“About politics to be sure, I still get dutifully angry, but I do not bat my wings anymore, I only ruffle my feathers.”

~ A. Einstein

I’m actively looking to match ambitious scientists with funding.

Through some combination of my writing, podcasts, in-person events, scientific research and other activities that my friend @markwbudde would call “hypernetworking,” I’ve managed to meet a lot of wealthy individuals interested in funding ambitious scientists. I’ve had my own work funded this way, and though it’s not sustainable enough to replace the work of larger funding bodies of the NIH, for the right kind of person it is just what they need.

I am writing this post because I am helping one of these groups – Fulcrum Science – find projects worth giving money to.

While I’m pretty flexible, I’m particularly interested in hearing from people who are actively working on open sourced LLMs for frontier biology.

Plenty of groups have shown what is possible with frontier, closed-source LLMs. I’ve also seen it in my own work (which I hope to talk about soon). I also think that the absolute frontier of intelligence isn’t required to do interesting things in science.

I’d like to help match an existing lab – academic or industry – with a decent sum of funding to showcase what open sourced models can do in biology.

Pitch me what you’d do.

Please note, I am not looking to hear about any projects that involve Claude or ChatGPT for any reasoning, experimental analysis, or embodied automation stuff. Open source only!

I’m also open to hearing about other things within biology. If you have an idea you have struggled to get funded, and you have a good reason for me to believe you, please reach out.

My email is eryneym [at] gmail.com. You can also DM me on Twitter.

Who is still left from science twitter? Those of you still here, is it worth it?
#academia

Fascinating paper just published in Science.

The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more.

Their central finding challenges a common belief.

Intensive, ing at a young age does confer an early advantage, but this advantage fades over time.

By contrast, individuals exposed to multidisciplinary practice early in life tend to start more slowly. Yet, over the long run, they are more likely to reach world-class performance, eventually overtaking early specialists, who often plateau just below the very top.

An important reminder that breadth early on can be a powerful investment in long-term excellence.

Link to the paper in the first reply.

We’re moving our communication away from X! After 15 years, it’s time to continue the conversation somewhere new. This account will stay online as an archive – a little time capsule of science stories, discoveries… and to be honest, probably far too many posts about coffee! 😉

6 million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica shatters records — and there's ancient air trapped inside livescience.com/planet-earth/a…

New dates for a long-debated New Mexico fossil site reveal that dinosaurs were thriving and regionally diverse until the end-Cretaceous asteroid strike 66 million years ago, according to a new study in Science. scim.ag/47zTI34

Talk about a lucky dive, an incredible encounter with two underwater giants.

Beautifully captured by Bill Bright diving in 📍Nusa Penida.

🎥 by IG user @kkabolls_

Today we raised our voices for NASA. Nearly 300 space advocates from 38 states joined forces in Washington, D.C. to meet with Congress, stand with 20 science and education organizations, and demand protection for NASA’s future. 🚀

We mobilized to stop proposed 47% cuts to defend dozens of missions at risk, and ensure America’s leadership in space continues and the world continues to benefit from NASA science.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in D.C. and around the country for this Day of Action.

We will not stop until we #savenasascience

I’ll leave it with that. Every word.

Pope Leo blesses 20000 year old melting ice from Greenland Icesheet. His holy father stands by science and calls for humanity to protect God's creation, which is rapidly approaching irreversible tipping points.
theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

Extremophile Hotspots Linked To Containerized Industrial Waste Dumping In A Deep-sea Basin
astrobiology.com/2025/09/extrem… #astrobiology #extremophile #evolution

A Carbon Cycle Flaw Can Plunge Earth Into An Ice Age
astrobiology.com/2025/09/a-carb… #astrobiology #Climatechange

Minute Witnesses From Earth's Primordial Sea
astrobiology.com/2025/09/minute… #astrobiology #OriginOfLife #evolution #Oceanography

A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data nature.com/articles/s4156…

More than 3/4 of Earth’s support systems are outside the safe zone. Ocean acidification is the latest boundary breached. The warning is stark, but failure is not inevitable. It is a choice. Read the 2025 Planetary Health Check here: planetaryhealthcheck.org/#reports-secti…

11.5M+ California households will automatically see refunds on their October electric bill thanks to California's Climate Credit.

And it doesn’t stop there.

Up to $60B will return to Californians’ pockets going forward, cutting electric bills while moving to cleaner energy.

“Violence against the truth” well said Obama

Got my Covid shot today, took some Tylenol and tonight I’m going to watch Jimmy Kimmel!

After reviewing the indexes, precious metals, $VIX, China and Japan markets, #Bitcoin #Ethereum and #Altcoins and proxies/miners and more than 15 stocks that are #Palantiring with @greatmattsby and @ewtracker...

I still don't understand why people are bearish.

BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…