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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 10d

Good & detailed analysis of the US campaign in Venezuela, including the prospect of a war. "The risks of violence in any post-Maduro scenario should not be downplayed. Many senior military officers could resist regime change." www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...

Beware the Slide Toward Regime Change in Venezuela | International Crisis Group

The Trump administration is dispatching military assets to the Caribbean and sinking boats it claims ferry drugs. While it appears the deployment is part of a plan to depose Venezuelan President Nicol...

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STAT @statnews.com · 16d

Kyle Muldoon thought he might never get to watch an Eagles game with his son KJ, who was born with a rare and fatal liver disease that was treated with an individual CRISPR therapy.
#STATSummit

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Sep 14

How does NATO monitor and defend its airspace? It operates a large, diverse & growing network of sensors & interceptors on air, sea and land—but also one with significant limitations when it comes to countering low-level drone incursions in peacetime.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

A scary struggle with the Kremlin over Europe’s skies

Russian air incursions are testing NATO’s will to resist

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Sep 2

'The ‘C’s’ between 1909 and 2024 fall into two distinct groups; former Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) Chair Sir Percy Cradock talked of ‘sword men’ and ‘gown men’, reflecting the increasing civilianisation of SIS from the 1950s onwards' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A, B, or C? The Foreign Office and the Politics of Choosing the Chief of SIS

This article explores the process whereby the Chief (‘C’) of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) has been appointed, and the inter-departmental polit...

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Michael Koeris @koeris.bsky.social · Jun 14

Submit a 7-minute video pitch. Open for submissions June 1 – August 31, 2025.

Learn more about DARPA Ag x BTO Special Topic – Agricultural Defense Innovation here: darpa.mil/research/progr…

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Michael Koeris @koeris.bsky.social · Jun 14

Topics include early warning systems, rapid-response countermeasures, massively accelerated crop engineering, integrated threat prediction/modeling & attribution.

Michael Koeris @koeris.bsky.social · Jun 14

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency BTO (us!!!) is seeking disruptive solutions to defend U.S. agriculture (crops and livestock) against chemical/biological threats!

darpa.mil/research/progr…

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · Jun 14

ISW is seeking a full-time Middle East Security Program Researcher to provide timely open-source research and analysis of the geo-strategic dynamics of the Middle East region and how those dynamics will affect U.S. national security interests.

For more info & to apply: isw.pub/MiddleEastRe...

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · May 9

4/ PRC is possibly conducting bathymetric surveys in the strategically significant Luzon Strait between Taiwan and the Philippines.

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · May 10

We’ve now seen ground-based missile use, tho’ Pakistan’s Fateh is a non-nuclear tactical ballistic missile & not in same category as some longer range systems. As for nuc signalling, it depends whether you believe Pakistan’s earlier statement or the def minister’s later one
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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · May 9

Things we have not (yet) seen in this crisis:
- Fighter jets crossing the border/LoC
- Use of ground-based dual-capable missiles
- Nuclear signalling of a sort we previously saw in in 1990 & 1999 (at least not publicly)
- Large-scale mobilisation of ground forces, as in 2001/02

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · May 9

Things we have not (yet) seen in this crisis:
- Fighter jets crossing the border/LoC
- Use of ground-based dual-capable missiles
- Nuclear signalling of a sort we previously saw in in 1990 & 1999 (at least not publicly)
- Large-scale mobilisation of ground forces, as in 2001/02

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Mar 24

Indonesia names Ray Dalio and Jeffrey Sachs as sovereign wealth fund advisers

https://www.ft.com/content/d90a401b-d086-44a9-b00a-adf46f00f450

Indonesia names Ray Dalio and Jeffrey Sachs as sovereign wealth fund advisers

Investors voice concern over governance at fund expected to manage state assets

www.ft.com

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · Mar 11

Check out our latest Hot Plasmids post, featuring cool new tools like self-labeling constructs from @dozenoaks.bsky.social, an improved voltage sensor from @michaelzlin.bsky.social, prime editing in dicot plants, and more!
blog.addgene.org/hot...

Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

Check out the latest Hot Plasmids, viral vectors, and antibodies in the Addgene repository!

blog.addgene.org

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · Mar 11

pcDNA3-Y392C-WLS-HA-IRES-GFP
Depositor: Joseph Gleeson
Purpose: Expression of WLS-HA protein (Y392C mutant)

www.addgene.org/178062/

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Mar 8

‘Game changer’: German spending plans lift bond market’s growth forecasts

https://www.ft.com/content/f54f6eb2-5858-443b-9c07-1ddeb22f126b

‘Game changer’: German spending plans lift bond market’s growth forecasts

Chancellor-in-waiting Merz’s promise to do ‘whatever it takes’ pushes Bund yields sharply higher in anticipation of more issuance

www.ft.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Feb 24

Europe needs Friedrich Merz to succeed | Opinion

https://www.ft.com/content/61eef114-b42d-4532-ac74-d13eeaa01ea8

Europe needs Friedrich Merz to succeed | Opinion

The first moves by Germany’s chancellor-designate are bold and encouraging

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Vega Shah @dr-alphalyrae.bsky.social · Feb 19

Today, the NVIDIA healthcare and life sciences team launched Evo 2 -- a powerful foundation model for DNA across all domains of life, developed in collaboration with @arcinstitute.org and @stanforduniversity.bsky.social. More in 🧵

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Feb 19

Big Tech’s AI ambitions deliver funding boost to nuclear reactor race

https://www.ft.com/content/2d84198e-7eeb-4154-bbf2-9a469b0cc700

Big Tech’s AI ambitions deliver funding boost to nuclear reactor race

Developers of advanced microreactors have raised at least $1.5bn over the past year as demand soars

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Michael Koeris @koeris.bsky.social · Feb 19

Tested across biology, sociology & more, POPPER matches PhD-level accuracy in hypothesis validation. Cuts days to hours while keeping stats tight.

Michael Koeris @koeris.bsky.social · Feb 19

How It Works: POPPER uses LLMs (Claude mostly) to break hypotheses into testable parts, then runs sequential experiments to falsify them. No rejection? It’s tentatively supported. Popper’s philosophy + AI power. github.com/snap-stanford/POPPER”

https://github.com/snap-stanford/POPPER”

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Michael Koeris @koeris.bsky.social · Feb 19

Fantastic work by @kexinhuang.bsky.social at Stanford (arXiv: 2502.09858)

Validation of hypotheses for experimental planning and verification based on the falsification principle by Karl Popper.

The Future just most a lot closer!!!

https://github.com/snap-stanford/POPPER”

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STAT @statnews.com · Feb 14

Michael Lauer, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s extramural research, will leave the agency at the end of the week.

Second top NIH official, who oversaw awarding of research grants, departs abruptly

Michael Lauer, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s extramural research, will leave the agency at the end of the week.

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Michael Koeris @koeris.bsky.social · Feb 13

It’s been a tough few years. But innovation doesn’t stop. Science still advances, improvements and breakthroughs will still happen. The pace is different but it’s not gone.

I know it’s tough to see @adamfeuerstein.bsky.social and we at DARPA BTO still believe & will get after it.

#stayInTheFight

Adam Feuerstein✡️ @adamfeuerstein.bsky.social · Feb 13

Biotech is in a dark place.

The market offers one beatdown after another. Sentiment is lousy and the bad mood is relentless, to the point where people are seriously wondering if a sector turnaround is ever possible.

Sorry, but it's just depressing out there...

www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/b...

Biotech is in a dark place

Biotech and drug stocks, collectively, are down an average of 16% over the past three months. The closely watched XBI index is down 19% in the same time period.

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · Feb 13

Ready to jump into base editing? Check out our updated CRISPR 101 blog post "Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors"!

blog.addgene.org/sin...

CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

An overview of cytosine and adenine base transition editors, which make precise changes in DNA bases without causing double-strand breaks.

blog.addgene.org

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Michael Koeris @koeris.bsky.social · Feb 6

We're hiring here at DARPA! A "Program Manager" is effectively an intrapreneur and we're going after Synthetic Biology #SynBio super hard.

Please fwd to interested people!

www.linkedin.com/posts/mkoeri...

Michael Koeris on LinkedIn: Thank you Jeffrey S. Buguliskis for the interview and patience as I go on…

Thank you Jeffrey S. Buguliskis for the interview and patience as I go on and on about SCIENCE and of course especially Synthetic Biology! Many sciences are…

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