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Stellate is a 2026 Top Agency! 🎉
@PRDaily's Top Agencies Award is the industry's most competitive recognition program, honoring the agencies & workplaces shaping where public relations & communications are headed next.
See the entire list: ragan.com/awards/events/top-…
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Discovery often comes from putting familiar pieces in unexpected ways: but bio space is too vast to do that effectively?
🤖 1000s of AI agents helped connect our whole-brain Perturb-seq atlas w literature. w @OpenAI @joyjiao12: more coming! See preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration?
DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in making cholesterol. GPT-Rosalind suggested a possible explanation: cholesterol may not be reaching where neurons need it.
That gives scientists a specific mechanism to test and, if confirmed, a direction for developing new treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.
With @perturbai_tx and @scrippsresearch, a team of thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents worked in parallel, connecting gene-expression results from millions of mouse brain cells with scientific literature in just 32 minutes. We’re now expanding this collaboration to identify new drug targets.
openai.com/index/scaling-ai-…
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Much of the functional biology encoded in genomes remains hidden in noncoding DNA.
In a preprint out today, @pdhsu and team introduce COMPASS, a genomic language model-based approach to systematically map this underexplored sequence space.
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To improve tumor surgery, we tested a new brain-mapping approach and broke a world record.
In this case study, four Layer 7 arrays recorded brain signals from 4,096 electrodes in a human brain, the most ever.
Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ae…
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Beca Almeida sees AI shaping research across four areas: creating surveys, AI interviews, acting as respondent, and synthesizing findings. Her take is that none of it replaces the researcher, just frees up their time.
Watch her discussion with Olivier Toubia and @orioljbosch.
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Proud to be part of this work uncovering how Wnt signaling contributes to lipid buildup and impaired myelination in APOE4 cells – now out in @CellStemCell.
Huge congrats to Leyla Akay, Li-Huei Tsai, Anna Bright & the whole team!
Read the paper: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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In @ScienceNews, @JoelWBlanchard discusses his research identifying how #APOE4, the strongest genetic risk factor for #Alzheimers, damages brain’s blood vessels & promotes the buildup of abnormal proteins linked to #neurodegenerativeDisease. Learn More 👉 sciencenews.org/article/scar…
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Congratulations to our AI research team on 2 papers accepted at @NeurIPSConf 2026 🎉
2x accepted papers, MetaLoop and Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation, plus a workshop paper being presented at BiAlign Workshop.
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#BCI tech have helped restore movement and communication. Are attention, memory, and emotion next? @TrendsCognSci explores the emerging field of cognitive BCIs, the challenges ahead, and the potential to help restore #CognitiveFunction. Read more: bit.ly/4zbz4Sx #brain
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Dialectic 60: Patrick Hsu!
@pdhsu & @arcinstitute are combining biology, engineering, and AI to turn a sci-fi future into reality.
Patrick got expelled from college at 13, returned at 15, later worked on early CRISPR breakthroughs, and teamed up with @SKonermann & @patrickc to found Arc.
He works 3 jobs: core investigator at Arc, professor at Stanford, and venture partner at @thrivecapital. For all his intensity and ambition, he carries a lightness and boldness that is contagious.
We discuss:
- why research is 99% failure and even your best ideas kind of suck
- infinite games and speedrunning school
- the reach of GLP-1s and power laws in biotech
- what makes a good biologist
- Arc’s bet on people over projects
- lab robots that finally work
- AI-designed organisms and new forms of life
- why heart disease could go the way of infectious disease
- bro science, peptides, and biofuturism
- research taste in the age of AI
Timestamps:
(0:00) Opening Highlights
(1:39) Intro: Patrick Hsu
(4:29) Start: Boldness, Infinite Games, & Ambition
(12:54) GLP-1s and Power Laws in Biotechnology
(20:17) Expelled at 13 and Falling for Biology
(25:51) What Makes a Good Biologist, Research Taste, and Biology's Data Challenges
(37:58) The Arc Model: Full-Stack Science
(52:01) Betting on People, Style, & Learning to Simplify
(57:22) Perturbation, World Models, and Evo
(1:03:27) Virtual Cell Models
(1:09:56) Designing Life: From Stem Cells to Genome Writing
(1:18:39) Testing, Bro Science, and Human Data
(1:24:26) Can It Exist vs. Will It Exist: Science Meets Markets
(1:29:59) Biofuturism: Interoception, Peptides, Muscle Modulation, Sleep, and New Forms of Life
(1:43:47) Fun, Obsolescence, Going Slow, and the Future
@dialecticpod 60: Patrick Hsu - Speedrunning the Infinite Game - is available on all platforms, including X. Links below.
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An honor to participate in a Dahlian Dialectic! Podcasts are more fun with friends :)
Dialectic 60: Patrick Hsu!
@pdhsu & @arcinstitute are combining biology, engineering, and AI to turn a sci-fi future into reality.
Patrick got expelled from college at 13, returned at 15, later worked on early CRISPR breakthroughs, and teamed up with @SKonermann & @patrickc to found Arc.
He works 3 jobs: core investigator at Arc, professor at Stanford, and venture partner at @thrivecapital. For all his intensity and ambition, he carries a lightness and boldness that is contagious.
