Joseph Fridman
@josephfridman.bsky.social
if it ain’t cactus, practice
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This community is building foundational capabilities for technological progress.
Its nonprofit initiatives allow broadly sharing these capabilities.
I am happy to support this mission 🚀
Its nonprofit initiatives allow broadly sharing these capabilities.
I am happy to support this mission 🚀
October 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This community is building foundational capabilities for technological progress.
Its nonprofit initiatives allow broadly sharing these capabilities.
I am happy to support this mission 🚀
Its nonprofit initiatives allow broadly sharing these capabilities.
I am happy to support this mission 🚀
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What does it take to identify critical science & tech capability gaps—and then build organizations dedicated to addressing them?
@adammarblestone.bsky.social, @anastasiag.bsky.social, Mary Wang, & @josephfridman.bsky.social on creating @convergentresearch.bsky.social: issues.org/focused-rese...
@adammarblestone.bsky.social, @anastasiag.bsky.social, Mary Wang, & @josephfridman.bsky.social on creating @convergentresearch.bsky.social: issues.org/focused-rese...
Field Notes on Moving Focused Research Organizations Forward
Lessons from four years of building a new kind of focused scientific organization to create fundamental technologies and accelerate discovery.
issues.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What does it take to identify critical science & tech capability gaps—and then build organizations dedicated to addressing them?
@adammarblestone.bsky.social, @anastasiag.bsky.social, Mary Wang, & @josephfridman.bsky.social on creating @convergentresearch.bsky.social: issues.org/focused-rese...
@adammarblestone.bsky.social, @anastasiag.bsky.social, Mary Wang, & @josephfridman.bsky.social on creating @convergentresearch.bsky.social: issues.org/focused-rese...
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Earlier this year, @parallelsq.bsky.social hosted a research fest.
We began with a broad perspective:
◾️ A century of remarkable progress! Proteomics drove conceptual discoveries and medical treatments.
Listen to what's next!
Proteomics: The arc of progress
youtu.be/Sc2QLXb84XI?...
We began with a broad perspective:
◾️ A century of remarkable progress! Proteomics drove conceptual discoveries and medical treatments.
Listen to what's next!
Proteomics: The arc of progress
youtu.be/Sc2QLXb84XI?...
October 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Earlier this year, @parallelsq.bsky.social hosted a research fest.
We began with a broad perspective:
◾️ A century of remarkable progress! Proteomics drove conceptual discoveries and medical treatments.
Listen to what's next!
Proteomics: The arc of progress
youtu.be/Sc2QLXb84XI?...
We began with a broad perspective:
◾️ A century of remarkable progress! Proteomics drove conceptual discoveries and medical treatments.
Listen to what's next!
Proteomics: The arc of progress
youtu.be/Sc2QLXb84XI?...
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Proud of @e11bio.bsky.social's early progress here, and excited for so much more to come (that I've seen previews of as a FRO board member 😍).
Optics + expansion + barcoding + AI + molecules = beginning of infinity for scalable brain circuit mapping, with wide implications across science.
Optics + expansion + barcoding + AI + molecules = beginning of infinity for scalable brain circuit mapping, with wide implications across science.
E11 Bio is excited to unveil PRISM technology for mapping brain wiring with simple light microscopes. Today, brain mapping in humans and other mammals is bottlenecked by accurate neuron tracing. PRISM uses molecular ID codes and AI to help neurons trace themselves.
Read more: e11.bio/blog/prism
Read more: e11.bio/blog/prism
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Proud of @e11bio.bsky.social's early progress here, and excited for so much more to come (that I've seen previews of as a FRO board member 😍).
Optics + expansion + barcoding + AI + molecules = beginning of infinity for scalable brain circuit mapping, with wide implications across science.
Optics + expansion + barcoding + AI + molecules = beginning of infinity for scalable brain circuit mapping, with wide implications across science.
