Claus Wilke

Obviously the solution is to never take a break. The AI doesn't take a break either.

It saved some for you. (One shot!)

Today I gave a talk at the NIH on "Virus Emergence & The Origin of Pandemics". I had a fun time presenting on five+ years of collaborative research and got a lot of great questions! The NIH Director even found time to tweet about it.. 💫 Slides for those interested: andersen-lab.com/files/2026.1...

A graduate student working on methane being on fire doesn't sound like a good thing to me. I hope he's fine.

1/ Over the weekend, there was a reported case of plague in Russia. I’m seeing a lot of rumors about the event being spread without facts to back it up, so I wanted to jump on here to break down what we do and don’t know about this situation and whether or not you should be concerned.

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

ʙɪɴᴅᴄʀᴀꜰᴛ2 is out, and we're not waiting for the paper. The full code drops today, free for academic and industry use. We're releasing it early so you can start designing right now, and bring its full power to the current Adaptyv competition. github.com/PacesaLab/Bi...

I read some research once that said this was typical. It matches my own experience. I can easily switch between English and Italian but German lives in a different part of my brain and it's hard both to switch into and out of.

The Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin has two open positions for assistant professors, one in evolutionary biology and one in mechanistic processes. Please share. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

The Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin has two open positions for assistant professors, one in evolutionary biology and one in mechanistic processes. Please share. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

“Looking into what the evidence says once or twice every decade feels like a good cadence.” We’re impatient beings, but this is so grand. Not just with Covid, but political autopsies, giant crimes, divorces, etc

When you can, devote a little of your time to this. It will be worth it. 🧪

I wrote up my thoughts about the COVID origin. I don't plan to weigh in on the topic beyond this one post for the next five years or so. Looking into what the evidence says once or twice every decade feels like a good cadence. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/it-still-w...

If you want to worry about the dangers of AI, something like this is a much better place to start than an engineered bioweapon. t.me/MaxOsintInte...

Controversial, not so controversial, take - the dangers posed by AI are real, current, and well-documented. Those do not include human extinction within a decade, nor do they include AI-manufactured-printed-out-in-the-lab bioweapons, yet, those are the ones we chose to focus on. Good lord.

I want to know whether this APR is correct or a typo. I'd be embarrassed plastering this all over the airport.

Going forward, if you're working on anything unique or special or sensitive you probably don't want to tell ChatGPT about it. (And I wouldn't tell Claude either, just to be on the safe side.) techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

Brandon Frenz did his graduate work in in the UW Institute of Protein Design. He has opinions on Anthropic claims. youtu.be/hIJFwP5RWAE?...

Folks, hot off the press here are a few plots about what the new ggarrow update can do: teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl... I'll also tease them below #rstats #ggplot2

You may have seen that Claude can now design peptide binders. I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but I'm quite certain Claude has not unlocked anything new that wasn't already available in all the standalone tools that are floating around. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/has-anthro...

Agree

You may have seen that Claude can now design peptide binders. I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but I'm quite certain Claude has not unlocked anything new that wasn't already available in all the standalone tools that are floating around. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/has-anthro...

I'm really frustrated by the constant fear-mongering about AI-designed superviruses. Can we focus on the things that should actually worry us, such as measles? blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/im-sorry-y...

"What really bothers me about these stories about how AI will design killer viruses is that they are pure fear mongering, and more importantly they divert attention from the things that matter". Indeed 🎯.

a good take. the dominant philosophy in AI circles leads to some very strange places, which should really earn more scrutiny of the philosophy itself

This is excellent.

I'm really frustrated by the constant fear-mongering about AI-designed superviruses. Can we focus on the things that should actually worry us, such as measles? blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/im-sorry-y...

There are many solutions to the challenge of F chords: - Get a smaller guitar (have you tried electric?) - Use thinner strings - Switch to piano - Tune your guitar half a note higher

We invite #RStats users to contribute to a fund dedicated to helping the family of Tomáš Kalibera following his untimely death in April. Find out more and donate here: www.r-project.org/foundation/k...

Moscow today.

If I read this correctly, program officers would not see any ranking differences among the top 25% of applications. Which immediately begs the question of how applications within this group would be chosen for funding. Lottery? Personal preference of the PO? Choice by LLM?

A new paper challenges how we have used protein language models (pLMs) for protein engineering. It suggests that using pLMs as antipredictors (try mutations the model thinks are bad) can generate the best leads for engineering novel function. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/protein-la...

YouTube custom AI feed just killing it with its precision and adherence to the prompt.

Russian "human safari" in Kherson continues. Police have released footage showing Russians using a drone to hunt a civilian in the city. The victim is a 52-year-old market vendor from the Mykolaiv region, who suffered a blast injury, shrapnel wounds, and a concussion.