Tessa A 🔸

Karma: 2,838

Let’s make nice things with biology. Working on nucleic acid synthesis screening at IBBIS. Also into dual-use risk assessment, synthetic biology, lab automation, event production, donating to global health. From Toronto, lived in Paris and Santiago, currently in the SF Bay. Website: tessa.fyi

Is That DNA Dangerous

xander_balwit30 Aug 2024 14:17 UTC

40 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

(www.asimov.press)

Biosecurity Happy Hour—EAG Bay Area 2023

Tessa A 🔸23 Feb 2023 0:03 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

List of Lists of Concrete Biosecurity Project Ideas

Tessa A 🔸16 Jul 2022 15:57 UTC

212 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

Aiming for the minimum of self-care is dangerous

Tessa A 🔸9 Dec 2021 21:27 UTC

230 points

32 comments6 min readEA link

Examples of Successful Selective Disclosure in the Life Sciences

Tessa A 🔸19 Aug 2021 18:38 UTC

51 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Tessa’s Quick takes

Tessa A 🔸30 May 2021 3:41 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Retrospective on Catalyst, a 100-person biosecurity summit

Tessa A 🔸26 May 2021 13:10 UTC

67 points

11 comments19 min readEA link

A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading+ List

Tessa A 🔸14 Mar 2021 2:30 UTC

135 points

13 comments12 min readEA link

How to run a high-energy reading group

Tessa A 🔸1 Mar 2021 2:38 UTC

145 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What are your top papers of the 2010s?

Tessa A 🔸22 Oct 2019 22:08 UTC

25 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

Evidence Action – We’re Shutting Down No Lean Season, Our Seasonal Migration Program: Here’s Why

Tessa A 🔸16 Jun 2019 16:42 UTC

10 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

(www.evidenceaction.org)

Will splashy philanthropy cause the biosecurity field to focus on the wrong risks?

Tessa A 🔸30 Apr 2019 16:03 UTC

45 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

(thebulletin.org)

Scott Alexander – Axiology, Morality, Law

Tessa A 🔸28 Aug 2016 15:00 UTC

9 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Minding Our Way – Dive In

Tessa A 🔸13 Jun 2016 14:52 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Minding Our Way – Deliberate Once

Tessa A 🔸23 May 2016 13:47 UTC

16 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Minding Our Way – Conviction without self-deception

Tessa A 🔸8 May 2016 13:56 UTC

9 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Scott Alexander – Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable

Tessa A 🔸19 Dec 2014 16:02 UTC

41 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Carl Shulman – How migration liberalization might eliminate most absolute poverty

Tessa A 🔸27 May 2014 19:50 UTC

9 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Paul Christiano – Machine intelligence and capital accumulation

Tessa A 🔸15 May 2014 0:10 UTC

21 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(rationalaltruist.com)

Carl Shulman – What portion of a boost to global GDP goes to the poor?

Tessa A 🔸24 Jan 2014 1:15 UTC

24 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)