New Science November 2021 updates
Organization
- Sasha Targ has joined us as Head of Research. Sasha studied biology, physics, and literature at MIT and has a PhD in computational immunology from UCSF where she did research in immunology, genomics, and deep learning. Imagine that the ghosts of Grothendieck and Ramanujan merged and produced an astral being who was endowed with a special interest not in math but in biology. This is Sasha. I'm scared of Sasha.
- We are continuing to actively hire for several positions related to programs we are going to run, our operations, content and services, and research: newscience.org/jobs (this page now has an entire essay about the structural issues facing academia). We offer a $10,000 reward if you refer someone we end up hiring.
- We are going to be experimenting with community Slack in the next couple of months (Public Slacks are hard to get right!). Slack invite link.
- We were awarded a $500,000 grant from the Survival and Flourishing Fund (funded by Skype's co-founder Jaan Tallinn)
- We are going to be announcing our next (one-year) program soon and are continuing to fundraise.
- George Church – Professor at Harvard and MIT – became our Advisor.
- Raymond Tonsing – Founder & Managing Partner, Caffeinated Capital and one of our first supporters – became our Advisor.
Projects
- We are opening the applications to the 2022 Summer Fellowship on December 19.
- We published a list of jobs in scientific organizations outside of the traditional academic structures: newscience.org/interesting-jobs.
- Thanks to everyone who replied to our prompt about ideas for new scientific organizations -- we collected several very interesting ideas and will be figuring out if we can help them happen.
Miscellaneous
- Scientist Really Thought Job Would Be Less Grant Writing And More Glow-In-The-Dark Lizard Making
- We are going to be hosting a New Science event in Boston in late December - reply to this email to find out more 👀
Stay Frosty,
Alexey
P.S. Sasha wishes everyone happy holidays!
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