Tristan
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"Her face turned into what I could only describe as a reptilian." 🦎🐍 🦎 @robbiewilliams: "I was in bed with a woman, right? I'm lying on the pillow, and I'm looking at her face, right? Her face turned into what I could only describe as a reptilian. My face went, oh my God. She looks at me and she says, 'I'm not a reptilian.' Boom! Make of that what you will. That's what happened."



















Ever wonder what a nervous system would look like if it self-assembled inside a novel being that hadn't faced a history of selection for its organism-level form and function? Or, perhaps you wondered how #Xenobots would look and act, or what their transcriptome would be like, if they had nervous systems? Well, here's the first step: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… "Engineered Living Systems With Self-Organizing NeuralNetworks: From Anatomy to Behavior and Gene Expression" Our awesome team: led by @halehf: @LaurieONeill99, @mmsperry, @LPiolopez, @DrPatrickE, and Tiffany Lin. The @TuftsUniversity and @wyssinstitute press releases are here, for summaries: now.tufts.edu/2026/03/16/sci… wyss.harvard.edu/news/toward-au…














