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Kurt Thorn @kurtthorn.bsky.social · 5d

I really like this essay from @owlposting1.bsky.social : www.owlposting.com/p/ask-not-wh...

Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn't you?

1.9k words, 9 minutes reading time

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jun 29

Joining Noetik

www.owlposting.com/p/joining-no...

after a restful month of funemployment, i joined a biotech startup called Noetik last week. this essay explains my current beliefs about the ML-bio field, why I joined Noetik, and what they are working on

2.8k words, 14 minutes reading time

Joining Noetik

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jun 16

fair points all around! will add this to a follow up commentary post about it

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · Jun 16

I read this cool piece by @owlposting1.bsky.social on endometriosis on @scientificdiscovery.dev's recommendation
www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
One point is that endometriosis is very common, 10% of women according to the WHO. Which makes the paltry research (funding) even more galling.

Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease

5k words, 23 minutes reading time

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jun 15

Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease

5k words, 23 minutes reading time

covering one of the strangest conditions ive ever heard about

link: www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...

Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease

5k words, 23 minutes reading time

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jun 2

doing some thinking

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Apr 29

What could Alphafold 4 look like? (Sergey Ovchinnikov, Ep #3)

Substack: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...
Youtube: youtu.be/6_RFXNxy62c
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0wPs...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Transcript: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Apr 25

tomorrow!

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Frank S. David @franksdavid.bsky.social · Apr 5

Endorse. @owlposting1.bsky.social is a great addition to the biotech blogosphere.

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Apr 5

This was such an interesting post! It's awesome how much bio and biotech blogging are happening now and this is one of my newest favourites.

What happened to pathology AI companies?

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Apr 5

This was such an interesting post! It's awesome how much bio and biotech blogging are happening now and this is one of my newest favourites.

What happened to pathology AI companies?

4k words, 19 minutes reading time

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Feb 2

new posters of @rowan, a molecular simulation company

link to shop: owlpostingshop.com/products/rowan

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jan 25

www.owlposting.com/p/roundup-1-...

some announcements, some links, and some job listings!

Roundup #1 (announcements, links, and jobs)

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jan 19

also, ive been making biology-themed art lately! link is in the top section of the above link, underneath ‘Artwork’

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jan 19

Is there such a thing as an impossible protein?

www.owlposting.com/p/is-there-s...

tldr: no, but yes, but no, but yes

tiny article today

1.3k words, 7 minute reading time

Is there such a thing as an impossible protein?

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jan 9

Better antibodies by engineering targets, not engineering antibodies (Nabla Bio)

www.owlposting.com/p/better-ant...

another startup coverage article! the first one ive written over an antibody startup

the interesting part about them? how they think about targets, not antibodies

Better antibodies by engineering targets, not engineering antibodies (Nabla Bio)

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jan 6

spent the holiday making biology-themed posters

here are my favorites

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jan 3

fwiw, this is the longest article ive ever written and 2 months in the making

ive wanted to write about cryo-EM for suuuch a long time, but it kept getting pushed aside because of how much material there was to go through. so happy i finally finished it up

now i can rest

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Jan 3

A primer on ML in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)

www.owlposting.com/p/a-primer-o...

confused about cryo-EM???

i explain why people do it, how it works and some ML problems in the area via explanations of 3 ellen zhong papers

7.9k words, 36 minutes reading time. ToC in thread❄️

A primer on machine learning in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)

7.9k words, 36 minutes reading time

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Dec 17

while the o1 verdict was wrong on all three papers, its response was sufficiently intelligent enough that it was still an interesting exercise to figure out how exactly it was wrong, especially for the third paper

read the article for more details!

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Dec 17

Can o1-preview find major mistakes amongst 59 NeurIPS '24 MLSB papers?

www.owlposting.com/p/can-o1-pre...

i feed (nearly) an entire workshops worth of papers through o1, and ask if there are any major scientific errors amongst them. it says there are 3.

afaict, none of the 3 have errors

Can o1-preview find major mistakes amongst 59 NeurIPS '24 MLSB papers?

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Dec 10

paid post bc i am gathering funds for the next podcast

ty for reading! next post will be (finally) another huge technical primer piece

owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Dec 10

A retrospective on filming a science podcast

www.owlposting.com/p/a-retrospe...

its been about a week since i released my first podcast. i want to document the whole process and why i did it and how i did it and if ill do it again (i will)

2.5k words, 12 minutes reading time

A retrospective on filming a science podcast

2.5k words, 12 minutes reading time

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Dec 4

this is so kind!!! thank you for listening

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Dec 4

Can AI improve the current state of molecular simulation?

www.owlposting.com/p/can-ai-imp...

in my first podcast, I spend 2 hours interviewing Corin Wagen and Ari Wagen, two brothers who are building the next generation of molecular simulation for drug discovery and material science

Can AI improve the current state of molecular simulation? (Corin & Ari Wagen, Ep #1)

2.1 hours listening time

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owl @owlposting1.bsky.social · Nov 19

i have discovered long term transcriptomic alterations in the scRNA-seq data of neurons of mice who have been exposed to five hour long podcasts. i dont know what this means but the paper is coming out in Nature tomorrow (auto accept). i will not be sharing the data

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