Preprint submitted to Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2025
A response to ‘Biological agency: a concept without a research program’
Academic Publications
Response to “A new view on biology and some philosophical perspectives”
Response to “A new view on biology and some philosophical perspectives” by Emil Toescu and Daniel Bardos
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 49, 574 (2024)
What distinguishes the elephant from E. coli: Causal spreading and the biological principles of metazoan complexity
Journal of Biosciences 48, 14 (2023). Available here.
Lessons from the UK’s handling of Covid-19 for the future of scientific advice to government: a contribution to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry
Susan Michie, Philip Ball, James Wilsdon & Robert West, Contemporary Social Science 17, 418 (2022).
What the COVID-19 pandemic reveals about science, policy and society
Journal of the Royal Society Inferface Focus 11, 20210022 (2021).
Water activity in Venus’s uninhabitable clouds and other planetary atmospheres
J. E. Hallsworth et al., Nature Astronomy 5, 665 (2021). Available here.
The quest for materials solutions to the coronavirus pandemic
MRS Bulletin 45, 609-613 (2020). Available here.