Tessa A 🔸

Karma: 2,930

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

Five Tractable Biosecurity Projects You Could Start Tomorrow

MslkmpJan 31, 2025, 9:21 PM

75 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Is That DNA Dangerous

xander_balwitAug 30, 2024, 2:17 PM

40 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

(www.asimov.press)

Biosecurity Happy Hour—EAG Bay Area 2023

Tessa A 🔸Feb 23, 2023, 12:03 AM

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

List of Lists of Concrete Biosecurity Project Ideas

Tessa A 🔸Jul 16, 2022, 3:57 PM

215 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

Aiming for the minimum of self-care is dangerous

Tessa A 🔸Dec 9, 2021, 9:27 PM

237 points

32 comments6 min readEA link

Examples of Successful Selective Disclosure in the Life Sciences

Tessa A 🔸Aug 19, 2021, 6:38 PM

51 points

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Tessa’s Quick takes

Tessa A 🔸May 30, 2021, 3:41 AM

5 points

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Retrospective on Catalyst, a 100-person biosecurity summit

Tessa A 🔸May 26, 2021, 1:10 PM

67 points

11 comments19 min readEA link

A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading+ List

Tessa A 🔸Mar 14, 2021, 2:30 AM

135 points

13 comments12 min readEA link

How to run a high-energy reading group

Tessa A 🔸Mar 1, 2021, 2:38 AM

145 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

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

Tessa A 🔸Oct 22, 2019, 10:08 PM

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 🔸Jun 16, 2019, 4:42 PM

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 🔸Apr 30, 2019, 4:03 PM

45 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

(thebulletin.org)

Scott Alexander – Axiology, Morality, Law

Tessa A 🔸Aug 28, 2016, 3:00 PM

9 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Minding Our Way – Dive In

Tessa A 🔸Jun 13, 2016, 2:52 PM

10 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Minding Our Way – Deliberate Once

Tessa A 🔸May 23, 2016, 1:47 PM

16 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Minding Our Way – Conviction without self-deception

Tessa A 🔸May 8, 2016, 1:56 PM

9 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Scott Alexander – Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable

Tessa A 🔸Dec 19, 2014, 4:02 PM

41 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

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

Tessa A 🔸May 27, 2014, 7:50 PM

9 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Paul Christiano – Machine intelligence and capital accumulation

Tessa A 🔸May 15, 2014, 12:10 AM

21 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(rationalaltruist.com)