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Congrats on your new role as leader of DARPA's Biological Technology Office, Michael Koeris! Can't wait to see what you and your team will accomplish.

Thanks Adam Marblestone! It's been a privilege to work with you on the BRAIN initiative, your seminal roadmap for scalable neural recording, and now Focused Research Organizations. Onward and upward!

Delighted to join Sam Rodriques and Andrew White 🐦‍⬛ FutureHouse last week. It was a very difficult decision to turn down a faculty position for this opportunity but these are unprecedented times in #AI4Science and I strongly believe in FutureHouse's mission.

Thanks Martin Borch Jensen! I've learned a lot from you about aging biology, and am a huge fan of Impetus, and your efforts to mentor the next generation of talent for the field! martinborchjensen.com/apprenticeship

Thanks Eric Gilliam for your overly kind words! My team and I will work hard to live up to this. Thanks for all of your world-class ethnography of research institutions. It's foundational for "metascience as design practice" as suggested by Michael Nielsen and Kanjun 🐙🏡.

Great work Aleš Flídr and Convergent Research. More philanthropists should support work to dramatically improve our response to future pandemics - like making ubiquitous disinfection of the air in buildings a reality.

Great work by my smarter sister Ariel Kalil! She's using behavioral insights, digital tools and rigorous evaluation to increase parental engagement and strengthen math skills for children.

Congrats to AI Safety Institute for this 8.5 million pound AI safety "fast grants" program. Thesis is that understanding the safety of models is not enough - also need to understand impact of models when deployed in a societal infrastructure.

If you have ideas for increasing demand for carbon removal - join the amazing Nan Ransohoff and apply to be a Stripe Climate Fellow!

Thanks to Sean Captain with Worth magazine for a great interview on what my Renaissance Philanthropy team and I are doing to increase the level and ambition of science and technology philanthropy! worth.com/tom-kalil-rena…

Great list Jacob Trefethen. These are all thoughtful ideas. I am happy to spend some time on the "FDA application track for NTDs." It's difficult for me to imagine that there is a compelling argument against this - particularly if it is opt-in for the developer.

Congrats to Erika Alden DeBenedictis and the Align to Innovate team for their progress on the Protein Engineering Tournament!

Great article from Asimov Press on Cultivarium - a Focused Research Organization. @Cultivarium seeks to "democratize access to extraordinary microbes" - which can lead new biotech tools and antibiotics. We have only discovered 0.001 percent of all microbes! Convergent Research

Thanks to Federation of American Scientists🔬 for publishing my blog post on steps that policy entrepreneurs can take to increase the maturity of a policy idea. Pls let me know in comments what you would add - I'd like to make this a living document! fas.org/publication/in…

if you want to build an AI scientist, you have to create real, useful science tasks and evals, not evaluate the model on scientific equivalent of Trivial Pursuit. Congrats to Sam Rodriques and FutureHouse!

Everyone should read "Seeing Like a State" at least once. RIP James Scott.