics. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

This week's episode opens with a joke about control groups that I took from @girlgenius.bsky.social by @kajafoglio.bsky.social and @thephilfoglio.bsky.social. Here is the joke in its original context: www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?da...

Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Near Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin

@sheabelsky.bsky.social was kind enough to interview me for his podcast. I was nervous about doing this, but I'm glad I took the offer. Thank you again! ❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/0SLQ...

Mindscape 316 | Niayesh Afshordi @nafshordi.bsky.social and Phil Halper on The Big Bang and Before. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

This only has 36 reposts, but on the Fediverse it has 1.7k, are you really going to let them show more support on banning conversion therapy? A practice that is massively harmful to the LGBTQIA+ population. We need one more country past the threshold (we're at 6/7) and another 452,000 votes.

Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide. It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people. It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... #europe #lgbtq #germany

Mindscape 314 | Karen Lloyd @karenlloyd.bsky.social on the Deep Underground Biosphere. Full of surprises for us surface-dwellers! #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

“The political environment in Russia made it hard to do science because everything was unpredictable. […] That type of uncertainty is incompatible with science, which requires the ability to plan what type of experiments and research you will do a year into the future.”

Globe Safety xkcd.com/3086

Mindscape 313 | Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social on the Changing Face of Medicine and Aging. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...