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Convergent Research

@Convergent_FROs

Convergent Research enables fundamental research that requires unusual levels of scale and coordination. A FRO incubator within the Schmidt Futures Network.

The Milky Wayconvergentresearch.orgJoined September 2021

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Convergent Research

@Convergent_FROs

A reminder to the scientific community at large that we are always seeking short abstracts towards FRO proposals at convergentresearch.org/get-involved This can be in any field, as long as there is a major bottleneck in R&D that a FRO-shaped team can unlock. See: nature.com/articles/d4158

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New Data Scientist opening

@CultivariumFRO

, bit.ly/3GOEyIG Come discover new biology and applications with us, particularly if you have deep learning experience!

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Excited to share our latest images! 🧠🌈

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One year ago we had just opened our lab. Today we share our latest images of axons through a slice of mouse brain. Each color identifies a unique neuron. #FluorescenceFriday

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@Convergent_FROs

There are some open positions at CR and FROs, please check them out!

Convergent Research

Job openings at Convergent Research

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Very excited to announce that we will be ramping up the fungal program

@CultivariumFRO

. Looking for scientists who will be a nexus for thrusts in culturing, DNA delivery, and genome engineering!

Convergent Research - Senior Scientist, Fungal Synthetic Biology

Cultivarium is a Convergent Research focused research organization with a mission to accelerate the adoption of new organisms for biotechnology. We are looking for experts who can contribute both...

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Charlie Gilbert

@gilbertlatoani

We're looking for an expert mycologist to join us

@CultivariumFRO

! An awesome role for anyone who (like us) is excited to accelerate research and biotech in the constantly mind-blowing world of #fungi. Apply on our website:

cultivarium.org

We develop molecular, hardware and software tools to accelerate the adoption of microbes for beneficial biotechnologies.

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So excited for neuroscience Comic-con #SfN22!! Come check out our chill booth at 3312!

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📢 E11 is looking for an ambitious RA to join our brain mapping moonshot! If you love research (🐁 or 🧬) and want to grow & learn with a team of extraordinary scientists on a mission, check out the job description below: jobs.lever.co/convergentrese

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Check out our latest episode of EBRC In Translation, where

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talk with

of

@cultivariumFRO

about increasing access to non-model microbes and new ways of building scientific organizations. Find it here: ebrcintranslation.buzzsprout.com/1581817/115536

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Packy McCormick

New Research Organizations Focused Research Organizations, like those from

@Convergent_FROs

, and new institutions like

@ArcadiaScience

are changing how research gets done and published, and by whom.

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We hosted our second Brains & Bites event at

to bring together scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors in neuroscience over talks, food, and conversations! First up,

CEO of

shared their brain organoid platform for drug development. 1/4

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Welcome to our Neuroanatomy Lead

! Delighted to have you on the team! 🧠

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Thrilled to announce that this week I joined @E11BIO as Lead Scientist of Neuroanatomy with our shared goal to make single-cell circuit mapping a routine neuroscience tool! Looking forward to applying my skills learned @realmouselight and @Janelia on this new adventure!

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Benedict Cooney

@benedictcooney

We'd love to hear these. We also have more to come on the new structures of science - it's really important that we're faster, taking more risk and exploring more white spaces. As

writes in his excellent piece "we need to do it better."

Too much good science never gets funded. Here’s something that might help fix that

If it's not profitable, the private sector won't fund it; if it's too big and complicated, universities can't do it. We need a new funding system

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Convergent Research

@Convergent_FROs

The Convergent Research team will be in Boston next week! We look forward to bringing the community together at our Happy Hour on August 12th at 7pm. If you’d like to attend, RSVP below 👇

paperlesspost.com

You're invited to "Cocktails with CR." Tap here to RSVP - Paperless Post Flyer

The Convergent Research team is in Boston! We look forward to bringing together the scientific community for an evening of tapas, drinks, and great conversation.

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The Roots of Progress

@rootsofprogress

• Build Nuclear Now, a new policy campaign from

• An online PhD-level course in the economics of innovation from

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has released structures for almost every known protein •

@Convergent_FROs

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are hiring • And much more

rootsofprogress.org

Links and tweets, 2022-08-02

A new nuclear policy campaign, a course in the economics of innovation, job opportunities from Convergent Research and Long Now, and more

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Convergent Research

@Convergent_FROs

Come join us & the incredible teams

@CultivariumFRO

on our moonshot mission to revolutionize science. Our goal is to accelerate scientific research by targeting key bottlenecks with Focused Research Organizations (FROs). Check out our open roles:

Convergent Research

Job openings at Convergent Research

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We’re going for Mach 10.1 - come join us jobs.lever.co/convergentrese

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Information collected across hundreds of hours of interviews - Data driven seed budgeting: pillar.vc/playlist/artic - Finding lab space FAQ: pillar.vc/playlist/artic - mapping IP: pillar.vc/playlist/artic

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Stoked to be speaking at #FTC2022, an event to drive progress towards sustainable funding of public goods and open source tech.

has been a force for good! June 24 & 25th NY Historical Society Get your ticket → fundingthecommons.io

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Federation of American Scientists

Join

,

, and

@Convergent_FROs

on Friday, 6/17 at 4:15 pm EST to learn more about Regional Innovation Engines, and how to apply for up to $160M in funding to make innovation work for society.

dayoneproject.org

Regional Innovation Engines Webinar | Day One Project

Join FAS, Convergent Research, and the National Science Foundation on June 14 to learn about NSF's new Regional Innovation Engines program.

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We're hosting a summer party in Boston w/

@Convergent_FROs

and

, June 10th at 7pm. Scientists, science funders and biotech folks are welcome! Add your details here if you'd like to come:

docs.google.com

Boston science summer party

Meet friends in science at our summer party at 7 PM on Friday, June 10th! Light food and drinks will be provided. Please fill out this form, and we will email you the address! Hosted by the teams at...

