Florian Melerowicz

Striving towards a blithe tomorrow through biomedical endeavors. PhD student @MPIAGE and @CGA_age fellow. Alumni @Cornell and @FU_Berlin

[Just a Dude Who Invests @DudeWhoInvests]

The SpaceX janitor right now

[Szymanski @Szymansk_ii]

Next time you think of giving up, remember this photo of Elon in 2008.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX was less than 10 people back then. We didn’t even have office furniture.

[NEJM @NEJM]

Presented at #ASCO26:

Among patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the RAS(ON) inhibitor daraxonrasib led to significantly longer overall survival and progression-free survival than chemotherapy. Full phase 3 RASolute 302 trial results: https://t.co/xwLWBZYRzq

@ASCO

[nature @Nature]

Obituary: J Craig Venter (1946-2026) maverick biotechnologist who sequenced the human genome

https://t.co/da4g7Aeni5

[Mike Lustgarten, PhD @mike_lustgarten]

I remember when the Human Genome Project was underway, Venter led the private effort to get it done asap, in contrast with the NIH who was taking forever

Respect, and Rest in Peace J. Craig Venter

[Nature Aging @NatureAging]

Online now!✨Founded by the Dutch, German, Nordic and British aging research societies, the European Federation for Aging Research (EFAR) has been launched to bring together aging researchers across Europe https://t.co/P7LjD57dF0

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

my kid sent me this

[Norn Group @NornGroup]

The next breakthroughs in biological AI will be shaped by the datasets we build now.

We’re planning an Impetus Grants @impetusgrants round to fund shared, AI-enabling biological datasets.

Learn more and contribute: https://t.co/pCQFD4hOSI

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Announced by the ERC today (really bad news for science!!! It starts in Europe but will affect everybody) Because the REVIEWING LOAD is so bad, if your application fails you may need to wait mulitple years (>3?!?) until you can submit again!

The ERC is the lifeline of the leading labs in Europe, so many research programs will be terminated (just no other sources to compensate).

The letter from the ERC says “the only way is to reduce applications” (highlighted in the picture below) No!!!
It's the wrong direction. Use AI to assist review. It’s not perfect (yet), but it allows more proposals to be evaluated, and it could support, not replace, human reviewers.

[sam marelich @sammarelich]

new cold email template just dropped

[Isar Pishan @isarpishan]

شاهکاری از مانا نیستانی،

[Andrew Reed @andrew__reed]

Taking this pill so I never lose that dog in me

[Celine Halioua @celinehalioua]

surprising how rare being clear + direct is

being willing to call out the elephant, state clearly what you want or think, without emotion is a superpower + accelerant

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

When you try to remove a piece of art and accidentally make it better.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

I think about this at least 1x a week.