Adam Marblestone
@adammarblestone.bsky.social
Technologist, scientist. Co-founder of Convergent Research.
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Hello world! We’re @melodyfro.bsky.social
Most wearables don’t go far beyond heart rate and activity.
Lab diagnostics paint a deeper picture but don’t read continuously.
Melody is building biosensors, devices, and standards to bridge this gap.
Hear our story at melodyfro.org
Most wearables don’t go far beyond heart rate and activity.
Lab diagnostics paint a deeper picture but don’t read continuously.
Melody is building biosensors, devices, and standards to bridge this gap.
Hear our story at melodyfro.org
Melody – Common Sensing
Nonprofit using protein engineering to build devices that continuously sense and adjust human biochemistry. Based in Pasadena, CA.
melodyfro.org
September 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Hello world! We’re @melodyfro.bsky.social
Most wearables don’t go far beyond heart rate and activity.
Lab diagnostics paint a deeper picture but don’t read continuously.
Melody is building biosensors, devices, and standards to bridge this gap.
Hear our story at melodyfro.org
Most wearables don’t go far beyond heart rate and activity.
Lab diagnostics paint a deeper picture but don’t read continuously.
Melody is building biosensors, devices, and standards to bridge this gap.
Hear our story at melodyfro.org
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With a lens array in Chile, astronomers capture clumps of gas from a dying star returning to the Galaxy.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4g6qThX
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4g6qThX
August 18, 2026 at 10:25 PM
With a lens array in Chile, astronomers capture clumps of gas from a dying star returning to the Galaxy.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4g6qThX
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4g6qThX
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New telescope reveals a missing link in the cosmic recycling of matter | Science | AAAS 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
New telescope reveals a missing link in the cosmic recycling of matter
With a lens array in Chile, astronomers capture clumps of gas from a dying star returning to the Galaxy
www.science.org
August 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
New telescope reveals a missing link in the cosmic recycling of matter | Science | AAAS 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Go Dragonfly FRO!
Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Astronomers just captured a never-before-seen detail of how matter makes its way from stars into planets and eventually even living things—and they did it entirely by accident.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stun...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stun...
Stunning new images reveal cosmic cycle of death and rebirth
A new study of the Helix Nebula shows never-before-seen details of how dying stars recycle elements. Researchers found it by accident
www.scientificamerican.com
August 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Go Dragonfly FRO!
OSTP's new report, "Science: A New Golden Age," reaches for extraordinary scientific progress and calls for focused research organizations, X-Labs, and metascience experiments inside federal agencies to help get there. That’s good news!
Alec Stapp on the new Science report from Michael Kratsios - Marginal REVOLUTION
Alec Stapp on the new Science report from Michael Kratsios - Marginal REVOLUTION
Major new report from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Five things in the report I really liked: 1. Proposes metascience units as a way to advance experimentation in science agencies. IFP recommended OSTP take this forward in our response to a 2025 RFI. 2. Advocates for a portfolio approach to federal […]
marginalrevolution.com
July 24, 2026 at 12:32 AM
OSTP's new report, "Science: A New Golden Age," reaches for extraordinary scientific progress and calls for focused research organizations, X-Labs, and metascience experiments inside federal agencies to help get there. That’s good news!
Reposted by Adam Marblestone
Previously, Science broke the news that NSF would be clawing back money, and attributed it to the 10-year, 1.5 billion X-Labs initiative. We have an official denial from NSF, and internal budget numbers for the X-Labs account suggest it will only spend $50 million this year, all from TIP's budget.
Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
www.science.org
July 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Previously, Science broke the news that NSF would be clawing back money, and attributed it to the 10-year, 1.5 billion X-Labs initiative. We have an official denial from NSF, and internal budget numbers for the X-Labs account suggest it will only spend $50 million this year, all from TIP's budget.
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State adds to funding promises for National Science Foundation X-Labs research groups
https://www.nashvillepost.com/tennessee-investing-3-million-into-quantum-teams/article_0504570c-5509-4f7f-bd7c-a5d81018e67b.html
https://www.nashvillepost.com/tennessee-investing-3-million-into-quantum-teams/article_0504570c-5509-4f7f-bd7c-a5d81018e67b.html
Tennessee investing $3M into quantum teams
State adds to funding promises for National Science Foundation X-Labs research groups
www.nashvillepost.com
July 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
State adds to funding promises for National Science Foundation X-Labs research groups
https://www.nashvillepost.com/tennessee-investing-3-million-into-quantum-teams/article_0504570c-5509-4f7f-bd7c-a5d81018e67b.html
https://www.nashvillepost.com/tennessee-investing-3-million-into-quantum-teams/article_0504570c-5509-4f7f-bd7c-a5d81018e67b.html
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ASM has submitted formal comments urging the White House Office of Management and Budget to withdraw a proposed rule that would weaken the peer review process, limit scientific collaboration and networking and create new barriers to conducting and disseminating research: asm.org/articles/pol...
ASM Opposes OMB Grants Rule | ASM.org
ASM strongly opposes the Office of Management and Budget's proposed rule on federal financial assistance, citing risks to scientific integrity and innovation.
asm.org
July 10, 2026 at 7:32 PM
ASM has submitted formal comments urging the White House Office of Management and Budget to withdraw a proposed rule that would weaken the peer review process, limit scientific collaboration and networking and create new barriers to conducting and disseminating research: asm.org/articles/pol...
