Extremely excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 FutureHouse Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship! You might already know of them or their work, these are some of the absolute best rising stars in biology research today. 1/5

Heads up: terraforming Mars isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a real possibility that’s possible with today’s technology. Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼 What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars! 👇

Introducing Finch, a new agent that fully automates data-driven discovery in biology. We are launching a closed beta for it today (sign up below). This is still early, but impressive, maybe similar to a good 1st yr grad student. 1/

Today, FutureHouse is releasing the first dedicated AI Agents for Science, via our Platform. These agents are able to perform a wide variety of scientific tasks better than humans. With the platform, we are bringing these capabilities to the wider community. 1/2

Today, FutureHouse is launching the FutureHouse Platform, bringing the first-ever superintelligent scientific AI agents to scientists everywhere via a web interface and API. The Platform is launching with four agents, each with their own specialization:

Just Published: A look inside @FutureHouseSF, the nonprofit trying to build an AI scientist. We sent a photographer to their HQ in San Francisco and interviewed both co-founders, @SGRodriques and @andrewwhite01. Check it out in the link below.

Time for a LOT of microbe data! 📊 🦠 🤖 @alignbio.bsky.social is aiming to gather a core dataset composed of phenotypes for 1000 diverse microbes cultivated in 1000 diverse conditions. This labeled data has the potential to take our ability to predict how microbes will behave to the next level!

Today NASA told us that they want to put our AI Scientist on Mars. Cool.

FutureHouse AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship applications close tomorrow, Friday, anywhere on Earth! Get your applications in! Super excited to see them... www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

The FutureHouse AI-for-Science fellowship is due on Friday! Work on applying our AI science agents to make new discoveries, with full access to our compute, software engineering, and lab resources, plus $125k annual stipend. Make sure to get your applications in! www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

Applications for the FutureHouse Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship are due in two weeks! $125k annual stipend, full access to our resources, be coadvised by world class professors and apply our AI science agents to make new discoveries. Apply! Details here: www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

Curio Bioscience, a company I co-founded to bring single-cell spatial biology to the mainstream, has been acquired by Takara! 1/n

The info session for our FutureHouse fellowship is TOMORROW, Tuesday, 9:00am Pacific time. Come get all your questions answered! Details are on our website: www.futurehouse.org/fellowship Now for an AI generated image that we present as an offering to the Algorithms, may they Boost our Post.

Super fun conversation with Zahra Khwaja for her Decoding Bio blog about how we can use AI to scale science. Decoding Bio is awesome -- if you don't read it, you should. decodingbio.substack.com/p/scaling-bi...

People have been asking what kinds of projects we want to support with the FutureHouse Fellowship. We are building new AI tools for research, and we want outstanding early-career researchers to use those tools to make new scientific discoveries. Some possible examples: 1/6

First we had hypothesis-driven research. But our measurement techniques have become so high-throughput that investigating one hypothesis at a time seems poorly suited to the task. 1/n

Still more amazing professors signing on as potential coadvisors for our FutureHouse Fellowship. Kind of insane: -Debbie Marks (Harvard) -Brian Hie (Stanford/Arc) -Jonathan Gootenberg and Omar Abudayyeh (Harvard) -Anima Anandkumar (Caltech) Apply! Deadline is Feb 14. www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

Today in the Timmerman Report -- why we need natural language, and not just DNA, RNA, and protein, to represent complex concepts in biology: timmermanreport.com/2025/01/ai-n... @luketimmerman.bsky.social has the best blog in the world for biotech. Amazing to be publishing something with him!

Since we announced the FutureHouse AI for Science Fellowship, we've had a bunch more amazing professors sign on as potential co-advisors: Sergey Ovchinnikov (MIT) Ellen Zhong (Princeton University) Patrick Hsu (UC Berkeley/Arc Institute) Pratyush Tiwary (University of Maryland) 1/2

worst part of bluesky is spending 5 min deleting punctuation and coming up with clever abbreviations to get post under 300 character limit. this was a feature on twitter I never missed.

The essential role of natural language in representing biology --AI-Science community all-in on bio foundation models, will no-doubt be awesome --However, the representation spaces in those models are too structured for most phenomena --Language will be essential, currently largely underappreciated

FutureHouse is launching an independent postdoctoral fellowship program for exceptional researchers who want to apply our automated science tools to specific problems in biology and biochemistry, in collaboration with world-leading academic labs. 1/

Will AI come up with truly novel ideas? — Sam Rodriques (@SGRodriques.bsky.social) in conversation with Ross Pomeroy

This is big: in collaboration with E11 Bio and @andrewcpayne.bsky.social, we are announcing today a new way to map brain circuits at scale. With improvements in AI and microscopy I think whole brain mouse and maybe human brain mapping will be feasible in ~5-10 years. 1/

F1 cars are masterpieces of engineering, and Zak Brown and his team are legends, penalties notwithstanding. Had a blast at my first F1 race, hope to be back soon. Good luck next week in Abu Dhabi…

New on BioRxiv: We report a new, endogenous molecular clock in unmodified human cells and tissues. It is ticking away right now in almost every cell in your body. Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/

The next few years will see a huge transformation in how science works, on par with the enlightenment. FutureHouse is building AIs that can automate science and put the resulting knowledge into the open. Conversation with Freethink, now online here: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

In September, FutureHouse hosted an AI-for-Science retreat with 8 billionaires, 2 Nobel Laureates, a Fields Medallist, and more. It was a resounding success. It was also hard. Today, we're releasing the FutureHouse Guide for Retreats and Conferences to help others host retreats in the future. 1/