Projects

Six directions, in this order. Cellular perception (the perceptome framework and toolkit) is currently the active center. Comparative biology of neural networks and aging research are the two long-running substantive threads. Cognition and social projects, methodological work (including a deliberate negative result), and an AI-collaborative research methodology framework round out the portfolio.

Cellular perception

Treating cellular signaling pathways as a perceptual repertoire. The current center of the portfolio: a framework + toolkit + a growing family of papers.

Comparative biology of neural networks

Applying biological methods (DFE, population genetics, epistasis) to neural networks. Almost-biological experiments on trained transformers — same statistical apparatus that population geneticists use on yeast and flies.

Aging research / biomarkers

Aging signatures across substrates: cardiac conduction, EEG, bulk and single-cell transcriptome. Cross-population replication is the default standard.

Cognition, education, experiments, social projects

Public instruments, cognition studies, and educational / social experiments.

Methods & cross-substrate work

Cross-substrate bridges and methodological contributions — including a deliberate negative result. Where same apparatus operates across different objects of study, or where the methodology itself is the contribution.

AI-collaborative research methodology

A framework for doing science in active collaboration with AI — preregistration discipline, sign conventions, locked-vs-working artifacts, AI-friendly publishing — with this portfolio as the worked-example track. First concrete pre-registered study under the framework is now public.