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Anshul Kundaje
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Federally funded academic research is the innovation engine of the US economy. Reform is welcome. Destruction will have long term consequences.
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Jun 4
    Academic labs continue to lead on next generation tech dev for powering AI models for biology. The next big leap in models of gene regulation will be when they truly master the long range functional architecture of the genome. 1/
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    Sudarshan Pinglay
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    Jun 4
    How much of the human genome is essential? Two pieces out today from our lab: 1) a method to map essential genomic intervals at gigabase scale, and 2) an argument that it's time to consider synthesizing a minimal human genome. biorxiv.org/content/10.648… nature.com/articles/d4158…
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Sep 20, 2025
    I was on an H1B during my postdoc and research scientist years. I currently have exceptional PDs & staff scientists in my lab who are on H1Bs who have and are major contributors to the research output of the US. This is utterly stupid and idiotic. 1/
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    Daniel Di Martino
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    Sep 20, 2025
    SUMMARY OF H-1B EXECUTIVE ORDER - ENTRY BAN: No H-1B visa holder may enter the United States beginning Sunday September 21st, including current visa holders, unles they pay $100K to enter. - VISA FEE: New H-1B and H-1B extensions must pay 100K to be processed and 100K per year
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Jun 19, 2025
    Ok a few quick things. Most CS students who get into elite PhD programs in AI especially have already usually published multiple first author papers in "top" conferences. 1/
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    Suvansh Sanjeev
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    Jun 17, 2025
    i left my phd before joining openai working in industry demands more rigor – you don’t just need to convince reviewer 2 with a nice graph and an ego-cite, it better actually work if it’s underwriting billions in research investment not saying it always pans out that way in
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Apr 5, 2018
    Repeat after me: A reviewers role is POLITELY point out flaws in manuscripts and provide HELPFUL suggestions with the goal of helping authors IMPROVE their manuscript. The goal is not to find some random reason to reject the paper. And definitely not a license to be an ahole.
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Aug 27, 2024
    Goodbye green card! Hello US Citizenship! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 Attended the oath ceremony today with 375 other immigrants from 54 countries! What a wonderful melting pot. Arrived in 2001 as a student with hopes & dreams. This country gave me so much more than I expected. Thank you!
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Jun 21, 2023
    All postdocs in my lab are paid in the range of 85-95K. One of the reasons I can't go beyond is (reverse) equity concerns from HR. I would ideally pay them 105-115K. I think that's how much I could afford based on funding I can pull in & reducing lab size to a functional minimum.
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    Seven Rasmussen
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    Jun 20, 2023
    oh you’re hiring a grad student/postdoc? don’t be shy babe show us the salary
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Jul 6, 2024
    I'm making an open offer to any compbio grad students/postdocs who are aiming for faculty positions. If you have strong impactful research but no glam pubs & need someone to advocate for you, please get in touch. I promise u, I & a bunch of other faculty will strongly support u.
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Jul 12, 2025
    Excellent example of the core issue I was trying to get at wrt "virtual cells" - optimizing a prediction objective will not necessarily provide an accurate representation of physical or biological phenomena. It's extremely important to be very clear about this. 1/
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    Keyon Vafa
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    Jul 11, 2025
    Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model? What would that even mean? Our new ICML paper formalizes these questions One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    May 8, 2024
    Oh nice! @Nature publishes another amazing advertisement for an amazing product masquerading as a scientific publication with no code, no model & a webserver that allows 10 queries at a time from a billion dollar company. But it's "gold" open access folks! Rejoice!
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Mar 2, 2024
    To all budding compbio & ML folks interested in bio: Don't just only run behind the latest ML model hype train. The greatest long run impact will come by really assimilating prior bio/compbio literature with the goal of really understanding strategies for how to model biology. 1/
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Jul 19, 2025
    For biological data, if you don't have deep expertise in this low value work called data cleaning, u r lacking a fundamental understanding of the idiosyncrasies of the data. Without this knowledge, it is impossible to seriously model data.
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    Luke Heeney
    @heeney_luke
    Jul 18, 2025
    Academia must be the only industry where extremely high-skilled PhD students spend much of their time doing low value work (like data cleaning). A 1st year management consultant outsources this immediately. Imagine the productivity gains if PhDs could focus on thinking
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Sep 22, 2021
    Postdocs deserve far more than we're usually paying them (especially those who end up at the big shot schools in the big shot towns and cities). Let's at least try to make an effort to do better before we lose them all to industry.
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    May 6, 2020
    After 4 months of effort (2 months of very disciplined effort - 2 hours every night), I've finished my second manual scan of the entire GRCh38 human genome assembly + 900 DNase tracks (processed 3 different ways) + Input DNA tracks repeat masker. For what you ask?
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    Anshul Kundaje
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    Dec 14, 2022
    Its finally happened! #Ascension (Figure 1: what @midjourney_ai claims one is supposed to feel like when promoted with tenure😆) 1/