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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 13

We were blown away by the quality of the applicants for our fellowship. Thank you to everyone who applied -- stay tuned for the next round of applications next year. Read more here: www.futurehouse.org/fellowship 5/5

Fellowship

FutureHouse is a philanthropically-funded moonshot focused on building an AI Scientist. Our 10-year mission is to build semi-autonomous AIs for scientific research, to accelerate the pace of discovery...

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 13

They will independently drive a project in collaboration with top academic labs around the country at Harvard, the Broad Institute, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech. 4/5

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 13

Each fellow will receive a $125k stipend, along with access to our wet lab and computational engineering resources, to research a specific question in biology or bioengineering using our agents. 3/5

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 13

Through the fellowship, we will support them in applying our AI agents at scale to make new discoveries in their domains of biology and bioengineering research. 2/5

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 13

Extremely excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 FutureHouse Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship! You might already know of them or their work, these are some of the absolute best rising stars in biology research today. 1/5

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Erika DeBenedictis @erika-alden.bsky.social · May 13

Heads up: terraforming Mars isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a real possibility that’s possible with today’s technology.

Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼

What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars!

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 6

(And full disclosure, we have not independently validated the findings in the videos above!)

Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Early Tester Sign-up Form – FutureHouse Data Analysis Agent

We're launching a beta version of our latest addition to the platform – Finch, a data analysis agent built to fully automate open-ended, data-driven discovery in biology. We're seeking a select group ...

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 6

It also messes a bunch of stuff up. We need extremely talented bioinformaticians and computational biologists to help us evaluate accuracy and reliability, and to help us train it. Beta testers will also be able to use it for their own analyses. 7/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 6

Like Crow, Falcon, and Owl, Finch is a bona fide agent. Users upload their data, and then Finch runs code, generates figures, inspects the results, and iterates until it has fully answered the question. For our own projects internally, we have found it to be pretty awesome. 6/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 6

It identifies upregulated genes (e.g. inflammatory modulators, antimicrobial peptides) and downregulated genes (e.g. bile acid transport genes), and does a pathway analysis. Being able to do this in minutes is a superpower. 5/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 6

In addition to open-ended analysis, Finch can also do directed data analysis. In this example, we had it do a differential expression and functional enrichment analysis of some RNAseq data (GEO accession GSE87466). 4/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 6

Importantly, the prompt here is fully open-ended! We just ask the agent to explore the data. Similar to a first year grad student, it makes a bunch of silly mistakes, but also actually ends up finding some really cool stuff. And it works really fast by comparison... 3/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 6

In the video, see how it independently reproduces key findings from the Golub Lab's 2020 MetMap paper, including the fact that ADAM28 deletions are associated with breast cancer metastases to brain (fig 4b of the original paper). It also identifies several novel findings not already in the paper. 2/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 6

Introducing Finch, a new agent that fully automates data-driven discovery in biology. We are launching a closed beta for it today (sign up below).

This is still early, but impressive, maybe similar to a good 1st yr grad student. 1/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 1

We are launching three benchmarked superhuman literature search agents today, and one experimental agent for chemistry. We have many more agents to release soon.

Read more on our blog post: www.futurehouse.org/research-ann...

and check it out at platform.futurehouse.org! 2/2

FutureHouse Platform

AI Agents for Scientific Discovery

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · May 1

Today, FutureHouse is releasing the first dedicated AI Agents for Science, via our Platform. These agents are able to perform a wide variety of scientific tasks better than humans. With the platform, we are bringing these capabilities to the wider community. 1/2

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FutureHouse @futurehousesf.bsky.social · May 1

Today, FutureHouse is launching the FutureHouse Platform, bringing the first-ever superintelligent scientific AI agents to scientists everywhere via a web interface and API. The Platform is launching with four agents, each with their own specialization:

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Asimov Press @asimovpress.bsky.social · Mar 19

Just Published: A look inside @FutureHouseSF, the nonprofit trying to build an AI scientist.

We sent a photographer to their HQ in San Francisco and interviewed both co-founders, @SGRodriques and @andrewwhite01.

Check it out in the link below.

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Erika DeBenedictis @erika-alden.bsky.social · Mar 13

Time for a LOT of microbe data! 📊 🦠 🤖

@alignbio.bsky.social is aiming to gather a core dataset composed of phenotypes for 1000 diverse microbes cultivated in 1000 diverse conditions.

This labeled data has the potential to take our ability to predict how microbes will behave to the next level!

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · Mar 14

Today NASA told us that they want to put our AI Scientist on Mars.

Cool.

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · Feb 13

FutureHouse AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship applications close tomorrow, Friday, anywhere on Earth! Get your applications in! Super excited to see them... www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

Fellowship

FutureHouse is a philanthropically-funded moonshot focused on building an AI Scientist. Our 10-year mission is to build semi-autonomous AIs for scientific research, to accelerate the pace of discovery...

www.futurehouse.org

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · Feb 10

The FutureHouse AI-for-Science fellowship is due on Friday! Work on applying our AI science agents to make new discoveries, with full access to our compute, software engineering, and lab resources, plus $125k annual stipend. Make sure to get your applications in! www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

Fellowship

FutureHouse is a philanthropically-funded moonshot focused on building an AI Scientist. Our 10-year mission is to build semi-autonomous AIs for scientific research, to accelerate the pace of discovery...

www.futurehouse.org

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · Jan 31

Applications for the FutureHouse Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship are due in two weeks! $125k annual stipend, full access to our resources, be coadvised by world class professors and apply our AI science agents to make new discoveries. Apply!

Details here: www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · Jan 29

Super excited for this next phase in the development of spatial biology. Announcement here: 7/7

www.takarabio.com/about/in-the...

Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. announces the acquisition of Curio Bioscience, adding spatial biology to its broad portfolio of single-cell omics solutions

Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. acquired Curio Bioscience, a pioneering company in the field of spatial genomics.

www.takarabio.com

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · Jan 29

Another critical moment was Evan and Fei's invention of SlideTags, which provides bona fide single cell sequencing data with spatial resolution, and which is an enormous upgrade for spatial transcriptomics. 6/n

Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. announces the acquisition of Curio Bioscience, adding spatial biology to its broad portfolio of single-cell omics solutions

Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. acquired Curio Bioscience, a pioneering company in the field of spatial genomics.

www.takarabio.com

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