Weekly links #4
Not very weekly of links I suppose
Apologies, I’ve been traveling again and did another LDN → SF → DC → LDN. But no more travel until December! But DC autumn is really beautiful. And right now, for some reason, it’s totally empty! The National Mall at 8am during sunrise is stunning when there’s nobody there. Also highly recommend cycling through Buckingham Palace at 7am when there’s not a tourist in sight. Magnificent.
How can we rebuild the architecture of science? Sandeep has things to say.
The new ARPA-H director has an extensive background in women’s health tech. Could this help shape the agency’s female health focus beyond their initial Sprint for Women’s Health?
The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) published its R&D budget plans through 2030. ARIA’s budget will keep rising, reaching about £300 million in 2029/30. By comparison, the U.S. ARPA-H budget for FY 2024 was about $1.5 billion — roughly 3.2% of NIH’s total budget of about $47 billion. So is ARIA’s budget too small, or is ARPA-H’s budget too large relative to NIH? Should ARPA-H have been placed under NIH in the first place? Oh boy…
FORM, a new programme at Wellcome Leap (the true global ARPA) seeks to find causal linkages between gut microbiome and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Please apply!!! I want to know why I stress eat at 1am on a Tuesday.
Could we engineer an adenovirus vaccine for the common cold? Most relevant for close quarters barracks environments like the military, but it’s certainly helpful for the common office too?
Larry Richardson was an early career mathematician who was cited in 130 citations in under four years, until he turned into a cat. The great irony is that this was published in Science…
You can build logic gates with crabs. Ergo (latin), you can run DOOM on 16 billion crabs.
Fin.