Amara Starr

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Amara Starr

@ms_a_starr

I'm someone who belongs equally to medicine, rain, and poetry - (Public Health @openuniversity || Longevity & AI)

London, England Katılım Şubat 2025
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Seth Howes
Seth Howes@SethSHowes·
I just sequenced a human genome to 30× coverage entirely at home. As far as I know, this is the first time this has been done. I didn’t step foot in a lab once. Every step - from saliva collection, to running the sequencer - took place in a single room with a dining table + kitchenette. Six weeks ago, I had never done wet lab biology before. I used an Oxford Nanopore P2 Solo - the only commercially available sequencing device portable enough to do 30x human genome sequencing at home. Biggest takeaway - I could build something that combined software, hardware, and molecular biology far faster than I thought was possible. I can name >100 specific instances where AI helped me solve a technical problem that would previously have blocked me because I lacked access to a domain expert. For example: how do I save my sequencing run when my DNA extraction yield is 4x lower than I need it to be, and I have this limited set of reagents to hand? To make this work, I had to navigate multiple disciplines: - writing software to monitor sequencing runs and orchestrate remote GPU infra for basecalling - learning + executing 5 hour long molecular biology protocols - building a hardware device to quantify DNA concentration Apologies for the hyperbole, but I feel super lucky to be living in 2026. A few weeks ago I decided to sequence a human genome to 30x at home. Then I actually did it. And I did it really quickly.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Here’s what @WHO and global health partners are doing to accelerate therapeutic and vaccine R&D for the #Ebola Bundibugyo virus ⬇️
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Derya Unutmaz, MD
Derya Unutmaz, MD@DeryaTR_·
AI painting of the day: "The Surgeon of Broken Wings." Created with GPT Image 2.0
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NHS Blood Donation 🩸🩹
School's out for half term! ✌️ But remember - blood stocks can come under extra pressure during school holidays. Booking a donation appointment over the half term could make a huge difference. Find your nearest session and book today ➡️ ow.ly/uz2A50YQsjT
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Amara Starr@ms_a_starr·
@AndrewCurran_ I really need a digital twin to take on 50% of my tasks. I'm hoping Google are working on this? Gemini already knows me very well from our interactions and documentation, over the years...
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Andrew Curran
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_·
>secretary says I have a meeting with the boss >ask if it's him or his doppelgänger >she doesn't understand >pull out an illustrated diagram showing the difference >she laughs 'its a good meeting sir' >go to the meeting >It's his doppelgänger
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Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.@Neuroscope_mp·
🚨 BREAKING: Scientists just identified what may be the master switch of human aging — and a single antibody that blocks it extends lifespan by 25% in mammals. It just entered human trials. Here is everything you need to know 🧵👇 #Longevity #AntiAging #IL11 #Science #BreakingScience
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@DeryaTR_ Gemini is amazing now! I'm super grateful and impressed
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Derya Unutmaz, MD
Derya Unutmaz, MD@DeryaTR_·
Gemini 3.5 Flash is much better than Gemini 3.1 Pro in coding & agentic benchmarks at a fraction of the cost! I can’t wait to see the capabilities of 3.5 Pro! It could be SOTA in most benchmarks. These new Gemini upgrades seem like a step change-not just incremental improvements!
Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind

Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers fast, consistent performance that rivals other leading models – at a fraction of the price. It can plan and reason across massive codebases and deploy subagents to work in parallel over a long horizon. It outperforms 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 2.1, GDPval-AA, and MCP Atlas.