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👀 Our latest Substack is live – discover:
– The launch of Innovator Circles
– Insights into the FRO-Founder Residency with @convergentresearch.bsky.social
– A Q&A with @micromotility.bsky.social on natural computation in single-celled microorganisms
+ more ↓
link.aria.org.uk/sepsubstack-bluesky
– The launch of Innovator Circles
– Insights into the FRO-Founder Residency with @convergentresearch.bsky.social
– A Q&A with @micromotility.bsky.social on natural computation in single-celled microorganisms
+ more ↓
link.aria.org.uk/sepsubstack-bluesky
Innovator Circles, FROs, and a look into biological computation
The latest from ARIA, including our new Innovator Circles initiative, inside Convergent Research's FRO-Founder Residency, and a Q&A with Nature Computes Better Creator Kirsty Wan.
link.aria.org.uk
September 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
👀 Our latest Substack is live – discover:
– The launch of Innovator Circles
– Insights into the FRO-Founder Residency with @convergentresearch.bsky.social
– A Q&A with @micromotility.bsky.social on natural computation in single-celled microorganisms
+ more ↓
link.aria.org.uk/sepsubstack-bluesky
– The launch of Innovator Circles
– Insights into the FRO-Founder Residency with @convergentresearch.bsky.social
– A Q&A with @micromotility.bsky.social on natural computation in single-celled microorganisms
+ more ↓
link.aria.org.uk/sepsubstack-bluesky
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Join our team and help realize a bold vision.
September 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Join our team and help realize a bold vision.
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Earlier this year, Imprint came out of stealth on the TED Mainstage to share our vision:
What if the immune system holds the key to curing chronic diseases—and we just need the tools to read it?
We’re building those tools.
Our TED talk is now live 👉 go.ted.com/beckbrachman
What if the immune system holds the key to curing chronic diseases—and we just need the tools to read it?
We’re building those tools.
Our TED talk is now live 👉 go.ted.com/beckbrachman
go.ted.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Earlier this year, Imprint came out of stealth on the TED Mainstage to share our vision:
What if the immune system holds the key to curing chronic diseases—and we just need the tools to read it?
We’re building those tools.
Our TED talk is now live 👉 go.ted.com/beckbrachman
What if the immune system holds the key to curing chronic diseases—and we just need the tools to read it?
We’re building those tools.
Our TED talk is now live 👉 go.ted.com/beckbrachman
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This June, we kicked off our first-ever UK FRO Founder Residency as an Activation Partner for the United Kingdom’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), @aria-research.bsky.social.
Read more: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the...
Read more: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the...
Inside the UK FRO Founder Residency with ARIA
a big step forward in how we source and incubate new FRO projects
www.essentialtechnology.blog
September 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This June, we kicked off our first-ever UK FRO Founder Residency as an Activation Partner for the United Kingdom’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), @aria-research.bsky.social.
Read more: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the...
Read more: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the...
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This week's Science to Impact symposium at Ohio State hosted experts in all kinds of science communication!
Grateful to have helped organize this event and heard from these minds in one room. 🧠 🧪
Grateful to have helped organize this event and heard from these minds in one room. 🧠 🧪
August 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This week's Science to Impact symposium at Ohio State hosted experts in all kinds of science communication!
Grateful to have helped organize this event and heard from these minds in one room. 🧠 🧪
Grateful to have helped organize this event and heard from these minds in one room. 🧠 🧪
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📣 We're excited to share the new lean-lang.org!
Relaunching our website was a key deliverable in our Year 2 roadmap to provide "improved navigation and access to valuable content, resources, and tools." We hope you like it!
#LeanLang #LeanProver
Relaunching our website was a key deliverable in our Year 2 roadmap to provide "improved navigation and access to valuable content, resources, and tools." We hope you like it!
#LeanLang #LeanProver
July 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
📣 We're excited to share the new lean-lang.org!
Relaunching our website was a key deliverable in our Year 2 roadmap to provide "improved navigation and access to valuable content, resources, and tools." We hope you like it!
#LeanLang #LeanProver
Relaunching our website was a key deliverable in our Year 2 roadmap to provide "improved navigation and access to valuable content, resources, and tools." We hope you like it!
#LeanLang #LeanProver
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What is consciousness? What are the challenges of studying it scientifically? Can we ‘dissolve’ them? @anilseth.bsky.social gives us some answers in this new #INMINDS interview for @cienciacog.bsky.social about *problems of consciousness (and how to handle them)*! www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2549
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
What is consciousness? What are the challenges of studying it scientifically? Can we ‘dissolve’ them? @anilseth.bsky.social gives us some answers in this new #INMINDS interview for @cienciacog.bsky.social about *problems of consciousness (and how to handle them)*! www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2549
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Anastasia Garnick from @convergentresearch.bsky.social presents the “gap map” and how Focussed Research Organisations (FROs) can help #MetaScience2025
www.gap-map.org
www.gap-map.org
Gap Map
Explore R&D Gaps and their related Foundational Capabilities.
