Natalie, PhD

At the end of chat ask if you can catch up with them at (relevant milestone for your goal here). Usually every 4-6 months, even if just by email.

You can also ask them what they're looking for or if there's anything you can help them with -> gets you into cool projects.

One more bit of advice: use your judgement, but in general don't make the mentorship ask formal, especially at first. People assume it'll take a lot of their time.

Just email/send a message like "hey. I saw your work on X. I want to do something similar in Y. Can we get coffee/do a zoom chat?"

A useful framework for finding people:
- 2-3 mentors in the next role you *think* you want, at least one of which you can vent to openly when angry
- 1-2 mentors 2-3 levels more senior / in your late career 'dream' role (you will get little time with them)
- 1+ who are very social/good advocates

What I've learned: After a certain career stage, it becomes an informal network that you build yourself.

I think partly because at thst point, what you've done and what you are looking to do next becomes such a unique combination it is hard to have a general mentoring network.

This is me and the word entrepreneurship (thanks keyboard autocorrect).

"Entrepe.. Entrepran.. STARTUP STUFF"

Withers: not actually romanceable BUT if you go long enough without bedding any of the characters, he WILL ask why you haven't fucked anyone yet.

Just in case you didn't know sex was an option in the game.

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Well, he just won about $1.2M of discretionary funding as part of his Nobel prize, and discretionary funding is some of the most valuable funding you can have in academia.

So he's probably set for a while. As for the tech, UC Berkeley will probably seek to license it out.

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*creepily* "Where's Leda?"

...where do people think the spelling correction and autocomplete when typing in their phone comes from... ಠ⁠︵⁠ಠ

Oh I meant getting the PI to read your manuscript bit! 😂 Mine didn't get to revising our last manuscript until nearly a year after I finished...and I was backpacking in Asia.

Though it sounds like Fred Ramsdell IS living his best life in retirement and I'm quite jelly.

Somehow applies, even when you saw them in the office yesterday and they were asking about the results for experiments XYZ.

I can confirm the veracity of this statement.

We need to find a journal editor that will publish this

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Same issue here

The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.

The rhetoric we see daily is dangerous. The world has seen it before. It is what our parents/grandparents/ great-grandparents warned us about.
The previous "War Department" made films about it.
My only wish is all Americans could watch it and remember.

As they warned– "Don't be a sucker"

Video:

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

Biosecurity used to be something we worried about mostly for state actors and well-resourced orgs (e.g., Aum Shinrikyo).

But new protein design technologies and LLMs do seem to be lowering that bar. It's good to see industry policies filling the void but not sure how long this will work...

So this exists, and I'm somehow only 1 month late in knowing about it.

To be fair, the first idiot probably had at least some plausible degree of ignorance about the cave's fatality. Unlike the last one.

Oh, that will probably go poorly.

It's not an exact apples to apples comparison, but this happened in biotech 2018-2021. PE/late stage VC pushed preclinical biotechs onto public markets, supposedly to cash out funds. Later, most of these biotechs' valuations collapsed to 1/10 the value or worse.

Ok, yes, this makes WAY more sense than "all capital is actually going to OpenAI."

I've been told by older entrepreneurs that #2 happened during the 2008 financial crisis and it was a giant disaster for startups.

Basically VCs called their LPs for capital to invest, and the LPs just said no, and it all fell apart.

Two ways, off the top of my head:

1) a lot of startups with specialized AI apps call chatGPT/claude/etc on backend. Poof, their goes their operating capability

2) If/when the bubble bursts, funding might dry up entirely for not just tech, but all startups. Like, capital calls will be refused.