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Reid Olsen

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Drug discovery scientist at Recursion, previously Exscientia, molecular pharmacology PhD, Pac NW born and raised, ex-expat back in the USA, dog person, occasional sleeper. Opinions are my own and obviously correct.

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My old neighborhood. At least the houses are beautiful, but yeah ... Insanely priced.

07.08.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARISβ€”In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

β€˜Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

05.08.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2609    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 37

They call it Rocket in the old country!

05.08.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is incredible

04.08.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8228    πŸ” 2403    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 439

I don't know where people go when they get off the bus my assumption is they stand where I last saw them.

This is that level of thinking even if we give the largest benefit of the doubt.

Not surprising given *everything* that their world model stops outside their immediate experience

04.08.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This plus the forever chemicals

03.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Clackamas was always the most disconnected of the pdx burbs. Culturally as well. And it's right there!

02.08.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"making my way downtown" I type into my phone just as I have done every fifteen minutes for the last hour and a half, updating my friends while stuck in Boston traffic on the way to the Vanessa Carlton show.

27.07.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh. UNC is pretty clearly the cream of that crop, and this decision is highly disappointing. It's shocking how many top universities are ready to throw their credibility and reputations away, esp in advance. History shows appeasement rarely benefits the appeaser.

24.07.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Mike fAI-Gen. A generative bagel LLM

24.07.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWith these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.”

There it is, in black and white, the destruction of cancer research in the US.

23.07.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 22

They also hate PDX more than Seattle which is a win

23.07.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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23.07.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 273    πŸ” 184    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

When did you intro sushi?

21.07.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They're gonna do a comedy aren't they

21.07.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries

20.07.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 8211    πŸ” 417    πŸ’¬ 351    πŸ“Œ 174
The Wall Street Journal
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In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be

The Wall Street Journal 9m ago In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be

no it wasn’t and no it didn’t

20.07.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5538    πŸ” 676    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 294

Please!!!!!

20.07.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sadly this was one of our reasons in our "move back to USA or stay" comparison list. We were so foolish.

18.07.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats on the triple digits!

16.07.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Organoids are nowhere near ready. Use them as part of the funnel? Sure. Replace? Absolutely not.

12.07.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can literally buy novamin at Fred Meyer.

11.07.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bummer. It is really cool

07.07.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can never find it out here in mass

05.07.2025 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Where Marion Berry pie where

05.07.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where Marion Berry pie where

05.07.2025 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
GRC Neurobiology of Psychedelics conference (July 13-18, 2025).

GRC Neurobiology of Psychedelics conference (July 13-18, 2025).

Can’t believe #GRCPsychedelics is happening in two weeks!

We reached capacity attendance – sorry we could not accommodate everyone. We look forward to seeing many of you at the meeting.

w/ @vyazovskiy.bsky.social @viditavaidya.bsky.social @melissaherman.bsky.social

26.06.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Unconscionable

25.06.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kulldorff in his opening statement says fACIP will go after the MMR vaccine timing and β€œresolve religious objections some parents have to the current MMR vaccine”.

IMO, scientists shouldn’t be wading into matters of religion. This is a matter of religious doctrine.

25.06.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

Given its recipe work I would say the LLMs could actually lead people to cook to death in a different sense

25.06.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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