Joe Hilton
@joebhilton.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Manchester Centre for Health Economics
https://jbhilton.github.io/
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joseph-hilton
https://jbhilton.github.io/
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joseph-hilton
(Not a real biologist so I'm almost certainly misusing "analogous" there)
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
(Not a real biologist so I'm almost certainly misusing "analogous" there)
Apparently the limbs have true radial symmetry and are analogous to a star-shaped set of lips, with the whole starfish basically being a disembodied head: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A radical evolutionary makeover gave echinoderms their unusual body plan
Gene-expression maps show how starfish evolved their five-fold symmetry.
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Apparently the limbs have true radial symmetry and are analogous to a star-shaped set of lips, with the whole starfish basically being a disembodied head: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I do think there's a weird incentive structure around plos comp biol-type work; the target audience for most methods papers are in positions that reward them for developing and using their own methods (i.e. jobs in maths/stats depts) so a lot of good methods get "built on" but not actually applied.
September 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I do think there's a weird incentive structure around plos comp biol-type work; the target audience for most methods papers are in positions that reward them for developing and using their own methods (i.e. jobs in maths/stats depts) so a lot of good methods get "built on" but not actually applied.
I think you're underestimating the emotional depth here. He took and ate up *all* of that corn. Not just some of it.
September 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I think you're underestimating the emotional depth here. He took and ate up *all* of that corn. Not just some of it.
The "computers are primarily machines for storing and distributing Grateful Dead bootlegs" era.
August 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The "computers are primarily machines for storing and distributing Grateful Dead bootlegs" era.
There's a lower-stakes version of this where an AI product is mis-sold as being able to provide service X better than a human, most of the people whose job it is to provide service X are fired, and then society is left with service X being provided at a lower standard or just not at all.
May 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
There's a lower-stakes version of this where an AI product is mis-sold as being able to provide service X better than a human, most of the people whose job it is to provide service X are fired, and then society is left with service X being provided at a lower standard or just not at all.