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Hello world! We’re @MelodyFRO.
Most wearables don’t go far beyond heart rate and activity.
Lab diagnostics paint a deeper picture but don’t read continuously.
Melody is building biosensors, devices, and standards to bridge this gap.
Hear our story at melodyfro.org
Andre Brown retweeted
This is the messy living room it started in 3.5 years ago. Now a team of 60+, we're searching for a unique operator to join the Amodo team (COO, CoS). They'll work closely with Andy and me, scaling the org for the next phase of high-impact R&D amodo.tools/coo-search
Andre Brown retweeted
announcing the London AIxBio Hack co-hosted by
@nvidia, @OpenAI and @wilbe_science at our wet lab space
Some of the most capable scientists of the next decade will also be computational builders. Come tinker with frontier models and accelerated tools, and see what you can build together.
Awesome mentors, TAs, guest speakers, food and prizes in store.
All in a REAL wet lab 🥰
Andre Brown retweeted
We asked researchers, funders, and institutional entrepreneurs for the biggest barrier to building independent British research orgs.
They told us: there’s a de facto ban on UKRI supporting them.
Our proposals, out today, would fix that. 🧵
Britain is gaining momentum in creating new kinds of research organisation. But there are barriers to them receiving support from our main public funder.
Today, 17 organisations call on UKRI to change that – to fund the best science, wherever it's done.
science.works/writing/open-l…
Andre Brown retweeted
Many diseases could be cured in 10 years. The best candidates are the diseases that either have good biomarkers or good disease models. The right way to cure those diseases is to aggressively screen for disease-modifying perturbations. We should do dose-response trials in healthy human volunteers for antibodies against all receptors, for mRNA LNPs and siRNAs for all transcription factors, and for all endogenous peptides, do a highly multiplexed biomarker readout on the output (physiology+behavior), and we would find a lot of new ways to modulate human physiology that would lead to new cures for diseases. This would probably require ~5 million healthy volunteers and more manufacturing capacity than currently exists on the planet, but it is doable in principle, and probably costs ~$100B. For diseases that have good disease models, you can do the same thing straight in the disease model.
In parallel, we can supercharge our efforts to find good biomarkers. We should be doing scalable blood proteomics from existing biobanks. We should also be doing genomics+blood proteomics+behavioral monitoring from extremely large cohorts of patients. We should also be screening ligands (e.g. in consented decedent patients) to identify tissue- or cell-type-specific delivery mechanisms for all major tissues/cell-types in the body.
There will still be many diseases that do not have any easily measurable biomarkers and no good animal models, and that will therefore be refractory to cures. Those diseases will need to be solved in the old fashioned way, by hard iterative science that will take time, simply because it takes time to move atoms in the world. Nonetheless, I am extremely optimistic that a huge fraction of human disease burden could be relieved in 10 years, if we started on a major project like this today. Given the amount of time and money it would take to actually get started on this kind of a program, I think 15 or maybe 20 is perhaps more realistic. But it is going to happen.
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You cannot vibe science. Unlike coding, there is no objective test to assess whether science has been done ‘correctly’. 1/5
Andre Brown retweeted
I have lots of nitpicks (see lesswrong.com/posts/LfqFZvfS… ), but I endorse this call-to-action: Yes, we should figure out the list of human innate drives! 🚀
(…even if doing so is much harder than they think it is.)
E.g.:
• lesswrong.com/posts/7kdBqSFJ…
• lesswrong.com/posts/kYvbHCDe…
Replying to @mold_time
Humanity has mapped the earth, so you can’t discover any new continents, mountains, oceans, or rivers.
We’ve mapped the stars, so no new planets.
We’ve filled in the periodic table, so you can’t discover any new elements.
But you can still discover the drives.
slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/0…
Andre Brown retweeted
What can you do to help? The field is currently tiny; whether you work at an AI lab, government, funding, or you’re a researcher, you could have an outside role on the field amododesign.com/ai-verificat…
Andre Brown retweeted
Today, the authors of AI 2027 released AI 2040: Plan A, their positive vision for AI development. Their plan? A verified slowdown of AI development in 2029. For the past 5 months, we’ve been working on these AI verification technologies; here’s the state of play 🧵
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Extraordinary - what an amazing triumph of open science and collaboration by @scrollprize 👏
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It’s a bad week if you’re a respiratory virus!
Yesterday, Stripe announced Intercept, a $500m initiative to end respiratory infections.
Today, my team and I at @ARIA_research are announcing 11 teams we’ve funded with £57m toward the same goal.
A 🧵 about their exciting work!
Andre Brown retweeted
🚨Today we launch Reorganising Research – a @sci_works initiative to chart what mix of organisational forms British science needs & how to get there.
Lots to come, but we're kicking off with two open calls: a call for evidence with @wellcometrust, & a £3000 essay prize... 🧵
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Together with UC Berkeley we are announcing the laser phase plate - a breakthrough in atomic resolution imaging. This is the brightest continuous wave laser in the world, 100 million times the intensity of the surface of the sun.
Phase contrast plays an important role in microscopy, but it was thought close to impossible for electron microscopy, where it would require interfering with an electron beam. Holger Mueller and Robert Glaeser proposed exactly this using a standing wave laser. It has taken over 15 years to make this a reality. Biohub partnered with UC Berkeley and Mueller to support this work and to engineer and build the technology.
Contrast has been the critical barrier to achieving atomic resolution imaging of the cell. In cryo-electron tomography, a cellular imaging technology that uses electron microscopy, the low contrast makes it impossible to resolve anything but the largest proteins within their cellular context. The laser phase plate removes that barrier.
With advances in AI this breakthrough in contrast will start to open up a new frontier in structural biology, that will allow us to see the molecular machines of the cell, and how they assemble into far more complex and dynamic systems, and understand how they work.
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We’re very excited to announce the launch of two new Focused Research Organizations in the UK powered by @ARIA_research: @Meridial_Neuro and @EchoLabsFRO !
essentialtechnology.blog/p/i…
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We're hiring for someone to help write the ARIA playbook 🚀
We're looking for a 'Special Projects Manager (Science & Tech)' to create the projects, initiatives, and ecosystems to ensure we're pursuing the boldest scientific ideas that reach the real world.
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