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Dr. Priyam Bordoloi
Dr. Priyam Bordoloi@DocPriyamMD·
Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet. For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission. Her health was treated as a background inconvenience. When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her. She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain. It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops. Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.
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David Sinclair
David Sinclair@davidasinclair·
Every system in the body is adapting all the time. You are in control
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Dustin
Dustin@r0ck3t23·
Demis Hassabis just said something that should unsettle every scientist alive. Hassabis: “I do think that, ultimately, underlying physics is information theory. So I do think we’re in a computational universe.” The CEO of Google DeepMind is telling you reality runs on code. Not metaphorically. Structurally. AlphaFold didn’t approximate protein structures. It solved them. Not because DeepMind built a better guesser. Because proteins were never physical objects. They were always data. Hassabis: “The fact that these systems are able to model real structures in nature is quite interesting and telling.” He said telling. Not impressive. Not promising. Telling. As in the results reveal something about what reality actually is. AlphaGo found patterns in a 3,000-year-old game no civilization ever noticed. AlphaFold decoded biology in hours that took researchers decades. These systems aren’t approximating nature. They’re reading it fluently. Because nature was always written in a language machines understand better than we do. Hassabis: “Maybe at some point I’ll write up a scientific paper about what I think that really means in terms of what’s actually going on here in reality.” The man running the most advanced AI lab on Earth thinks he’s found something fundamental about existence itself. And he’s not ready to say it yet. Every era thinks it knows what the universe is made of. Atoms. Waves. Strings. Hassabis is suggesting the answer was never matter. It was always math. And the machine he built to fold proteins might have accidentally proved it. The question that should keep you up tonight isn’t whether AI can simulate reality. It’s whether reality was the simulation first.
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Robert Lufkin MD
Robert Lufkin MD@robertlufkinmd·
He's 91. He's injecting young mitochondria into his body. McCully's verdict: "There is no organ where it has failed." Heart, brain, kidney, lung — every one, repaired. That's not a treatment. That's a clue about aging itself. youtube.com/shorts/70HE2rv…
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Andrew Curran
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_·
Ray Kurzweil predicts LEV in 2029. LEV is the point where medical technology begins to advance so quickly that for every year you live, your remaining life expectancy increases by more than one year. Considering how remarkably prescient he has been about our trajectory, if you make it through the next four years, you may end up living much, much longer than you ever expected. Imagine a future version of yourself looking back to today. You are probably a lot different, but there is still a direct unbroken line from you to them, and their entire existence depends upon you. If they could send a message back, they would probably say something like: protect our precious seed. Stop taking such unnecessary risks. And do everything you can to successfully navigate the storm that now lies ahead of you.
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This! 👏
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

>Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Never get where, though? Many of the people in this industry believe takeoff is imminent or already underway. Do these numbers matter in the world they increasingly seem to believe is on the near horizon? Prominent people now describe scenarios before 2040 that would have been called extremely hyperbolic even a couple of years ago. Or to be blunt, completely insane. $20m net worth. $50m. $200m. $20b. Do these numbers matter at all in those futures? Is there any difference between them? Does your healthcare budget matter in a world where all diseases and illnesses have been cured? Does it matter how much land you have, or how big your house is, in a future where we are terraforming planets or building megastructures? Does it matter if you have enough money to escape your job and retire if no one works? If all human work is done by Minds, or embodied Minds? No. I know a lot of people think everything I'm describing above is hype to boost IPOs. Or an absurd fantasy. But when you hear some of these CEOs, or other prominent people in the labs describing this level of change being imminent, they believe it. When Dario Amodei talks about 'a country of geniuses in a datacenter' he's not trying to sell Claude, he is being sincere. I'm saying some of the people being envied don't think their money matters either - or won't, soon. Certainly not in the same way it does now. People in this community increasingly give these futures credence, but not their second-order effects. They imagine a future based on the science fiction they grew up with, where human civilization stays broadly structurally and culturally the same; people have the same hopes and fears, concerns and circumstances, only we also have spaceships, ringworlds, Dyson spheres and Matrioshka Minds. But those stories were intentionally written that way, with that false asymmetrical grounding, so that the audience could relate to the world the characters were in. Otherwise no one buys the book. TAI means Transformative AI. And transformative change means 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦. It means all the old structures, the values, the rules, are washed away by the wave, the storm, the tempest already at the door. It means we live in a world we cannot even predict from where we are standing now, because what lies beyond the horizon is different in wildly unpredictable ways. Because it is completely out of distribution from what we have experienced, or even imagined. It means this: 𝘍𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴; 𝘖𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦; 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴: 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘦, 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘢-𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦.

