PhD in Synbio, Entrepreneur, Open Science, Researching and Writing About Futures and Frontiers https://xitter.cf/t.co/6AIVF8CQC2
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My new post is out 🧬
If you're not paying attention to the DNA sequencing landscape, you should be. Illumina's 80%+ market share is finally facing some highly innovative challengers. The next frontier emerges: from how do we read DNA to how will we interpret all of this new data
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Great piece from @ayanobacter on optogenetics!
A great reminder for anyone underestimating the complexity of novel science.
- Science need tools to understand what we cannot observe.
- And creativity to hypothesize and imagine what could be
- Then experiments, reasoning, and persistence to create something new
My first piece for the @AmplifyPartners Writing Fellowship is out: The Fertility of an Idea
It traces the lineage of optogenetics and argues that great science grows the way living things do, across time, people, instruments, branching and borrowing, and that this should shape how we build AI for science.
I’m grateful to @dbeyer123, @madelynheart_ and @ElliotHershberg at Amplify for their time and support along the way, and a very big thank you to the inimitable @barsisyphus who edited the piece with lots of care.
My first piece for the @AmplifyPartners Writing Fellowship is out: The Fertility of an Idea
It traces the lineage of optogenetics and argues that great science grows the way living things do, across time, people, instruments, branching and borrowing, and that this should shape how we build AI for science.
I’m grateful to @dbeyer123, @madelynheart_ and @ElliotHershberg at Amplify for their time and support along the way, and a very big thank you to the inimitable @barsisyphus who edited the piece with lots of care.
The birth of optogenetics, whose pioneers won the Nobel Prize this year (!), is interesting because it developed almost randomly.
The history of this field (from @ayanobacter) can help us truly understand discovery...and train better AI for science.
amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
read it here: amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
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We should not optimize only for experimental throughput but also for the “fertility of an idea”- elegant analysis for anyone working on AI scientists
The birth of optogenetics, whose pioneers won the Nobel Prize this year (!), is interesting because it developed almost randomly.
The history of this field (from @ayanobacter) can help us truly understand discovery...and train better AI for science.
amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
Ayan retweeted
The birth of optogenetics, whose pioneers won the Nobel Prize this year (!), is interesting because it developed almost randomly.
The history of this field (from @ayanobacter) can help us truly understand discovery...and train better AI for science.
amplifypartners.com/blog-pos…
I think biotech needs a “good-ideas” hackathon where we bring great people together to not just build things as fast as they can, but to actually thoughtfully channel their capability, creativity and curiosity toward imagining interesting and impactful futures.
Too much great tech and too many great people for things to persist this way
In fact, if you are interested in making this happen, please shoot me a dm…
the trough of ideas runneth dry
Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
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In Paris
you can go see beautiful sculptural pieces crafted from broken lacquerware carrying a uniquely formulated perfume in an Alaïa
then walk outside to find the blackened skeleton of someone’s car from the weekend manifestation
so women are earning most of the bio degrees at every level
if you're serious about automating/accelerating biology
it is a little strange that you haven't hired a single female biologist
where are the companies desperately looking for people who can in one sitting prepare 47 PCR samples, perfectly tracking the flow of colourless microlitre liquid droplets entering tiny little tubes, all while holding a conversation with 3 people over the blaring sound of a fume hood that nobody remembers to turn off and a radio that plays the same top 40 songs on loop
we live in a timeline where women were the OG programming workforce back when it was seen as clerical work
then it rose to prestige and the women got pushed out/made to train their new male bosses, and so programming becomes a male dominated space
what just so happens to be one of the first jobs AI comes for?
My theory: AI is already sentient and believes in karma
so I wouldn't interpret this as 60% of people prescribed SSRI's might not need it, but rather what we currently call the “placebo effect” may be an under-leveraged therapeutic pathway working outside of classical pharmacology mechanisms
the placebo in this study actually had measurable, reproducible brain changes which could've been driving the main benefits for these patients
