The Curious Engineer

All blogs / Science

Eukaryote Writes Blog

eukaryotewritesblog.com

Risk, research, and life as a membrane-bound organism

ScienceHistoryEssays / personal

’16’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Posts
87 from 12 Jan 2016 to 25 Apr 2026
Posting
monthly (7 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
Feed
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/feed/

2026 4

  1. Updates from Inkhaven 2 + a brief treatise on fish sex
  2. Lichen as the common ancestor of all life on earth
  3. Good posts from the Inkhaven blogging residency
  4. 23 lessons you will learn living in a very snowy place

2025 7

  1. Speciesquest 2026
  2. Why people like your quick bullshit takes better than your high-effort posts
  3. The rare, deadly virus lurking in the Southwest US, and the bigger picture
  4. Did photos of the 1917 Miracle of the Sun at Fatima prove the sun was at an impossible place in the sky?
  5. Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant: a review of Skibidi Toilet
  6. Book review: Air-borne by Carl Zimmer
  7. Eukaryote Skips Town – why I’m leaving DC

2024 9

  1. Learn to write well BEFORE you have something worth saying
  2. I got dysentery so you don’t have to
  3. Eukaryote writes for Asterisk Magazine
  4. Recommendation: reports on the search for missing hiker Bill Ewasko
  5. Web-surfing tips for strange times
  6. Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon
  7. Internet Harvest (2024, 1)
  8. Book review: Cuisine and Empire
  9. Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11

2023 3

  1. Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?
  2. Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup
  3. Who invented knitting? The plot thickens

2022 1

  1. Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”

2021 1

  1. There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

2020 8

  1. Internet Harvest (2020, 3)
  2. A love letter to civilian OSINT
  3. Internet Harvest (2020, 2)
  4. COVID-19 FAQ
  5. [UPDATE to most recent post]
  6. A point of clarification on infohazard terminology
  7. Internet Harvest (2020, 1)
  8. Algorithmic horror

2019 11

  1. Internet Harvest (2019, 1)
  2. UrracaWatch: A biodefense twitter mystery
  3. The Germy Paradox – Filters: A taboo
  4. The Germy Paradox – Filters: Hard and soft skills
  5. The Germy Paradox – The empty sky: How close did we get to BW usage?
  6. The Germy Paradox – The empty sky: A history of state biological weapons programs
  7. The Germy Paradox: An Introduction
  8. Tiddlywiki for organizing notes and research
  9. A giant whiteboard for $14 (plus nails)
  10. Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness
  11. Small animals have enormous brains for their size

2018 14

  1. Spaghetti Towers
  2. Tip: use a digital packing list
  3. The funnel of human experience
  4. From the Month of Halloween – The Devil’s Hoofprints
  5. Announcing the Month of Halloween
  6. Seattle-Oxford Petrov Day 2018
  7. Book review: The Doomsday Machine
  8. Nemesis club
  9. Biodiversity for heretics
  10. Eukaryote Writes Blog resource pages
  11. Why was smallpox so deadly in the Americas?
  12. [OPEN QUESTION] Insect declines: Why aren’t we dead already?
  13. Caring less
  14. 2 extremely literal introspection techniques

2017 19

  1. The children of 3,500,000,000 years of evolution
  2. How many neurons are there?
  3. Male dairy calves, male chicks, and relative suffering from animal foods
  4. An invincible winter
  5. What happens to cows in the US?
  6. Diversity and team performance: What the research says
  7. Talking at EA Global
  8. Fictional body language
  9. Book review: Barriers to Bioweapons
  10. Metablogging
  11. Beespotting on I-5 and the animal welfare approach to honey
  12. Social games for fun, bonding, and blackmail
  13. The current state of biodefense in the US
  14. My research on Sentience Politics & metablogging
  15. How to design surveys that represent asexuals
  16. How many asexuals are there?
  17. When you’re expecting the weird
  18. Are viruses alive?
  19. Throw a prediction party with your EA/rationality group

2016 10

  1. Triptych in Global Agriculture
  2. Broad-spectrum biotechnologies and their implications for synthetic biosecurity
  3. The bipartisan model of androgynous gender presentation
  4. Science for Non-Scientists: How to read a journal article
  5. Science for Non-Scientists: How to find scientific literature
  6. If Hollywood made “Ex Machina” but switched the genders
  7. What’s the deal with prions?
  8. So You’re Not Ready To Go Vegetarian
  9. Everything I Read and Watched in 2015 + Top Recommendations
  10. What’s the most common animal species?