Martin Holub, Ph.D.

Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption To study such patterns of early AI adoption, we extend the Anthropic Economic Index along two important dimensions, introducing a geographic analysis of Claude.ai conversations and a first-of-its-kind...

www.anthropic.com/research/ant...

data on Claude adoption, mid Sept

No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960 With A Personal Coda

No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960; economic history myth-busting

www.global-developments.org/p/no-south-k...

in the good news

44 measles outbreaks this year, total cases the highest in 30 years

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

🧵 1/7

www.imdb.com/title/tt2647...

is totally worth your time

Lead by postdoc in the lab Ruiqi Ge and in collaboration with Bob Coffey’s lab, we are happy to share rPAL-seq for rapid and sensitive sequencing based profiling of glycoRNAs @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New targets for clinical trials in Europe | European Medicines Agency (EMA) 500 authorised multinational clinical trials to be added over five years

With the European Commission and the Heads of Medicines Agencies, we have set new targets to make the EU a top destination for #clinicaltrials and speed up patient access to innovative #medicines.

👉 Learn what these targets are: www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/new-...

#MedSky

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

Attributing heat waves to specific fossil fuel companies

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The key molecules in immune responses are glycoproteins.

Why isn't glycosylation studied more intensively?

It should be.
It's a challenging research area, but a good one for ambitious & audacious scientists.

Faculty opening in Cornell Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30338 #chemjobs

💥 We have 3 positions open in my lab in Basel, Switzerland🇨🇭:
#nanopores #smFRET #biomolecular #dynamics #singleMolecules

We’re looking for talented & ambitious new colleagues enthusiastic about biomolecular dynamics & single-molecule tech.

Please share broadly, thank you!🤝

schmid.chemie.unibas.ch

The first day of our bioML symposium at @iocbprague.bsky.social went very well. It is amazing to see how fast this field is moving forward. Thanks to everyone for the fantastic talks! 🤖🧬

How to keep track of the many wildfires that Europe is battling this year? These public and free-to-use sources provide insight into fire activity and the damage left behind...

𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐃𝐍𝐀-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐢 𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫! 👇

The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute will host a specialized training on DNA-based Identification of Fungi:

📆 October 9–10, 2025 (2 days)
🔗 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬: https://f.mtr.cool/wrirtjfrww

overpromise, underdeliver

Wildfires rage across southern Europe as temperatures pass 40C The heatwave has led to red alerts being issued in parts of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the Balkans.

Spain is on fire. Italy, Greece, Portugal — all burning. We have had summer fires before, but never like this. This is climate breakdown in real time. It is killing people, animals, and our future. DAMN the climate deniers. DAMN those who know and could do but do NOTHING www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Out now – our reader-friendly 2025 overview of #CRISPR clinical trials! Learn about how CRISPR is being used to treat #HeartDisease, #cancer, #lupus, #RareDiseases, and more! Read here: ow.ly/mRPl50WneTS 🧬

really would like to know how much of this is driven by tech sector jobs

assume the same is true in the EU/Europe

"Those living in newly renovated apartments have a monthly median household income 3,623 Swiss francs higher than the people who lived there before."

clearly this is not going well

"poorer population, non-citizens and single parents have a higher likelihood of being displaced. People with an African citizenship and asylum seekers with a temporary protection status are three times more likely to be displaced, and single parents twice as likely."

ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Renting in Zurich is hell.

"the adverse effects of today’s profit-oriented housing developments turned out to be more intense and more unfair than we and many other experts had thought"

Whose 'fault' gentrification is, and how to reduce it?

Bringing the best of AI to college students for free We’re committing $1 billion for AI training and resources and rolling out our most advanced AI tools for learning to students for free.

Students (ages 18+) in the U.S. as well as in Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Brazil can sign-up for a 12 month Google AI Pro plan for free.

"Guided Learning" seems to be available in other geographies as well:
blog.google/products/gem...

what the ...

there is very few ways how this could turn out well ...

if in doubt, STAY AT HOME!

So that's net 4% value depreciation YTD?