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We've been checking with contacts inside the NSF and they are saying this is wildly inaccurate. X-labs is not anywhere close to big enough to make up this hole. As far as I have heard, this program is coming out of TIP specific funding
June 22, 2026 at 10:32 PM
We've been checking with contacts inside the NSF and they are saying this is wildly inaccurate. X-labs is not anywhere close to big enough to make up this hole. As far as I have heard, this program is coming out of TIP specific funding
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Today we're launching Deliverome Bio, a focused research organization tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in medicine: getting therapeutics to tissues beyond the liver.
May 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Today we're launching Deliverome Bio, a focused research organization tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in medicine: getting therapeutics to tissues beyond the liver.
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Introducing GLOBE—a new technology for brain-wide, single-cell recording of cellular activity in vivo. GLOBE can continuously record from nearly a quarter million individual neurons simultaneously across a mouse brain.
Preprint out on bioRxiv: doi.org/10.64898/202...
🧵(1/6)
Preprint out on bioRxiv: doi.org/10.64898/202...
🧵(1/6)
May 22, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Introducing GLOBE—a new technology for brain-wide, single-cell recording of cellular activity in vivo. GLOBE can continuously record from nearly a quarter million individual neurons simultaneously across a mouse brain.
Preprint out on bioRxiv: doi.org/10.64898/202...
🧵(1/6)
Preprint out on bioRxiv: doi.org/10.64898/202...
🧵(1/6)
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Seeking teams to test whether AI-enabled formal methods can make high-assurance cyber defense practical, at scale, through building production-grade software components backed by machine-checked proofs and validated through coordinated red-team exercises.
https://bit.ly/49Wif30
https://bit.ly/49Wif30
Funding | Safeguarded AI
Learn more about funding in ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme.
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May 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Seeking teams to test whether AI-enabled formal methods can make high-assurance cyber defense practical, at scale, through building production-grade software components backed by machine-checked proofs and validated through coordinated red-team exercises.
https://bit.ly/49Wif30
https://bit.ly/49Wif30
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Reposted by Adam Marblestone
Agreed re the cortical column Markram targeted, but I think connectomics could be hugely beneficial to study of areas like hypothalamus, where we have evolutionarily wired "artisanal" circuits implementing very specific rules for how different drives interact with each other :)
April 24, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Agreed re the cortical column Markram targeted, but I think connectomics could be hugely beneficial to study of areas like hypothalamus, where we have evolutionarily wired "artisanal" circuits implementing very specific rules for how different drives interact with each other :)
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Full proposals are now open for our Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies programme.
Led by Jacques Carolan, we are investing £50m to develop a new class of neurotech – interfaces that reach the brain via the body’s natural pathways.
Submit by 11 May: link.aria.org.uk/MSNx
Led by Jacques Carolan, we are investing £50m to develop a new class of neurotech – interfaces that reach the brain via the body’s natural pathways.
Submit by 11 May: link.aria.org.uk/MSNx
Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies
link.aria.org.uk
April 14, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Full proposals are now open for our Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies programme.
Led by Jacques Carolan, we are investing £50m to develop a new class of neurotech – interfaces that reach the brain via the body’s natural pathways.
Submit by 11 May: link.aria.org.uk/MSNx
Led by Jacques Carolan, we are investing £50m to develop a new class of neurotech – interfaces that reach the brain via the body’s natural pathways.
Submit by 11 May: link.aria.org.uk/MSNx
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Our latest publication grapples with how the brain could implement gradient descent by sending learning targets top-down, gating plasticity with dendritic inhibition, and updating synaptic weights with biologically observed learning rules like BTSP.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
March 27, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Our latest publication grapples with how the brain could implement gradient descent by sending learning targets top-down, gating plasticity with dendritic inhibition, and updating synaptic weights with biologically observed learning rules like BTSP.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
March 5, 2026 at 9:47 AM
First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience
The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience
Scientists once hoped that studying the brain would teach us how to build AI. Now, one AI researcher may have something to teach us about the brain.
asteriskmag.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience
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Terence Tao on how math is changing, #formalverification as the enabler of scaled human-AI collaboration:
"The reason why scaling and AI and broad participation actually is a net win is because we have formal verification."
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTx...
#leanlang #leanprover
"The reason why scaling and AI and broad participation actually is a net win is because we have formal verification."
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTx...
#leanlang #leanprover
February 11, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Terence Tao on how math is changing, #formalverification as the enabler of scaled human-AI collaboration:
"The reason why scaling and AI and broad participation actually is a net win is because we have formal verification."
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTx...
#leanlang #leanprover
"The reason why scaling and AI and broad participation actually is a net win is because we have formal verification."
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTx...
#leanlang #leanprover
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We've just added a new FRO to our website!
In this Essential Technology piece, we share three three principles from CHI-FRO, an engineering-heavy partnership to build out tools for probabilistic programming:
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/the-evolut...
In this Essential Technology piece, we share three three principles from CHI-FRO, an engineering-heavy partnership to build out tools for probabilistic programming:
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/the-evolut...
The evolution of CHI-FRO
Three principles from an engineering-heavy partnership to build out tools for probabilistic programming
www.essentialtechnology.blog
February 18, 2026 at 1:38 PM
We've just added a new FRO to our website!
In this Essential Technology piece, we share three three principles from CHI-FRO, an engineering-heavy partnership to build out tools for probabilistic programming:
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/the-evolut...
In this Essential Technology piece, we share three three principles from CHI-FRO, an engineering-heavy partnership to build out tools for probabilistic programming:
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/the-evolut...