#106 - Kidneys in Pigs, AI in Congress, and Nuclear Near-Misses!
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In the News
🇲🇽 Mexico’s supreme court just unanimously ruled that denying access to abortion services is unconstitutional, making it illegal to do so in all 32 states.
🥚 Scientists at the Weizmann Institute have created a human-like embryo without sperm or egg cells that resembles a real embryo at 14 days of development.
🐷 In similar news, researchers at the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health have grown a mostly human kidney entirely inside a pig.
🏛️ Congress hosted an inaugural meeting on AI, and here’s how it went down.
Opportunities
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Animal Equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals. They go undercover to document and expose the cruel treatment of animals in factory farms and slaughterhouses. To date, they have inspected over 800 factory farms and slaughterhouses in 15 countries. They campaign to convince companies to update their policies that affect animals and their team of attorneys advocates for increased protections and animal rights. They are currently seeking a digital marketing manager to join their team.
The Arc Institute is a new scientific institution that conducts curiosity-driven basic science and technology development to understand and treat complex human diseases. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Arc is an independent research organization founded on the belief that many important research programs will be enabled by new institutional models. Arc Institute’s Science Fellows program is designed for outstanding early career scientists who are seeking an opportunity to transition to a principal investigator position directly after their doctoral training. To accelerate independent careers, this program provides Arc Fellows with leadership training and full salary and research support for their group. Arc Science Fellows are active members of the Arc community and will have the opportunity to interact and collaborate with our Core Investigators, Technology Centers, and Translational Programs - and the program is for folks in the Bay Area. Learn more and apply here.
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What We’re Reading
ChatGPT really doesn’t do well in certain languages.
Michael Nielsen on Oppenheimer and AI
There have been a ton of nuclear near-misses, and this Veritasium video highlights just a few. Scary stuff. It makes you realize that WWIII might be initiated from an accident as much as it might be from intentional use.
Quotes We Love
“The people who invented the Internet never would have got around to doing it if they’d had the Internet.”
-Devon Brown
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