Matt Watson
@BioAndBaseball
Husband, Father. Working on #bioeconomy & #biosecurity policy.
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#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Norm #Publication - PDF available
EMS has come a long way, but the core lesson stays the same: tools are add-ons, not substitutes for great basic care and clinical judgment. This is a must-read for EMS leaders and clinicians. #EMS @jemsconnect jems.com/ems-operations…
Flu activity is very high and rising in many parts of the country, with levels similar to last year's big season. Be careful out there.
I’m the former head of Pfizer R&D. I’m very worried about biopharma’s future statnews.com/2025/12/19/pha… via @statnews
Bio: "I don't want to over-hype this too much but our work might possibly someday contribute to improving the standard of care for a subset of lymphoma patients" Tech: "AI will cure all diseases very soon"
My latest @BulletinAtomic piece shows how the @GPWMDofficial @GPctrDisinfo CBRN #Disinformation Tracker reveals how false narratives move from state institutions into global discourse—and why this matters for arms control and international security. thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-deca…
The final report of the 2-year joint @vertic_org--King's @warstudies project on observable signs of #bioweapons development is out today #1972BWC #verification #VEREX #transparency #CBMs #EmergingTech tinyurl.com/bdzerbz6
Lots of flu about, but what makes a ‘winter virus’ a winter virus? My piece on seasonality, evolution and behaviour: kucharski.substack.com/p/is-covid-now…
This op-ed by @KrutikaKuppalli is profoundly worrying. Identity-driven opposition to vaccines that's fueled by misinformation & political polarization is impeding the capacity of doctors to effectively care for their patients. statnews.com/2025/12/10/ant…
The US has been behind both China and Europe in iGEM for the last 15 years It was the canary in the coal mine of the US losing biotech leadership The best time for US universities, biotech execs, and policymakers to care about iGEM was 15 years ago. The second best time is now
Lambert High School in Georgia was the only U.S. school to place in the high school top 10 at iGEM, an international synthetic biology competition. The other top teams included one from South Korea, one from Taiwan, and seven from China. cbsn.ws/4rt3a0d
So many software tools in bio are like this - designed for the mythical dumb biologist who can’t handle anything more than point and click. Biologists deserve pro-level software like Final Cut Pro, not entry-level stuff like iMovie
LabView is the most insultingly dog shit software on the planet and sits behind 95% of all scientific discoveries in physics and chemistry.
Great weekend read about Nucleus Genomics. Vibe coding embryo selection is a bad idea.
I've just written a new post raising a series of concerns about Nucleus Genomics, a company that offers embryo selection services based on polygenic scores for couples undergoing IVF. I was shocked by the degree to which Nucleus's work is obviously plagiarized or simply wrong.
This is a fun paper about crowdsourcing biosensor designs. TL;DR There is this "video game" called Eterna where players design RNA sequences at home, and then their designs are actually synthesized and tested in a laboratory. Eterna is built on a program called NUPACK which…
Pumped for the Red Queen's launch and safety they will add to a world of exponentially increasing threats. Proud to partner with them @CompoundVC
Today, we are launching Red Queen Bio (redqueen.bio), an AI biosecurity company, with a $15M seed led by @OpenAI. Biorisk grows exponentially with AI capabilities. Our mission is to scale biological defenses at the same rate. A 🧵 on who we are + what we do!👇🏻1/19
#Ethiopia has confirmed the outbreak that has infected at least 9 people in the south of the country is of #Marburg virus disease. I commend Ethiopia’s @FMoHealth for its rapid and transparent response to the outbreak, and the work of the Ethiopia Public Health Institute and…
I'm a simple man. If I see a field trial of genetically-engineered trees, I read it. A recent preprint reports the largest field trial to-date of American Chestnut trees engineered to resist a blight. And the results look promising. For context: The U.S. was once filled with…
Tonight’s episode of @60Minutes will include a segment on the impact of federally funded science and recent cuts to science funding. Our lab’s development of base editing and prime editing and their clinical applications will be among the work described in the episode.…
In my work at the Nucleic Acid Observatory, I see the progress in pathogen sequencing and AI first-hand. With additional investment by government, both technologies could vastly improve our ability to detect future pathogens. More here: ifp.org/scaling-pathog…
How can we detect the next pandemic before it spreads? @Simon__Grimm explains how AI and metagenomic sequencing can transform early pathogen detection in the US, catching novel pathogens that current methods would miss entirely. AI is getting good at virology, and we should use…
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