The front cover of the book: Crick, by Matthew Cobb
Loved this brilliant biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social But what struck me from the start: it's also a portrait of a lost time in science: no grant applications or teaching, big travel budgets: the job only to think, talk & get science done. Future scientific biogs will be so different.
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Unlocking the potential of genetic data for research and healthcare
Short explainer from Oxford's Big Data Institute www.bdi.ox.ac.uk/news/unlocki...
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My open letter to Elon Musk โฌ๏ธ
Unfortunately, I can't share it on his social media megaphone, because he broke it and it still isn't working.
Similarly, he's hobbled all our disease-detection systems around the world.
We will regret this.
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would it be worth allowing AI companies to have free access to the UK's copyrighted material _if_ libraries, art colleges, and museums were paid for with a 20 year endowment from big tech? a 50 year endowment? 200 years?
a sovereign arts fund if you like
in short: we need more ideas on the table.
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Hello
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