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Quants are killing UK tech. They pay £200K base and suck up the brightest talent into large corporates. If we are to change the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe, we need to unlock this talent.

Fascinating insight into 23andMe and its demise

"Finding the Best Sleep Tracker" Results of an experiment where I wore 4 sleep trackers every night for 2 months. TLDR Whoop >= Oura > 8Sleep >> Apple Watch + AutoSleep. Link simply right here instead of in a reply because ¯\(ツ)/¯ karpathy.bearblog.dev/finding-the-be…

Thrilled to announce Isomorphic Labs has raised $600M to turbocharge our mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI. I've long felt that improving human health is the most important thing we can do with AI & today marks a big step towards a new era of drug

"...the young graduates who emigrated mostly went to Germany (3,000) and the United Kingdom (2,600)" ansa.it/english/news/g…

Shingles vax appears to prevent dementia! Our Nature paper is first of many from my group to show this. We use a really neat natural experiment to provide causal (not just correlational!) evidence. Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158…; video (👏 Maya Adam MD): bit.ly/4ciRfLh

Thanks to liberation day tariffs your 401k is now a 200.5k

I disagree with all of these. But I agree there could be much better tax incentives in the UK to attract talent (partial tax exemptions for talent, for example, like italy). We have relatively low capital gains tax and relatively low high bracket income tax compared to Europe.

This is absolutely amazing! Using a date of vaccine eligibility as an IV, they are able to show that the shingles vaccine is protective against dementia.

The Cell Science Annual Meeting welcomed over 250 grantees + partners to discuss new #tech that will help discover biological insights, updates to the Human Cell Atlas & the potential of synthetic biology to illuminate cellular complexity.

Resolving which cells are sending or receiving signals when analyzing spatial transcriptomics data is a major challenge. Jialin Liu + Josh Welch’s new algorithms will help uncover the mechanism of intercellular signaling & #SingleCell behavior

Nice new preprint led by Christoffer Nellaker and Melina Claussnitzer, Ph.D. that builds on our early work of studying the genetics of adipocyte size and shape using large-scale multi-cohort digital pathology and human genetics to identify 2 loci controlling adipocyte size: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Absolutely insane bbc.com/news/articles/…

I saw the title and said “Stupid Flanders!” - then saw the author had gone above and beyond with the intro #eshg2025

to avoid burnout at work use the 30-30 rule: after 30 minutes of work, quit your job and disappear into the mountains for 30 years.

They are on a crusade to ruin American science: reuters.com/world/us/trump…

I also need at least 5 coffees to get through my day. But my "power" is limited to half-dozen PhD students/postdocs who don't listen to me anyway.

Italy’s exodus of young talent worsens population squeeze ft.com/content/7544ad… via @ft

Hahahaha. Painfully true.