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Los Libros de la Catarata @cataratalibros.bsky.social · 24d

Una nación que comparte un pasado europeo, un espacio norteamericano y un alma en la naturaleza que la rodea: 'Breve historia de Canadá', de Jean Meyer. #Novedad #PróximamenteEnTuLibrería Nueva #ColecciónBrevesHistoriasDePaísesDeAmérica buff.ly/cqo2Ozh

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Sep 6

The rrrrrrrrobots are herrrrrrrreee

Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Sep 6

Have the same question for my 2006 Prius

NPR @npr.org · Sep 6

After 20 years of service, an NPR reporter's beloved minivan is on the fritz. But what is its best and highest calling now: Pass it on to another family or recycle it into parts?

Sell it, donate it — recycle it? A beloved old minivan faces a fork in the road

After 20 years of service, an NPR reporter's beloved minivan is on the fritz. But what is its best and highest calling now: Pass it on to another family or recycle it into parts?

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James Zou @jameszou.bsky.social · Aug 12

🧠Can AI agents predict #Alzheimers? Participate in our DREAM challenge agentic track to find out!

We provide unique training + test data for AI agents: snRNA-seq, IHC, stage, etc synapse.org/Synapse:syn6...

Also co-submit your agent paper to agents4science.stanford.edu

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Aug 6

‘It is because agents never know completely what they are doing that what they do has more sense than they know.’ Pierre Bourdieu

Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Jul 22

We have comparable results to DNA-BERT2 (with less pre-training). Our SNP-aware model is better than when we only use the reference genome. Please easily SNPify your data with our code and tell us about better benchmarks to show the power of being SNP-aware!

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Jul 22

So here are the results of 2 years of hard work:

BMFM-DNA: A SNP-aware DNA foundation model to capture variant effects

It's a simple concept: encode DNA variants in your pre-training and get better fine-tunning results.

Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.05265
Code: github.com/BiomedSciAI/...

BMFM-DNA: A SNP-aware DNA foundation model to capture variant effects

Large language models (LLMs) trained on text demonstrated remarkable results on natural language processing (NLP) tasks. These models have been adapted to decipher the language of DNA, where sequences...

www.arxiv.org

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Jul 20

ISMB/ECCB 2025:
Join us for the DREAM Challenges session on Monday, 21 July, 14:00 Explore community-driven benchmarking for Foundation Models—run a live experiment for LLMs.
@bowang87.bsky.social @anshulkundaje.bsky.social @cziscience.bsky.social @mariabrbic.bsky.social @juliosaezrod.bsky.social

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our paper on SNP-aware DNA foundation model is out!

arXiv q-bio.GN Genomics @qbiogn-bot.bsky.social · Jul 9

Li, Dey, Kwon, Danziger, Rosen-Tzvi, Hu, Kozloski, Tsou, Dandala, Meyer: BMFM-DNA: A SNP-aware DNA foundation model to capture variant effects https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05265 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05265 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.05265

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arXiv q-bio.GN Genomics @qbiogn-bot.bsky.social · Jun 19

Dandala, Danziger, Barkan, Biswas, Gurev, Hu, Madgwick, Koseki, Kozlovski, Rosen-Zvi, Shimoni, Tsou: BMFM-RNA: An Open Framework for Building and Evaluating Transcriptomic Foundation Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14861 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.14861

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Jun 14

Hum!

Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · May 22

Le hubieran dado el avion del bienestar!

Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · May 15

See you in Liverpool!

dreamchallenges.bsky.social @dreamchallenges.bsky.social · May 15

At DREAM we have been benchmarking and discussing methods in biology for the past 15 years, but foundation models are a different beast, come join us for a special session @ISMB on this
Monday July 21st 2pm @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social @tempusai.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org
www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025...

DREAM Challenges

ISCB - International Society for Computational Biology

www.iscb.org

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Joel Mainland @jmainland.bsky.social · May 7

With a contemporary smartphone, capturing, transmitting, and replicating sounds and visuals is a breeze, yet replicating scents remains elusive. If you want to change this, consider joining the 2025 DREAM Olfaction Challenge at www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6....
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DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025

'DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025' (Synapse ID: syn64743570) is a project on Synapse. Synapse is a platform for supporting scientific collaborations centered around shared biomed...

www.synapse.org

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Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · May 6

A very important from our group #compchemsky #aiforscience #quantumchemistry

El Agente calculates complex quantum chemistry calculations from natural language!

Please re-share with your network.

@thematterlab.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social #nvidia

Acceleration Consortium @accelerationc.bsky.social · May 6

👋 🤖 Meet El Agente–an autonomous AI for performing computational chemistry, made by the Matter Lab @uoft.bsky.social. This #LLM-powered multi-agent system making computational chemistry more accessible will soon be available worldwide. Sign up 4 the launch: acceleration.utoronto.ca/news/meet-el...

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Paul Francois @pfrancois.bsky.social · Apr 14

As promised, a 'skeet' -orial on our paper published last week !

Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · Apr 11

Now online! Engineering TCR-controlled fuzzy logic into CAR T cells enhances therapeutic specificity

Engineering TCR-controlled fuzzy logic into CAR T cells enhances therapeutic specificity

Robot-assisted analysis and theoretical modeling of TCR/CAR crosstalk enable the design of adoptive T cell therapies that maximize anti-tumor activity and minimize toxicity in healthy tissues.

dlvr.it

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Apr 16

I.B.M.
Insha’llah, ‘Bukra,’ & ‘Ma’lesh, a typical Egyptian expression which roughly translate, respectively, as “God willing,” “tomorrow” and “no matter”. The ancient and poetic version of procrastinating.

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dreamchallenges.bsky.social @dreamchallenges.bsky.social · Apr 10

Sign up for our latest challenge: www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6...

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Mar 28

All the truth lies in unsent emails!

Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Jan 29

新年快乐！

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Hervé Le Tellier @herveletellier.bsky.social · Dec 5

L'OUvroir de LIttérature POtentielle
a la tristesse de vous annoncer
que l’oulipien
Jacques Roubaud
est désormais
excusé
à ses réunions
pour cause de décès

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Nov 24

Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Nov 22

And this @dreamchallenges.bsky.social came out in @naturebiotech.bsky.social

A community effort to optimize sequence-based deep learning models of gene regulation - Nature Biotechnology

A benchmarking competition improves tools that predict how regulatory regions control gene expression.

go.nature.com

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Aug 2

www.iuscientists.org/claudia-shei...

Claudia Sheinbaum: activist, scientist, politician, and the first woman president of Mexico

by Pablo Meyer Rojas On the 2nd June 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was elected president of Mexico. Her election represents three firsts for the Mexican presidency: the first woman, the first person ...

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Pablo Meyer @oldbap.bsky.social · Oct 5