We discuss:
- why research is 99% failure and even your best ideas kind of suck
- infinite games and speedrunning school
- the reach of GLP-1s and power laws in biotech
- what makes a good biologist
- Arc’s bet on people over projects
- lab robots that finally work
- AI-designed organisms and new forms of life
- why heart disease could go the way of infectious disease
- bro science, peptides, and biofuturism
- research taste in the age of AI
Timestamps:
(0:00) Opening Highlights
(1:39) Intro: Patrick Hsu
(4:29) Start: Boldness, Infinite Games, & Ambition
(12:54) GLP-1s and Power Laws in Biotechnology
(20:17) Expelled at 13 and Falling for Biology
(25:51) What Makes a Good Biologist, Research Taste, and Biology's Data Challenges
(37:58) The Arc Model: Full-Stack Science
(52:01) Betting on People, Style, & Learning to Simplify
(57:22) Perturbation, World Models, and Evo
(1:03:27) Virtual Cell Models
(1:09:56) Designing Life: From Stem Cells to Genome Writing
(1:18:39) Testing, Bro Science, and Human Data
(1:24:26) Can It Exist vs. Will It Exist: Science Meets Markets
(1:29:59) Biofuturism: Interoception, Peptides, Muscle Modulation, Sleep, and New Forms of Life
(1:43:47) Fun, Obsolescence, Going Slow, and the Future
@dialecticpod 60: Patrick Hsu - Speedrunning the Infinite Game - is available on all platforms, including X. Links below.
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A new study funded by Baszucki Group is bringing an innovative mental health model to resource-poor rural areas.
Led by Dr. Will Rutland, researchers at @UABHeersink are launching a new study in partnership with a local food bank and @HatchforHunger to deliver ketogenic food boxes to participants with bipolar disorder.
This community-based approach allows ketogenic therapy to be introduced alongside existing treatment modalities, with the goal of expanding care options in rural areas that experience severe shortages in psychiatric care.
“This study reflects something we deeply believe: that the communities with the greatest need should have access to the most promising treatments,” said Julie Milder, PhD, Director of Neuroscience at Baszucki Group. “Dr. Rutland and his team are proposing a model that takes equity seriously — using existing community infrastructure to conduct rigorous research within a population that is historically underrepresented in clinical research.”
Read more about how Dr. Rutland and his team are pioneering equity in clinical research: bit.ly/4jWLSaf
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More than 5,000 people have registered for the Virtual Cell Challenge, and with over 1,500 teams on the leaderboard, we wanted to know who they are and why they’re competing:
arcinstitute.org/news/vcc-co…
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Neuroethics has its principles. What it lacks are the institutions to make them work.
In @TrendsinBiotech, led by Jose Munoz, we propose actionable frameworks for the future of neurotechnology governance.
Read the full open-access paper: cell.com/trends/biotechnolog…
ALT Trends in Biotechnology article titled 'Neurotechnology governance: the operational turn' Abstract: Neurotechnology governance is entering an operational turn, driven by the need to move beyond the articulation of ethical principles and to translate them into heterogeneous real-world settings through institutional capacity-building, regulatory fit, and coordination. This shift also concerns the conditions under which beneficial neurotechnology applications can emerge and scale responsibly.
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Most AI systems never flag when they’re guessing, they just answer regardless.
Beca Almeida built Doppel Market to fix that. When a twin has low confidence, it routes the question back to the real person instead of filling it in blindly.
🎥 Watch on The Signal.
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This week, members of the Baszucki Group team attended The Ketogenic Foundation’s inaugural conference, which highlighted emerging research and clinical applications in metabolic health and nutritional ketosis.
The program brought together leading scientists and clinicians exploring ketogenic therapies across a range of complex chronic conditions, including type 1 and type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Metabolic psychiatry was prominently featured, with @GeorgiaEdeMD sharing clinical insights, followed by @GuidoFrank, Mary Phillips, MD, and @ZSarnyai sharing research across anorexia nervosa, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. This led into an engaged panel discussion moderated by Baszucki Group’s Julie Milder, PhD.
The event showcased extraordinary cross-disciplinary collaboration and scientific momentum. We commend The Ketogenic Foundation and @BrittanieVolk for convening such an impactful conference, and we remain dedicated to advancing research and practice at the intersection of mental health and metabolism.
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đź“Ś Save the Date! Our 2027 Request for Proposals will be released Fall 2026.
Our mission at the Misophonia Research Fund is to support research into the causes of #misophonia and effective treatments.
Learn more: buff.ly/XgY6ILc
#ResearchGrants #Neuroscience
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Meet the #MCCS26 speakers!
Drs. @tristanshuman and @TJRyan_77 will be giving talks at our Symposium on November 13.
Register now: event.fourwaves.com/4599d6d4…
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RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) recognize RNA by sequence and shape, but which matters varies by site. Introducing Pythia, an interpretable AI model trained on a new high-resolution atlas of 67 RBPs—a collaboration between the @genophoria lab, @czbiohub, @UCSF, @Calico, and @vectorinst.
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This week we’re at @NASAKennedy preparing human brain tissue models for space, just in time for #WorldSpaceWeek! 🚀
Follow along to see how microgravity & radiation affect interactions across 6 brain cell types, with insights for astronauts and for neurodegeneration on Earth.
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PL Neuro is focused on accelerating research across BCIs, NeuroAI, and whole organism emulation.
@SeanEscola and @DavidAMarkowitz outline the key research priorities and milestones that could advance these fields.
Learn more. 👇
plrd.org/blog/neurotech-fron…
