More on our rationale here: asterainstitute.substack.com/p/identifyin...

ICYMI an essay competition specifically for active researchers: 1st prize $30K, 2nd $10K, 3rd $5K. Public submissions only:

astera.org/essay-compet...

And finally scientists -- share your hypotheses for structural or systemic bottlenecks that we could run experiments on. New essay competition dropping today to give you a voice: asterainstitute.substack.com/p/identifyin...

Sekhar Ramakrishnan to help get a new publishing platform off the ground, Steven Moss to help us scale successful experiments through policy-level work 4/

They will also be joined by an all-star team: @stephanieaw.bsky.social coming full-time to grow
@diffuseproject.bsky.social 3/

Read our announcement &
@beckypferdehirt.bsky.social's POV on why she's doing philanthropy and why now:

asterainstitute.substack.com/p/announcing...

beckypferdehirt.substack.com/p/why-im-joi...
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New nonprofit launches with at least $500 million to modernize scientific process for AI era A new nonprofit called Radial is launching with at least $500 million to modernize the scientific process for the AI era.

We're expanding our life sciences work through a new division Radial led by
@beckypferdehirt.bsky.social as CEO. Becky will work closely w @pracheeac.bsky.social & @seemaychou.bsky.social to lead experiments with approaches to enabling and publishing science 1/

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