Biotechnology and AI: Technological Convergence and Information Hazards (Part 1)
AIxBio is here: Navigating the pacing problem and the future of global biosecurity...
OpenAI and Anthropic launch life sciences research and healthcare connectors
This week OpenAI and Anthropic launched their health/bio updates. While both companies are leaning into consumer-facing health concierges, Claude now has better tooling for life science researchers....
The Importance of Indigenous Voices in Conservation Genomics
Reply to ‘Genome engineering for conservation might be a game changer but only with the incorporation of Indigenous voices’ in Nature Reviews Biodiversity...
JPM 2026 Schedule Through A Molecular Tools & Testing Lens
The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is this week in San Francisco. As with every other one, I'm tracking any news remotely from Boston. Some year I really should go to observe the sheer spectacle ...
My First Look at Claude Code
Not behind, but at the forefront: On feeling overwhelmed by AI progress, and why that means you're exactly where you need to be....
Stalking the Elusive Product Market Fit
I had a wonderful breakfast conversation back in November with Arima Genomics Founder (and now President and Chief Operating Officer) Sid Selvaraj where he brought up the topic of product market fit. ...
Weekly Recap (January 9, 2026)
The science of responsible innovation, rv (uv for R), just quit, R updates (R Data Scientist, R Works), 5 things in biosecurity, why benchmarking is hard, open science (?), papers & preprints...
Scales of Instrumentation and Automation
Back in September I moved into a product role within the automation unit at Ginkgo, where we sell autonomous laboratories. I'm going to end up posting a bunch on the topic, as I spend a lot of time t...
Sequencing Instrument Outlook 2026
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How to fix a broken towel radiator
<p>In a first for this blog – as a lame attempt to counter the increasing amount of dross when you google simple household tasks, and for my own reference – here’s a post with some D...