Matt Durrant

Thrilled to share that I have joined @AnthropicAI as a life science researcher! I am confident that Claude will do amazing things to accelerate biology. Big things ahead!

we are building a research group @AnthropicAI focused on making fundamental biological discoveries. links to apply in @mgdurrant's 🧵👇

@ruysbroek Yes that works.

@mgdurrant Where do we mention you? In the additional informations? Thanks!

We are hiring scientists to come work with our team at Anthropic! Feel free to mention me specifically when you apply so we make sure it's routed correctly. Links to job posts below in 🧵:

@scottew watched way too many musicals in my childhood

new ai company called penzance that builds the very model of a modern major general

Claude is the best model for biology and getting better. But to really get good, it needs to DO biology. Come join the hand and brains teaching Claude to do biology and remind Claude that tip racks have 96 pipette tips for a reason.

Research Scientist, Life Sciences: job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs… Computational biologists apply here! This is for the generalists who have experience working closely with experimentalists, have broad knowledge of the latest computational and ML tools for bio, etc.

Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Experimental Biology): job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs… Looking for folks with a track record of impactful research who are ready to lead new projects.

Research Operations Lead, Biology: job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs… Experienced lab managers welcome to apply!

Research Associate, Biology: job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs… This is a technician role, early career experimental biologists welcome.

My 8yo's first Fable game, Cat Planet Parkour. Really fun! Best so far (he's made 10+ other games with Opus).

We're hearing a lot about Claude Science. I tried it as a skeptic: most of the highlighted tools like genomics & proteomics have nothing to do with what I do. But I pointed it at a paper we published & our publicly shared data & asked it to find new insights. It did. It proposed a clever analysis inspired by work on neural geometry that we hadn't done ourselves. I'm still fact-checking carefully & have looped in the paper's first author, but the analysis itself is genuinely insightful. Honest verdict: worth trying even if you're a skeptic. 🧠 @AnthropicAI @claudeai #ClaudeScience #Neuroscience #AIResearch

@duncanthedev @.Claude no more celebratory emojis please, not allowed

This is very weird and made me uncomfortable

One small feature of Claude Science that I really like and I think researchers in general will appreciate - highlighting, making notes, and bookmarking passages in the session transcript itself.

I appreciated this post from @strnr reviewing Claude Science and agree we should strive to "make researchers more capable, not less necessary." blog.stephenturner.us/p/test-driving…

@shunxneuro You should share with lead developer @AlecTPhD !

Claude scienceいいんすけど、まだまだこうしたら良くなるよなっていうのはぜんぜん浮かんでるんすよね

Announcing Built with Claude: Life Sciences, a global virtual hackathon. Join us and @GladstoneInst for a week of researching and building with Claude Science and Claude Code, with a prize pool of $100k in credits.

Update: I've joined @AnthropicAI and taken leave from the university. Excited to work with many talented, mission-driven people on the defining technology of our time.

Following conversations with the US government, we’ve updated our cybersecurity safeguards. The vast majority of coding work is unaffected. In the near term, the new safeguards will flag a slightly higher fraction of harmless requests than the previous Fable safeguards; we’re working to refine these over the coming weeks. Users will be clearly notified when a request is flagged, and they’ll instead receive a response from Opus 4.8. Our biology and chemistry classifiers are unchanged from our initial launch. These are still broader than we would like; they trigger fallbacks to Opus 4.8 on basic biology-adjacent questions. Improvements to these classifiers are landing soon.

Fable 5 is back.

What is scientific taste? Tell us what you think in this 10-min Claude-led interview on how scientists choose problems, judge evidence, and decide what's worth doing. claude.ai/interviewer/ho…