A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

What embryo selection can’t do (yet) Embryo selection has been in the news lately. I wanted to unpack what we can and can’t do with it today, which I hope will provide a more grounded foundation for discussing its ethics.

What embryo selection can’t do (yet) - excellent read by @nayafia.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/nayafia/...

Oh no tagged the wrong @cate.bsky.social 🫣

Wahoo - thank you for sharing! And yes published it open access

Over coffee and bagels, @catehall.bsky.social asked me: where’s the fundraising handbook that guides scientists through how the game actually works? Not the sanitized Twitter version.

Didn't have one, so I wrote it with Rachel Katz. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/inside-bas...

Angel Investing in the Arts, Part II: Broadway Edition If you believe in backing founders, you can back storytellers too. This series shares how you can angel invest in the arts and the creation…

Made 65+ angel investments over the past 10 yrs. Last year, I tried something new: Broadway.

Invested in Suffs (6 Tony noms, 2 wins). would recommend, v fun. blog.andreacoravos.com/angel-invest...

Angel Investing in the Arts: Film and Movies If you believe in backing founders, you can back storytellers too. This series shares how you can angel invest in the arts and the creation…

Everyone in tech wants to 'invest in the future 🚀'
But many forget that the future gets imagined first through storytelling.

@linda.bsky.social intro'd me to investing in films- didn't know that was possible. I wrote a guide to close that knowledge gap: blog.andreacoravos.com/angel-invest...

Striking a Balance: Innovation, Equity, and Consistency in AI Health Technologies With the explosion of innovation driven by generative and traditional AI, comes the necessity to understand and regulate products that often defy current regulatory classification. Tradition, and lac...

A recent paper featuring DCRI staff members Ethan Fricklas, Tracy Tubb, and former DCRI Chief Science & Digital Officer Eric Perakslis PhD, says a unique regulatory decision framework could ensure proper AI-driven improvements in health care and biopharma: ai.jmir.org/2025/1/e57421/

#MedSky #AI

The pharma and biotech sales handbook for software founders “Resources I wish I had when I was building my startup”

Published a guide for founding teams selling software into pharma and biotech for the first time – “The Early-Stage GTM Handbook” via the Astera Institute with Abby DeVito and Shu Hu asterainstitute.substack.com/p/the-pharma...

The Neurotech Compendium: Reflections from the Frontier Brian Takeo Smith and I are dusting off the archives from our seven-chapter Harvard neurotech IP that has only grown more relevant as our…

With the gift of time, Brian Takeo Smith and I are dusting off the archives from our seven-chapter Harvard neurotech IP, including a mix of published & unpublished notes

Sharing our little known origin story, which started years before founding HumanFirst
blog.andreacoravos.com/the-neurotec...

Also it feels SO good to get back to writing.

First post I've published on my blog since... 2018. New era.

Evolution of the Human Brain: The Past, The Now, and Our Future Humans are outpacing their own evolution. As scientific advancements accumulate, it can be easy to retreat to the comfort of “the science”…

After years of company building, my sabbatical is finally allowing me to dust off my unpublished archives.

Finished up a piece on neurotech that I began in grad school—its questions about brain plasticity and neurorights feel more urgent than ever

blog.andreacoravos.com/evolution-of...

It feels like a magical time to be alive, and I love seeing not only the demos but the context of how people are incorporating these tools. It's so fun right now.

For the past few weeks a few friends have hopped on a zoom to share demos of stuff they've built with AI.

Ranges from poetry, to YA novels, and Will Patrick's made a slew of amazing demos from a financial model for his board mtg to a cartoon book for his son. willpatrick.xyz/technology/2...

Digital Health Tech Takes On Disease Founder Andy Coravos and neurosurgeon Dr. David Segar discuss the transformative potential of new technologies for disease prevention and detection.

"We can't fix what we can't measure." A conversation with
Dave and me on how sensor tech is revolutionizing clinical trials and enabling earlier disease detection.

Novel data collection is sparking a scientific paradigm shift. innovationlabs.harvard.edu/articles/hum... @harvard.edu

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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I had to look up if this was AI generated or not — and I’m so happy to learn of its Wikipedia page and that it’s real!!!

oh hello, it's been a while.

set up and tinkered with cursorAI until 4:30am last night, and i swear to god it feels like magic

i'm back 👾
i missed those green dots.

Moomins

Don’t invite me to your Super Bowl party if this isn’t the vibe

My new favourite grey heron flyby pic, from a south London park.
#birds #londonbirds #greyheron

Beautiful, wow h/t @johnrweldon.bsky.social

Jay on Bluesky: We've been scaling up. There's been about a million people joining a day for the past week

We love links because we love the open web

Yessss here for the swifties!!

Yessss here for the swifties

Love these babies 🥰

three ravens on a roof

Feeding the ravens! They love cashews.