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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

9 months

hosting a small gathering to watch In Silico, the documentary about the 10-year, $1B failed quest to simulate a brain! ego, conflict, scientific feasibility all come into question. this sunday, 8PM, SF dm for invite :)

In Silico | Documentary Teaser

Director Noah Hutton embarks on a 10-year project following a visionary neuroscientist’s quest to build a computer simulation of a brain. With unprecedented ...

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

thinking about the fact that most of my friends who drop out to become operators still want to continue learning math/physics, but it becomes exponentially harder to justify doing so in comparison to faster feedback loops in their other work. 1/3

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 months

in 2007, DARPA put out 23 mathematical challenges which are about as undefined as they can get including finding a "mathematical theory of the brain" and the "fundamental laws of biology" (the 100 year question) so many biology problems! (h/t @_julesh_ )

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

there's an entire wikipedia page dedicated to chinese nobles who died taking elixirs of immortality over 2000 years

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

working on longevity research is possibly a good cure for people who are indecisive about what to work on in their lives and don't feel strongly about something: if you live forever…you *could* work on anything and everything

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

The new trailer for the Oppenheimer movie directed by Christopher Nolan came out and it's incredible, but I implore people to watch this documentary before they go see it in theaters

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

Isaac Asimov on New Ideas — curious for comments on “to be creative in public is particularly bad”, which is against the wave of building in public, building with the garage door up, etc.

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

My second tweet ever was about @joininteract , and it’s been an annual tradition since then! It is still beautiful to me how many talented, ambitious, and humble individuals I’ve met through Interact. ❤️

Interact

@joininteract

2 years

Applications are now open for the 2022 Interact Fellowship! Learn more and apply here by February 15th: .

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

4 years

Currently on a delayed flight to SFO, pilot says: “Turns out our 15 minute delay is actually 15 airline minutes — an airline minute is a quantum phenomenon because no one knows how long they actually are”

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

9 months

a huge deal for the aging field -- is our first real aging drug also the weight loss drug of the century?

Matthew Herper

@matthewherper

9 months

A big deal. This positions the GLP-1 drugs not just as weight loss medicines, but as treatments that prevent heart disease. We will need to see the full data and read outs from other trials, but this changes the discussion.

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

9 months

Learning "by the numbers" is something many of my friends have gravitated towards. Sometimes I wonder how useful it really is, but it does allow for quick sanity checks if done well, and is very fun! Compiling a small list (please send your favorites!):

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

If anyone would like to work through Feynman's Lectures on Physics w/ me, please DM! Focus would be on understanding and re-explaining concepts weekly, and working through the problem sets. <3 no previous physics experience necessary

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

4 years

“Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. - David Foster Wallace

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 months

princeton biotech group is hosting a undergrad/grad mixer next thursday april 4th, 6-8PM at @_DimensionCap in nyc dm for invite!

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

8 months

hi folks! has anyone received an RFE for an O1 before and dealt with it successfully / have any advice or ways to help? Thanks :) can’t believe how stressful these processes are in the US

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

Reading a paper about the brain in numbers and still can’t believe that until ten years ago, we thought glial cells outnumbered neurons 10:1 (actual value is 1:1!) So much of science is updating “common knowledge” from novel or more accurate tooling / methods

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

My yearly Interact tweet — two years in, still one of the best communities I've ever been a part of. So many stories of meeting incredible, value-aligned people only to realize that they are/were an Interact Fellow. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out! :)

Interact

@joininteract

3 years

There are only two weeks left to apply to the Interact Fellowship. If you are 18-23 years old and care deeply about the transformative role of technology, apply now!

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

individual taste comes from excessive consumption 1/ mathematical intuition requires doing lots of math 2/ personal style comes from trying on a lot of clothes 3/ writer's voice comes from writing all the time no guarantees on a "good" taste but then it comes down to refinement

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

come meet the princeton biotech students for a lil happy hour, 4PM @ lux cap in NYC this tuesday, dm for invite :)

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

6 days

The team at Renaissance has been an unstoppable force for scientific progress. They know how to move the needle efficiently on thorny projects. Excited to follow @tkalil2050 @KumarAGarg ’s progress!

Thomas Kalil

@tkalil2050

7 days

I am excited to announce the launch of Renaissance Philanthropy, with a phenomenal team including @KumarAGarg . Our goal is to help foundations and philanthropists promote a 21st century renaissance, fueled by advances in science, technology and innovation.