www.gap-map.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Anastasia Garnick from @convergentresearch.bsky.social presents the “gap map” and how Focussed Research Organisations (FROs) can help #MetaScience2025
www.gap-map.org
www.gap-map.org
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Two-day, fully-funded opportunity led by @nytimes.com editor James Ryerson & featuring scientists @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and @daviddesteno.bsky.social and one-man band @josephfridman.bsky.social. Applications for the next workshop open till July 7th! (2/2)
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Two-day, fully-funded opportunity led by @nytimes.com editor James Ryerson & featuring scientists @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and @daviddesteno.bsky.social and one-man band @josephfridman.bsky.social. Applications for the next workshop open till July 7th! (2/2)
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Had a great time attending the Beyond the Ivory Tower workshop at @northeasternu.bsky.social! If you're a scientist or philosopher looking to turn your ideas into short articles for a general audience, check it out! (1/2)
www.beyondtheivorytower.com
www.beyondtheivorytower.com
Beyond the Ivory Tower
www.beyondtheivorytower.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Had a great time attending the Beyond the Ivory Tower workshop at @northeasternu.bsky.social! If you're a scientist or philosopher looking to turn your ideas into short articles for a general audience, check it out! (1/2)
www.beyondtheivorytower.com
www.beyondtheivorytower.com
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"Academic research groups and startups are essential drivers of scientific progress. But some projects, like the Hubble Space Telescope or the Human Genome Project, are too big for any one academic lab or loose consortium..."
Former MIT researchers advance a new model for innovation
Developed by former MIT researchers, focused research organizations (FROs) undertake large research efforts and have begun to contribute to scientific advances.
news.mit.edu
June 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"Academic research groups and startups are essential drivers of scientific progress. But some projects, like the Hubble Space Telescope or the Human Genome Project, are too big for any one academic lab or loose consortium..."
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Also: we’re #hiring! 🎊To learn more about Imprint and view open roles on our team, visit imprint.org.
🤝 If you are a clinical or computational research group interested in partnering with Imprint, please follow us for future updates and opportunities.
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
🤝 If you are a clinical or computational research group interested in partnering with Imprint, please follow us for future updates and opportunities.
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
Imprint FRO
IMPRINT is developing tools to read and analyze immune memory signatures, providing a new approach to identify hidden causes of chronic disease.
imprint.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Also: we’re #hiring! 🎊To learn more about Imprint and view open roles on our team, visit imprint.org.
🤝 If you are a clinical or computational research group interested in partnering with Imprint, please follow us for future updates and opportunities.
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
🤝 If you are a clinical or computational research group interested in partnering with Imprint, please follow us for future updates and opportunities.
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
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IMPRINT is the first Focused Research Organization (FRO) in New York City. We are supported by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Convergent Research, Peter Reinhart, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
@convergentresearch.bsky.social
@convergentresearch.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
IMPRINT is the first Focused Research Organization (FRO) in New York City. We are supported by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Convergent Research, Peter Reinhart, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
@convergentresearch.bsky.social
@convergentresearch.bsky.social
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With teams in Europe and North America, we are building experimental and machine learning tools to identify the hidden causes of and cures for chronic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
May 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
With teams in Europe and North America, we are building experimental and machine learning tools to identify the hidden causes of and cures for chronic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
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The immune system is not just an army — it’s also an archive. IMPRINT aims to decode this archive using an innovative forensic immunology approach, enabling new diagnostics, treatments, and cures for conditions ranging from autoimmune disorders to mental illness.
May 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The immune system is not just an army — it’s also an archive. IMPRINT aims to decode this archive using an innovative forensic immunology approach, enabling new diagnostics, treatments, and cures for conditions ranging from autoimmune disorders to mental illness.
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🧵 Today, IMPRINT, a pioneering new nonprofit initiative, is announcing $15 million in philanthropic funding to advance our work to decode the body's immune memory and uncover the causes of chronic diseases.
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
Press Release May 2025 — Imprint FRO
Imprint FRO launches with $15M in funding
www.imprint.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🧵 Today, IMPRINT, a pioneering new nonprofit initiative, is announcing $15 million in philanthropic funding to advance our work to decode the body's immune memory and uncover the causes of chronic diseases.
