Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志
@chasewnelson.bsky.social
HPV & evolution researcher 🧬 | Based in Taiwan 🇹🇼 & Michigan 🇺🇸 | Baritenor 🎶 | Reader 📚, writer ✍🏼, deadlifter 🏋🏼, espresso drinker ☕
Prepping for a great Christmas so I got my flu shot. Here in Taiwan it costs US$30 for people under 50, even with insurance. Worth it! Vaccines are among our most incredible discoveries—a silent molecular armor.
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Prepping for a great Christmas so I got my flu shot. Here in Taiwan it costs US$30 for people under 50, even with insurance. Worth it! Vaccines are among our most incredible discoveries—a silent molecular armor.
Today, after 12 years, I reached the last page of this book. Cameron is a guide like no other. I will share just one quote, from Brenda Ueland:
“They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.”
“They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.”
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Today, after 12 years, I reached the last page of this book. Cameron is a guide like no other. I will share just one quote, from Brenda Ueland:
“They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.”
“They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.”
Shifen 十分 Waterfall 瀑布 just outside of Taipei in beautiful Taiwan.
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Shifen 十分 Waterfall 瀑布 just outside of Taipei in beautiful Taiwan.
Otherworldly view of 台北 Taipei 101 from Keelung Mountain in 台灣 Taiwan—sky as fire, heavens opened. First picture taken by my aunt, Amy Eckert.
November 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Otherworldly view of 台北 Taipei 101 from Keelung Mountain in 台灣 Taiwan—sky as fire, heavens opened. First picture taken by my aunt, Amy Eckert.
“Making our posts of honor, places of profit [will] only nourish the foetus of a King”.
—Benjamin Franklin, June 1787, Constitutional Convention
—Benjamin Franklin, June 1787, Constitutional Convention
October 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Making our posts of honor, places of profit [will] only nourish the foetus of a King”.
—Benjamin Franklin, June 1787, Constitutional Convention
—Benjamin Franklin, June 1787, Constitutional Convention
“Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money… making our posts of honor, places of profit [will] only nourish the foetus of a KING”.
—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, June 1787
7/7
—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, June 1787
7/7
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money… making our posts of honor, places of profit [will] only nourish the foetus of a KING”.
—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, June 1787
7/7
—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, June 1787
7/7
In a world where Editors determine what we see of one another, tomorrow’s “No Kings” protest [[ nokings.org ]] is of incalculable value. 1/7
October 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In a world where Editors determine what we see of one another, tomorrow’s “No Kings” protest [[ nokings.org ]] is of incalculable value. 1/7
OUT TODAY: SimHumanity, a SLiM 5 model of the human genome, replete with demography, autosomes, X/Y & mtDNA.
A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations.
Huge thanks to coauthors Ben Haller, @mufernando.bsky.social & Philipp Messer.
🔗 www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/4/0006
A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations.
Huge thanks to coauthors Ben Haller, @mufernando.bsky.social & Philipp Messer.
🔗 www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/4/0006
October 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
OUT TODAY: SimHumanity, a SLiM 5 model of the human genome, replete with demography, autosomes, X/Y & mtDNA.
A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations.
Huge thanks to coauthors Ben Haller, @mufernando.bsky.social & Philipp Messer.
🔗 www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/4/0006
A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations.
Huge thanks to coauthors Ben Haller, @mufernando.bsky.social & Philipp Messer.
🔗 www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/4/0006
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.
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.
September 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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.
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
September 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
God bless America
Great to see Taiwan’s 唐鳳 Audrey Tang @audreyt.org justly celebrated in Nexus, the latest book from Yuval Noah Harari.
September 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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 🥰 🐦⬛
September 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Lovely window visitor in Taipei 🥰 🐦⬛
A full day with the Constitution. Have you read it? What did you find most surprising about it?
September 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A full day with the Constitution. Have you read it? What did you find most surprising about it?
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.
September 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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.
September 6, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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.
September 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The strategic end is born in the tactics with which it is pursued.
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
(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
August 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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
(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
August 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“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
If Israel can annex Gaza, why shouldn’t China annex Taiwan, and Russia annex Ukraine, and the United States annex Greenland, …? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
August 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If Israel can annex Gaza, why shouldn’t China annex Taiwan, and Russia annex Ukraine, and the United States annex Greenland, …? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
Just wonderful. Originally published in 1940 and updated in 1972, I came across this book in the footnotes of Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline.
Reading: “the process of passing from understanding less to understanding more by the operation of your mind upon a book.”
Reading: “the process of passing from understanding less to understanding more by the operation of your mind upon a book.”
August 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Just wonderful. Originally published in 1940 and updated in 1972, I came across this book in the footnotes of Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline.
Reading: “the process of passing from understanding less to understanding more by the operation of your mind upon a book.”
Reading: “the process of passing from understanding less to understanding more by the operation of your mind upon a book.”
In the year 1917, the population of Palestine was approximately 94% Arab. Life went along more or less peaceably among the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities. 1/8
August 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In the year 1917, the population of Palestine was approximately 94% Arab. Life went along more or less peaceably among the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities. 1/8
I was curious to estimate how much I am personally contributing to Israel’s genocide of 2 million Palestinians through my taxes. It turns out each U.S. taxpayer is contributing at least $0.40 per day, or $148 per year. 1/3
July 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I was curious to estimate how much I am personally contributing to Israel’s genocide of 2 million Palestinians through my taxes. It turns out each U.S. taxpayer is contributing at least $0.40 per day, or $148 per year. 1/3
If Palestinian children are taught to hate, their most effective teachers may be the Israeli soldiers who, for the better part of a century, have mocked, maimed, and murdered their families.
July 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If Palestinian children are taught to hate, their most effective teachers may be the Israeli soldiers who, for the better part of a century, have mocked, maimed, and murdered their families.