Chris Prior

A Mathematician with a braid obsession, lecturer at Durham university and father of a small ginger brood..

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

Sigh, it's such a brilliant tool it does not need this massive overselling. But by any reasonable definition is does not "predict the structure of almost all known proteins"

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins.

In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic.

Read more about their story: https://t.co/nWxcZs6wqC

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

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[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

@steamedhamms

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

Holy hell! this is worth a minute of your time

[Andrew Krause @BlindMath]

Big redesign coming to @visualPDE thanks to enormous efforts from @bj_w95 and @Pecnut. As an unrelated bit of fun, here's a diffusively-coupled Lorenz simulation. I call it "Butterflies lost in the soup."

Link to interactive simulation: https://t.co/cbsF5uhwgv

[Andrew Krause @BlindMath]

Fantastic 3 year postdoc in lovely Durham working on developing methods in fluid dynamics with an excellent colleague. Great opportunity to do some meaningful and deep fluid dynamics/scientific computing work!

https://t.co/bLLIwI2uFG

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

@sciigh I see a helicity formula for multiply connected domain on your building

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

@BlindMath @drGregBowman Very much preaching to the converted, I always love to see wobbly proteins :). We have ths same issues with saxs

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

@slyardley

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

@mathewjowens

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

@BlindMath 😀 you love it !

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

AR13664 evidently has some really unique magnetic topology ....

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

Amazing pics of the northern lights over my town last night. Such a wonderful and emotional sight.

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

Steph putting some meat on the bones of the source behind this weekends spectacular activity

[SolarSteph 🌞 @slyardley]

We can model these CMEs to try and predict their arrival time at Earth. Currently we think they should arrive this evening and over the weekend (10/11 May). Therefore a G4 (severe geomagnetic storm) warning has been issued - the first time since 2005 (4/n)

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

@slyardley I predict min 40 papers on this bad boy !

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

@Dmichiel1 @BritBiophysSoc Great news, well deserved Davide 😀

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

And by this I mean fund me in my grand plans 😃

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

👇👇, The setting up the protein data bank is (in my view ) hands down the biggest event in protein science. The efficient sharing of data should be the key consideration in any scientific field.

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

These guys. And how was the data generated on which you trained your very clever machines?

Was it billions of hours of PhD students time, perchance?

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

And it will be hundreds of PhDs running and interpreting experiments which will actually help us understand how proteins move in their natural environment

FUND THEM

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

@BethBromley10 @rli22 https://t.co/1EfFa9oRQU

Couldn't quite find your options here but maybe you can find your inner amino acid here Beth

[Chris Prior @oneOfManyChris]

This is the kind of a-game dad jokery I can only ever aspire to 👍