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
You can now download the @convergentresearch.bsky.social Gap Map data at gap-map.org/api/
🗾 🔬 🗺️ 🔭
Feel free to pull it into your AI assistant of choice and query away when you're feeling hungry for some fundamental R&D talks with Claude or Geppett-o3 or Gemini this weekend --
🗾 🔬 🗺️ 🔭
Feel free to pull it into your AI assistant of choice and query away when you're feeling hungry for some fundamental R&D talks with Claude or Geppett-o3 or Gemini this weekend --
Gap Map API & Data - Gap Map
Explore R&D Gaps and their related Foundational Capabilities.
gap-map.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You can now download the @convergentresearch.bsky.social Gap Map data at gap-map.org/api/
🗾 🔬 🗺️ 🔭
Feel free to pull it into your AI assistant of choice and query away when you're feeling hungry for some fundamental R&D talks with Claude or Geppett-o3 or Gemini this weekend --
🗾 🔬 🗺️ 🔭
Feel free to pull it into your AI assistant of choice and query away when you're feeling hungry for some fundamental R&D talks with Claude or Geppett-o3 or Gemini this weekend --
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Looking for a job in immunology or biotech research?
✨IMPRINT is #hiring! ✨
Join us to help revolutionize how we decode the body’s immune memory, uncover the causes of chronic diseases, and drive breakthroughs in autoimmunity and neuropsychiatric research.
#BiotechJobs #Immunology #sciencejobs
✨IMPRINT is #hiring! ✨
Join us to help revolutionize how we decode the body’s immune memory, uncover the causes of chronic diseases, and drive breakthroughs in autoimmunity and neuropsychiatric research.
#BiotechJobs #Immunology #sciencejobs
Jobs — Imprint FRO
Join our team—current openings at Imprint
www.imprint.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Looking for a job in immunology or biotech research?
✨IMPRINT is #hiring! ✨
Join us to help revolutionize how we decode the body’s immune memory, uncover the causes of chronic diseases, and drive breakthroughs in autoimmunity and neuropsychiatric research.
#BiotechJobs #Immunology #sciencejobs
✨IMPRINT is #hiring! ✨
Join us to help revolutionize how we decode the body’s immune memory, uncover the causes of chronic diseases, and drive breakthroughs in autoimmunity and neuropsychiatric research.
#BiotechJobs #Immunology #sciencejobs
Only 3 more workshops left before our grant ends in July 2026! We've helped hundreds of academics publish hundreds of pieces. It's been a blast. One more workshop in 2025 this October.
Beyond the Ivory Tower
www.beyondtheivorytower.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Only 3 more workshops left before our grant ends in July 2026! We've helped hundreds of academics publish hundreds of pieces. It's been a blast. One more workshop in 2025 this October.
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The team is very excited to see all the proposals for UK Focused Research Organizations!
We've partnered with @aria-research.bsky.social to seek proposals for FROs that could unlock transformative progress in ARIA’s opportunity spaces: www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk
Apply by Friday March 28!
We've partnered with @aria-research.bsky.social to seek proposals for FROs that could unlock transformative progress in ARIA’s opportunity spaces: www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk
Apply by Friday March 28!
FROST UK — Convergent Research
www.convergentresearch.org
March 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The team is very excited to see all the proposals for UK Focused Research Organizations!
We've partnered with @aria-research.bsky.social to seek proposals for FROs that could unlock transformative progress in ARIA’s opportunity spaces: www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk
Apply by Friday March 28!
We've partnered with @aria-research.bsky.social to seek proposals for FROs that could unlock transformative progress in ARIA’s opportunity spaces: www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk
Apply by Friday March 28!
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There are so many inspiring examples of scientific roadmaps out there: this post was our quick way of introducing new explorers of the scientific landscape to this fascinating genre. Expect more from us in terms of releasing roadmaps & thinking soon and let us know which of your favorites we missed!
"There are bottlenecks choking progress in virtually every scientific field, and you can identify these with a good roadmap." - @adammarblestone.bsky.social
Out now on our new Substack, Essential Technology: convergentresearch.substack.com/p/scientific...
Out now on our new Substack, Essential Technology: convergentresearch.substack.com/p/scientific...
A beginner’s guide to scientific roadmapping
Wonderful maps and how to read them
convergentresearch.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
There are so many inspiring examples of scientific roadmaps out there: this post was our quick way of introducing new explorers of the scientific landscape to this fascinating genre. Expect more from us in terms of releasing roadmaps & thinking soon and let us know which of your favorites we missed!