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.
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.
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.