This Week in Natural Selection (TWINS)

R. Ford Denison‘s blog on Evolution, Agriculture, etc.

  • Pacing AI

    Dario Amoedi worries that AI is developing too fast for us to control risks. He says Anthropic will start hosting independent auditors and that other AI firms should be required…

  • AI for DNA seems like a big deal

    I recently saw this paper by King et al. about using AI trained on DNA sequences to design phage viruses, some of which successfully infected bacteria. This particular application is…

  • Fixing evolution’s mistakes

    It may be a while before I start reviewing two publications a week, but maybe reviewing books should count for more? I recommend both: “Force of Nature: Understanding Evolution’s Deepest…

  • Fighting Trump’s war on science

    I’ve been too busy (preparing to release an inexpensive and powerful instrument for nitrogen-fixation research) to start the promised This-Week-In-Natural-Selection posts, but I did make time to send the comment…

  • Does US Agriculture Face “Collapse”?

    Some experts think so. They wrote that “the current administration’s actions, along with congressional inaction, have increased costs for farm inputs, disrupted overseas and domestic markets, denied agriculture its reliable…