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@owlposting1.bsky.social
ml eng at dyno therapeutics. i write about bio/ml at http://owlposting.com
essay tomorrow morning over cancer, and the role machine intelligence will play in how we treat the disease
subscribe to owlposting.com to read the first article that i literally could not have produced had i not been around oncology researchers for the last 5 months
subscribe to owlposting.com to read the first article that i literally could not have produced had i not been around oncology researchers for the last 5 months
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
essay tomorrow morning over cancer, and the role machine intelligence will play in how we treat the disease
subscribe to owlposting.com to read the first article that i literally could not have produced had i not been around oncology researchers for the last 5 months
subscribe to owlposting.com to read the first article that i literally could not have produced had i not been around oncology researchers for the last 5 months
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I really like this essay from @owlposting1.bsky.social : www.owlposting.com/p/ask-not-wh...
Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn't you?
1.9k words, 9 minutes reading time
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October 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I really like this essay from @owlposting1.bsky.social : www.owlposting.com/p/ask-not-wh...
Joining Noetik
www.owlposting.com/p/joining-no...
after a restful month of funemployment, i joined a biotech startup called Noetik last week. this essay explains my current beliefs about the ML-bio field, why I joined Noetik, and what they are working on
2.8k words, 14 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com/p/joining-no...
after a restful month of funemployment, i joined a biotech startup called Noetik last week. this essay explains my current beliefs about the ML-bio field, why I joined Noetik, and what they are working on
2.8k words, 14 minutes reading time
Joining Noetik
2.8k words, 14 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Joining Noetik
www.owlposting.com/p/joining-no...
after a restful month of funemployment, i joined a biotech startup called Noetik last week. this essay explains my current beliefs about the ML-bio field, why I joined Noetik, and what they are working on
2.8k words, 14 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com/p/joining-no...
after a restful month of funemployment, i joined a biotech startup called Noetik last week. this essay explains my current beliefs about the ML-bio field, why I joined Noetik, and what they are working on
2.8k words, 14 minutes reading time
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I read this cool piece by @owlposting1.bsky.social on endometriosis on @scientificdiscovery.dev's recommendation
www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
One point is that endometriosis is very common, 10% of women according to the WHO. Which makes the paltry research (funding) even more galling.
www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
One point is that endometriosis is very common, 10% of women according to the WHO. Which makes the paltry research (funding) even more galling.
Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
5k words, 23 minutes reading time
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June 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I read this cool piece by @owlposting1.bsky.social on endometriosis on @scientificdiscovery.dev's recommendation
www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
One point is that endometriosis is very common, 10% of women according to the WHO. Which makes the paltry research (funding) even more galling.
www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
One point is that endometriosis is very common, 10% of women according to the WHO. Which makes the paltry research (funding) even more galling.
Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
5k words, 23 minutes reading time
covering one of the strangest conditions ive ever heard about
link: www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
5k words, 23 minutes reading time
covering one of the strangest conditions ive ever heard about
link: www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
5k words, 23 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com
June 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
5k words, 23 minutes reading time
covering one of the strangest conditions ive ever heard about
link: www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
5k words, 23 minutes reading time
covering one of the strangest conditions ive ever heard about
link: www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...
What could Alphafold 4 look like? (Sergey Ovchinnikov, Ep #3)
Substack: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...
Youtube: youtu.be/6_RFXNxy62c
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0wPs...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Transcript: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...
Substack: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...
Youtube: youtu.be/6_RFXNxy62c
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0wPs...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Transcript: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...
April 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What could Alphafold 4 look like? (Sergey Ovchinnikov, Ep #3)
Substack: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...
Youtube: youtu.be/6_RFXNxy62c
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0wPs...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Transcript: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...
Substack: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...
Youtube: youtu.be/6_RFXNxy62c
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0wPs...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Transcript: www.owlposting.com/p/what-could...
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Endorse. @owlposting1.bsky.social is a great addition to the biotech blogosphere.
This was such an interesting post! It's awesome how much bio and biotech blogging are happening now and this is one of my newest favourites.
What happened to pathology AI companies?
4k words, 19 minutes reading time
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April 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Endorse. @owlposting1.bsky.social is a great addition to the biotech blogosphere.
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This was such an interesting post! It's awesome how much bio and biotech blogging are happening now and this is one of my newest favourites.
What happened to pathology AI companies?
