I was at the IZS in Zurich last week, a spectacular conference in a beautiful location. I used my invited paper as an opportunity to explain what biological information theory is, and why I think it is important [PDF link]: www.research-collection.ethz.ch/server/api/c...

My @theatlantic.com piece on the emerging new "Physics of Life". Complexity science, information theory, network theory... a whole new trans-disciplinary way of asking an ancient question. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

It is very funny to me that The Simpsons more or less destroyed the concept of monorails as public transit in the English speaking world.

After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809

Here is our new paper that we're really excited about. What makes a cell different from a rock? The answer we argue is the USE of information. But information carries meaning and that changes everything if we want to understand the "physics of life". journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Please check out our (open access!) paper in PRX Life: "Physics of Life: Exploring Information as a Distinctive Feature of Living Systems" journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

You laugh but if you're in a pickle, 22/7 varies from pi by less than one part in a thousand.

Given that it was sunk,

Hello Montreal!

I have strong opinions about "The Bandwagon". I certainly don't think Shannon was wrong but I think his argument is widely misunderstood, in ways that have held back important applications of information theory. In some ways, I wish he hadn't written it.

Is there a word for the feeling of frustration when, in the instant between when you decide to click on a link and when you actually click on it, something loads in the background which shifts the page and you end up clicking on something else entirely?

I don't know who needs to hear this, but "label created" is not "shipped".

Give me the news

The tariffs applied to Canadian goods are, from the words of the president himself, an explicit threat to Canadian sovereignty. Accordingly, while they are in effect, I will not use Canadian grant funds to travel to the United States, and I think my Canadian colleagues should do likewise.

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Reviewer [after we added pages of material in response to their comments in the last round]: The paper is now too long Same reviewer in this round: Please add a tutorial on linear algebra to the model section.

If you notify me that the order has shipped, but when I check the tracking link it says "label created", then you are a bad person.

Hot off the press: I am pleased to announce that the 2nd edition of our foundational textbook, Molecular Communication, has now been published by Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...

I really need to enable offline syncing of my overleaf projects Just like I tell myself during every outage

Guest blog post on the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Fifteen Eighty Four blog: "Small talk: Exchanging messages at the nanoscale with molecular communication" cambridgeblog.org/2024/11/smal...

🚨🚨🚨Molecular Communication, 2nd edition🚨🚨🚨 We've been working on this for a while ... finally coming out this June!!! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

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