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cancer guy @noetik_ai || ex virus guy @dyno_tx || i write/podcast about bio ml at https://t.co/QPTHsR3fzm || art on https://t.co/SwGiuSjlXF
Manhattan, NY
Joined March 2019
We don't know what most microbial genes do. Can genomic language models help? there's only one way to find out! this is a 1 hour and 42 minute interview with an MIT professor (the famous @Micro_Yunha) chatting about these questions, her work in solving them at @tatta_bio, and
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very kind comment come onto the Owl Posting Podcast to talk about the cool stuff you are working on!
Bringing organ-scale cryopreservation into existence (Hunter Davis, Ep #6) https://t.co/snKPHQ9URq (apple podcasts, spotify, and youtube links below) This is an interview with @huntercoledavis, the CSO and co-founder (alongside @LauraDeming) of @untillabs, which you may also
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Owl pod incoming on Polyphron. set your alarms.
great essay by @ashleevance you should read it! because tomorrow morning, i will release a two hour long podcast discussing the economics, prior failed approaches, and science of how tissue engineering works at Polyphron, filmed with the founders @thematthewosman and @FabioZB_I
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great essay by @ashleevance you should read it! because tomorrow morning, i will release a two hour long podcast discussing the economics, prior failed approaches, and science of how tissue engineering works at Polyphron, filmed with the founders @thematthewosman and @FabioZB_I
Mind-blowing scoop this morning on Polyphron. They're building human tissue - ie parts of organs - to replace diseased and damaged parts of the body. @eryney_ok delivered the goods on this one https://t.co/JD4wOBEUeO
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Introducing the DataHaven × Beluga Learn & Earn Starter Pack! We’re celebrating the launch of @DataHaven_xyz’s Camp Haven, as they prepare for the HAVE TGE in the new year! Win $1000 USD Link below... 👇
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i watched Bugonia (2025) last night and never before have i ever seen such an apt representation of what it is like to work in an executive position at a large pharmaceutical company
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One of my fav Abishaike posts this year
Human art in a post-AI world should be strange https://t.co/mp2yLXaZRI some personal thoughts ive had on the brave new creative future before us, on the type of art that more humans should be making, and on one of the strangest (and best) films i know of
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owl’s law
whenever a biology-ml paper breaks containment, it’s never the one you want it to be
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whenever a biology-ml paper breaks containment, it’s never the one you want it to be
AI-designed proteins that survive 150 °C and nanonewton forces Proteins are usually fragile machines. Heat them, pull on them, or send them through a high-temperature sterilization step (like those used in hospitals), and most will unfold and aggregate, losing their function.
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The latest Microsoft Research Forum episode is now available on-demand. Explore purposeful research and its real-world impact.
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https://t.co/wIgVDh3SG6 discusses this... https://t.co/mp2yLXbxHg
I understand what qualityslop means now. It's what happens when content perfectly overlaps with the expectations of its consumer, to the point where the artist's perspective is absent from the endproduct. The creator must have higher standards than his audience. Otherwise, his
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final bit about this episode: one thing that really struck me about is how deeply https://t.co/VsMUiNhmB9 has thought about incentivization they want people to use their software to share microbial genomes. but the software depends on network effects! how do you seed it with a
We don't know what most microbial genes do. Can genomic language models help? there's only one way to find out! this is a 1 hour and 42 minute interview with an MIT professor (the famous @Micro_Yunha) chatting about these questions, her work in solving them at @tatta_bio, and
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all dense paragraphs in an essay involve a contract between the reader and you. the contract being that, if the reader promises to read this block without faltering, you in turn promise that there will be a huge payoff at the end; some revalation, some punchline. if you cannot
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im so unbelievably excited about the next two months of articles and podcast lineups. 1.5 years into doing this and it hasn’t gotten old. i love the internet
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hoisted by his own petard to be fair, it knows my genome too. none of us are really safe. which, in turn, means that all of us are safe
Xi Jinping has his DNA scrubbed from surfaces for fear of bioengineered weapons
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this is not an anti ai take this is a ‘there are people using ai to cure cancer’ take i am telling you to go work with them
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i think this is an unfortunate side effect of anyone with sufficiently large power in biotech to do anything, also has negative incentive to communicate *anything* some of the most interesting engineers/scientists/VC’s i know are all mostly unwilling to share their most
biotech needs its own david sacks in reflecting on this past year, one thing has become increasingly obvious to me: biotech desperately needs a public champion. someone who can translate scientific progress into policy, coordinate the industry’s scattered voices into a coherent
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People on twitter will really be like "you want to slow down ai progress so you can personally cure cancer? that's horrible, and pales in effectiveness to my strategy, which is building an ai to cure cancer" and then not build an ai to cure cancer
I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Look around you, I said. The room is
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clip subject: microbial genome generation. mostly a long back and forth of my dumb questions and yunha patiently answering every one. very grateful that my guests are kind and pure of spirit
We don't know what most microbial genes do. Can genomic language models help? there's only one way to find out! this is a 1 hour and 42 minute interview with an MIT professor (the famous @Micro_Yunha) chatting about these questions, her work in solving them at @tatta_bio, and
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Owl is one of the best Substack accounts for biology I’ve ever seen and everything they put their hands on is insightful and thoughtful. Can’t wait to give this a listen! Been paying attention to @tatta_bio for a while now, seems like they are doing big things!!
We don't know what most microbial genes do. Can genomic language models help? there's only one way to find out! this is a 1 hour and 42 minute interview with an MIT professor (the famous @Micro_Yunha) chatting about these questions, her work in solving them at @tatta_bio, and
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