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

boston at sunset is glorious

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

they typically hire a tutor, some even start groups to get through textbooks together which usually tapers off over a couple months. there's often some bad feeling that is built up after this. I wonder if it's because of the lack of some external factor. 2/3

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

life is that short period of time between two eternities - when matter, through the mixing of chemicals is electrically induced to unite and become willfully active. until the electricity stops. hence - life is matter gone willful, for a while - Neil Jenney

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

I wish there was a twitter mechanism that was just book (or textbook, essay, articles, letter, blog, inspirations, etc.) recommendations from your favourite accounts

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

does anyone know inspiring biotech companies, VCs, or spaces in NY to visit or would be down to give a presentation to a group of Princeton students in early May? I have a really excellent crew of students who are motivated, brilliant, and the future of bio :)

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

11 months

@hardmaru This is one of the most interesting recent proposals to try to do this:

Kording —-& Lab 🦖

@KordingLab

1 year

Into c.elegans and big data approaches? We (with @eboyden3 and many others) started shopping around a proposal to basically identify all the I/O functions of all the neurons and produce massive complementary data. Any feedback appreciated.

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

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Adam Marblestone

@AdamMarblestone

9 days

#IFLScience 🤗

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

perhaps funding a program ~a la~ @tylercowen @mercatus fellowships would be helpful? 3/3

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

@elidourado and I have spent the last few weeks working on this piece. It's time to try something new and diversify what it means to work on Alzheimer's research.

Eli Dourado

@elidourado

2 years

New short paper with @JoanneZPeng : It turns out the government has plenty of budget for aging research. It’s all just misguidedly earmarked for Alzheimer’s disease. This is something that can be fixed by persuading four committee staffers.

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

older siblings:

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

Keep updated on more of Laura's comics at — think xkcd + waitbutwhy but for explaining biology! :)

Laura 🌲 ⛰️

@LauraDeming

3 years

Tiny Machines teasers: @joannezpeng made this trailer. Now one of my favorite science-inspirational things to watch. I made this crazy cartoon about how I think

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

5 months

Extremely proud of @RaianyRomanni and the team at @xprize for launching an $101M prize for extending human healthspan!

Raiany Romanni

@RaianyRomanni

6 months

The biggest science prize in history has been launched with a $101M purse. 🧬 The goal? To improve human aging by at least 10 years, with a focus on cognitive, immune, and muscle function. This is huge. Read my take on what it means for humanity with quotes by @elonmusk ,…

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

@WillManidis also nicotine but not even in the cool way that gives you cancer

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

I <3 @QuantaMagazine that's it that's the tweet

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

10 months

@KKajderowicz

Biomining for Aging

Literature Review Common Name,Species Name,Maximum Reported Lifespan,Average Lifespan,Aging Features,Comparative Species,Species Name,Average Lifespan of Comparative Species,Labs,Publications...

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

in France right now — scihub and libgen are blocked, which makes me very sad for all the budding young pirate scientists

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

6 months

the aging brain, the picture book

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

6 months

Congratulations on the launch @SGRodriques and Future House team! Excited to see what comes from the 10-year vision, and heads-up, they're hiring interns :)

Sam Rodriques

@SGRodriques

6 months

Today, we are announcing Future House, a philanthropically-funded moonshot focused on building an AI Scientist. At Future House, our 10-year mission is to build semi-autonomous AIs for scientific research, to accelerate the pace of discovery and to provide world-wide access to…

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

I'm always amazed at the beautifully designed diagrams to explain complex concepts from academic papers — ex: @nature news and views section… what if every paper published had this as a norm? do great labs have great design people on their team as well?

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

how many Sundays remain in your life

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

8 months

this ( @longevitywiki ) is well-written and deserves many more eyes and scientists contributing!

Longevity Wiki

What is aging? Can we cure age-related diseases? Is it possible to eliminate the suffering we all experience as we grow older? Can we live longer, without declining...

en.longevitywiki.org

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 month

An incredible resource to read from the wonderful @Ben_Reinhardt

Ben Reinhardt

@Ben_Reinhardt

1 month

I’m excited to release something we’ve been working on for a long time:

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

11 months

🪱[🦓🐠]🪰🐁🧠

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

current work call energy:

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

langchain/gpt (after thinking for a long time): please consult a molecular biologist me, internally: yay I’m still useful

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

Could anyone direct me to a particularly good explanation or summary of why it has been hard to develop an Alzheimer's / other brain disease drugs?

