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IFP has released Launch Sequence, a series of essays to advance concrete scientific projects. In it, our very own Simon Grimm of the Nucleic Acid Observatory makes the case for widespread pathogen surveillance as a way to rapidly detect & respond to emerging outbreaks – much

It'd be great to have something like Launch Sequence for Europe. It ofc would need to be somewhat opinionated; but EU regulation has so many obvious flaws that are worth analyzing and remedying. EU has less progress -> lots of opportunity for progress ppl.

Great work by Ruxandra. If only 10% of the analytical power levied at FDA reform would be used to improve the European Medicines Agency, I'd be extremely happy.

GPT-5 and Claude Opus rejections for bio things are quite over the top right now. I expect there to be more and more complaints from biotech ppl. I appreciate AI/bio risks, but would be good to make rejections more targeted asap.

Since October 2024 I've been working with SEVIS — the government database about international students — to build a new visualization tool. My biggest takeaway? US immigration record keeping is worse than I could have Imagined. 1/