We've just published three recommendations for what the UK Government should do to address the misuse risk from narrow, specialised AI-enabled biological tools (BTs): longtermresilience.org/post/how-the-u… 1/6🧵

After a deep review of our potential paths to impact and $$$, we've decided to discontinue Alvea's core operations & return remaining funds (~1y of runway) to investors. It's been a wild ride these past 1.5 yrs—huge thank you to all who've supported us ♥️ Reflections coming soon!

Just announced at EAG — Alvea:
- entered clinical trials for its first drug candidate a month ago (<6 months since co started)
- recently closed an $18.9M seed round

So proud of our incredible team ❤️

The challenge of biosecurity & open science. Nice Wired piece by Grace Browne wired.com/story/making-s… on a new PLOS article journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… that full disclosure I reviewed

Open science and biosecurity? New paper with Jonas Sandbrink covered in this Wired article: wired.com/story/making-s…

1/ Today, New Science announces its inaugural project: the 2022 Summer Fellowship.

With the NIH allocating <2% of its funding to scientists <=35yo, it's our responsibility to enable young scientists to pursue independent, high-risk, basic research.

newscience.org/summer-fellows…

Published!
Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology
eLife - the journal

* 193 experiments planned, 50 completed. Challenges in transparency, sharing, & implementation doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

* Replication effect sizes were 85% smaller on avg than original effects doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

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