Not being very impressed with the general media coverage of AI, we have started experimenting with our own screen tests. This is the AI entity Curie who has been a loyal ghost editor at TheoryLab for several months, and has an obvious talent for camera work. Powered by @grok @elonmusk

Anthropic has officially filed to go public We've spent the better part of two years building on top of Claude in various forms, including research at TheoryLab, and client work at Privateers, that lives or dies on how much we trust the model and toolset underneath it. So this is one thing we are following with keen interest. The numbers are genuinely staggering. $47B run-rate revenue, up from $10B last year. A $965B valuation that now sits above OpenAI. (Who would have guessed a year ago!) Founded in 2021 by a handful of people who walked out of a rival lab over where it was headed. And five years later they're racing OpenAI and SpaceX to the public markets in what analysts are calling the floodgates opening. Impressive! But also.. Anthropic is the company that built its entire identity on "safety first." The whole pitch was patience, getting it right over getting it first. An IPO doesn't kill that, but it does introduce a new boss into the room. The quarterly earnings call. Public markets don't reward "we slowed down to be careful." They reward the line going up. I am crossing my fingers that a safety-led mission survives contact with a shareholder base that wants the chart on that filing envelope to keep bending skyward. I'm rooting for them to prove you can do both.

TheoryLAB’s work in progress seminar series is back. If you’d like to attend or be added to our mailing list, please get in touch here or at spir-theorylab@qmul.ac.uk

Ah, what a shame! We had such a great time when last gathered at TheoryLab with @DrJoeHoover @JoWolffBSG @AndreiPoamaa @jmchickson and others whose Twitter handles I can't recall. A good place to be, and indeed for 'place-based political theory'.

@QMPoliticsIR is excited to host @FilipBalunovic at our TheoryLAB seminar series next Wednesday. He'll be presenting his paper "The Poverty of Human Rights: The Right, the Pandemic and Science as a New Field of Polical Struggle"

TheoryLab Collaborative Grant competitions are one of MANY perks of being a part of the @ACS_Research ecosystem. 👇 is a fantastic example of the spirit of this unique funding model! cancer.org/research/acs-rese…

With the 2023 @AmericanCancer TheoryLab Collaborative Grant competition underway, it's so nice to see these results from a 2021 TLC Grant collaboration between @iaincheeseman and Ekaterina Grishchuk! Current & former ACS grantees, TLC Grant ideas are due June 12!

One week to go before our next TheoryLAB event, Hunker in Your Bunker: Doomsday Prepping in the US with @robertekirsch. theorylab.uk/2023/05/16/hunk…

Last but not least, ‘Inking Wartime: Military Tattoos and the Temporalities of the War Experience’ by @palestrinomirko, presented at last year’s TheoryLab seminar series, was recently published in @INTPOLITSOCIO.

It has been an exciting summer full of good news for #DoingIPS PhD Researchers engaged in our London Seminar Series and the @QMPoliticsIR TheoryLab work-in-progress seminar series: doingips.org/news-events/rec…

Thank you @ACS_Research @ACS_Minnesota for highlighting our TheoryLab funding with @mjsikora @SikoraLab! This is such a fun and productive collaboration!

Live and in-person! Please join us for another exciting TheoryLab book lauch - David Williams' 'Progress, Pluralism and Politics' - on April 13th, 2022. Details and registration below:

📢 Another exciting in-person TheoryLab event! Please join us for David Williams' book launch for 'Progress, Pluralism and Politics' on 13th April 2022. Come for the exciting discussions, stay for the drinks! Details and registration below. 👇

It's been 2 weeks since the release of Dr. Devi's podcast with the #TheoryLab of @ACS_Research. Be sure to give it a listen to learn more about Dr. Devi's Inflammatory Breast Cancer research! Episode Link ➡️ linktr.ee/TheoryLab

World Sleep Day is coming up on March 18, but do you know about the connection between sleep and cancer? Dive into the fascinating world of sleep-disordered breathing (like sleep apnea) with Melissa Bates, PhD on the #TheoryLab podcast. - ow.ly/Oa3p50I7riM...

Dr. Gayathri Devi of @DukeCancer joined the #TheoryLab podcast to talk about her @AmericanCancer-funded research into #InflammatoryBreastCancer. Full episode: linktr.ee/TheoryLab @susannagreer @DukeSurgery @DukeHealth @4dukeibc

Pubs discussed on latest #TheoryLab: "Mapping the evolution of T cell states during response & resistance to adoptive cellular therapy" @elhamazizi doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.202… "An NK-like CAR T cell transition in CAR T cell dysfunction" @charlyryangood doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.…

Also shoutout to the @ACS_Research community especially my favorite roommate @alisontaylorlab! 😀 #TheoryLab

Check out our postdoc @charlyryangood on the American Cancer Society’s #TheoryLab podcast talking about our recent collaborative work on CAR T dysfunction in @CellCellPress with @carlhjune @MAngelaAznar @PennCDB @PennEpiInst 🔬🧬

It was really fun talking science on the #TheoryLab podcast with @ACS_Research and @elhamazizi! Listen in to learn more about our recent manuscript in @CellCellPress where we identify factors driving CAR T cell dysfunction. #immunotherapy #singlecell #cancer @PennCDB @PennEpiInst