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Michael Abbott

@m-abski.bsky.social

Physics & life, at Yale Qbio

Michael Abbott @m-abski.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

To balance this giant pencil within 5° of vertical, how much information has to flow from @mleighton.bsky.social 's eyes to his hand? His new article out today (2607.16639, with friends in Yale QBio -- @jbetancourt015.bsky.social, @emonetlab.bsky.social and Ben Machta), has an answer...

Matt is performing a feedback control task, using less than 10 bits per second. The number arXiv:2607.16639 is written on the wall behind him, because Twitter doesn't like links

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Michael Abbott @m-abski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

For these animals, published rates of entropy production are at most a few bits per second. That's very small compared to W, which we can estimate from their diet. And the same is true for our 𝐴. 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑢... the bound kʙ T Σ ≤ W is quite far from being tight:

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arXiv physics.bio-ph Biological Physics @physicsbioph-bot.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Yu Fu, Emmy Dobson, Benjamin B. Machta, Michael C. Abbott: In-vivo entropy production of A. subaru arxiv.org/abs/2604.00453 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.00453 arxiv.org/html/2604.00453

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Michael Abbott @m-abski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Maybe I should tweet here too. Out yesterday is my first ever experimental paper, on a novel model organism... arxiv.org/abs/2604.00453

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