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Spent Saturday nerding out w some v optimistic twitter friends irl for the first time - everyone was even lovelier than expected even tho I am extraordinarily bad at predicting heights! 🙏

@Convergent_FROs

for organizing #metascience 📈

Alexey Guzey and 7 others

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Congrats to

for selecting a great cohort of researchers to automate biology and take advantage of cloud labs! Delighted that

@SchmidtFutures

was able to support this.

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Erika Alden DeBenedictis

Excited for the nine groups in the 2022 Challenge cohort to get started

twitter.com/BA_Challenge_2…

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We're looking for a promising technician to help us build the Nucleic Acid Observatory, a reliable early warning system for future pandemics (and more). Please share. media.mit.edu/about/job-oppo naobservatory.org

A Global Nucleic Acid Observatory for Biodefense and Planetary Health

The spread of pandemic viruses and invasive species can be catastrophic for human societies and natural ecosystems. SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated that the speed of our response is critical, as each day...

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Replying to

@VitalikButerin

and

Agreed!

Ideas not mattering is a psyop - Alexey Guzey

By Stephen Malina, Alexey Guzey, Leopold Aschenbrenner. Introduction Conventional startup and business wisdom has become “there are plenty of good ideas, all that matters is execution.” We don’t buy...

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And we aren’t lone wolves 🐺 Along w

we are a growing slack pack 🐺🐺🐺

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Great piece on @seemaychou @PracheeAC @JedMcCaleb and the starting of a grand experiment. Rooting for all the arcadians. twitter.com/endpts/status/…

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José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente

There's a new FRO that might be starting in the Research Triangle doing high-throughput screening neuropharmacology. They're looking for someone (that's based there) to lead it. If you know someone that might be a good fit, DM me!

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For those working on future-oriented projects: Here's a list of 65 future-oriented funding sources

futurefundinglist.com

Future Funding List

Funding for future-oriented people and projects.

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It's been an honor working with top leaders in our field and contributing to

@SchmidtFutures

bioeconomy strategy over the past few months. We hope to see a bigger and brighter future for all things bioengineered and for all the people making it happen!

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Schmidt Futures

@SchmidtFutures

Today we're proud to publish our bioeconomy strategy, which is part of our commitment to solve hard problems in science and society so that others can scale efforts that improve people’s lives: schmidtfutures.com/our-work/task-

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Personal News 📣 I joined E11 Bio, a new neuroscience non-profit, as Director of Partnerships. We aim to build high throughput technologies for whole brain connectome mapping! We are a Focused Research Organization (FRO) funded by Schmidt Futures.

Jun Axup, PhD on LinkedIn: This month I joined E11 Bio, a new neuroscience non-profit, as Director...

This month I joined E11 Bio, a new neuroscience non-profit, as Director of Partnerships. We aim to build high throughput technologies for whole brain… | 47 comments on LinkedIn

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I joined E11 Bio, a new neuroscience non-profit, as Director of Partnerships. We aim to build high throughput technologies for whole brain connectome mapping! We are a Focused Research Organization (FRO) funded by Schmidt Futures. linkedin.com/posts/junaxup_

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First blogs describing the rationale behind Rejuvenome and its current design are now out! Thoughts welcome: astera.org/blog/

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@CultivariumFRO

Ramping up! Looking for more co-conspirators with our CompBio and DNA delivery teams. jobs.lever.co/convergentrese (ALL are welcome to apply...more to come... )

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Job openings at Convergent Research

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Samuel Rodriques

I'm going to be in the bay area for the next 4-5 days. Let me know if you want to meet up!

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1/ We're thrilled to announce the FTX Foundation's Future Fund. We make grants and investments to ambitious projects to improve humanity's long-term prospects. We plan to deploy >$100M this year, and potentially a lot more (in principle up to $1B). ftxfuturefund.org/announcing-the

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Erika Alden DeBenedictis

"We are moving toward a new paradigm of reproducible, scalable research." Some thoughts on why I started the 2022 Bioautomation Challenge

@BA_Challenge_22

erikaaldendeb.substack.com

Automation is coming to life science

We are moving toward a new paradigm of reproducible, scalable research.

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Perfect timing for #slas2022! If you have big project ideas, definitely submit a proposal for the Bioautomation Challenge, a just-launched program in collaboration with Emerald Cloud Lab

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The 2022 Bioautomation Challenge

@BA_Challenge_22

Excited to announce the 2022 Bioautomation Challenge, a grant program designed to kickstart academic use of automation to improve reproducibility and big dataset collection in life science! Join the challenge. Proposals due March 16, 2022 bioautomation22.org

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Replying to

See

Unblock research bottlenecks with non-profit start-ups

Nature - ‘Focused research organizations’ can take on mid-scale projects that don’t get tackled by academia, venture capitalists or government labs.

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For those interested in the ecosystem, we keep track of all open positions at

@ArcadiaScience

, FROs (

@Convergent_FROs

), Arc Institute, and Astera here: newscience.org/jobs/#interest (more orgs to come soon hopefully!)

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Love seeing more decoupling of startup concept from for-profit framework. More FROs could also mean more job security for their scientists if it’s part of an ecosystem that persists. Eagerly watching this space

twitter.com/ilangur/status…

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Love seeing more decoupling of startup concept from for-profit framework. More FROs could also mean more job security for their scientists if it’s part of an ecosystem that persists. Eagerly watching this space 👀

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Love seeing the FRO concept take root … here’s to far more activity/experimentation in new modes or research x new modes of startups! Unblock research bottlenecks with non-profit start-ups nature.com/articles/d4158

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