Do you know an awesome junior project manager who loves science and technology and knows how to get shit done? Please send them my way - we would like to hire them for our Brains accelerator!
Applications close in one week!
If you (or someone you know) has what it takes to run an ambitious research program, we want to hear from you.
A large crowd carrying signs and American flags gathered around an obelisk; a tall white steepled church stands in the background.
Greetings from this morningโs #NoKings rally on the Lexington MA Battle Green, which was packed with patriots once again to stand up against a corrupt and capricious would-be ruler. More photosโฆ ๐งต @indivisible.org @universalhub.com
๐ Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
A poster about the No Kings Rally in Lexington, MA with featured speakers Bill McKibben and Massachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson.
We are having a great No Kings! rally in Lexington with the tagline "It Started Here." Register and join us: www.mobilize.us/lexingtonala...
@lexingtonalarm.bsky.social
@swingbluealliance.org
@progressivemass.bsky.social
@mass50501.bsky.social
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT๐ฃ: I havenโt been this excited to be part of something new in 15 yearsโฆ Thrilled to reveal the passion project Iโve been working on for the past year and a half!๐๐ฅณ (thread ๐)
Applications for the 2026 cohort of the Brains Research Accelerator are now open!
If you have a deep technical background and an ambitious research idea that's beyond the scope of a startup or academic lab, you should apply!
spec.tech/brains
If you have questions, we have answers!
We are doing two Q+A sessions about AI Brains in the coming weeks:
1. June 3 at 8p ET: lu.ma/eli2c08p
2. June 9 at 1p ET: lu.ma/vxx85ug5
Applications are now open for a special cohort of the Brains Accelerator targeting ambitious AI research programs, with a special focus on security and governance capabilities!
spec.tech/ai-brains
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Kรกri Stefรกnsson, founder and CEO of deCODE Genetics, the Icelandic company wholly owned by Amgen but operated largely independently, has been fired.
www.mbl.is/frettir/innl...
Looking for a job in immunology or biotech research?
โจIMPRINT is #hiring! โจ
Join us to help revolutionize how we decode the bodyโs immune memory, uncover the causes of chronic diseases, and drive breakthroughs in autoimmunity and neuropsychiatric research.
#BiotechJobs #Immunology #sciencejobs
Spectech is hiring a program associate for the Brains Research Accelerator!
Are you/do you know someone relatively early in their career who has:
- Technical training
- Intense attention to detail
- An interest in ambitious research programs?
If so, please get in touch.
spec.tech/jobs
Ah yes, the morphological species concept, so snakes are lampreys are hagfish!
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
A few weeks ago, I had an incredibly emotional call with James Coney, a writer for the Sunday Times whose son Charlie was in the @genomicsengland.bsky.social 100k project and was recently diagnosed with ReNU syndrome. This beautiful article tells their story โค๏ธ www.thetimes.com/article/0bcc...
I wrote an extended essay attempting to:
- Synthesize the zeitgeist around universities, our research ecosystem, and technological stagnation
- Argue that part of the solution unbundling the roles the university has monopolized
- Suggest concrete actions to do that
unbundle-the-university.com
lord of the rings meme gimli i think idc: "never thought i'd die fighting side by side with an indirect cost rate" legolas but his face says 67.5%: "what about side by side with a friend?" same gimli: no dialogue
how it feels logging on today
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
I'm excited to introduce the 2025 class of Brains Fellows!
We're working with these talented scientists and technologists to execute on ambitious ideas that are beyond the scope of individual academic labs, startups, or large companies.
Check out their ideas:
blog.spec.tech/p/meet-the-2...
New post on the Speculative Technologies blog about lessons from 2024 and updated hypotheses going into 2025.
We got some things right, some things wrong, and uncovered some things we didn't know we didn't know.
blog.spec.tech/p/spectech-l...
๐ Calling all visionary scientists and engineers! Announcing our call for Focused Research Organization proposals in the UK. ๐ฌSubmit your concept paper by Feb 7 & full proposal by March 28. More here: www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk โคต๏ธ
Itโs the 12th day of Christmas and there is so much shit Iโve got to return. So many birds.
Me agreeing to circle back in the new year: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me when they circle back in the new year: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Iโve gotten into Margins lately
He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.
Wood sculpture by Han Hsu Tung of a hand in mid-pixelation
Wood sculpture by Han Hsu Tung of a terracotta soldier in mid-pixelation
The work of Taiwanese sculptor Hsu Tung Han ้ๆญๆฑ - of wood sculptures carved as if pixelated and uploading
[Via his Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/hsutu...
FutureHouse is launching an independent postdoctoral fellowship program for exceptional researchers who want to apply our automated science tools to specific problems in biology and biochemistry, in collaboration with world-leading academic labs. 1/
Check out ๐A Biologistโs Guide to Mars Dirt, where we present a receipt for soluble Mars Regolith Media (sMRM) that best simulates what youโd get if you added water to Mars dirt.
Will anything grow in this media? Stay tuned!
๐ง+ ๐ชจ โ ๐ฑ ?
open.substack.com/pub/pioneerl...
It's giving Tuesday!
Why, of the 1.97 million nonprofits in the United States, should you support Speculative Technologies?
- We're fast, lean, and relentless
- Weโre in a class of one
- Itโs a vote for an amazing future
- Social Proof!
I unpack those reasons here:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
