I saw it firsthand at the #Lindau2025 Nobel Laureates meeting--international young scientists welcomed and recruited in Germany and elsewhere. Some of the very best are leaving, and many of the best will no longer come. wsj.com/politics/polic…

And download books too, while you still can. They got libgen but Anna’s archive is still up, as are sites like monoskop. AI scrubbed those archives and they are trying to do land enclosure again—we still have time before the fence is locked.

Our work on "Evaluating the representational power of pre-trained DNA language models for regulatory genomics" led by Amber Tang with help from Nirali Somia & Steven Yu is finally published in Genome Biology! Check it out! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Boltz v2.2.0 released! Boltz-2 now includes full support for arbitrary contact conditioning, template forcing potentials, and several improvements contributed by members of the community 🤗

America will cease to be exceptional if the world’s best AI researchers can’t even be in the country

buzbarstow 1/ it seems that curriculums are fundamentally designed for healthcare or PhD track, with little to no teaching concentrated on industry-transferable skills, entrepreneurship, or creative paths 2/ hence employers end up exclusively hiring PhDs even for positions where an

Join us next Tuesday (7/22 @ 2:30 PM PDT ) for the AI+Bio seminar w/ Emma Dann (Pritchard Lab, Stanford) on "Mapping gene effects on complex traits w/ human genetics, cell atlases & perturb-seq.” In-person @ Gates 415, Stanford & online. upcoming talks: snap.stanford.edu/ai-bio-seminar

RFdiffusion: Beta Documentation Now Available We’re excited to announce that RFdiffusion now has official, Rosetta Commons-curated documentation! Read more: rosettacommons.org/2025/07/16/rfd…

My client Will Kim has a green card, grew up in the US, became a scientist & is researching Lyme disease vaccines. He has spent >7 days in a CBP airport detention ctr w/ no daylight, sleeping in chair, no access to lawyer. Another brutal attack on immigrants & science. Free Will!

Vought has ordered a halt on all extramural NIH funding for the rest of the FY. No words. You cannot let this stand Senate Democrats Senate Republicans Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. wsj.com/politics/polic… Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research

Genetic "optimization" of embryos appears to be becoming mainstream. The narrative currently is largely controlled by startups that range across the spectrum from hardcore snake-oil to well-intentioned & occasionally strong domain expertise. But these are not neutral parties. 1/

tl;dr - IPAM, the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, will shut down in a few months if their NSF funding isn't restored or replaced. The birthplace of compressed sensing, as well as lots of advances in ML and AI later picked up by industry.

I'm noticing that due to (I think?) a lot of benchmarkmaxxing on long horizon tasks, LLMs are becoming a little too agentic by default, a little beyond my average use case. For example in coding, the models now tend to reason for a fairly long time, they have an inclination to

This looks super accessible!

Join us this Tuesday for our next AI+Biomedicine Seminar, featuring Sam Rodriques of FutureHouse on “Automating Scientific Research with AI Agents.” 📍Gates 415 | Stanford & Zoom

I spoke with a biopharma colleague from my postdoc days - they said much of experimental biology knowledge isn’t online or in public databases, so we still need people who know what to look for and how to uncover that information

“garbage in, garbage out”: last week, Nature Methods published an article (nature.com/articles/s4159…) comparing the deep learning models trained on scRNA-seq (single-cell transcriptomes) which were published in recent years — GENEFORMER, scGPT, scBERT, scFoundation, and others.

The Max Planck Society is good at attracting international postdocs but struggles to retain them, survey finds go.nature.com/4fxBH7U

Come by the Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club meeting at Room 181, Building 68, MIT, Boston to hear some more updates about BindCraft! bpdmc.org

Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced that the US federal government is terminating US$500 million worth of grants for mRNA vaccine research. We must never, ever, forget that millions are alive today, or in better health, because of this life-saving technology. go.nature.com/3HDCS9n