“...condensed matter physicists study nonliving matter, and biological physicists study living matter...you will have a hard time convincing me that you and I and other living creatures are not the most interesting matter in the universe.” - Rob Phillips

One reason artificial neural networks are so versatile

"...critics long charged this was an extremely ineffective approach. There was no way to reliably say which of the thousands of collected viruses would actually evolve into the next pandemic...EcoHealth received $53 million from USAID from 2004 to 2022."

RT @DOGE: In the past 48 hours, HHS canceled 62 contract worth $182 million. These contracts were entirely for administrative expenses – no…

RT @emilyakopp: I can't believe I forgot about my story with @kccorin about USAID footing the bill for EcoHealth Alliance President Peter D…

RT @DraftKings: @On3sports Ryan Day has had an incredible run at Ohio State: • 70-10 • 5-3 CFP record • 2x Big Ten Champ • 1x B10 Coach of…

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"...an almost loss-free energy transfer within and between the molecules and makes the efficient onward transport of solar energy possible. Quantum mechanics is therefore central to understanding the first steps of energy transfer and charge separation."

Three stop codons sounds inefficient. Let's see if we can downsize 😅 "Here we describe Ochre, a GRO that fully compresses a redundant codon functionality into a single codon, liberating two essential stop codons for reassignment."

Rahm Emanuel: "while I care about the USAID as a former ambassador — that’s not the hill I’m going to die on" "The Democrats are now taking the opposite position: ‘Everything’s perfect.’ ‘Nothing to look at here.’ " via @politico

It's mind boggling to think that such a pedestrian combinatorics question, 'how many ways can you shuffle a deck of cards?', has such a cosmically large answer.

A darkly ironic juxtaposition. In 2012 scientists controversially engineered flu viruses with mutations that made it transmissible through the air, risking starting a pandemic - while in 2020 the WHO failed to notice that COVID is airborne, prolonging it.

@kellywind Emergency audience with Colbert

Vulcan mind-meld coming?

@mentju4 @PeterDaszak Nice work if you can get it, right?

RT @mentju4: looks like USAID also paid @peterdaszak a $407,030 salary in ~2018.

People are still reading our 2022 preprint arguing against the Market Origin Hypothesis