Chris Adami
Professor at Michigan State University. Trying to understand how the universe works, including people and animals. And plants and microbes. So, pretty much everything. (he/him)
- Reposted by Chris AdamiI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- No matter how many times I click "Do not show this again", I am shown it again, very time. I feel like I'm part of a psychological experiment.
- Happy New Year from Paris ‘y all!
- Reposted by Chris Adami"They found the coats on Thursday morning. Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies. Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"
- This story about the mystery behind Fleming's discovery of Penicillin has an MSU connection! @msumgi.bsky.social press.asimov.com/articles/pen...
- Fairly simple: I knew after high school that it was going to "science/math". In high school, chemistry (inorganic) was easy but boring. Biology (plants and cell division, basically) was boring. Math was a tool, not science. That left physics. So I went to Bonn University to study physics.
- I later found out that biology is not, in fact, boring. But you can certainly teach it in the most boring manner possible.
- We should all share the name of the folder we use for those. Mine is called “Nuts”.
- Reposted by Chris AdamiMathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. 🧪 🔭 He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.
- Interesting article in which the authors show that the vast majority of beneficial mutations (as determined by deep mutational scanning) do not fix because the environment changes so fast that those mutations lose their benefit before fixation. (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- But they forget that every mutation can change the fitness effect of every other mutation via epistatic interactions. So, you don't need to invoke rapidly changing environments: every mutation coming after a beneficial mutation within the fixation time window can change the adaptive trajectory 2/2
- I'd also like the Supreme Court to hear a complaint. You just go and ask them, right? That's how it goes?
- Got to review my first fully AI-generated paper today. Fortunately as a pre-peer-review, so I could spare some other reviewers the indignity of writing a reply to a chatbot.
- Come on!
- That's not an insignificant point. This was precisely the reaction of my family living abroad: "Good to see that you are still fighting for your democracy". With "you" meaning all of us protesters.
- #nokings Lansing, Michigan
- Reposted by Chris Adami
- For those of you in the area: I will be part of the MSU Choir at this Saturday's performance at the Wharton Center of Jocelyn Hagen's "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci", which is a beautiful piece that marries orchestra, voice, and audiovisual effects. www.whartoncenter.com/events/detai...
- 1982-1986 Teaching Assistant 1986-1991 Research Assistant 1992-1995 Postdoc 1995-today Faculty That's it. Never had another job.
- Can confirm.
- Reposted by Chris AdamiImmigrants, particularly on H1Bs, are the lifeblood of American innovation. If you wanted to hurt US competitiveness in the next century, I can think of few more effective ways than a move like this Even when found illegal, the mere intent will have irreparably harmed our future
- Reposted by Chris AdamiOf all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.
- This is really interesting! Mutations that affect a protein's foldability do not seem to impact org fitness if the protein is not important for function. But there *are* effects from mutations on those proteins (just not related to foldability). What are they due to?? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- My “I got the Covid vaccine” sticker from 2020 (which tells me which side is up on my laptop) got a bit ragged, so I replaced it.
