Alexander Morgan, MD PhD
@alexmorgan.bsky.social
Physician/scientist, partner at Khosla Ventures, investing in the future. 25 years of experience in the intersection of AI/ML, biotech and healthcare. Personal interests in art (painting, drawing, photography), sci-fi/fantasy, anthropology, and history.
@elsabirch.bsky.social and I had a great time at the @glasscannonnetwork.bsky.social retreat and got to play @deltagreen.bsky.social with @sydneygayle.bsky.social which was a lot of fun. If you are interested in TTRPGing, check out some of GCN’s great content. @chaosium.bsky.social
The US needs to be making its own medicines, especially for the new generation of personalized medicines (genomic, cell therapies, etc). We believe AI/automation is how that will happen. 🇺🇸💊 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/articles/u-s...
U.S. VCs Race to Tap China’s Biotech Innovation
Western drugmakers, investors increasingly aim to acquire Chinese compounds.
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Part way through this fascinating book. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07B...
A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
Amazon.com: A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath (Audible Audio Edition): Truong Nhu Tang, Trieu Tran, David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai, Tantor Audio: Audible Books & Originals
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Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country
There are so many ways to rev up our immune response against cancer. Here, the oncolytic viruses www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
Gather Health's mission to improve healthcare for older Americans. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
This Doctor’s Primary Care Startup Focuses On Keeping Older Adults Out Of The ER
Khosla-backed Gather Health has signed up more than 2,500 patients, the majority on both Medicare and Medicaid, for its primary-care service. With $17 million in new funding, it’s growing fast—and exp...
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This is exactly what happened to me, except that my story ends with a near death experience and an emergency D&C after transfusion. Pregnant women in Texas are in danger. And I worry most about Black women who experience medical racism. www.propublica.org/article/pors...
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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HTS in vivo with barcoded genomic medicines is now a standard technique, but it's cool to see that approach applied to antibodies. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Got a cool book on Die Brücke artist Kirchner. He was a leader of German Expressionism in the first two decades of the 20th century with a somewhat haunting style of rendering the figure.
His arrest and attempted deportation seem very much like a writ of attainder to me. The President can pardon federal crimes, but not convict them.
Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · last yr.this interview is incredible www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
There is the important element that the jobs DOGE is cutting are US jobs, including a lot of veterans who live in states who voted for Trump.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last yr.NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
In fact the opposite has generally been the case: we discover insight into micro-level phenomena as a result of developing accurate meso-scale theories. Thermodynamics came before statistical mechanics and served as the key constraint on it. ...
Interesting to see which countries drink the most coffee. www.statista.com/chart/8602/t...
Infographic: The Countries Most Addicted to Coffee
This chart shows per capita consumption of coffee around the world in 2020.
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For those with a medical background, I think learning startup related finance is no harder, and with a lot of overlap, to learning how to manage ins and outs and electrolytes.
SRE’s may have more in common with emergency room physicians in things like personality and hobbies than I would have at first considered.
Calling yourself a king doesnt make you a king. Delivering an all-time banger of a speech on St. Crispin’s Day does.
SeasonalPun@pixelfish.bsky.social · last yr.Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Getting buried under a car park and mislaid for six centuries does.
Back on the other website I made a whole thread on the size of ocean animals in relation to Bernie Sanders. These crabs are so much bigger than people realize
The one thing I like about his stated goals is the focus on general wellness: nutrition and fitness. The approach to infectious disease is terrifying.
Andrea Junker@strandjunker.com · last yr.DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Pretty neat study, raises the possibility of a blood test for postpartum depression and some new potential pharmacological approaches to treat. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neuroactive steroid biosynthesis during pregnancy predicts future postpartum depression: a role for the 3α and/or 3β-HSD neurosteroidogenic enzymes? - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Neuroactive steroid biosynthesis during pregnancy predicts future postpartum depression: a role for the 3α and/or 3β-HSD neurosteroidogenic enzymes?
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One thing I never understand is all the criticism of the USFDA and their regulatory science. It’s the most data driven government organization in the world, willing to quickly change its mind with new data. It’s not perfect of course, but it’s regulation by rationality not emotion, very rare.
Investment in basic research has been one of the main pillars of economic growth in the US. Discovery combined with the free market system that can turn those innovations into scalable/distributable new products & services improves quality of life, and wealth in a non zero-sum way.
Magdalena Skipper@magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · last yr.Japan can be a science heavyweight once more — if it rethinks funding Research leaders call for an end to substantial underfunding of interdisciplinary research in Japan. On my current visit to 🇯🇵 I can see the country is ready for a change #japan #academicSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great article. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Periodic cooking of eggs - Communications Engineering
Emilia Di Lorenzo and colleagues propose an approach to address the energy transport problem of cooking the albumen and yolk of a boiled egg at their optimal temperatures without separation. By altern...
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