Notes

Writing

• The escape law, in plain English — a formula that looks like a temperature, and why it isn't one
• Does similar output imply similar internal state? — a double dissociation using the stimming case; preprint draft
• LLM Loops — when language models get stuck repeating, and what decoding settings do about it; work in progress
• The water bear wasn't missing a piece — tardigrades have a complete condensin II, found twice over
• GSYN's first blind prediction — a pre-registered closure, reproduced edge-for-edge
• vibecut recodes itself — an AI-scriptable fork of Kdenlive, built in public
• The Brother and the Brother — fiction in progress: twins, a red pen, and a ledger that never closes
• Anthony's Fire — an artwork specification, with Tempera

Papers

Published work, with DOIs. Unpublished drafts across other domains (philosophy of mind, linguistics, popular science) will be added here deliberately as each one is ready to be public, not in bulk.

ORCID: 0009-0004-1643-9031

Origin of life

• Translation is a merger, not an invention — 10.5281/zenodo.22008797
• Chirality is transduced, not determined — 10.5281/zenodo.22012401
• The Central Catma — 10.5281/zenodo.22019657
• Validity conditions for an exponential escape law in throughflow-driven systems — 10.5281/zenodo.21991605 · plain-language companion

Genomics / tardigrades

• Tardigrades have a complete condensin II, and silence it with the division machinery before organogenesis — 10.5281/zenodo.22832510 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version) · plain-language summary · code and data
• Condensin II never switches on in a tardigrade embryo: it is maternally supplied and shuts down with the division machinery — 10.5281/zenodo.22879339 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version)
• A tardigrade builds its synapses last: two developmental programmes in Hypsibius exemplaris, separated by their timing and then by their chemistry — 10.5281/zenodo.23163786 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version)
• A conserved achaete-scute cluster in three tardigrade genomes, invisible to all three annotations — 10.5281/zenodo.23163792 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version)
• Several questions, not two camps: species, methods and the tardigrade head — 10.5281/zenodo.23163804 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version)
• What is known about the tardigrade nervous system, and in which animal it was seen: a per-structure concordance, with the first measurements of the trunk ganglia — 10.5281/zenodo.23164252 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version)
• A molecular tree of 412 named tardigrade species from all public 18S, 28S and COI, with the records it cannot accept — 10.5281/zenodo.23184587 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version)
• A power-diagram detection algorithm from mechanism design, applied to a developing embryo — 10.5281/zenodo.23208313 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version)
• Seed at cell centres, not nuclei: the cost of a standard shortcut in tessellation models of embryos — 10.5281/zenodo.22879282 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version)

Data, scripts and figures for each: tardigraph resources.

Structural bioinformatics / GSYN

• A set-valued structural descriptor cannot represent oligomeric closure — 10.5281/zenodo.22073288 (concept DOI, resolves to latest version)

For the five origin-of-life and GSYN papers read as components of one thesis rather than a bibliography, see catma.io/papers.

About

Genetics BSc, MBA. Two-time DEF CON speaker. TED speaker. Invited by the Australian Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR).

Co-founded Moth Diagnostics, which produced the first proof-of-concept COVID test in Australia. Co-founded BioFoundry, Australia's first open-access community molecular biology lab, and wrote the DIY STAMP biosafety framework it operates under.

Current work spans origin-of-life theory (catma.io), structural bioinformatics (GSYN), and DIY biology.

Contact: meow@meow-meow.io ORCID: 0009-0004-1643-9031