Associate professor at ETH Zurich, studying the cellular consequences of genetic variation. Affiliated with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and a part of the LOOP Zurich.
Pedro Beltrao
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The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
I wrote about AI in academia. "PhD-level thinking", LLM bias, grunt work, alignment, AGI, data center water use, AI politics -- something for everyone.
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PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics
Why AI-assisted research might have a lower impact that some estimate? I tried to look back at the rise of the internet and its impact on scientific research as a comparison point. I should stop spending time on this but condensing this info also helps me think www.evocellnet.com/2026/06/look...
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There is a lot of debate and some hyperbole around the impact of AI-assisted scientific research. When considering the future impact of gene...
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We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬
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Wrote up my initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 - it has a big model smell: slow, expensive and capable of crunching through pretty much everything I threw at it simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9/c...
Pedro Beltrao
Science really takes a village. Thrilled to share this with my friend @dudinlab.bsky.social, and with our brilliant and fearless teams, our collaborators around the world and our mentors - in my case a special shoutout to Buzz Baum, Jan Ellenberg and @monicabettencourt.bsky.social.
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The annual meeting of the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (@asms.org) has been very special for me as the Biemann Medal recognized our contributions to developing single-cell proteomic technologies and using them to open new perspectives.
Structural motif search across the protein universe with Folddisco - @martinsteinegger.bsky.social go.nature.com/4g8lCb0
New blog post: "Automating science" 🧪
https://
blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/05/19/automating-science.html
How much of scientific research can be automated? And is this a good idea?
#metascience
I didn’t have early access to today’s Claude Fable 5 release, but I’ve spent the past ~5.5 hours putting it through its paces. My initial impressions are that this is …
Congratulations, Gautam Dey and Omaya Dudin!
The two collaborators have received the 2026 EMBO Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of evolutionary cell biology.
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Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
