there's data showing that hiring one toxic person can reduce the productivity of a team, but I am also convinced that hiring one high quality, demanding-but-warm/kind person can raise the bar for an entire team

Even the smartest LLMs can fail at basic multiturn communication Ask for grocery help → without asking where you live 🤦‍♀️ Ask to write articles → assumes your preferences 🤷🏻‍♀️ ⭐️CollabLLM (top 1%; oral ICML Conference) transforms LLMs from passive responders into active collaborators.

Celebration of the life of Atul Butte. Join colleagues from three universities to celebrate him at 10 am PST on Saturday.

It's official - I am thrilled to share that I am joining MIT Biology, the Koch Institute at MIT, and MIT IMES as an Assistant Professor this fall! We will be a hybrid lab combining new technologies and computation to study ecDNA and tumor evolution. thejoneslaboratory.com

Sara Mostafavi (Genentech ) & I (Stanford University) r excited to announce co-advised postdoc positions for candidates with deep expertise in ML for bio (especially sequence to function models, causal perturbational models & single cell models). See details below. Pls RT 1/

The Arc Institute Virtual Cell Challenge: prizes worth up to $100,000 for accurately predicting cellular responses to genetic or chemical perturbations.

Introducing Chai-2 - foundation model enabling low-N de novo antibody design. We experimentally validated Chai-2 on 50+ targets, >15% binding success rate - exceeding what a lab could previously achieve. Looking forward to scaling these progresses to the entire proteome.

🤝Excited to announce Biomni × Anthropic! AI agents are set to transform how biologists do everyday research. Thanks to this partnership, the platform is now free for scientists worldwide: biomni.stanford.edu Learn more: anthropic.com/customers/biom…

Same here 🥲, we've invited ppl from Ai2, DeepMind, FutureHouse, Genentech, Harvard, Helmholtz, Microsoft, MILA, MIT, Meta, OpenAI, Princeton, Sakana, Stanford, xAI, to share experience on building AI Agents for Science. So curious which teams are more stellar and qualified

haha, I happen to know some seniors from Salk, Scripps, UCSD, Biotech startups and Pharmas. We'll see how things evolve. I also know the best ice cream place in the La Jolla Shore :))

1/6 Excited to share our latest preprint: "MORPH Predicts the Single-Cell Outcome of Genetic Perturbations Across Conditions and Data Modalities". 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵 👇 Here is what MORPH is in a nutshell!

Join the next #gestalt seminar by Hanchen Wang this Friday- July 20 @10am EST globalspatial.org/seminar-series/ Dr Wang talks about SpatialAgent- #AI tool for #spatialbiology- using LLM & adaptive reasoning for expt design & #multimodal #spatialomic data analysis Luciano Martelotto 🛠🧬💻🇦🇺 Ioannis Vlachos // @ioavlachos.bsky.social

HLE has recently become the benchmark to beat for frontier agents. We FutureHouse took a closer look at the chem and bio questions and found about 30% of them are likely invalid based on our analysis and third-party PhD evaluations. 1/7

Our agent team is hiring! job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/47991…

Want to join our efforts Microsoft Research AI for Science to push the frontier of AI for materials? We are the team behind MatterGen & MatterSim and we have 2 job openings! Each can be in Amsterdam, NL, Berlin, DE, or Cambridge, UK. It is a rare opportunity to join a highly talented,

Will be there and give a lighting talk (v short). Happy to chat and connect if you're around!

🚨 We’re hiring at Frontier Research Prescient Design Genentech! Work on statistical ML for drug discovery: - Bayesian inference & decision theory - Uncertainty quantification - Multi-objective optimization DMs open, feel free to reach out directly! 🔗 tinyurl.com/4bm5st9v

After discussion with Jiaxin Shi, results from "Diffusion Beats Autoregressive in Data-Constrained Settings" look like an exploit of the AR model's overfitting. Without overfitting, there seems no hope for discrete diffusion to outperform AR; see the 10B token plot for example.