Rational Biology

Keeping our Teeth In Biotech; prelude

Personal visions other heretical hearsay

Sep 24 • 

Austin Morrissey

4

August 2025

GPT-5, Verbal Judo of Sam Altman, and the First Censored Safety Report

A disturbing preview of emerging AI risk

Aug 22

10

3

Vibe Coding, mRNA, and a Very Conflicted AI Claude

Automating real-world biotech tasks, the quirks of AI safety, and a new way for scientists to work.

Aug 7 • 

Austin Morrissey

9

5

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

fMRI and Neuromodulation for Neural Networks

Aug 6 • 

Austin Morrissey

7

4

ChatGPT Exhibits Context-Dependent Safety Bypass

In search of Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Aug 3 • 

Austin Morrissey

5

1

June 2025

Cui Bono? A Question for Our Time

Kip Tiernan and the persistence of asking who benefits

Jun 19 • 

Austin Morrissey

5

American Pathology: The Sauna

165 degrees

Jun 14 • 

Austin Morrissey

6

Mentorship and Death a Decade Later

Shilem, Shalom, Salaam

Jun 6 • 

Austin Morrissey

8

2

Your Blog Can Effect The Future More than Your Presidential Vote

How Writing from the Creative Center Teaches the Machines That Shape Us

Jun 3 • 

Austin Morrissey

11

1

April 2025

Equity and Endurance: Lessons from a Nobel Laureate

Reflections on trust, local solutions, and the persistence needed to make medicine work

Apr 25 • 

Austin Morrissey

3

1

Delocalized electrons, esoteric symbols, and the periphery of knowing.

How a sleeping mind saw what reason couldn’t: the ring that reshaped chemistry.

Apr 18 • 

Austin Morrissey

4

1

Reflections on Restraint & Masculinity

Self-Restraint and the ability to de-escalate violence seperates boys and men

Apr 14 • 

Austin Morrissey

8

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