Pipettes down. Freezers emptied. Tables scrubbed (sort of). Lab coats hung up. It's the end of an era. The Blackman Lab (1991 - 2024) officially closed yesterday 🥹.

SWE-agent is our new system for autonomously solving issues in GitHub repos. It gets similar accuracy to Devin on SWE-bench, takes 93 seconds on avg + it's open source!

We designed a new agent-computer interface to make it easy for GPT-4 to edit+run code
github.com/princeton-nlp/…

Plans to literally 'hack the planet' foiled due to 500ms of latency that Andres instinctually investigated.

The latency was due how the malicious code parsed symbol tables in memory.

openwall.com/lists/oss-secu…

TFW someone posts your first author manuscript and all you can think is what’s missing from this picture?

quite a story: insecticide resistance mutation found in many insects but never before in An. funestus showed up in just 10 individuals from Tanzania among hundreds we have sequenced across Africa-- a striking population specific sweep -- turns out right next to a DDT stockpile

Gates goes #PlanU cgdev.org/blog/advancing…

I’ve been trying to explain when to end projects recently a lot and I think there’s a critical way we do it wrong: most projects can ~always improve with more work, the real problem is that now is more valuable than later, and it’s the convolution that determines importance

The Crick Africa Network has appointed eight new fellows! 🎉🌍

Meet our new @LifeArc1-funded researchers and see what they’ll be working on over the next four years.

UCT | Stellenbosch University | WACCBIP | MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit | MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM

crick.ac.uk/news/2024-03-2…

Extensive replication of our 2021 ancient coronavirus epidemics results with much larger datasets and improved methods to detect selection:
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The new Google Scholar PDF reader is well worth it (if you use Chrome). No more scrolling down to the references. scholar.googleblog.com/2024/03/superc…

Now up at wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-147… awaiting post-publication peer review

Lots of people in CS are (almost surely) GPT-ing their peer reviews
arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

Delighted this is out, led by Brice Letcher , culmination of 10 yrs of work,started by Sorina Maciuca. New genome graph methods took a lot of work, but paid off, and Brice showed gene conversion between genes explained unusually deeply diverged lineages in 2 surface antigen genes.