4k words, 19 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This was such an interesting post! It's awesome how much bio and biotech blogging are happening now and this is one of my newest favourites.
new posters of @rowan, a molecular simulation company
link to shop: owlpostingshop.com/products/rowan
link to shop: owlpostingshop.com/products/rowan
February 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
new posters of @rowan, a molecular simulation company
link to shop: owlpostingshop.com/products/rowan
link to shop: owlpostingshop.com/products/rowan
Roundup #1 (announcements, links, and jobs)
1.2k words, 6 minutes reading time
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January 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Is there such a thing as an impossible protein?
www.owlposting.com/p/is-there-s...
tldr: no, but yes, but no, but yes
tiny article today
1.3k words, 7 minute reading time
www.owlposting.com/p/is-there-s...
tldr: no, but yes, but no, but yes
tiny article today
1.3k words, 7 minute reading time
Is there such a thing as an impossible protein?
1.3k words, 7 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Is there such a thing as an impossible protein?
www.owlposting.com/p/is-there-s...
tldr: no, but yes, but no, but yes
tiny article today
1.3k words, 7 minute reading time
www.owlposting.com/p/is-there-s...
tldr: no, but yes, but no, but yes
tiny article today
1.3k words, 7 minute reading time
Better antibodies by engineering targets, not engineering antibodies (Nabla Bio)
www.owlposting.com/p/better-ant...
another startup coverage article! the first one ive written over an antibody startup
the interesting part about them? how they think about targets, not antibodies
www.owlposting.com/p/better-ant...
another startup coverage article! the first one ive written over an antibody startup
the interesting part about them? how they think about targets, not antibodies
Better antibodies by engineering targets, not engineering antibodies (Nabla Bio)
4k words, 19 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Better antibodies by engineering targets, not engineering antibodies (Nabla Bio)
www.owlposting.com/p/better-ant...
another startup coverage article! the first one ive written over an antibody startup
the interesting part about them? how they think about targets, not antibodies
www.owlposting.com/p/better-ant...
another startup coverage article! the first one ive written over an antibody startup
the interesting part about them? how they think about targets, not antibodies
spent the holiday making biology-themed posters
here are my favorites
here are my favorites
January 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
spent the holiday making biology-themed posters
here are my favorites
here are my favorites
A primer on ML in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)
www.owlposting.com/p/a-primer-o...
confused about cryo-EM???
i explain why people do it, how it works and some ML problems in the area via explanations of 3 ellen zhong papers
7.9k words, 36 minutes reading time. ToC in thread❄️
www.owlposting.com/p/a-primer-o...
confused about cryo-EM???
i explain why people do it, how it works and some ML problems in the area via explanations of 3 ellen zhong papers
7.9k words, 36 minutes reading time. ToC in thread❄️
A primer on machine learning in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)
7.9k words, 36 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A primer on ML in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)
www.owlposting.com/p/a-primer-o...
confused about cryo-EM???
i explain why people do it, how it works and some ML problems in the area via explanations of 3 ellen zhong papers
7.9k words, 36 minutes reading time. ToC in thread❄️
www.owlposting.com/p/a-primer-o...
confused about cryo-EM???
i explain why people do it, how it works and some ML problems in the area via explanations of 3 ellen zhong papers
7.9k words, 36 minutes reading time. ToC in thread❄️
Can o1-preview find major mistakes amongst 59 NeurIPS '24 MLSB papers?
www.owlposting.com/p/can-o1-pre...
i feed (nearly) an entire workshops worth of papers through o1, and ask if there are any major scientific errors amongst them. it says there are 3.
afaict, none of the 3 have errors
www.owlposting.com/p/can-o1-pre...
i feed (nearly) an entire workshops worth of papers through o1, and ask if there are any major scientific errors amongst them. it says there are 3.
afaict, none of the 3 have errors
Can o1-preview find major mistakes amongst 59 NeurIPS '24 MLSB papers?
1.9k words, 9 minute reading time
www.owlposting.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Can o1-preview find major mistakes amongst 59 NeurIPS '24 MLSB papers?
www.owlposting.com/p/can-o1-pre...
i feed (nearly) an entire workshops worth of papers through o1, and ask if there are any major scientific errors amongst them. it says there are 3.
afaict, none of the 3 have errors
www.owlposting.com/p/can-o1-pre...
i feed (nearly) an entire workshops worth of papers through o1, and ask if there are any major scientific errors amongst them. it says there are 3.
afaict, none of the 3 have errors
A retrospective on filming a science podcast
www.owlposting.com/p/a-retrospe...
its been about a week since i released my first podcast. i want to document the whole process and why i did it and how i did it and if ill do it again (i will)
2.5k words, 12 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com/p/a-retrospe...
