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Our latest research on plant-fungal trade is out as the cover story of nature. The study is led by a team from VU, Princeton University, SPUN and AMOLF, and describes how mycorrhizal fungi build networks as self-regulating travelling waves. [1/2] nature.com/articles/s4158…

Precisely. This is why I say that functionalism, taken at face value, entails eliminativism about consciousness — which is insane.

Life vs. Machine? Some thoughts: noemamag.com/living-things-… Bottom line: the binary distinction has outlived its utility, because nothing *is* our formal model of it, and neither life nor machines are what we thought they were. Even simple systems do interesting side-quests beyond

The more jargon you have in your paper the less citations you'll generally get.

I agree that dialogue is critical to the development of ideas/theories. However, the internally experienced meaning of any given thought is richer and more complex than what is effectively communicated. Completeness/precision are ideals to strive towards, but communicating

Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be.– F Jacob nature.com/articles/s4158…

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 How can network science tackle complex biological systems? Conceptual piece, happy to see others fill in details or collaborate osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Is the genome just a bag of genes? A new paper in Science Magazine now reports that for two thirds of an organisms' genes the position along the chromosome is actually very tightly constrained! Amazing work from my favorite night scientist Martin Lercher and his team!

Ever wonder what the architecture of a neural network would look like, in a novel organism that had not been through selection for specific structure and function of an embodied nervous system? Here's our #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and

This paper is a revelation. When neurons are freed from evolutionary constraint and placed in novel relational contexts, they don’t descend into chaos—they self-organize, sense, adapt, and even recall ancient genomic programs. This isn’t machinery—it’s embodied cognition

Our Single Cell Genomics Day - highlighting our favorite new sc/spatial methods - starts Friday at 10AM ET! The most common question we get: is this open to anyone? Yes! Talks are free and live-streamed (no registration required) on Youtube and satijalab.org/scgd

Our Single Cell Genomics Day - highlighting our favorite new sc/spatial methods - starts today at 10AM ET! Talks are free and live-streamed (no registration required) on Youtube and satijalab.org/scgd

Exciting to see Ruth Kastner Ruth Kastner & her collaborator Andreas Schlatter getting much deserved attention for their account of gravity in terms of quantum transactions. This approach deals nicely with the fudges known as "dark matter" & "dark energy" advancedsciencenews.com/new-theory-sug…

New paper - AI from a diverse intelligence perspective: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ai… Abstract: "Recent discussions and debate around artificial intelligence (AI) and its status are notably incomplete, missing the implications of highly relevant aspects of the emerging fields of

Whenever you're solving a problem—you have to solve these two meta problems in order to be adaptive: • Anticipation: You need to anticipate the world. The farther out you can anticipate the world the more intelligence people will attribute to you. It's way better to avoid the