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

10 months

dream incubation prior to taking a short nap, like thinking about the word "tree" to dream about trees, is related to better creative insights on theme-related tasks afterwards🌲 this stuff is wild, we know so little about sleep!

Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance

Scientific Reports - Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance

www.nature.com

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

finally watched verdens verste menneske (the worst person in the world) at @WendiYan5 's recommendation, and it's one of the most exquisite, heartbreaking, real, romantic films I've ever seen -- easily tops before sunrise for me. it's also cinematographically stunning:

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

@fermatslibrary

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

4 years

Are there any other books similar to Genentech's Beginnings of Biotech?

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

10 months

does anyone know a place in boston providing full-body MRI scans for a fee open right now? @prenuvo and @ezrainc are not yet open to my knowledge

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

10 months

sometimes things move so fast that we get a quarterly update of what's new in science: feels like now!

January–March 2023 in science - Wikipedia

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Laura 🌲 ⛰️

@LauraDeming

10 months

Just found this and love it -

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

The constant temptation to take the red eye flight despite knowing it will mess my sleep up for days…what do I do

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

today I learned you can just *lose* memory for hours with no underlying conditions or other symptoms and nobody agrees why it happens? (transient global amnesia) what fresh hell is this

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

super exciting work led by @c_hudpaz for undergraduates in all fields who are interested in aging biology :) apply apply apply!

Courtney Hudson-Paz

@c_hudpaz

1 year

I’m proud to announce the Time Initiative-accelerating talent in #aging biology. A future where we live healthier, longer will be shaped by next-gen innovators. My mission is to activate undergrad students’ interest in aging and accelerate their growth into leaders of the field.

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

Kill your idea darlings.

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

landing in SF and immediately feeling like I’m sleeping too much

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

7 months

Alumni of @Princeton in Boston, we’re hosting an event at @pillar_vc tonight from 6-8! Princeton biotech group is in town — DM for details and I’ll get you on the list :)

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

personality post

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 months

Please welcome @RaianyRomanni as our editor and writer for The Amaranth Letters!

Raiany Romanni

@RaianyRomanni

2 months

Why care about human longevity? 🧵 Aren’t programmable drugs for future pandemics more pressing? What about childhood cancers—or preventing existential risks to extend our longevity as a species? Aren’t humans a burden on the planet? Doesn’t science advance one funeral at a…

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

@valor_zhang valerie all I can hear is you telling me that once you’re 24 you’re expired

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

@elidourado Have you seen this paper? (crazy stuff happening in biology these days!)

Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours post-mortem

Nature - A specialized technology can restore and preserve microcirculation and cellular functions hours post-mortem in an isolated pig brain.

www.nature.com

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

Go give Kernel some love! ❤️

jw

@j_asminewang

3 years

Feeling all sorts of feelings introducing Kernel to the world! Kernel has truly been a collective labour of love, and I'm honoured to steward this work alongside so many other wonderful people. A thread on what magazine is about & how it came to be🌿

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

11 months

A wonderful opportunity for young, ambitious undergraduates in all fields to get hands-on experience in aging biology. Wish I had this when I started out in the field :) Comes with a network of peers, mentorship, and the opportunity for funding

Time Initiative

@time_initiative

11 months

Create a healthier future for all of us. 🌍 Apply for the Time Initiative Fellowship and join the next wave of leaders in #AgingBiology . Deadline: June 30th. Watch and share with the ambitious #undergrads you know! #TimeInitiative 🎥 full video:

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

today I found out @Equinox is pro-longevity (as they should)

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

7 months

Can’t imagine better people to collaborate with :)

Speculative Technologies

@Spec__Tech

7 months

We’re excited to open the applications for the Brains Coordinated Research Accelerator! This part-time program’s goal is to help people with ambitious research ideas refine them and find a place to execute on them in government organizations, nonprofits, and beyond. 1/

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

Laura’s twitch is wonderful, please join if you have the time! :)

Laura 🌲 ⛰️

@LauraDeming

3 years

I have no idea if this will work, but tomorrow at 6pm PT will try showing what it's like to do a visual thought experiment in biology. This might completely fail, but it's really joyful if you get it right. Just messing around, nothing vetted to work.

