Ryan T. Scott

The NASA Open Science Data Repository (expansion of @NASAGeneLab) has enabled biological & health discoveries helping humanity become multi-planetary by helping life thrive in deep space on Mars and 🌘 OSDR stores precious data anyone can use and analyze, plus a community of collaborative users anyone can join, and several public tools/trainings (including AI/ML) for space biology available 🧵

We’ve been to the Moon. This time, potentially as soon as 12 days from now, we’re going back to stay. Artemis began in President Trump’s first term and in his second, he doubled down. Returning. Establishing a base. Launching to Mars.

America’s Moon rocket has returned to the pad 🇺🇸

today we launched bioreason-pro, try using it: app.bioreason.net

2026 may be the year AI starts to truly reason about biology. AlphaFold helped close the sequence → structure gap. The next frontier is sequence → functions. Today, together with @genophoria and the team at @arcinstitute , we’re releasing BioReason-Pro — the first multimodal reasoning model for protein function prediction.

Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/19/op…

AI to understand the language of life. Our review @NatureBiotech just published nature.com/articles/s4158… Free access rdcu.be/e89lQ @VishRao5 @serena2z @BrianPlosky @pdhsu @BoWang87 @james_y_zou @marinkazitnik @pranavrajpurkar

@USCTO47 @ScienceUnderSec In awe of this opportunity and excited to submit proposals to this call would be an understatement 🤩🌘🚀

What did y’all think the Genesis Mission meant? vibes? papers? essays? We are funding a national scientific effort. Nearly $300M to kick things off and we’re just getting started! Advanced manufacturing ✅ Biotechnology ✅ Critical materials ✅ Nuclear energy ✅ Quantum ✅

The #GenesisMission is using AI and advanced computing to transform the pace and impact of American science. Fermilab is contributing its physics expertise to help make it real. This is AI helping to reshape our understanding of the universe. news.fnal.gov/2026/03/fermil…

Solid piece on Space Data Centers by J. Callison and my good friend Joe Minafra (one of the coolest people in the world, BTW, and head of innovation for NASA SSERVI). They argue the need for supply chain and in-space maintenance of space data centers. 1/2 spacenews.com/hardware-is-no…

A lunar family portrait! Meet each member of our rover team: FLEX-Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV): All the capabilities of our commercial rover, but also ready to transport crew, support Artemis sample collection, and enable exploration on the lunar surface. FLIP: A technology demonstration mission launching to the Moon this year to test hardware and software that will be used on our FLEX rovers. FLEX-Commercial: Operated telerobotically, designed to provide multi-year surface mobility and logistics, including lunar infrastructure deployment, payload transportation, in-situ resource utilization and construction operations.

On March 25th at noon ET I'll be giving a public, online talk for the @NASAhistory NASA History Office about ISS in Real Time, a project that @dwcharn and I made last year. Everyone is welcome! RSVP at the link. lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/4xjb69z…

When real space station engineering/design has 2001 vibes.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman kicks off a screening of Project Hail Mary at the Air and Space Museum. This is going to be good.

OmicClaw: executable and reproducible natural-language multi-omics analysis over the unified OmicVerse ecosystem. biorxiv.org/content/10.648… 🧬💻🧪 github.com/Starlitnightly…

Great to see this feature in Nature Medicine! When our team at @GoogleDeepMind @GoogleResearch introduced the AI Co-Scientist in our February 2025 preprint, we knew we were on the cusp of a fundamental shift in how research is done. To see the work inspire the community and catalyze a global movement to accelerate scientific discovery in such a short time is incredibly thrilling. Huge shoutout to our amazing collaborators Prof @jrpenades @CostaT_Lab of @ImperialCollege and Prof Gary Peltz at @StanfordMed Medicine who took the leap with us and pushed the boundaries to validate this new paradigm of human-AI collaboration in science. So much momentum and so much more to come, rather soon 😊 Link: rdcu.be/e8xmk With @Mysiak @alan_karthi and so many incredible Google teammates behind AI Co-Scientist.

Every astronaut brings a different story to the mission, usually led by curiosity, service, and a willingness to chase big dreams. @astro_reid is a great example of that path. Proud to see Americans like him carrying exploration forward.🇺🇸

At @GoogleDeepMind, we believe AI is the ultimate catalyst for science. 🧬 The best example of this has been the AlphaFold database (AFDB) of protein structure predictions which has been used free of cost by more than 3.3 millions researchers across the world! Today, in collaboration with @emblebi, @Nvidia and @SeoulNatlUni, we are expanding the database by adding millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures to the AlphaFold Database. To maximise global health impact, we’ve prioritised proteins that are important for understanding human health and disease, including homodimers from 20 of the most studied organisms, including humans, as well as the @WHO’S bacterial priority pathogens list. Read more here: embl.org/news/science-t…

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

Our Artemis II astronaut @AstroVicGlover has built a remarkable career as a naval aviator, test pilot, and astronaut. Listening to him talk about the updated Artemis architecture, you realize how quickly the path to space is changing. We’re not just flying a mission, we’re building the foundation for sustained exploration beyond Earth.