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Erika Alden DeBenedictis @erika_alden_d

PI @TheCrick and founder of @Align_Bio. Former astronomer 🌎 recovering computer scientist 🤖 current synthetic biologist 🧬🧪 erikadebenedictis.com London, UK Joined October 2008
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Erika Alden DeBenedictis @erika_alden_d

4 days ago

Confusingly, the panel I'm on at Synbiobeta about synthetic biology for space 🚀 *doesn't* have the word 'moonshot' in it... while the one I'm on about normal old regular Earth 🌎 synthetic biology *does*... 😂

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Cate Hall @catehall

3 weeks ago

Astera is seeking input on foundational innovations (think: organisms and hardware) that could help synthetic biology scale. We just issued a call for ideas and are awarding five $1,000 bounties to the best ones we get. More info here 👇 astera.org/call-for-ideas/

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John Cumbers @johncumbers

3 weeks ago

Learn how synthetic biology is shaping the future of #sustainable food systems and #healthcare in #space in this session at #SynBioBeta2024: synbiobeta.com/attend/synbiob… #spaceExploration

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Rob Carlson @rob_carlson

4 weeks ago

Listening to another great talk, this one by @erika_alden_d, and on how much it costs to build big scientific data sets. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Laboratories for Biotechnology: Leveraging Opportunities and Mitigating Risks nationalacademies.org/event/41736_04… via @theNASEM

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Erika Alden DeBenedictis @erika_alden_d

2 months ago

So cool to see @Align_Bio’s work drawn up like this! 🎨🤩 Congrats to Pete on the talk 👏

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Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Cluster @ScienceCluster

2 months ago

So cool to see @Align_Bio’s work drawn up like this! 🎨🤩 Congrats to Pete on the talk 👏

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Erika Alden DeBenedictis @erika_alden_d

2 months ago

Congrats Ally! Space is a great application area where we need shelf-stable biotech

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Ally Huang, PhD @allyquot

2 months ago

Congrats Ally! Space is a great application area where we need shelf-stable biotech

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Erika Alden DeBenedictis @erika_alden_d

2 months ago

People like structure because it’s a way to pretend like you understand how a protein works. Nobody likes looking at wiggling jiggling protein hairballs because proteins are *actually* complicated, and that makes humans sad 😭

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Cell @CellCellPress

3 months ago

People like structure because it’s a way to pretend like you understand how a protein works. Nobody likes looking at wiggling jiggling protein hairballs because proteins are *actually* complicated, and that makes humans sad 😭

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Sam Rodriques @SGRodriques

2 months ago

At FutureHouse, we always try to find brilliant people before they're famous: Shannon before information theory, or Einstein before relativity. It's the biggest win when we do. If you don't know about her yet, you will soon. @MichaelaThinks signed with FutureHouse last week.

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Richard McElreath 🦔 @rlmcelreath

2 months ago

Sure scientists spend decades using AI to publish nonsense statistical results but publish one giant AI rat testicle and suddenly it's a crisis

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The Crick @TheCrick

2 months ago

Group leader @erika_alden_d was featured in a @Nature interview yesterday, where she discussed her experience setting up a new lab and the hope that her research could one day help with missions to Mars 🧫🚀 nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Gabi Heller @G_T_Heller

3 months ago

Got a pesky peak at -120 ppm? Fluoride cramping your style? We’ve got a hack for you! @k_mat15 @jazzyjewel_ @erika_alden_d @biorxivpreprint @UCLLifeSciences #NMRchat #19F_NMR #NMR #RealTimeChem 🧲🧪🧵👇: (1/7) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Charles Yang @charlesxjyang

3 months ago

New from me in FAS! 👇 How self-driving labs can end science stagnation and a research agenda for how USG can drive adoption of this emerging tech platform

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Federation of American Scientists🔬 @scientistsorg

3 months ago

New from me in FAS! 👇 How self-driving labs can end science stagnation and a research agenda for how USG can drive adoption of this emerging tech platform

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Helena @Helena_LB

3 months ago

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seemay chou @seemaychou

3 months ago

Aggressively agreeing and scheming w ⁦@erika_alden_d⁩ ⁦⁦@D_R_Goodwin⁩ ⁦@AsteraInstitute⁩… lots of exciting irons in the fire coming soon 🔥

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The Struggling Scientists Podcast @TheStrugglingS4

3 months ago

I would read that manuscript😅

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Vince Buffalo @vsbuffalo

3 months ago

I think the sad actual answer to "What is the biggest open challenge in biology?" is: 1. Getting people to share data. 2. Structuring, organizing, and annotating data with metadata so it's useful. 3. Building higher-level abstractions so people can efficiently work with big data.

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hek cell @HECKcell

3 months ago

synthetic biology

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The Onion @TheOnion

3 months ago

synthetic biology

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Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi

4 months ago

Papers improve after peer review. Yes, probably. But I'd like to see, as a control, whether there'll be a comparable (or bigger) improvement if the editors just told the authors "work on it for additional 2 years and then resubmit".

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Jason Sheltzer @JSheltzer

4 months ago

An interesting trend I found: Among the top 10 national winners at the Intel/Westinghouse Science Fair from 1990 to 2002, 66% of them are now in academia. Among the same group from 2003 to 2014, less than a third are academics.

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