the only people I’ve seen dismissing this insightful article are ones who don’t seem to understand compression very well the only surprise(?) is that it took a skilled writer and thinker, instead of one of us researchers, to make the case crystal clear newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…

This open letter — ironically but unsurprisingly — further fuels AI hype and makes it harder to tackle real, already occurring AI harms. I suspect that it will benefit the companies that it is supposed to regulate, and not society. Let’s break it down. 🧵futureoflife.org/open-letter/pa…

In this week's JAMA, my husband Ethan Sanford writes about the deaths of our daughter Ceci and his patient Terry. About how grief has informed his practicing of medicine and living a fuller life. Please read about our girl and share. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Two down. #BringItIn

THIS TEAM 💙

The thing to remember about academic science is that: 1. No one is in it for the money. The currency is intellectual influence and prestige. 2. If you write science fiction and try to pass it as fact, your career is over (unlike, say, AI doomism).

YOUR DENVER NUGGETS ARE THE 2023 NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 #bRINGItIn

How to Do Great Work: paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

Really poignant call out. May need more time to let AI reach fruition. However, it’s pretty bold to see people needing to raise with some flavor of AI without there being any track record of any pharma discovery (not accounting for internal or unpublished data) with a drug or IND

Protein Language Models Uncover Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme Function in Metagenomic biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

I'm excited to share my PhD work building a deep learning classifier from protein language models to annotate microbial CAZymes related to different disease and health phenotypes. It's been an absolute pleasure working with my co-authors! #academicchatter #PhDChat #microbiome

A few days ago, Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) celebrated its 10th year anniversary. To mark this occasion, let me tell you the story of RGC--a weekend read. Disclosure: I am not disclosing any privileged information that I may have access to as an RGC employee. The first

I’m hiring a #postdoc! We’re looking for someone to join our team Dartmouth 🌲 in Dartmouth Engineering with expertise in microfabricating flexible devices for soft tissue #bioelectronics. If this sounds cool please reach out (and retweet)! sites.dartmouth.edu/regenerative-b… #JobAlert #postdocjobs

Finally made a triple venn diagram I can be proud of

Very insightful piece from an excellent provider

Discovery of gut microbiome constituents that lower cholesterol levels that may be used to reduce risk for heart disease cell.com/cell/abstract/… Chenhao Li Xavier Lab Broad Institute Cell

Congrats to Chenhao Li and Martin Stražar! Happy to have played a small part. Here’s a nice feature of this work: nature.com/articles/d4158… And the article here: bit.ly/4cGpnjW

Very sad to read about the MIT graduate student killed by a truck on Friday when she was riding her bike in Cambridge. Minh-Thi Nguyen, 24, was a 3rd-year graduate student studying experimental physics. bostonglobe.com/2024/06/23/met… She was awarded a National Science Foundation

The Li + Durbin 2011 paper showing that you can infer an entire population history from just a single genome is still one of the most mind-blowing results in genetics I have ever seen. nature.com/articles/natur…

FTX Chapter 11 Updates - 3AC 🏹🧵 1. FTX Objects to 3AC’s $1.5B Claim Expansion FTX filed a strong objection to the 3AC Liquidators’ motion to amend claims. 3AC seeks to balloon their $120M claim to $1.5B, citing newly discovered facts. FTX calls this a baseless “do-over”