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building an AI scientist at @FutureHouseSF | formerly PhD with @BintuLab and @WJGreenleaf at Stanford | views/opinions my own

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2011
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providing criticism absent presentation of possible alternative strategies is a key indicator of intellectual laziness, but is widely accepted in science
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Elitism is rife with intellectual laziness disguised as superiority and by refusing to abandon prestige proxies, we are complicit in allowing it to cap the immense potential of science
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you can expect to see this on the fridge in my house for the rest of time
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Apparently, while studying for the midterm, my students memed my class. ๐Ÿ’€ credit: @wrboohar
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Accepted to UNC for Biochemistry!
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Man oh man do I love when people share their grades
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Just officially accepted my offer at Stanford!
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Accepted to UC Berkeley!
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Things everyone needs to promptly stop doing: posting their grades on social media
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Just set foot on Stanford's campus for the first time, my mom just burst into tears http://t.co/W0ZEOotSWt
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Everyone post their msl grades because the ridiculous curves make the score completely representative of your actual %, and we all care lots
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"Approve of me!" they cried as they posted their grades to social media
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Booking my one way ticket from Raleigh to San Francisco
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I hope everyone knows that #WomenAgainstFeminism is absurd and founded on stereotypical, untrue perceptions of feminists
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New saxophone!! http://t.co/vkSKKsm
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puts ad in facebook group looking for a person who can juggle, is contacted by the person who holds a juggling world record. okay
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Race of people who don't seem to see a problem? WHITE #BlackLivesMatter #WhitePrivilegeIsReal #RacismPersistsInAmerica
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Having a late night adventure with Mark so fuck you guys apex is STILL FUN WITHOUT YOU
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Accepted to Honors Carolina!
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my education is going to cost significantly more than our house. Needless to say I have the best family in the world
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(1/2) 2x in the past week have male colleagues seeking my professional advice simply said to me (out of the blue) "let's chat on the phone soon, I want your thoughts" - this is, in fact, NOT how to seek advice! You are not entitled to a woman colleague's time in this way..
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46% of people in the US don't believe in evolution, and think God created humans in their current form. How
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Got a Cambridge interview, flights are booked, off to England in 13 days. #isthisreal @DannyHinks_ @samhinks1 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งโœˆ
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Turned off notifications from the class facebook group, quality of life increased 84%
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Khaled Hosseini, Oprah and Sal Khan all on campus today. And I saw none of them
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"No matter what I do nothing bad will happen! I'm like a white, male, US Senator!" - Leslie Knope
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#StandWithLeah http://t.co/Io3hQJPfMi
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When Andrew Luck and Richard Sherman randomly show up at a basketball game and then come right next to you http://t.co/ZAdiykORk4
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my mom is right behind obama!!!
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The table surfaces are dry-erase material why the HECK isn't that a commonplace occurrence
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T-minus eight hours till HOME
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Got my right to peacefully assemble on at #MoralMonday http://t.co/obD6Cliguu
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So much good politics right now I'm all giddy
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Real question, who would vote for me over Clay Aiken
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Today my fifth grade student told me 'I really like learning from you' and I pretty much melted
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You know I'll be watching and pulling for Carolina tonight ๐Ÿ’™
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PSA: everything high school english teaches you is wrong
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Furthermore, if you oppose gay marriage, could you please tell me why? I'm truly curious & want to better understand your viewpoint, thanks!
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today Michaela is really annoyed at yesterday Michaela for getting seq kit in 4c to thaw so that today Michaela has to start the miseq and can't put it off
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Seriously Republicans? "Thankful Tuesday"? Did "Thankful Thursday" not occur to you?
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Sharing part of the #hiddencurriculum here: if you apply to an REU, you should email the PI directly that you are applying and see if you can chat with them on the phone or in person - you become a real human and not just a name on paper and it really helps your chances!
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This is our second year of the REU program @NUSynBio . Going to be an awesome summer so undergraduates please apply. #synbio #reu
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It is SO BEAUTIFUL here
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<3 this is allyship, for anyone wondering
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I'm not crying in my lab, you are. #PrideMonth #STEMPride #queerinstem #Pride2018
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Said a quick cheers in honor of my beloved grandad, who just passed away. He inspired my love of daffodils, Sinatra, napkin drawings, and
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Teared up on my 5:00 am run through downtown Apex #weloveapex http://t.co/AawcBJveQp
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Lady Gaga might sing in space in 2015. Welcome to the future everyone
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Definitely the best coverage I've seen of some of the incredible Smolke lab work - I once asked her how she chose what problems to work on, and she said [re yeast-produced opioids], "People told me it was impossible, and I didn't think it was."
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Christina Smolkeโ€™s Stanford team genetically altered yeast to produce opioids. Can her startup, Antheia, make them more efficient to produce and safer to use? #synbio #biotech #bioengineering
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So at what point are Apex High students banned from twitter at home and at school?
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I forgot to tweet this yesterday but Kevin McAlister told me he loved me after the concert and it was the best because he meant it
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Michaela: can run ten miles on trails without injury, twists ankle 15 minutes into Zumba
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Am I the only one who doesn't think sloths are cute
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I feel amazing
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This is the happiest day of my life
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Things that are surreal: I can take a quick trip to San Francisco on a whim
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Playing in Wind Ensemble this year! Get to play with none other than Frank Ticheli then go to Italy/Slovenia/Croatia. My life is great
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Everyone: got my schedule! Me: Alright! Course listings came out today!
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They've done it again! Seriously cannot get enough of the ongoing starfish story from @wgilpin0 @Viveknprakash & @PrakashLab ! Can't wait to dive into this new preprint:
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Rapid behavioral transitions produce chaotic mixing by a...

