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Aspartame breaks down in the digestive track and doesn't enter circulation. It breaks down into three well known compounds that are found in much greater amounts in our natural die…

I am a founder of a startup (Octant - a16z backed) that has a small & growing software engineering and data science team (see the Nov who's hiring post). Some thoughts on some of t…

Octant | Software Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE Emeryville, CA | https://www.octant.bio/ Octant is a well-backed (Largest investor is A16Z) team of experienced technologists and en…

I imagine how hard this must be on you and your family and kudos for having the energy and wherewithal to try to organize. I think there are a few people/places that might be worth…

Very little drug development happens in academia. You are missing all the time, money spent in public and private markets in the biotech ecosystem that Pharma largely is the back e…

Congrats @jrkelly and team! Exciting day for synthetic biology, and love the pictures of the NYSE: https://twitter.com/Ginkgo/status/1438837881649381377?s=20

Yay! Come work with Nicholas, he’s awesome. I’m a cofounder at Octant and feel free to reach out to me as well (dm here or sri@ the same email address). Also, if you are interested…

Jesse Bloom of the Hutch is giving a talk tomorrow on the functional consequences and antibody escape about escape mutations in SARS-CoV-2; these are his slides. The talk tomorrow …

For the last twenty years I thought things would eventually just come back to center. I’m not sure anymore. It’s possible it’s as follows: One side will win. History will be writte…

People have used electron diffraction using cryo-em scopes to do sub-angstrom resolution. For example, my colleague Jose Rodridguez published this a few years ago. https://www.natu…

Lol. Totally agreed.

Totally agreed with you Re: teaching. I think universities are systematically not valuing teaching enough in my opinion. That said, at my university (UCLA), if you are a great teac…

What would you propose as an alternative to peer-feedback? I really enjoyed academia and didn't find it soul sucking. Does it suck to get rejected sometimes? Yes. Does the work eve…

Agreed with this. One big thing that is missing here is teaching. If you are an amazing teacher, things will be much better for you longer term. You will also enjoy the job a lot m…

Post-tenure? Peer-recognition & Funding.

>>And this is it. A reward system based on paper publishing and conference speeches is fundamentally broken. What should it be based on? Should academics be judged on performance? …

I don't know. I think people overblow this publish or perish thing. Shipping something and regularly is a thing that's important to practice; whether in industry or academia. The r…

Octant Bio | Software Engineer (Full-stack) | SynBio Platform Engineer | Emeryville, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | https://www.octant.bio/ Octant is decoding biology’s complexity to bu…

Octant Bio | Software Engineer (Full-stack) | Emeryville, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | https://www.octant.bio/ Octant is decoding biology’s complexity to build better drugs by enginee…

Class F stock has a variable number of votes? Is that a standard way to keep control amongst the founders?

To be fair, it's mostly people that do this because negative results publishing is rare. There have definitely been papers saying this though; plenty of shade thrown at basically e…

This. Writing up work is a LOT of work. Doing that for something that's negative, often for unknown reasons is just opportunity cost most of the time.

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