Congrats to @brianhie.bsky.social and @samuelhking.bsky.social at the @arcinstitute.org on a remarkable publication in @science.org. Time will demonstrate the philosophical importance of this landmark paper.

Reviewing Fed Up by Daniel Lieberman published by Knopf @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for @wsj.com, and rather enjoying it!

A thoughtful, nuanced, and analytical review of On the Future of Species in today’s edition of @wsj.com written by seasoned science reviewer @dshaywitz.bsky.social

Nice review of On the Future of Species in the Sunday edition of the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ole @mm-ilsole24ore-bot.bsky.social

Much looking forward to reviewing Philip Ball’s @philipcball.bsky.social new book on Niels Bohr

Review of On the Future of Species in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung @faznet.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

My Opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal @wsj.com reviewing Karen Torghele’s book on Albert Sabine published by the Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social

My book ‘On the Future of Species’ was featured in today’s Financial Times @financialtimes.com ‘Best summer books of 2026’. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #SyBio #Evolution #AI #AIxBio #GenBio

Just started reading #Curved Air by @kevinadavies.bsky.social published by @harvardpress.bsky.social about the quest to cure sickle cell disease using gene editing #CRISPR #SickleCellDisease and which I am reviewing for @science.org

Genyro’s @genyroinc.bsky.social new pre-print in which we generated 3 poly-A RNA Hantavirus candidates in 2 days has just been published in bioarchives.

A new bioRxiv paper published today by @genyroinc.bsky.social shows one-pot, parallel DNA construction from oligo pools using #Sidewinder, enabling AI-driven biology at scale. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Today the high-payload HSV-based gene therapy company Replay, that I founded during the pandemic in 2020, was acquired by LEO Pharma for a $50M upfront payment, as well as milestones and tiered royalties.

Reviewing ‘Albert Sabin: The life of the polio vaccine pioneer’ by Karen Torghele @yalepress.bsky.social for the @wsj.com

A review of my book #OnTheFutureOfSpecies on the conference of #AI and biology, was published in @science.org magazine today

I am reviewing for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social and greatly enjoying the new annotated version of Charles Darwin’s classic #TheDescentOfMan published by @yalepress.bsky.social

Interview discussing my book On the Future of Species with @erictopol.bsky.social share.google/UEBEx9aq3C1y...

My recent letter ‘On the Computability of Biological Machines’ published in The Lancet

Great to see the Spanish version of my book On the Future of Species

Good to see that On The Future of Species has been named FT Book of the Week. Thanks to Clive Cookson, Senior Science Writer at the Financial Times, for his thoughtful review.

A nice review of On the Future of Species in today’s Nature magazine

I’ve just learned that my forthcoming book ‘On The Future of Species’ (published by Bloomsbury in the UK on 12 February and the MIT Press in the U.S. on 14 April) has been awarded #1 Best Seller in Medical Genetics on Amazon in the UK.

Nice to be in the New Scientist list of best new popular science books for 2026

The face of our long-extinct relative Denisovan Man

My forthcoming book ‘On the Future of Species’ has just been sent to the printers. It will be published by Bloomsbury in the UK on 12 February 2026, by the MIT Press in the U.S. on 17 March 2026, and thereafter in China, Australia, Canada, Holland, India, and beyond.