Despite their vast morphological diversity, many invertebrates have similar larval forms characterized by ciliary bands, innervated arrays of beating cilia that facilitate swimming and feeding....

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Stanford, where people pre-game with wine and our slogan is "Play hard. Study Harder. Nerd Nation." #gameday #StanfordLove #partywithtrees
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It is 3 am and every time I try and type a capital P on powerpoint it autocorrects to 15. how
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NC on national news again for voter suppression laws ๐Ÿ‘Œ
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I usually forget that Michele Bachmann exists, but when I remember I can't believe she's real anyway
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We got a fire pit and the first discussion my family had was bear v lion
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It's 1:30AM and I've got a lot of CME homework, ABBA is the only thing that will take me through
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Tweet your grades and consider yourself unfollowed
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A perk of having a big sister, there's always someone to do your hair. http://t.co/9L4Nh4H
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I wish people just didn't talk about their religious views, I feel like everyone would be happier
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Inventing the espresso machine was a good call on someone's part
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I feel strangely in control of my life so I must be forgetting something hugely important
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1/3 of the US' black males have been incarcerated at some point in their lifetime, I'm not down but I have 0 clue how to change it myself
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TEDxStanford ticket: acquired
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why am I a forty year old trapped in an eighteen year old body
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11 years
Shout out to my boys @adithya_iyengar and @AaronSartin for getting into NCSSM! I'm proud of both of you I know you will both do great things
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WHY DO ASSAULT WEAPONS EXIST/ WHY DO 40% OF AMERICANS WANT THEM TO REMAIN LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES. #IDONOTUNDERSTAND
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wait wait so what's happening now? I'm not intellectually advanced enough to follow The Apex High School Saga: Book Edition
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Back in the peak and loving every second
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There are tears in my eyes because people don't understand what genetically modifying something actually means #science #science #science
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whistling. He will be dearly missed and always loved.
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you know what pisses me off? Going to the NIH website and seeing "This website may be out of date due to lack of government funding"
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The new Coldplay album is so good but so depressing
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(2/2) *especially* if you are asking for something that benefits yourself and not her as well. Instead, say something like, "I am currently thinking about X, and since I really respect you I would love to hear your thoughts on it. Would you be free to talk on the phone soon?"
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I LOVE Stanford (still)
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Joy and elation! #DOMA is down and California regains marriage equality! Whooooo!
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Dear republican women: are you literate and/or understand basic biology and/or math?
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Also I think the drumline captain decision was unjustified
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You can judge me http://t.co/L6Jcvyr
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Successfully ran a half marathon this morning with the lovely @jesssteves !
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Considering that was one of the most important days of my life I'd say it went rather well
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Huh, glad to see my sister is turning into Nick VanBuskirk. I always wanted one of those.
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Here is the list of things I like doing more than playing Latin jazz: .
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@SaiFNaBiL "sharing a blanket" read: snuggling. don't be fooled everyone
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Do with it. #MUNisFUN
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Today is one of those days that I am truly, peerlessly grateful and excited that I am at Stanford
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Did you know bacon was bad for you? Because most people didn't before today I think
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Let it be known that by August 17, Dylan and I will run 250 miles!
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I wave bye to Saif and he just sticks his retainer out at me
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So much Nutella, so few pretzels, such a sad life
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One knish two knish red knish blue knish
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insight (and clearly communicating it) leads to impact, everything else is a covariate
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Often a major scientific discovery can be boiled down to a #singleplot in a paper. Nรผsslein-Volhard, Wieschaus, & Kluding identify mutations that underlie almost every signaling pathway driving development (and cancer) @nobelprize no-name journal, breathtaking work PMID: 28305337
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I just don't understand why people have such a hard time grasping the proper utilization of the word "literally"
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"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard" - Winnie the Pooh
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If you got into every college you applied to, why didn't you aim higher?
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Just for the record, I do not hate pandas, I just think they're an evolutionary disaster.
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