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Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Open Philanthropy. // Previously at Our World in Data. Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co 🏳️‍🌈

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Jun 11

LAUNCH DAY 🚀

Today I’m launching a new podcast, Hard Drugs, with Jacob Trefethen (@jacobtref.bsky.social)

Our first episode is about lenacapavir — a new HIV drug that blocks infections with an efficacy rate of nearly 100%, and which could completely change the fight against HIV worldwide.

Lenacapavir: The miracle drug that could end AIDS

Hard Drugs · Episode

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 1d

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 1d

Thank you!! 😊

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

Thank you! :)

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

Thank you!!

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

Thank you! :)

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

Just kidding 🤭 I only ate one and a half

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

Had quite a lot of doughnuts to eat for my birthday but I managed it 😮‍💨

krispy kreme bag with birthday box inside

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

I always praise my kids when they share & they’ve just discovered that they can hack the system by continuously trading berries, thus generating infinite praise.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

It is!! Thank you 😊

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Alessandro @poli.sisti.ca · 3d

Thread of things I'm learning as I read The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss

Book cover, in the Special Centenary Edition with a forward by Alison Li.

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😂😂

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Noted 😔

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

“Hey kids... Want to see the back of MY EYE?!” - me at Halloween to kids trick or treating

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d

Got an eye examination done to get new glasses, and now I'm sharing unsolicited pictures of my retina with my friends

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
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LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 4d

Not even sure anyone mentioned testing the whole population...?

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 5d

Today is a public holiday in Germany to celebrate reunification. Seems like the perfect day to once again recommend this amazing book on the rather incredible chain of events leading up to the opening of the Berlin wall!

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 14

Just finished "The Collapse" about the precise events that led up to the opening of the Berlin Wall -- struggle within the Soviet Bloc and demonstrations in Saxony (most prominently Leipzig), bureaucratic miscommunication, and the chaotic and improbable events in the night itself.>

Cover of "The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall" by Mary Elise Sarotte. Cover shows a person peering through a crack in a wall covered in graffiti

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 4d

Thought this was about me for a split second
www.imdb.com/title/tt2195...

The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! (TV Special 2022) ⭐ 6.2 | Animation, Comedy, Horror

1h 2m | TV-MA

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 4d

What is going on with Spotify's autogenerated transcript 😭

We actually fixed up a transcript manually, but Spotify seems to replace it with an autogenerated one regardless... 😵‍💫

Welcome to hard drugs.
I'm Soloni d'atani and this is Jacob Gefethin.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 4d

"What's Shaggy doing here?!"

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Yeah he was brilliant in it. I didn't enjoy the rest of the movie although Velma was surprisingly attractive 😂

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 4d

I keep noticing the actor who played Shaggy in the live action Scooby Doo movie is a villain in other movies or TV shows, and it's really confusing at first

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 7d

New episode of HARD DRUGS!

AlphaFold, ProteinMPNN & other AI tools are transforming biology and drug design.

But how do they work? What can’t they do? And can we use them to make a vaccine against Strep A for the very first time?

In this episode, Jacob and I talk about hacking proteins with AI.

Hacking proteins with AI

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 5d

I also made this earlier, not sure if that's what you mean. You could easily add age too by highlighting a row. It's basically a modified Lexis diagram

ourworldindata.org/period-versu...

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