Impressed! Durham, NC is #4 worldwide in venture-capital investment per capita. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

To the world: what is the point of saying «never again» for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating…

Open letter from Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Scientists calling for the isolation of scientists working in Russia until the war in Ukraine ends (see go.nature.com/3xmchi2 to read & sign letter). Thanks nature Yury Gogotsi nature.com/articles/d4158… #StandWithUkraine #comchem #AcademicTwitter

Catching up with the AI literature

Sign seen at the home base of the pilots who bombed Belgorod from 17 Pints.

Snoop Dogg weighs in on the AI debate in a Hintonian though more nuanced way: "I'm like, are we in a f*cking movie right now, or what? The f*ck man? So do I need to invest in AI so I can have one with me? Or like, do y'all know? Sh*t, what the f*ck?" arstechnica.com/information-te…

Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel’s 2023-2024 Winter application is now live online. I was on this program last year. Recommend to everyone willing to learn about this amazing country, network with Israeli scientists, public figures, and more. ff2israel.org

I will never recover from this student email.

Extremely proud to see my team among the top performers of CACHE Challenge #1! Great job, Marta Glavatskikh, Akhila Mettu, and Xiaowen Wang! We keep advancing our deep fragment-based approach toward an open, fully automated hit-finding pipeline. #compchem

February 4, 2024: Message to Fellow Americans and Congress in particular. Washington, DC Speaker Mike Johnson Rep. Dan Bishop @RepCawthorn Rep. Ralph Norman

Dmitri Kireev combines a fragment based approach with GNN and deep protein interaction fingerprints in his successful discovery of LRKK2-WDR ligands.

This is an Oscars moment worth watching.

I am disappointed with mainstream US media, including the New York Times. The headlines are all about Biden’s debate performance. Yes, he’s old. Yes, it would’ve been great to have had a more inspiring younger candidate. Yes, he had a bad night, certainly compared to his State of

At (long) last, our paper on FRASE-based Hit-finding Robot (FRASE-bot) is out in Nature Communications. FRASE-bot helped us be among the winners of CACHE Challenge #1 and identify a few hits for Challenge #2. rdcu.be/dMycB #compchem

A team of Mizzou, Mizzou Chemistry researchers advances search for Parkinson’s Disease treatment with AI-powered software. showme.missouri.edu/2024/mizzou-re… #compchem

Oops! We did it again. Our team including Akhila Mettu and Xiaowen Wang is among top-scorers of Challenges 1 and 2. Most importantly, hit molecules discovered by all top-scoring team will greatly benefit #CitizenScience and, eventually, patients all over the world. #CompChem #AI

Do cat photos perform well on X? After 60+ years of gene-hunt, scientists found that orange fur in cats results from an X chromosome mutation that increases Arhgap36 protein in melanocytes, leading to red pigment, a unique mechanism only found in cats. science.org/content/articl…

Is the AI-first drug discovery sliding down the hype curve? As reflected in stock prices, the public is losing confidence. Now, BenevolentAI, once a flagship of AI-first drug discovery, appears to be pivoting from full-scale drug discovery to services. businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

LLM of the world, unite! "A group of philosophers and computer scientists are arguing that AI welfare should be taken seriously. They call for AI companies to put in place policies for how to treat the systems if these scenarios become reality." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Our CACHE Challenge adventure is now published in Chemical Science! After identifying a winning hit series, we took it further—showing target-mediated effect in cells. A big thanks to our amazing team! Stay tuned! doi.org/10.1039/D4SC07… #DrugDiscovery #ChemicalScience