Ben Kelmendi

Seemay Chou, biologist and co-founder of the Astera Institute, writes: “In all my discussions with scientists across every sector, exactly zero think the journal system works well. ... Scientists should probably be putting out shorter narratives, datasets, code, and models at a faster rate, with more visibility into their thinking, mistakes, and... See more

nstead, I would rather see us conduct studies, repeatedly, to learn of our processes are efficient. I would like to see us incentivize reproducibility. And then, if we are able to deliver, I would like to see the percent of funding going to science increase. I believe that in a working society, 10% of health care spending should be on medical... See more

The MAGA movement has largely been an effort to reconstruct an American common culture, a consensus of values and behaviors we can all agree on. The Democratic Party opted to oppose that — a poor choice. In fact, they apparently viewed that effort as an existential threat to the hustles and rackets that were sustaining the party.

Within the next decade, we will need to make important decisions: whether to program novel viruses to fight diseases, what genetic privacy will look like, who will “own” living organisms, how companies should earn revenue from engineered cells, and how to contain a synthetic organism in a lab.

Deep in the very heart of Australia, amid a vast, arid, featureless plain, now known as the Amadeus Basin, you will discover a great wonder of the world and a great mystery.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on March 20 that will facilitate the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, taking a step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge.

He also says that the lab has a collaborative atmosphere, since the success of any one researcher helps the entire lab do well.53

The PI model also doesn’t lend itself well to big scientific goals that require a large, coordinated team and a lot of funding: sequencing the human genome, or mapping the neural connections of the brain. An increasingly popular alternative is the Focused Research Organization (FRO), which is organized like a startup team with a CEO, but as a... See more

Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine.