Alex S. Araki (in LDN june 21 — august)
@alexsaraki
building Artemis FRO | prev. in vivo pooled screens @Gordianbio | 🇯🇵 |
Really thoughtful analysis of @EvEBiotech
Mapping the off-target effects of every FDA-approved drug in existence (EvE Bio) 6.2k words, 29 minutes reading time owlposting.com/p/mapping-the-… this is a very long essay over @EvEBiotech, a data collection effort that you should know about (it's associated w/ @Convergent_FROs!)
Do you work on alt proteins or in a related space and are you in NYC on July 29? Would you like to help @RenPhil21 and @metaculus try out cool forecasting things? Please DM me! @celloMolly
congrats @tomough !
This piece is occasioned by the release – today – of my book, which is temporarily discounted. Waterstones: waterstones.com/book/the-anti-… Amazon: amazon.co.uk/Anti-Catastrop…
Kings Cross = Dumbo x Williamsburg
ok but everything from the decoration to the food is derived from what was “up and coming” in Brooklyn 8 years ago
Japan’s now a cautionary tale of what could happen to a lot of other developed countries…
Population decline already feels weird but we're just in the 1st inning.
Population decline already feels weird but we're just in the 1st inning.
Science philanthropy can do so much more. I wrote about how it's uniquely positioned from traditional funding institutions and it's growth potential open.substack.com/pub/thenewfron…
/how/ we do science often determines /what/ science gets done structural choices shape functional outcomes if you look around and ask "what's missing in the world?" - you come up with a list of gaps. things we can't do that we would want to, in order to help the people who live…
"There's this notion that maybe we prematurely standardized on how we do R&D in the US. There are academic labs. There is industry and startups. Maybe there's @DARPA. That's basically how we do science and technology. There are a handful of problems that are not easily…
I have a new piece in @WorksInProgMag (with @C_Don7 and James Hu) on lead exposure: how bad lead is for you (very bad), how common it is (very common), and what we can do about it
TIL: only 1 in 5 brits think the NHS is well run... (British Social Attitudes survey) kind of scary ft.com/content/4a0028…
Keep expanding your surface area of luck.