Scientist. Co-founder/CEO @ Arcadia Science. Board @ Astera and The Navigation Fund. Texan in CA.
Seemay Chou
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this is most of all true for the actual trainees. protecting them can inadvertently block them from opportunities they want. don't be that guy
A few quick bullets: protecting trainees from career risk is a common argument
overall, way fewer people are arguing against our policy as change seems inevitable now
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We are thrilled to be part of Project Diffuse, building infrastructure for the dynamic future of structural biology.
We are helping to lead the modeling and encoding efforts of this project, including designing infrastructure that allows AI to learn from the full complexity of experimental data.
We're expanding our life sciences work through a new division Radial led by
@beckypferdehirt.bsky.social as CEO. Becky will work closely w @pracheeac.bsky.social & @seemaychou.bsky.social to lead experiments with approaches to enabling and publishing science 1/
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Seemay Chou
Seemay Chou
Seemay Chou
I spend a lot of time talking to potential grantees about our open science policy. Some field notes here:
open.substack.com/pub/seemay/p...
A note in here for other science philanthropists… we have a chance rn to help scientists rethink systems, technical & operational. They’re game to take useful risks, let’s help them. Coming soon: more open science research, experimenting outside journals… seemay.substack.com/p/from-syste...
We’ve been heads down @ArcadiaScience for a bit but the @arenabioworks news this week caused me to dump thoughts. hard things are hard; don’t be such a fucking hater. Reflections on parallels w our own institutional experiment here seemay.substack.com/p/big-experi...
The DiffUSE Project
Some reflections on Arena Bioworks' unexpected wind down as a fellow institutional experimentalist
