The Proof in the Code, Kevin Hartnett's new book on the development of Lean and Mathlib, is out today. www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr... To mark the launch, two online panels with the author on June 11 and 12, both 5pm UTC. Registration in the reply.

The annual meeting of the American Society For Mass Spectrometry (@asms.org) has been very special for me as the Biemann Medal recognized our contributions to developing single-cell proteomic technologies and using them to open new perspectives.

Two online panels for the launch of The Proof in the Code, @kevinhartnett.bsky.social's new book on Lean and Mathlib. The Mathematicians, June 11. The Builders, June 12. Both 5pm UTC. Learn more and register: The Mathematicians: forms.gle/w16jkmsMqB2g... The Builders: forms.gle/PsxPkq3x2pES...

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NSF Just Did Something Important

And so can you: how to reach out to Convergent about X-Labs

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We are excited to be included on the new Hugging Science site from @hf.co! Scientific datasets and models deserve a dedicated space. You can find our drug-target interaction dataset on Hugging Face here: huggingface.co/datasets/eve...

We’re very excited to announce the launch of two new Focused Research Organizations in the UK powered by @aria-research.bsky.social: @meridialneuro.bsky.social and @echolabs.bsky.social! Learn more: essentialtechnology.blog/p/introducing-meridial-and-echo-labs

Introducing Meridial and Echo Labs

Launching Two New FROs in the UK

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🚀 Partners wanted for our Enduring Atmospheric Platforms programme. Seeking: • Test sites & infrastructure • Field testing support • IV&V Support teams to safely fly and pass the Final Exam: deliver 300W to a 20kg payload for a full week. Apply by 22 May 2026: https://bit.ly/4vCGs7S

Testing + Validation Partners

This programme is a 3.5-year effort focused on technical de-risking for low-cost, long-endurance aircraft that enable scalable high-altitude communications. To support the researchers and organisation...

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The Beneficial AI Foundation asks: "Can we prove that Signal's cryptography is secure — not just on paper, but in actual code?" Signal Shot, launched today, aims to find out. Open to contributions. 🔗 beneficialaifoundation.org/blog/signal-shot #leanlang #leanprover #softwareverification

Signal Shot: One Giant Lean for Protocol Security — Beneficial AI Foundation

We have launched a public challenge, to show people that verifying key components of a major application like Signal is doable today with existing tools. This is a similar effort to the Liquid Tensor...

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Congrats to Carboniferous for the recent issuance of a US EPA research permit. This is a notable milestone for the mCDR sector—progress through responsible process. The field is increasingly moving beyond early-stage enthusiasm and into the harder work of implementation. www.epa.gov/marine-prote...

With years of research at its foundation, Nikolai and Harrison highlight the inspiration supporting PTI's own moonshot to make single cell proteomics scalable and accessible for researchers worldwide. Thanks @cowboybearninja.bsky.social for the video! youtu.be/9NNvkJYa43c

Unfolding PTI's Origin Story with Nikolai Slavov and Harrison Specht

YouTube video by Parallel Squared Technology Institute

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🚀 Lean 4.29.0 is out! Faster startup, simpler 𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚞𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 semantics, higher-order Miller pattern support in 𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚍, and a significant overhaul to reducibility and instance handling. 453 changes! 🔗 lean-lang.org/doc/reference/latest/releases/v4.29.0/ #LeanLang #LeanProver

Our team co-designed a workshop series in the Salish Sea with Dr. Sara Nawaz and colleagues from American University to explore how coastal communities think about ocean-based CDR in their local waters, supported by regional ocean models. Read our early reflections: www.cworthy.org/blog/regiona...

Regional Modeling as a Tool to Support Community Dialogue — [C]Worthy

[C]Worthy scientists partnered with American University to host a workshop series in the Salish Sea Basin, bringing coastal community members into conversation about marine carbon dioxide removal usin...

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Full proposals are now open for our Universal Fabricators programme. Backed by £50m, the programme will leverage breakthroughs in protein engineering + build a community that can harness proteins to produce a functionally universal range of materials at scale. Apply by 5 May: https://bit.ly/4uUMHDE

Universal Fabricators

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This July 14 - 15, the 9th Single-Cell Proteomics Conference (single-cell.net) brings together a community that is redefining what’s possible: Robust methods enable scalable proteoform measurements from single cells without sacrificing depth or quantitative accuracy. 1/3

The search for ARIA’s next cohort of Programme Directors has begun 🚀 As a PD you will design and manage a ~£50M programme to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. Applications open August 2026 for a May 2027 start - register your interest: https://bit.ly/418ltvy

Become an ARIA Programme Director

Applications for our third cohort of Programmed Directors (PDs) will open in August 2026 for a May 2027 start date. Register your interest so you can be the first to hear updates on the application pr...

