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This isn’t a knock on universities writ large. Investing in research and education is good. But the authors’ purpose is to create new INDUSTRIES (look at their list of technologies) universities aren’t the best vehicle for making that happen.

Ousted Iterable CEO Justin Zhu tells Emily Chang LSD "changed his life" for the better but that Silicon Valley has a bigger problem supporting founders and their mental health trib.al/cFq76eu

The World Needs Scientist VCs linkedin.com/pulse/world-ne… via LinkedIn

This is a powerful call to action now . . .

“Why are [spreadsheets] harmful?” “Because people start believing in them. All the numbers in business are garbage.” – Ken Olsen, founder of DEC [book is ‘In the Company of Giants’]

Grand master plans are dangerous in the beginning. Better to just start, and make sure the gradient is nonzero. Too much planning prevents learning - I suspect this is why we observe Gall’s Law.

This is profound:

Some of the world-class founders and experts joining the program as Founding Fellows include Michael Dubrovsky, Michael Retchin (in SF) Ashton C Trotman-Grant, Louis Metzger, PhD, Ben Kamens, Lexi Rovner, Viswa Colluru, Gaia Dempsey, Arvind Neelakantan, Dr. Welton Chang Jeremy Nixon Sharon Zhou, and Dival Banerjee 🦆

Hats off to The New York Times for profiling Joseph Mercola Dr. Joseph Mercola, a charlatan and a fraud, for pushing Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on a grand scale. Kudos to Center for Inquiry for tirelessly -- and for decades -- exposing this quack. nytimes.com/2021/07/24/tec…

Remembering Christian R. H. Raetz, M.D., Ph.D., Scientist and Mentor linkedin.com/pulse/remember… via LinkedIn @AWilliamslab

Hey all👋 Tune into our second podcast episode on “The Fancy Labcoat Guild” the-fancy-labcoat-guild.simplecast.com🥼 🧪 Our featured guest is Dr. Louis Metzger, PhD, the co-founder and CEO at Deep Views Inc.👨‍🔬 #SciFind #openscience #OA #labrats #PhDlife #STEM #academia #scicomm #phdchat #longla

New feature: for years, Duke University has charged desperate parents $15,000 to give their kids an unproven autism treatment using cord blood. Now, a private company they partner with is looking to make it a big business. vice.com/en/article/qj8…

Hewing closely to the science of Covid-19, not engaged in exaggeration or scare tactics. Props to Monica Gandhi MD, MPH, who I admire more than ever. There is nothing "controversial" about truthful and fact-based public health communication San Francisco Chronicle sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

Elizabeth Holmes was convicted! Theranos was just the biggest of a lot of fraud in biotech. Maybe investors will actually care more about scientific diligence in the future. Hats off to brave whistleblowers Erika Cheung tylershultz and to John Carreyrou

What's the best thing to read about what's gone so wrong with academia in the US? (Sample bias for sure, but it's remarkable how negative the people who leave academia are about its future, which seems like a real problem.)

Check out CEO dan at the MOFORUM panel "The Future of Drug Discovery and Diagnostics" tomorrow! lnkd.in/gw7JyUEZ

Excited to announce our collaboration with Phibro Animal Health, to develop and commercialize a gene therapy for #MitralValveDisease (MVD) in dogs. View the full release here: businesswire.com/news/home/2022…

In 2020, Michael Nielsen & I began a 2-month project to write: "how would we fund science?" 2 years & 40,000 words later, it's become: "how can the culture & institutions of science actually change, and ultimately become self-improving?" Our answer: scienceplusplus.org/metascience/in…