Nobody Knows Podcast Episode · Still Burning · March 25 · 44m

We're blacksmiths.
Some of what we know transfers to this new world. Some of it doesn't.
Figuring out which is which is our next greatest challenge.
🎧 Still Burning ep. 1 —

Artemis II just set a new record: the furthest any human has ever been from Earth.

But how far is that? I made a to-scale diagram of the Earth–Moon system to try to make sense of it. 🧵

The front cover of the book: Crick, by Matthew Cobb

Loved this brilliant biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social But what struck me from the start: it's also a portrait of a lost time in science: no grant applications or teaching, big travel budgets: the job only to think, talk & get science done. Future scientific biogs will be so different.

Unlocking the potential of genetic data for research and healthcare

Short explainer from Oxford's Big Data Institute www.bdi.ox.ac.uk/news/unlocki...

Analysis-ready VCF at Biobank scale using Zarr AbstractBackground. Variant Call Format (VCF) is the standard file format for interchanging genetic variation data and associated quality control metrics.

Our paper has been published! "Analysis-ready VCF at Biobank scale using Zarr" academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

My open letter to Elon Musk ⬇️

Unfortunately, I can't share it on his social media megaphone, because he broke it and it still isn't working.

Similarly, he's hobbled all our disease-detection systems around the world.

We will regret this.

would it be worth allowing AI companies to have free access to the UK's copyrighted material _if_ libraries, art colleges, and museums were paid for with a 20 year endowment from big tech? a 50 year endowment? 200 years?

a sovereign arts fund if you like

in short: we need more ideas on the table.

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