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David Sinclair
David Sinclair@davidasinclair·
Blindness. Frailty. Dementia. Hair loss What if they all had the same root cause & that cause was reversible? youtube.com/watch?v=pbvAA5…
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Derya Unutmaz, MD
Derya Unutmaz, MD@DeryaTR_·
I completely agree with this opinion. Those who want to stop the progress of AI are the gatekeepers who are about to lose all their victimhood power, because AI is the greatest equalizer of human empowerment in history! AI gives individuals direct access to knowledge, creativity, analysis, and agency that were once scarce and belonged only to institutions and to political gatekeepers like Senator Sanders, who are in panic to lose all their power! “In a world of abundance, the question "who deserves what" loses its meaning. There's nothing left to arbitrate. Victims next. AI is the greatest equalizer of access to knowledge and skills in human history. A kid in the middle of nowhere in Bangladesh today has access to the same tutor as the heir to a New York family. A solo developer produces what a team of 20 did three years ago. Barriers are crumbling. But without structural victims, there's no cause to defend, no moral mandate to wield.”
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Sanders et AOC veulent geler la construction de tous les data centers IA aux États-Unis. Il faut comprendre ce qui se passe vraiment. Ce n'est pas une bataille politique parmi d'autres. C'est la dernière convulsion d'une vision du monde qui a compris, inconsciemment, qu'elle est condamnée. Le socialisme n'est pas une théorie économique. C'est une structure morale qui a besoin de trois choses pour exister : 1. De la rareté à redistribuer 2. Des victimes à défendre 3. Une classe d'intermédiaires pour orchestrer le tout Retirez un seul de ces trois piliers et l'édifice s'effondre. L'IA est en train de retirer les trois en même temps. La rareté d'abord. Pendant 200 ans, l'économie politique a tourné autour d'une question : comment répartir une production limitée ? Marx, Keynes, Piketty — tous bâtissent sur ce postulat. Mais l'IA inverse l'équation. Le coût marginal de l'intelligence tend vers zéro. La production de logiciel, de design, d'analyse, de code, bientôt de matière manufacturée par robotique avancée — tout cela devient quasi-gratuit. Dans un monde d'abondance, la question "qui mérite quoi" perd son sens. Il n'y a plus rien à arbitrer. Les victimes ensuite. L'IA est le plus grand égalisateur d'accès au savoir et aux compétences de l'histoire humaine. Un gamin au fin fond du Bangladesh a aujourd'hui accès au même tuteur que l'héritier d'une famille new-yorkaise. Un développeur solo produit ce qu'une équipe de 20 produisait il y a trois ans. Les barrières s'effondrent. Or sans victimes structurelles, plus de cause à défendre, plus de mandat moral à exercer. Les intermédiaires enfin. C'est le point le plus douloureux pour eux. Le socialisme a toujours eu besoin d'une caste : journalistes-militants, fonctionnaires-experts, ONG-prescriptrices, politiques-redistributeurs. Cette caste vit du fait qu'elle prétend traduire la réalité aux masses. L'IA rend cette traduction obsolète. Tout le monde peut interroger directement la source, vérifier un chiffre, comparer des modèles, simuler une politique publique. Le monopole de l'interprétation est mort. Voilà pourquoi je dis que l'IA est un catalyseur de vérité. Elle ne crée pas la vérité — elle la rend ininterprétable. Les systèmes qui produisent de la valeur deviennent visibles. Ceux qui en captent sans en produire deviennent visibles aussi. Le voile tombe. Et c'est ça qui est insupportable. Pas la perte de pouvoir — la perte de sens. Réaliser que ta vision du monde, ton militantisme, ta carrière entière reposaient sur un édifice qui ne tenait que par la rareté et l'opacité. C'est une blessure narcissique d'une profondeur abyssale. La réaction est mécanique : il faut bloquer le catalyseur. Pas pour des raisons rationnelles (l'argument "énergie" est risible quand on voit leurs positions sur le nucléaire). Pour des raisons existentielles. Il faut empêcher l'avenir d'advenir, parce que l'avenir les efface. 300 lois locales. Un moratoire fédéral. Des moratoires européens (AI Act). Tout le pattern est le même partout : freiner, ralentir, encadrer, taxer. Pas réguler intelligemment — paralyser. Mais ils ont déjà perdu. Et au fond d'eux, ils le savent. La Chine ne s'arrêtera pas. Les Émirats ne s'arrêteront pas. L'Inde, Singapour, l'Argentine de Milei, certains États américains — personne ne s'arrêtera. Bloquer la construction de data centers à San Francisco ne fait que déplacer le centre de gravité. Le seul effet net est d'appauvrir ceux qu'ils prétendent défendre. C'est le rebond du chat mort. Un dernier sursaut avant l'immobilité définitive. PS : tout n'est pas perdu pour eux. La porte est ouverte. Il suffit de comprendre que créer de la valeur est plus gratifiant que la redistribuer, que construire est plus puissant que dénoncer, et que l'entrepreneuriat est la seule forme contemporaine d'action politique qui change réellement le monde. La reconversion est possible. Elle commence par accepter une chose simple : personne n'a besoin de toi pour être sauvé. Mais beaucoup de gens ont besoin de toi pour construire.

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Your dog likely loves you more than anything — and science finally proves it. A new brain-imaging study has provided scientific proof of what most dog owners have always suspected: many dogs love their humans even more than they love food. Published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, the research led by Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns used fMRI scans to watch how dogs’ brains lit up in response to different rewards. Dogs were first trained to associate one toy with food and another with enthusiastic praise from their owner. The findings were striking: while a few dogs leaned toward treats and some showed no clear favorite, a remarkable four out of the fifteen participants consistently chose praise over food—even when both were offered at the same time. For those dogs, the neural reward centers activated more strongly for their owner’s happy voice than for the promise of a snack. This builds on earlier work from the same lab showing that dogs’ brains respond more powerfully to their owner’s scent than to the scent of any other person or dog. The message is clear: for a significant number of dogs, the bond with their human isn’t just about getting fed. They genuinely crave our affection and approval, which means praise can be every bit as motivating (and far healthier) than treats when it comes to training and strengthening that special relationship.
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