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This community is building foundational capabilities for technological progress.
Its nonprofit initiatives allow broadly sharing these capabilities.
I am happy to support this mission 🚀
What does it take to identify critical science & tech capability gaps—and then build organizations dedicated to addressing them?
@adammarblestone.bsky.social, @anastasiag.bsky.social, Mary Wang, & @josephfridman.bsky.social on creating @convergentresearch.bsky.social: issues.org/focused-rese...
Earlier this year, @parallelsq.bsky.social hosted a research fest.
We began with a broad perspective:
◾️ A century of remarkable progress! Proteomics drove conceptual discoveries and medical treatments.
Listen to what's next!
Proteomics: The arc of progress
youtu.be/Sc2QLXb84XI?...
Proud of @e11bio.bsky.social's early progress here, and excited for so much more to come (that I've seen previews of as a FRO board member 😍).
Optics + expansion + barcoding + AI + molecules = beginning of infinity for scalable brain circuit mapping, with wide implications across science.
👀 Our latest Substack is live – discover:
– The launch of Innovator Circles
– Insights into the FRO-Founder Residency with @convergentresearch.bsky.social
– A Q&A with @micromotility.bsky.social on natural computation in single-celled microorganisms
+ more ↓
link.aria.org.uk/sepsubstack-bluesky
Join our team and help realize a bold vision.
16.09.2025 15:28 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Earlier this year, Imprint came out of stealth on the TED Mainstage to share our vision:
What if the immune system holds the key to curing chronic diseases—and we just need the tools to read it?
We’re building those tools.
Our TED talk is now live 👉 go.ted.com/beckbrachman
This June, we kicked off our first-ever UK FRO Founder Residency as an Activation Partner for the United Kingdom’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), @aria-research.bsky.social.
Read more: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the...
This week's Science to Impact symposium at Ohio State hosted experts in all kinds of science communication!
Grateful to have helped organize this event and heard from these minds in one room. 🧠 🧪
📣 We're excited to share the new lean-lang.org!
Relaunching our website was a key deliverable in our Year 2 roadmap to provide "improved navigation and access to valuable content, resources, and tools." We hope you like it!
#LeanLang #LeanProver
What is consciousness? What are the challenges of studying it scientifically? Can we ‘dissolve’ them? @anilseth.bsky.social gives us some answers in this new #INMINDS interview for @cienciacog.bsky.social about *problems of consciousness (and how to handle them)*! www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2549
02.07.2025 14:58 — 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0Anastasia Garnick from @convergentresearch.bsky.social presents the “gap map” and how Focussed Research Organisations (FROs) can help #MetaScience2025
www.gap-map.org
Two-day, fully-funded opportunity led by @nytimes.com editor James Ryerson & featuring scientists @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and @daviddesteno.bsky.social and one-man band @josephfridman.bsky.social. Applications for the next workshop open till July 7th! (2/2)
17.06.2025 15:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Had a great time attending the Beyond the Ivory Tower workshop at @northeasternu.bsky.social! If you're a scientist or philosopher looking to turn your ideas into short articles for a general audience, check it out! (1/2)
www.beyondtheivorytower.com
"Academic research groups and startups are essential drivers of scientific progress. But some projects, like the Hubble Space Telescope or the Human Genome Project, are too big for any one academic lab or loose consortium..."
09.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
Also: we’re #hiring! 🎊To learn more about Imprint and view open roles on our team, visit imprint.org.
🤝 If you are a clinical or computational research group interested in partnering with Imprint, please follow us for future updates and opportunities.
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
IMPRINT is the first Focused Research Organization (FRO) in New York City. We are supported by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Convergent Research, Peter Reinhart, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
@convergentresearch.bsky.social
With teams in Europe and North America, we are building experimental and machine learning tools to identify the hidden causes of and cures for chronic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
15.05.2025 13:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The immune system is not just an army — it’s also an archive. IMPRINT aims to decode this archive using an innovative forensic immunology approach, enabling new diagnostics, treatments, and cures for conditions ranging from autoimmune disorders to mental illness.
15.05.2025 13:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
🧵 Today, IMPRINT, a pioneering new nonprofit initiative, is announcing $15 million in philanthropic funding to advance our work to decode the body's immune memory and uncover the causes of chronic diseases.
#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch
You can now download the @convergentresearch.bsky.social Gap Map data at gap-map.org/api/
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Feel free to pull it into your AI assistant of choice and query away when you're feeling hungry for some fundamental R&D talks with Claude or Geppett-o3 or Gemini this weekend --
Looking for a job in immunology or biotech research?
✨IMPRINT is #hiring! ✨
Join us to help revolutionize how we decode the body’s immune memory, uncover the causes of chronic diseases, and drive breakthroughs in autoimmunity and neuropsychiatric research.
#BiotechJobs #Immunology #sciencejobs
Need to have defended your PhD or received JD or MD by the time of of the workshop! All disciplines allowed if you're interested in writing short pieces about big ideas for wide audiences.
Generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Please share!
www.beyondtheivorytower.com
If selected, get $2,000 to come to Boston in October, leave with a workshopped piece + weekly follow-on support with yours truly.
11.04.2025 01:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Get expert craftly instruction in writing op-eds from a NYT vet with 20 years of magazine/Opinion experience + Lisa Feldman Barrett and David DeSteno and me!
Apply with 3 pitches, CV, writing sample. Due July 7th.
Only 3 more workshops left before our grant ends in July 2026! We've helped hundreds of academics publish hundreds of pieces. It's been a blast. One more workshop in 2025 this October.
11.04.2025 01:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The team is very excited to see all the proposals for UK Focused Research Organizations!
We've partnered with @aria-research.bsky.social to seek proposals for FROs that could unlock transformative progress in ARIA’s opportunity spaces: www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk
Apply by Friday March 28!
There are so many inspiring examples of scientific roadmaps out there: this post was our quick way of introducing new explorers of the scientific landscape to this fascinating genre. Expect more from us in terms of releasing roadmaps & thinking soon and let us know which of your favorites we missed!
21.03.2025 13:47 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
"There are bottlenecks choking progress in virtually every scientific field, and you can identify these with a good roadmap." - @adammarblestone.bsky.social
Out now on our new Substack, Essential Technology: convergentresearch.substack.com/p/scientific...
"Organizations like @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, the @arcinstitute.org, and a whole class of nonprofit start-ups called focused research organizations are instead using philanthropic dollars to build tools that could accelerate scientific progress."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