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

I've been sporadically replacing the word fibroblast with fireblast in my zoom calls …nobody has noticed or called me out on it so far

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

this is insane cc: @WendiYan5

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

by @jbfja heals my soul✨

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

did this a lot growing up and developed the wonderful skill of turning a page with one hand and the unfortunate consequence of many food-stained books

Ava

@noampomsky

2 years

normalize reading paperback books at dinner

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

hear me out: expansion microscopy is the cellular equivalent of cereal’s “enlarged to show texture” feature

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

4 years

A truly beautiful community — please apply and message me if you have any questions!

Interact

@joininteract

4 years

There is only one week left to apply to the Interact Fellowship! If you're an 18-23 year-old technologist, apply now at ✨

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

some favourite accounts through which I stumble across hidden gems: @drmichaellevin , @power_studies , @AgnesCallard , @SamoBurja , @andy_matuschak , @michael_nielsen , @ArtirKel , @LiveLearnLog

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@JoanneZPeng

1 year

@michael_nielsen you can play around with this personally for more intuition: 1) download predicted pdb from alphafold 2) open in pymol or UCSF chimeras 3) you can visualize from the beta sheet/alpha helices view to the individual amino acids as well as surface area accessibility

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

"Science as a Craft Industry", Freeman Dyson, 1998 What are biotech's current craft industries and what will they be in the future?

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

8 months

@LauraDeming huge congratulations team :) (so excited!)

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

moving out of my current place tomorrow but somehow a ridiculous amount of books found me yesterday night; if anyone in cambridge wants books to add to their library, lmk :)

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

spotted in SF

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

I had the good fortune of spending a few months in Los Alamos with some friends in 2020, and watched it before going to New Mexico. I've never felt the historical significance of a place more than when we drove up the canyon into the town.

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

can someone explain to me why one would require a SWAT team to deliver something to an MIT lab

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

I've checkmated my inner life-decision-making procrastinator

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

@KKajderowicz @DnaDeviants @RohanKrajeski @will_barrcode @deng_davy @paultkim_ipd @janechuprin @ProteinMasseuse @_Carol_Mag @RosasGoncalo Yessssss! 🙌 @RohanKrajeski

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

everyone in biotech reads genentech: the beginnings of biology, but I think invisible frontiers: the race to synthesize a human gene is underrated there's a lot of political and scientific context that is missed in the former!

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

lifestyle wars at the guggenheim in 2017 by anicka yi "natural and technological forces appear as surging, unruly forms that are nonetheless clinically contained"

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

This is so beautiful! I've been spending some time playing around with @leanprover (proof assistant) through this game, recommended by @SebastienZany .

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

4 years

☀️ for the first time in a long while

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

2 years

@ArtirKel oh my god i'm bringing in @Ben_Reinhardt to comment and grabbing my popcorn

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

9 months

@rSanti97 the institute for replication!!! how do we convince them to do science papers / put grants up for grad students to independently replicate in their own free time?

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

lol

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

10 months

here's one of my favorite explanations of why spaced repetition works (with built-in flashcards) by @ncasenmare called "how to remember anything forever-ish"

How To Remember Anything Forever-ish

an interactive comic on the art & science of memory

ncase.me

Greg Yang

@TheGregYang

10 months

So my trick for reading and grokking all the foundational textbooks intently is... Anki flash cards ...ie spaced repetition. Works really well for knowledge you know you will need in the future

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

going home for the first time in a few years and wtf canada??? this is not a good welcome

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

3 years

Extraordinarily excited to work with this group of talented individuals. If you're interested in putting into words much of the conversation on longevity research, please get in touch! ✨

Day One Project

@Day1Project

3 years

Working in partnership w/ @calebwatney & @alecstapp , we are thrilled to announce our new Progress Studies Policy Accelerator cohort! These fellows will spend the next 6 weeks crafting policy proposals to advance progress in science, tech, & innovation.

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@ansonyuu ❤️❤️❤️ new petition to group-buy a cabin in vermont

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1 year

@0interestrates it's still going to take >10 years to see what the current cohort does though, wouldn't count them out...in my year 2019 there were a few scientists / researchers too, would love to see more of them being funded

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

4 years

Recently, I've been drawing a lot of inspiration from Newton's notes at age 22, where he wrote an incredible list of questions and thought experiments in all different fields. Are there any notebooks / writings that would provide similar inspiration?

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Joanne Peng

@JoanneZPeng

1 year

@_Carol_Mag only vaguely related but circadian rhythms are time too :)

Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

www.amazon.com

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