Mattia Gollub

@mgollub.bsky.social

🧬💻 | Director of Machine Learning @jura.bsky.social | Probabilistic models, ML, Molecular biology, Immune receptors.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

globalnews.ca

The mistake from further away I think is to view AI through the lens of Large Language Models - these are great (well... at least very useful) for text, but so much in science (and in life!) is not text! The set of "tailored" or "narrow" AI in science will only increase

If this is not a good time to move to bsky I don't know what is. Hi there, Mattia here, leading the ML team at @jura.bsky.social where we are building the future of genomic medicines. Still in love with my first bio-crush - microbial metabolism from thermodynamics to community interactions.