See my piece on the history of microbiology and the vast, invisible worlds that come into focus every time we figure out how to look closer: Through the Looking Glass, and What Zheludev et al. (2024) Found There at Asterisk Magazine I’ve written for Asterisk before: What I won’t eat, on arriving at an equilibrium […]| Eukaryote Writes Blog
Meditations on what's bad about the internet lately and how to use it anyhow.| Eukaryote Writes Blog
Most of us go about our lives comforted by the thought “I would never drop a nuclear weapon on the moon.” The truth is that given a lot of power, a nuclear weapon, and a lot of extremely specific circumstances, we too might find ourselves thinking “I should nuke the moon.”| Eukaryote Writes Blog
Free covid treatment for everyone in the US, a novel orthopox virus, a really big machine, cameras used for good and evil, ant heaven now, and more.| Eukaryote Writes Blog
Risk, research, and life as a membrane-bound organism| Eukaryote Writes Blog
2 posts published by Georgia Ray during October 2024| Eukaryote Writes Blog
2 posts published by Georgia Ray during January 2024| Eukaryote Writes Blog
2 posts published by Georgia Ray during June 2025| Eukaryote Writes Blog
Art has died and been reborn a thousand times now. Join me at its graveside once again. Let us speak a few words for what once was. Let us imagine the inconceivable and hollow future ahead without it. If you weep, I will pass you my handkerchief. And let us all pretend to be surprised once more when it bursts out of its coffin, on fire, and singing.| Eukaryote Writes Blog
Man, it’s embarrassing to be part of a field of study (biosecurity, in this case) that had such a public moment of unambiguously whiffing it.| Eukaryote Writes Blog
I’m hesitant to write this piece because it’s directly about my EA ambitions, and I’ve talked to a lot of EAs trying to get into biosecurity who want advice, and I have no idea what they should tak…| Eukaryote Writes Blog
Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.| Eukaryote Writes Blog
On turning 30 in a human challenge trial ward.| Eukaryote Writes Blog
How to find someone who has died in the wilderness.| Eukaryote Writes Blog
This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at great effort and expense during the 1969 Apollo landing.| Eukaryote Writes Blog
If a fatal neurological virus were spreading across deer in the US, and showed up in cooked infected meat, my default assumption would be “we’re in danger.” But a prion isn’t a virus. Why doe…| Eukaryote Writes Blog
Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.| Eukaryote Writes Blog
What is civilian OSINT, and could it be used altruistically?| Eukaryote Writes Blog