Great to see Taiwan’s 唐鳳 Audrey Tang @audreyt.org justly celebrated in Nexus, the latest book from Yuval Noah Harari.

Lovely window visitor in Taipei 🥰 🐦‍⬛

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide. I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:

A full day with the Constitution. Have you read it? What did you find most surprising about it?

Officially a genocide.

Dear friends, I’d love your input: I’m planning to submit some writing to a general-audience magazine and I’m torn about how to sign my name. Which feels better to you and why? (1) Chase W. Nelson (2) Chase Nelson Thanks so much!

Academics! Delighted to announce that the new 3rd edition of Human Evolutionary Genetics is now available to book inspection copies. Available to buy January 9th. 1/5 www.routledge.com/Human-Evolut...

Delighted to see our paper on the evolutionary history of the CCR5Δ32 deletion published this week in @cellpress.bsky.social. Work led by @ravnkirstine.bsky.social, Leonardo Cobuccio and Rasa Muktupavela, and co-supervised by me and @simorasmu.bsky.social. See 🧵 for main findings...

Headed to Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭 Oct 23–26 for a science conference. First time. If I add 1–2 days, what should I not miss? 🙏

SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673541v1

It is not the bigness of our concern for certain lives, but the smallness of our concern for countless others, that stands correction.

Darwin described characteristics that revert or evolve to the same state—what we refer to as homoplasies—as “mocking” each other. I appreciate this description. I often feel they are mocking me.

A crystalline day in Taipei, Tiger Mountain 虎山 in claw’s reach.

The strategic end is born in the tactics with which it is pursued.

The United States is arming a terrorist regime that has the audacity to call itself Israel. In the words of Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a 25-year U.S. Army Green Beret: “the people back home need to know they’re funding a genocide.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/w...

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My four favorite books on evolution. What are yours? (1) Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species - 1859 (2) Motoo Kimura, The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution - 1983 (3) Austin Hughes, Adaptive Evolution of Genes and Genomes - 1999 (4) Michael Lynch, The Origins of Genome Architecture - 2007

“Or, as Kipling might have said, ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, maybe you haven’t heard the news’.” —Adam Smith

Sitting in a cafe, working on disease research—without pay because the government has been so hobbled—I am overcome by betrayal as the adjacent table praises the President as God-touched, then minutes later lauds their medical treatments that were made possible by the research now being asphyxiated.

“The professional membership of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club strongly condemns the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza… by the Israeli Defense Forces.”

Hypocrisy is when Epstein matters until it’s Trump; prices matter until Trump; Christlikeness matters until Trump; America is first but after Trump.

Bhattcharya says Biden caused mistrust in mRNA vaccines because of restrictions. This doesn't check out because mistrust in mRNA falls along party lines, even though everyone faced restrictions. Used to be that if you had an opinion, you had to back it up. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Read this as many times as you need to. There is no quiet part. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

If Israel can annex Gaza, why shouldn’t China annex Taiwan, and Russia annex Ukraine, and the United States annex Greenland, …? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

I wonder, if each of us were to declare Israel’s starvation of Gaza unacceptable—if we were to join Joe Rogan, Marjorie Taylor Green, Bernie Sanders, Miss Rachel, and everyone in between—how many children’s lives could be saved. I wonder why we don’t do that.

On average, Israel kills a Palestinian child in Gaza every 45 minutes, and each American contributes $0.40 per day to help them do it.

Taiwan’s government is reportedly considering lending aid to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank—territory widely recognized as illegally occupied. 1/3

#Evolution folks, I’m hoping to read in succession Charles Darwin’s (1) Voyage of the Beagle (2) On the Origin of Species (3) The Descent of Man The Penguin Classics editions look very fine, but does anyone have other favorite editions or versions of these texts they recommend?

Just wonderful. Originally published in 1940 and updated in 1972, I came across this book in the footnotes of Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline. Reading: “the process of passing from understanding less to understanding more by the operation of your mind upon a book.”

In the year 1917, the population of Palestine was approximately 94% Arab. Life went along more or less peaceably among the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities. 1/8

Honored that our latest study was chosen as Paper of the Week by IPVS. It was spearheaded by student Jonathan Shin with the help of great collaborators 😄

I was curious to estimate how much I am personally contributing to Israel’s genocide of 2 million Palestinians through my taxes. It turns out each U.S. taxpayer is contributing at least $0.40 per day, or $148 per year. 1/3

I was curious to estimate how much I am personally contributing to Israel’s genocide of 2 million Palestinians through my taxes. It turns out each U.S. taxpayer is contributing at least $0.40 per day, or $148 per year. 1/3

In the year 2025, Israel and the US actively starved 2 million people, half of them children, by blocking the delivery of food from international aid groups. It is still 2025, and it is not too late to say something.

The starvation, just like the bombs, is a weapon of war being used by Israel and the US.

For nearly two years, Israel has increasingly starved Palestinians under the justification that Hamas systematically steals food from U.N. aid. That was a lie. Free GIFT ARTICLE link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w... 1/3

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If Palestinian children are taught to hate, their most effective teachers may be the Israeli soldiers who, for the better part of a century, have mocked, maimed, and murdered their families.

Israel is starving 2 million Gazans—about the size of Nebraska. Sometimes I wonder: if they had names like Timothy and Mary, would more people care? Speak out?

Your taxes are being used for genocide.

#Deadlift 6 x 295. Helping to gain strength and avoid injury: remembering to consciously USE MY LEGS, not just rely on my lower back.

That’s a wrap on my HPV vaccine series—protecting against infections that could lead to cancers of the throat, cervix, anus, and lots more places where the sun don’t shine… not to mention genital warts. Prevention > regret.

Enjoying the Fourth Edition of Mike Matthews’ Bigger Leaner Stronger. This one starts more heady than past editions, with ideas for staying motivated and changing habits, before dissecting myths like the idea that carbs make you fat. One of the best books for weightlifting and relevant nutrition.

Just keep working for the joy of it. The goal is simply to advance beyond your past self—and give your future self the gift of an investment in health and strength 💪 💗

The top orange line shows taxes on the richest 0.01%, who now pay less than almost ever. The “Big Beautiful Bill” locks this in—transferring over $4 trillion from the poor to the rich by cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid, cutting food stamps for 3 million people, and more. 1/4

“Those ashes, come spring, I will return to the orchard at the foot of the sandhill. They will come back to me again, perhaps as red apples, or perhaps as a spirit of enterprise in some fat October squirrel, who, for reasons unknown to himself, is bent on planting acorns.” —Aldo Leopold

Vote for Zohran Mamdani and/or Brad Lander today! Don’t rank Cuomo. 🙏🏽

NYC friends: where can one pick up Zohran @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign paraphernalia in the city? (Shirts preferred.)