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I’m in Ankara, on the faculty of the METU Graduate School of Informatics — computational biology, aging, age-related disease. Outside of that, these days I’m learning Spanish, listening to Spoon-Fed on Audible (bookshelf →), and writing code for fun.
Recent posts
reading as skill, being well-read as identity
On the gap between reading as a verb and being well-read as an identity — and how calcified patterns short-circuit the reading of texts, events, and situations alike.
Is the answer social science?
Populist waves have been recurring for a hundred and fifty years, and each time we reach for a single person to blame. Where does this reflex come from — and where does taking it seriously lead?
living on earth
Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Living on Earth — a book that reads life not as evolution’s passive product but as an active cause shaping the planet.
one more layer?
Godfrey-Smith’s Living on Earth triggered a thought: are being an evolutionary creature and carrying conscious responsibility two layers of the same whole? And might moral diversity function like genetic diversity?
hello, world
First post — blog is up, system is alive. What comes next: notes, thoughts, drafts.