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Dragonfly FRO, a Focused Research Organization (FRO), today announced the construction of MOTHRA, a next-generation telescope designed to reveal the cosmic web — the vast network of gas and dark matter that connects galaxies across the universe. www.mothratelescope.org

MOTHRA

Building the Next Generation of Telescopes to Reveal the Invisible Universe Uncovering the hidden gas that fuels galaxies, testing the foundations of cosmic structure, and probing the nature of dark…

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The first-ever Lean in Munich meetup happened this week! 🎥 Watch Sebastian Ullrich's full talk on Lean's foundations, software verification, and AI: youtube.com/watch?v=2Dr2149l_9Y #leanlang #leanprover #formalverification #mathematics

We're busy here at EvE Bio generating drug-target interaction data for GPCR, NR, and kinase targets. Meanwhile, we're expanding our compounds and we want your input! Our current library has 1,300 approved small molecule and peptide drugs. The next will include 6 categories: 🧵

Today, we are launching a £50m programme – Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies – to decouple advanced brain therapies from complex surgery.

CSLib just launched — an open-source effort to formalize computer science in Lean, inspired by Mathlib. CS researchers, practitioners & enthusiasts are invited to get involved! Learn more at: 🌐 cslib.io 🤝 Contribute: github.com/leanprover/c... #LeanLang #LeanProver #CSLib #FormalVerification

If you're curious about our submission (alongside many fantastic partners!) to the NSF Tech Labs RFI, we've just posted our responses to our blog, Essential Technology: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/our-respon...

Our Responses to the NSF Tech Labs RFI

Metascience, AI, biotech, and more

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Lean 4.28.0 is out! New symbolic simulation framework for 𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚍, user-defined 𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚍 attributes for custom tactics, a new 𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛𝙼𝚘𝚍𝚎 in 𝚋𝚟_𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎 for proof vs. counterexample search, and lean4checker available out of the box. lean-lang.org/doc/referenc... #LeanLang #LeanProver #ProofAssistant

We've just added a new FRO to our website! In this Essential Technology piece, we share three three principles from CHI-FRO, an engineering-heavy partnership to build out tools for probabilistic programming: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/the-evolut...

The evolution of CHI-FRO

Three principles from an engineering-heavy partnership to build out tools for probabilistic programming

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Terence Tao on how math is changing, #formalverification as the enabler of scaled human-AI collaboration: "The reason why scaling and AI and broad participation actually is a net win is because we have formal verification." 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTx... #leanlang #leanprover

A special opportunity for lovers of mass spectrometry proteomics to join a like-minded team at PTI. Join a collaborative initiative to enable direct protein analysis at unprecedented scale, in partnership with leading instrument developers, academics, and industry leaders. 1/2

So you sequenced a billion+ bases. That don’t impress me much. JERBOA is a toolkit to figure out what genes do at scale. We've used it to unlock 43 non-model microbes across 12 different phyla.

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Check out our latest work! JERBOA, a toolkit for making genome-wide genetics work in non-model bacteria. blog.cultivarium.org/p/so-youve-s...

We’re testing conceptual hypotheses, dissecting disease progression, proteostasis, protein degradation, PTMs, and aggregation, all with focus on creative, rigorous data interpretation. If you want to do science that changes how we think, this is it. 👇 jobs.lever.co/convergentre...

🔥 We’re hiring! A rare opportunity to rethink neurodegeneration: 🟦 Develop creative, rigorous approaches to data interpretation toward mechanistic insights. Join our team at PTI to study neurodegenerative disease using direct protein analysis at single-cell resolution. 1/2

Light-microscopy brain mapping was picked as one of 7 technologies to watch in 2026 by Nature! Hear from E11's CEO @andrewcpayne.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From quantum computing to mRNA therapeutics: seven technologies to watch in 2026

Nature’s round-up of innovations that are poised to make a splash in the year ahead.

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