Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving. // Previously at Our World in Data.
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“[T]he breakthroughs we’re seeing today are a lagging indicator of inputs into the pipeline: they reflect choices people made in the past. We’ll only be able to see the gaps created by reduced investment in retrospect, years from now, […]”
New post!
@nikomccarty.bsky.social and I have been writing regular round ups for a little while now, but so much has happened recently that this month’s post feels like it contains a year’s worth of breakthroughs.
Read it here!
New post!
@nikomccarty.bsky.social and I have been writing regular round ups for a little while now, but so much has happened recently that this month’s post feels like it contains a year’s worth of breakthroughs.
Read it here!
🚨 A few months ago, a paper published in Science reported that “LLM adoption is associated with a large increase in researchers’ scientific output.”
In a comment released today, we show that the reported effects are driven by a methodological issue in the empirical design. arxiv.org/abs/2605.17979
New short blogpost!
I wrote a round up of cancer research news from ASCO2026:
- Daraxonrasib, the breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug
- Big 7-year results of lorlatinib for ALK+ lung cancers
– Talazoparib, a prostate cancer drug that cut the risk of progression by half
and much more. Read here:
Every time I visit my parents, they're like "So when's the date for YOUR wedding?"
And I answer "Yesterday, you weren't invited."
Wow this is awesome.
@aaronjbecker.bsky.social created an animated baby boom ridgeline chart inspired by mine!
Claude Fable's "biosecurity" flags are incredibly restrictive.
This model is going to be almost useless for me.