its been about a week since i released my first podcast. i want to document the whole process and why i did it and how i did it and if ill do it again (i will)
2.5k words, 12 minutes reading time
A retrospective on filming a science podcast
2.5k words, 12 minutes reading time
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December 10, 2024 at 11:12 PM
A retrospective on filming a science podcast
www.owlposting.com/p/a-retrospe...
its been about a week since i released my first podcast. i want to document the whole process and why i did it and how i did it and if ill do it again (i will)
2.5k words, 12 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com/p/a-retrospe...
its been about a week since i released my first podcast. i want to document the whole process and why i did it and how i did it and if ill do it again (i will)
2.5k words, 12 minutes reading time
Can AI improve the current state of molecular simulation?
www.owlposting.com/p/can-ai-imp...
in my first podcast, I spend 2 hours interviewing Corin Wagen and Ari Wagen, two brothers who are building the next generation of molecular simulation for drug discovery and material science
www.owlposting.com/p/can-ai-imp...
in my first podcast, I spend 2 hours interviewing Corin Wagen and Ari Wagen, two brothers who are building the next generation of molecular simulation for drug discovery and material science
Can AI improve the current state of molecular simulation? (Corin & Ari Wagen, Ep #1)
2.1 hours listening time
www.owlposting.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Can AI improve the current state of molecular simulation?
www.owlposting.com/p/can-ai-imp...
in my first podcast, I spend 2 hours interviewing Corin Wagen and Ari Wagen, two brothers who are building the next generation of molecular simulation for drug discovery and material science
www.owlposting.com/p/can-ai-imp...
in my first podcast, I spend 2 hours interviewing Corin Wagen and Ari Wagen, two brothers who are building the next generation of molecular simulation for drug discovery and material science
i have discovered long term transcriptomic alterations in the scRNA-seq data of neurons of mice who have been exposed to five hour long podcasts. i dont know what this means but the paper is coming out in Nature tomorrow (auto accept). i will not be sharing the data
November 19, 2024 at 1:45 AM
i have discovered long term transcriptomic alterations in the scRNA-seq data of neurons of mice who have been exposed to five hour long podcasts. i dont know what this means but the paper is coming out in Nature tomorrow (auto accept). i will not be sharing the data
weird case of synchronicity where 4 independent people have published mechanistic interpretability work on biology models all in the same month, where there was basically nothing prior to them
November 18, 2024 at 5:34 PM
weird case of synchronicity where 4 independent people have published mechanistic interpretability work on biology models all in the same month, where there was basically nothing prior to them
posting will be a little delayed for a bit. winter is tough
between being mildly sick for the last 1.5 weeks and doing two very ambitious blog projects at the same time, i think sticking to my an-essay-every-two-weeks timeline will not bring me Joy
between being mildly sick for the last 1.5 weeks and doing two very ambitious blog projects at the same time, i think sticking to my an-essay-every-two-weeks timeline will not bring me Joy
November 16, 2024 at 7:32 PM
posting will be a little delayed for a bit. winter is tough
between being mildly sick for the last 1.5 weeks and doing two very ambitious blog projects at the same time, i think sticking to my an-essay-every-two-weeks timeline will not bring me Joy
between being mildly sick for the last 1.5 weeks and doing two very ambitious blog projects at the same time, i think sticking to my an-essay-every-two-weeks timeline will not bring me Joy
very little posting going on at bluesky. there is culture yet to be written, meta’s yet to be established. will you stake your own claim on this untamed frontier, anon? or will you wait for someone else
November 16, 2024 at 4:17 PM
very little posting going on at bluesky. there is culture yet to be written, meta’s yet to be established. will you stake your own claim on this untamed frontier, anon? or will you wait for someone else
Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging
www.owlposting.com/p/why-recurs...
After over a decade,Recursion Pharmaceuticals changed its primary assay. Why is that? I answer that question over 5.6k words (26 minutes to read)
first journalism-y piece!
www.owlposting.com/p/why-recurs...
After over a decade,Recursion Pharmaceuticals changed its primary assay. Why is that? I answer that question over 5.6k words (26 minutes to read)
first journalism-y piece!
Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging
5.7k words, 26 minutes reading time
www.owlposting.com
November 8, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging
www.owlposting.com/p/why-recurs...
After over a decade,Recursion Pharmaceuticals changed its primary assay. Why is that? I answer that question over 5.6k words (26 minutes to read)
first journalism-y piece!
www.owlposting.com/p/why-recurs...
After over a decade,Recursion Pharmaceuticals changed its primary assay. Why is that? I answer that question over 5.6k words (26 minutes to read)
first journalism-y piece!
i love bluesky so much
October 18, 2024 at 1:47 AM
i love bluesky so much