"We have come to the edge of a world in which we have no experience, and where all our preconceptions must be re-cast."
London, United Kindgdom
Joined April 2009
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Will Bradshaw retweeted
Excited to see the results from the Genetic Engineering Attribution Challenge published today in @NatureComms! Congrats to the fantastic @altLabs_tech team and all the challenge participants! 🎉 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
The results of our flagship project, the Genetic Engineering Attribution Challenge (hosted by @drivendataorg), are announced today: altlabs.tech/geac/
Headline result: top teams could identify the designers of engineered DNA sequences with almost 95% top-10 accuracy.
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Will Bradshaw retweeted
We're looking for a promising technician to help us build the Nucleic Acid Observatory, a reliable early warning system for future pandemics (and more). Please share. media.mit.edu/about/job-oppo…
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arxiv.org/abs/2108.02678
One advantage of taking time between drafts while writing is that, occasionally, you discover that your first draft was damn good.
On round 4 of ping-ponging between my employer and insurer trying to get access to health insurance.
To be honest, after everything I'd heard, I'd be disappointed if my first encounter with US healthcare *wasn't* a Kafkaesque nightmare of some kind.
Will Bradshaw retweeted
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92 votes • Final resultsThis is your regularly scheduled reminder that daylight savings time is a dreadful idea and we should all abolish it immediately.
Fun fact for Americans: traditionally, in Britain, "stocks" means "bonds".
Until I cashed it out to move here, I had a "Stocks & Shares ISA" (tax-exempt investment account) with Vanguard UK.
One unexpected minor cultural difference: US companies really really like security questions.
I've had to provide something like 4x the number of security Q answers in moving here than I'd expect in the UK.
Switzerland abandoning neutrality over Ukraine seems really bad to me – for the world and the future, but plausibly also for Ukraine.
Dear Esther is free to keep on Steam until Wednesday 16th Feb! store.steampowered.com/app/5…
This roughly captures my feelings about adopting US units & date formatting upon moving to the US:
poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gen…
Can we please rearrange the EAsphere so that all the early birds live in California and all the night owls live in Europe?
Every so often I'm reminded how staggeringly unjust it is that I'm 100% fluent in the world's lingua franca for free, while people just as smart as me have to sweat blood to reach 70% of my level.
Pathogens sometimes evolve to be less virulent, sometimes more – often middling.
According to this article, HIV is evolving to become less virulent in Uganda and more virulent in the USA.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
That said, this is basically common sense / basic evo theory, and I'm a bit confused about public health people loudly claiming that the idea that viruses always evolve to mildness over time is a myth – do people actually believe the strong version of this?
Will Bradshaw retweeted
Centre for Syn Bio at Imperial College (@IC_CSynBio) is so pleased to start a monthly seminar series! 🙌🥳🧬🦠
Synbio enthusiasts, molecular engineers around the world, come join and enjoy great talks and discussion!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/imperial-…
#synbio #biodesign #bioengineering
