Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志

It’s a spectrum and it has certainly moved

To say the least!

I believe it’s important that all Americans remain abreast of official White House communications.

The Voice of our democratic republic is being used for petty cult.

Meantime health research administrative staff has been cut so heavily that not a single contract can be executed.

God bless America

“There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

“The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.”

—Ecclesiastes 10:5–6, 9:17

Great to see Taiwan’s 唐鳳 Audrey Tang @audreyt.org justly celebrated in Nexus, the latest book from Yuval Noah Harari.

Lovely window visitor in Taipei 🥰 🐦‍⬛

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:

A full day with the Constitution. Have you read it? What did you find most surprising about it?

Officially a genocide.

Thank you so much for the thoughts, Justin! I'm definitely on the same page about technical science work—specificity and formality is great. But I look at a bunch of science and other lay audience books and it seems like almost no one uses the middle initial, making me second guess things!

Dear friends, I’d love your input: I’m planning to submit some writing to a general-audience magazine and I’m torn about how to sign my name. Which feels better to you and why?

(1) Chase W. Nelson
(2) Chase Nelson

Thanks so much!

This looks incredible!

Human Evolutionary Genetics Human Evolutionary Genetics reaches its third edition at a time when sequencing and analyzing whole genomes, modern and ancient, has become rapid, affordable, and routine. These advances have led to a...

Academics! Delighted to announce that the new 3rd edition of Human Evolutionary Genetics is now available to book inspection copies. Available to buy January 9th. 1/5
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Delighted to see our paper on the evolutionary history of the CCR5Δ32 deletion published this week in @cellpress.bsky.social. Work led by @ravnkirstine.bsky.social, Leonardo Cobuccio and Rasa Muktupavela, and co-supervised by me and @simorasmu.bsky.social. See 🧵 for main findings...

Headed to Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭 Oct 23–26 for a science conference. First time. If I add 1–2 days, what should I not miss? 🙏

SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673541v1

It is not the bigness of our concern for certain lives, but the smallness of our concern for countless others, that stands correction.

Darwin described characteristics that revert or evolve to the same state—what we refer to as homoplasies—as “mocking” each other. I appreciate this description. I often feel they are mocking me.

A crystalline day in Taipei, Tiger Mountain 虎山 in claw’s reach.

The strategic end is born in the tactics with which it is pursued.

Israel Steps Up Attacks on Gaza City Ahead of a Planned Wider Offensive

The United States is arming a terrorist regime that has the audacity to call itself Israel.

In the words of Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a 25-year U.S. Army Green Beret: “the people back home need to know they’re funding a genocide.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/w...

SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution The reconstruction of human evolutionary history has undergone repeated advances, each made possible by methodological innovations. In recent decades, genetic and genomic data played a central role in...

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics

SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution The reconstruction of human evolutionary history has undergone repeated advances, each made possible by methodological innovations. In recent decades, genetic and genomic data played a central role in...

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For real—we seem to be headed the way of elan vital

My four favorite books on evolution. What are yours?

(1) Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species - 1859
(2) Motoo Kimura, The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution - 1983
(3) Austin Hughes, Adaptive Evolution of Genes and Genomes - 1999
(4) Michael Lynch, The Origins of Genome Architecture - 2007

“Or, as Kipling might have said, ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, maybe you haven’t heard the news’.” —Adam Smith

Sitting in a cafe, working on disease research—without pay because the government has been so hobbled—I am overcome by betrayal as the adjacent table praises the President as God-touched, then minutes later lauds their medical treatments that were made possible by the research now being asphyxiated.

“The professional membership of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club strongly condemns the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza… by the Israeli Defense Forces.”