The @Twitter we use to know and love is now a long lost memory. 😢 So, I have decided to stop participating on this cesspool of a platform and will move all my activities to BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/genomics-gu…

Just wanna say that @HelenBranswell is absolutely crushing the reporting on every aspect of this Ebola outbreak. @statnews

A year ago I warned what would happen if the U.S. tore down our disease detection system around the world With Hantavrirus and now a very concerning Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, we are seeing VERY clearly what we’ve lost. And why it matters. Read my @TheAtlantic piece from a year ago outlining what happened, and follow along as I continue to cover these issues in the coming days. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

Incredible work from @FLI_org on articulating a better "pro-human" path for AI, and the steps that various stakeholders can take to help us get there: betterpathfor.ai

I simply cannot believe I live in a timeline where journalists helped force the last president out of his reelection campaign for being too old, so the country put an unstable 79 year old who falls asleep constantly in office and none of the same journalists care at all.

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR. We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets. Thread link below.

Today we’re releasing “The A.I. Dilemma” – a new talk @aza and I gave on 3/9, a week before GPT4 launched. *Pls share it widely.* It's critical for institutions to understand how the race between AI labs is accelerating the likelihood of catastrophe: youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8l…

This is not a teamster or an Eagles fan. This is our president, in a time of war, a war he got us into just for the grab-ass of it. We are in a semi w/ no brakes and a fool at the wheel.

It is utterly dispiriting how few of these bubbles are reliable sources of information.

To everyone celebrating Easter, Michelle and I wish you a joyful holiday filled with reminders of the enduring power of faith and hope.

One of the vaccines being DROPPED from the CDC schedule is for meningitis MENINGITIS One of THE most horrific, deadly infections you wouid ever have the misfortune to see It can -and does - kill kids within hours Dropped To satisfy anti vaccine fantasies. Sick.

Today in @NatureMedicine we report that AI can predict 130 diseases from 1 night of sleep🛌 We trained a foundation model (#SleepFM) on 585K hours of sleep recordings from 65K people—brain, heart, muscle & breathing signals combined. AI learns the language of sleep🧵

What a bunch of dorks. Murderous, tyrannical, grifting dorks, but dorks, just the same.

Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.” They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.

Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @CellCellPress cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…

Summary of Governor Gavin C. Newsom’s Advanced Imaging Results

6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19

The metabolic engine of cognition: microglia–neuron interactions in health, ageing and disease go.nature.com/489uho7

Polio vaccine is safer than polio Diphtheria vaccine is safer than diphtheria Measles vaccine is safer than measles Tetanus vaccine is safer than Tetanus And yes Covid vaccine is safer than Covid That's The Whole Point Of Vaccines

IMO the most important scientific event this week was the publication of @davidrliu’s new Nature article 🧵👇in which he presented a new and promising Gene Editing modality named PERT - Prime Editing-mediated Readthrough of premature termination codons. This new modality - which uses Prime Editing to converted a regular tRNA gene into a highly optimized suppressor tRNA thus enabling permanent readthrough of premature stop codons, could potentially provide a one-time curative treatment for countless nonsense mutations which are responsible for almost one-third of all human genetic diseases! Here is an excellent lecture by Prof. David Liu - one of the most important scientists and innovators of our lifetime and the person who invented both Base editing and Prime editing - the 2 top leading modalities of Gene Editing, in which he throughly explains this huge scientific breakthrough. $PRME $BEAM

More balls than most of the men on the world stage.