I’m curious how you found Michael’s work? Like what led you to familiarize yourself with his research?
He seems to be essentially the only biologist that hackernews knows and he always (always!) comes up in biology discussion. I’m wondering how this particular situation arose.
It's been long enough that I'm not really sure. It's every time I see some of his work the way he looks at problems always intrigued me.
Dogma in science tends to blind people, and when a field starts slowing down and running into things we cannot address then we have to start looking at what we should be questioning.
How do you keep up to date with his work?
Just searching it up in YouTube is a good starting place. He has visited a number of different podcasts. Then from there you can drill down into papers on the interesting things.
Thanks, I was more asking from your perspective.
I’m a working research biologist, and I’m genuinely curious how he became so well known among the hackernews slice of the public. He seems to have hit on some very effective combination of research interests and public communication strategy.
I suspected it was the Lex Fridman podcast appearances, but I wasn’t sure if that was how most people became aware of him.