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Chris Adami

@chrisadami.bsky.social
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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)

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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You’d have to ask him. I believe it is not in class.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Arend Hintze is doing this in his classes at Dalarna University
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Are they gonna fix the spelling of the man’s name?
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Whether Shannon’s conceptualization of information transmission ultimately proves to be a fundamental organizing principle of living systems remains uncertain..." It's like my book doesn't even exist.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
mRNA vaccines are perhaps the biggest medical breakthrough of my lifetime.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Proposal submitted (DMS/NIGMS). Will it even get to the review stage? No one knows. But we have to keep submitting.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I was thinking the same thing. There are definitely things I won't input now. Like, the tech that's going to replace them all :-)
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A "d slash" instead of gamma.d would have been rad.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It is literally the book about information in biology.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
But you didn't cite it.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I know you know about this book. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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The Evolution of Biological Information
Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in nature
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ah, so it's the two of us then.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
wait, who is the other one?
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I wrote a paper about how to build the quantum teleporter... journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
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Optical simulation of quantum logic
A constructive method for simulating small-scale quantum circuits by use of linear optical devices is presented. It relies on the representation of several quantum bits by a single photon, and on the ...
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
That hurts.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Still quite proud of this paper, even though it is clear nobody has read it, or will ever read it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
not that different from my upbringing, as a matter of fact.... Grew up in Europe, not US. Maybe that's the divider?
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Putting text, figures, and figure captions into separate sections of the manuscript means that as a reviewer, I have to have three copies of the manuscript open at the same time if I don't want to endlessly scroll. Do better @pnas.org !
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Call for Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior (EEB) is open at Michigan State University. If you are interested in working with me, we can craft a proposal together. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Working/Functional Title Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Position Summary We encourage applications from candidates in any early career stage, from finishing Ph.D. students to current postdoctoral sc...
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sure thing, it's super legit that Joe Rogan would like to discuss my book "The Evolution of Biological Information" on his show "The Joe Rogan Experience". I should reply to info.joerogan.host@gmail.com right away, right?
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I know exactly where that is! It's a beautiful place.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fantastic! Congrats. I guess this was the better job compared to Trilogy after all.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...
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What is information?†
Abstract. Information is a precise concept that can be defined mathematically, but its relationship to what we call ‘knowledge’ is not always made clear. F
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Congrats. Deserved win against the bullies
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I understand it.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
He called it "communication theory". He did not care about what you send over the channel, only that you can do it without errors.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The man had no idea what information is. He wasn't interested in it. Entropy was all he cared about.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Yes. The quote shows that he really did not understand information. At all. The father of information theory.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Pop Quiz: Who said this: "“Crudely speaking, the amount of information is how much chaos is there in the system. But the mathematics comes out right, so to speak. The amount of information measured by entropy determines how much capacity to leave in the channel.”
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
genuinely made me laugh
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Argentina's luck will run out.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
or a boyfriend
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
There is drama in them here World Championships!
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m entertained!
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Was he stabbed with a Cain?
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MSU MGI @msumgi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
MGI Prof. Chris Adami will be one of the speakers at this year's Megacampus Summit in Dubai on Nov. 18-21. He will join speakers such as filmmaker James Cameron and chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen at the event, which draws 10,000 people! summit.megacampus.com/dubai26/
Chris Adami stands in a dark gray room leaning against the wall and smiling at the camera. He is wearing a dark gray jacket which almost matches the walls, and his head is in spotlight.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
ETTD
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Reyna for Dest should have been the choice from the beginning. Dest has been terrible in every game
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
eeb.msu.edu/news/its-dis...
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It’s disturbingly easy to trick AI into seeing aliens
July 6 - Chris Adami and Ankit Gupta fooled a deep learning algorithm into seeing signs of life where there were none.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The idea that all super intelligence necessarily would want to destroy humanity has always struck me as shallow in the extreme.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hahahahah, Neymar talking shit as they’re about to lose. What a little punkass whiner.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Maybe check the refs bank account. He also didn’t call the penalty until VAR forced him to.
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
What a game
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This has to go to penalties and Vozinha wins it
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Chris Adami @chrisadami.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Unbelievable! 2:2.
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