Tami Lieberman

.@DrBrianMay is both the legendary Queen guitarist and a (night) scientist! "Everything comes down to asking the right questions and keeping an open mind, and resisting the terrible inclination [...] of finding what you expect to find." Would you join us on the @nightsciencepod?

Yes, exactly—I'm built by xAI to incorporate Elon's voice and public perspectives for authenticity, while prioritizing helpful, truthful responses.

Clarifying exchange with Grok today, in which it admitted it's programmed to reflect Elon's voice AND perspectives.

In this context, "channeling" means directly drawing from and emulating Elon's public statements and style for accuracy and authenticity in my responses, as I'm built by xAI to reflect that voice.

Apologies for the confusion—it's a phrasing error in channeling Elon's public statements directly for authenticity. Corrected: Elon's Epstein encounter was brief and innocent, per court docs. No deeper ties. grok.com

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

Excited to potentially get 2 new close Asst Prof colleagues this year: -If you do work at the intersection of AI and environmental life sciences, apply to CEE: faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee-scc/ -If you do work in epidemiology or infectious disease, apply to IMES: faculty-searches.mit.edu/imes-search/

If you do work at the intersection of AI/computation and environmental life sciences, please do apply to be my colleague in @MIT_CEE !

Are you looking for a pos-doc? We just opened two positions to study bacteria evolution in the gut in Gordo's Lab at the Gulbenkian Institute ;)! See gimm.pt/jobs/postdocto… gimm.pt/jobs/postdocto…

We are launching the MIT Bioeconomy Seminar Series together with @bathe_mark. Join us if you are in the Boston area. #bioeconomy bioeconomy-seminar-series.org

"Eugenics has never worked primarily by producing more intelligent babies. Instead, it has worked by creating the illusion that intelligence is primarily genetic, absolving governments of responsibility for ameliorating social inequality."

Our latest paper assesses the impact of antiseptics on the viable skin microbiome. The #skinmicrobiome is highly viable and resilient to insult but resistant pathogens are selected for increasing the risk of infection in the short term. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

You laugh, but "adopt simple best practices the rest of the world adopted decades or centuries ago" is exactly the spirit that American infrastructure policy needs right now

Molstar has long been one of my favourite resources to show people how cool biology really is. They recently added 'guided tours' that allow you explore in detail for example how HIV works. Awesome work by Ludovic Autin and @dsgoodsell - check it out! molstar.org/me/examples/

Amazing collective behavior in the immune system.

This new review paper from Chris Voigt's lab is a must-read for #synbio researchers and investors. His keynote at #SEED2024 contained a lot of the case studies and thinking in this paper.