Ian Haydon@ichaydon

head of comms & AI policy @UWproteindesign 📝📸🎥 // @AAASMassMedia alum // used to study enzymes // he/him

 Seattle, WA
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101 Followers • 1 Thread • Still trying to decide which personality to 🧵. See the latest conversations with @ian.haydon.

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I'm excited to share that I'll be joining @MITBiology as an Asst Prof. in Jan 2024! Come join us! 🤓🧪🖥️🧬
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ICYMI: AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine

Nature - Digital art techniques can now devise custom, working biomolecules on demand.

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Have you had a chance to use RFdiffusion? We would love to hear about it! Please share your story here or send us an email: contact@ipd.uw.edu bakerlab.org/2023/03/30/rf-d…

RFdiffusion now free and open source • Baker Lab

Today we are making RFdiffusion, our artificial intelligence (AI) program that can generate novel proteins with potential applications in medicine, vaccines, and advanced materials, free for both...

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Generative AI for protein design is now one click away. We've launched a new platform that puts powerful tools behind a simple web interface, making #proteindesign accessible to everyone. Full video ➡️ piped.video/bS71K2U0amA Try it here ➡️ huggingface.co/spaces/merle/…
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ARE YOU SICK OF AI?! BECAUSE WE DID IT AGAIN IN AN EVEN MORE OBSCURE SPACE THAN TEXT OR IMAGES. BUCKLE UP BECAUSE THIS WONT MAKE ANY SENSE UNLESS YOU LIKE PROTEINS 💃💃🧬🧵
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Generative AI for protein design is now one click away. We've launched a new platform that puts powerful tools behind a simple web interface, making #proteindesign accessible to anyone. Try it here ➡️ huggingface.co/spaces/merle/… Learn more on YouTube ➡️ piped.video/bS71K2U0amA
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The most impactful use of generative AI may not be text, images, or video. My team @UWproteindesign is developing tools that literally generate new genes 🧬 We call this process protein design. Here’s a beginner’s guide ⬇️
Institute for Protein Design@UWproteindesign
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Ready to learn about protein design? Our beginner's guide breaks down this complex field into easy-to-understand concepts. Discover the potential of proteins to transform our world: ipd.uw.edu/2023/05/what-is-p…
An artist’s depiction of a protein structure emerging from a computer chip.

ALT An artist’s depiction of a protein structure emerging from a computer chip.

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It's an incredible day for structure-based vaccine design, and I'm thrilled to see our prefusion RSV F antigen get approved as the first RSV vaccine. Still more work to do to reduce the RSV disease burden, but this will help! Congrats @BarneyGrahamMD! cnn.com/2023/05/03/health/fi…

FDA approves first vaccine for RSV, a moment six decades in the making | CNN

After a 60-year scientific quest, the world has its first vaccine to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV – and more are on the way.

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We are thrilled to share that Dr. Lynda Stuart has joined as our new Executive Director. With her extensive experience and dedication to healthcare as a human right, the future of protein design looks brighter than ever. Learn more: ipd.uw.edu/2023/05/lynda-stu…
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ALT A bright photograph of Dr. Lynda Stuart smiling and looking into the camera.

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Today we report the use of reinforcement learning, a strategy used to solve games like chess and Go, to a challenge in protein design. This milestone in using #AI for science may enable more effective cancer treatments & new biodegradable textiles. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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.@karaswisher: What's the greatest application of these new AI tools? .@sama: They will greatly expand our scientific knowledge. Kara: Isn't that already happening with folding proteins? Sam: That's the one I am personally most excited about. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4 & the A.I. Arms Race

Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · March 23, 2023 · 1h

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Steve Rosenbush@Steve_Rosenbush
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It's not just #ChatGPT . There’s another facet of the #AI revolution, a marriage of deep learning and #biology , that’s at least as important, but far less widely understood @UWproteindesign @DeepMind @MetaAI wsj.com/articles/biologists-…
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It's not just #ChatGPT . There’s another facet of the #AI revolution, a marriage of deep learning and #biology , that’s at least as important, but far less widely understood @UWproteindesign @DeepMind @MetaAI wsj.com/articles/biologists-…

Biologists Say Deep Learning Is Revolutionizing Pace of Innovation

A combination of new algorithmic and experimental methods has sped research in protein design by a factor of 10, according to Professor David Baker of the University of Washington.

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Here's a frightening game: Ask ChatGPT to write a biography of yourself ➡️ chat.openai.com Then add up all the correct and incorrect facts ℹ️ Reply to this tweet w the percents ⬇️
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If your online presence isn't huge, it might not work at all. And if you have a common name... good luck. My ChatGPT biography is ostensibly about me, but 75% of the information is just not true.
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ChatGPT decided that I have a PhD (I don't), and that I went to UCLA (I didn't). It also believes that I was involved in an early clinical trial for a Zika vaccine in 2014. (Close I guess?) It's very wrong — but in interesting ways.
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It feels like the chatbot train is leaving the station. Those who use words at work need to get familiar with these tools now or risk getting left behind.
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We were talking about the March issue in a meeting last week and all agreed we really loved the image in this feature by @ichaydon!
A pink and purple image of a protein model, many coils of protein strand coming together to form a distinct shape that is skinnier in the middle, almost like a barbell shape. The left hand side of the protein becomes more pixelated with 3D building blocks spread further and further apart to represent looking at protein models with ai and neural networks.

ALT A pink and purple image of a protein model, many coils of protein strand coming together to form a distinct shape that is skinnier in the middle, almost like a barbell shape. The left hand side of the protein becomes more pixelated with 3D building blocks spread further and further apart to represent looking at protein models with ai and neural networks.
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NBC’s @DrAkshaySyal explores how protein design — powered by artificial intelligence — could soon lead to medical breakthroughs. nbcnews.com/now/video/scient…

Scientists use new A.I. tech to fight diseases

A group of researchers at the University of Washington is harnessing artificial intelligence to improve how scientists develop proteins for medicines and vaccines. NBC’s Dr. Akshay Syal has a closer...

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