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Making medicines; inter-disciplinary research; ❤️ biology chemistry AI/ML; Christian ✝️; husband & parent; bike packer 🚵;🇬🇧& 🇮🇪; auld yarns 💬; views are only mine 😉

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Helps my family understands me 😂

15.08.2025 19:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m talking on this topic at an ELRIG meeting in London. Your well informed commentary is super helpful. Thanks

08.03.2025 19:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Tyndale House Podcast Podcast · Tyndale House, Cambridge · Tyndale House, Cambridge, brings you insights from high-level Bible research to help you understand the Bible more and explore reasons why it can be trusted.

Loving the insight into how and why we’ve got a new Greek New Testament. Series 5 episode 6 and looking forward to episode 7 open.spotify.com/show/2MdriXN...

21.02.2025 07:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Concur on the over hype dmd lack of clarity. The tech can make a difference but certainly not alone

13.02.2025 19:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is worth watching: Prof Simon Peyton Jones, he’s very good on the public understanding of AI/ML and how do address it in education, at the Darwin College, Cambridge Lecture Series
m.youtube.com/watch?si=-e_...

09.02.2025 23:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

6. Impact on Young Adults: Children in hospices often survive longer due to excellent care. As they transition to adulthood, they may face a societal view that expedites their death, adding stress to their well-being.

16.01.2025 21:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

4. Ethical Juxtaposition: In hospitals, critical care and mental health departments strive to save lives, while another department facilitates assisted dying. This juxtaposition raises ethical concerns and likely many legal questions.

16.01.2025 21:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How large will be the money motion be and is it in the government budget?

16.01.2025 21:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

3. Healthcare Resources: How will doctors' time be allocated to support this process? Can the government ensure funding for necessary resources? Are mental health experts, skilled in capability assessment, prepared to take on this responsibility amidst existing NHS pressures?

16.01.2025 21:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

2. Substances Used: What compounds will be used? Will they be similar to those used on death row, How long does it take for a person to die after self-administration, what safeguards will prevent people from ordering these compounds online? Will NICE approve these but not life extending medication?

16.01.2025 21:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

1. Medical Training: How will medical training and the Hippocratic Oath be adapted? Will the General Medical Council (GMC) engage in this process? Many Dr’s did not agree to this. Will many refuse on ethical grounds, leave or retire early? What will happen when the first dose doesn’t work?

16.01.2025 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s driven by the same concern and compassion for suffering people’s comfort.
More detailed reasons to follow :

16.01.2025 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Cold views up in Durham UK. Love the frozen waterfall ice growth

11.01.2025 16:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Focus on the main p(o)int in Donegal 🇮🇪

28.12.2024 16:53 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is super as it helps crystallise how I’ve made most progress , it’s always been through science chat with 1 other person. Thank you, never saw it this clearly before

26.12.2024 09:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Soo many Christmas trees at St Columb’s Catherdral, Londonderry NI

25.12.2024 06:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Noel - Tolkien's Lost Christmas Poem
Noel - Tolkien's Lost Christmas Poem YouTube video by The One Ring

Good morning Christmas Eve. Excited to have time with NI family and reflect on JRR Tolkein’s poem Noel youtu.be/VIGj3DpSrbY

24.12.2024 09:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Winter walking around this National Trust estate

22.12.2024 15:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great paper aiming to demonstrate how we could target all 2800 cell surface proteins. Three very believable examples provided.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

17.12.2024 22:49 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that’s one if the reasons I chose to invest in my children’s education through independent (not private) education

12.12.2024 20:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Antibody geeks t-shirt. Will print it and see how it works

10.12.2024 07:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The challenge now is to integrate and embed this tech with the daily work of the drug discovery and precision medicine scientists.

08.12.2024 15:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The competition winners optimised existing mAbs and ligands - always a good optimisation strategy. For me seeing novel proteins and peptides (from PLMs, Bindcraft & RSO), bivalent avid binders, and a focus on computational efficiency was especially exciting.

08.12.2024 15:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Adaptyv Foundry


🚀 Also great to see the first Biologics protein design competition by Adaptyv Bio readout. The challenge: Who can use the AI/ML tech of their choice to make a novel EGFR binder? foundry.adaptyvbio.com/competition

08.12.2024 15:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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📺 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 lectures www.youtube.com/live/HnT1VWz...
- 20 mins David Baker: De Novo Protein Design
- 55 mins Demis Hassabis: Accelerating scientific discovery with AI
- 1:25 John Jumper: Building chemical and biological intuition into protein structure prediction

🧵below

08.12.2024 15:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI Buy The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI by (9780241625248) from Amazon UK’s Books Shop. Free delivery on eligible orders.

Great resources re ethics www.ai-commission.com/resources
The limitations of AGI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Atomic Human www.amazon.co.uk/Atomic-Human...

05.12.2024 14:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The limitations of AI highlights the strengths of being human in the genAI world. With the figure below I try and show how the Hebrew view of humans as the Image of God is helpful in this genAI world.

05.12.2024 13:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I like this from old timer Oxford emeritus Prof John Lennox “Genesis 1:1 says this happened in the past, at an indefinite time. So what does the Bible say about the age of the universe and the earth? Absolutely nothing. So why fight about it folks”

02.12.2024 23:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nope

02.12.2024 13:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Instead of

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