Best Sequencing Center Podcasts (2024)

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“Do What You Can (A Poem)” by ElliotTep 6:12

1h ago6:12

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Audio is here if you prefer. Hope you like it. I got something to offer, all I ask is your time. And forgiveness for the form: a cheesy rhyme. You’re skeptical? Makes sense. But I know your type's vice. You strike me as a purveyor, of do-gooder advice. And it's pretty damn good, I don't mean to boast, This advice always fits. Well…sort of. Almost! …

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EP 141: Bringing genomics to the clinic with Lori Orlando, Associate Prof at Duke University 43:24

14h ago43:24

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0:00 Intro to The Genetics Podcast 01:00 Welcome to Lori Orlando 03:00 Lori’s career: From mathematical modelling to genetics and family history 05:11 The study that revealed 20% of the general population is at a higher risk of disease than average and needs preventative care 07:36 The first five diseases that Lori started analysing through informa…

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“80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar orgs should do similarly)” by Raemon 12:44

3d ago12:44

12:44

I haven't shared this post with other relevant parties – my experience has been that private discussion of this sort of thing is more paralyzing than helpful. I might change my mind in the resulting discussion, but, I prefer that discussion to be public. I think 80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from its job board, and similar EA job placement serv…

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Episode 704: Qool DJ Marv Live at the Make Music Day Philly and The Sounds of Buttamilk launch party at Canopy in Center City Philadelphia - June 21 2024 4:37:35

14h ago4:37:35

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Qool DJ Marv Live at the Make Music Day Philly and The Sounds of Buttamilk launch party at Canopy in Center City Philadelphia - June 21 2024 The podcast that reveals how much BUTTAMILK was an influential vibe. This set is from the launch party that had some of the originals of BUTTAMILK present and kickin' it live. My Mom even came as she and I wer…

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Episode 703: Qool DJ Marv Live on the Soho House Manhattan Rooftop - June 25 2024 - Joyous 4:00:25

12h ago4:00:25

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Qool DJ Marv Live on the Soho House Manhattan Rooftop - June 25 2024 - Joyous --- https://sohohouseny.com/ + https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5gQLsodBsCys1_3Zbm83vg

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July: A Month of Online Growth for Your Pet Business 35:03

23h ago35:03

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July is a big month for online growth in your pet business! Here’s what you can expect from me and Wear Wag Repeat this July: WWR Society: Last chance to join my membership for pet pros until October! It's an unbeatable value at $69/month. Join at wearwagrepeat.com/society Q3 Theme: Blogging and SEO is our focus for the next 3 months. Look forward …

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“Center for Effective Aid Policy has shut down” by MathiasKB🔸 17:23

4d ago17:23

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May 2024 marked the last month of the Center for Effective Aid Policy. This post serves as the public post-mortem. I have strived for it to be interesting to the average forum reader, who may not know much about the cause area. For professionals in development, we have a few internal private write ups which we may be more interesting, such as an ov…

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“How can we get the world to talk about factory farming?” by LewisBollard 13:37

4d ago13:37

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This is a link post. Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Silence favors the status quo, which doesn’t favor animals It's easy to ignore factory farming. Inflation sparks public d…

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“We’ve renamed the Giving What We Can Pledge” by Alana HF, Giving What We Can 8:34

4d ago8:34

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This is a link post. The Giving What We Can Pledge is now the 🔸10% Pledge! We cover the why (along with our near-term plans and how you can help!) below. TL;DR: The name change will help us grow awareness of the pledge by reducing brand confusion and facilitating partnerships. We see it as an important part of reaching our goal of 10,000 pledgers b…

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“Animal Welfare Fund: Payout recommendations from May 2022 to March 2024” by Linch, kierangreig, KarolinaSarek, Zoë Sigle, Neil_Dullaghan 21:41

6d ago21:41

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This payout report covers the Animal Welfare Fund's grantmaking from May 1 2022 to March 31st 2024 (23 months). It follows the previous March-April 2022 payout report. Since the previous report was written, the Animal Welfare Fund made a conscious decision to deprioritize public reports so that fund managers can have more time and capacity to work …

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“Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With Metagenomic Sequencing” by Jeff Kaufman 14:08

6d ago14:08

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This is a link post. This represents work from several people at the NAO. Thanks especially to Dan Rice for implementing the duplicate junction detection, and to @Will Bradshaw and @mike_mclaren for editorial feedback. Summary Summary . If someone were to intentionally cause a stealth pandemic today, one of the ways they might do it is by modifying…

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“Announcing The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why” by jeffsebo 1:46

4d ago1:46

1:46

Hi all, just a short post to let you know that my next book, The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why, is now available for preorder! This is the publisher's description: "Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we focus on humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. In …

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“Distancing EA from rationality is foolish” by Jan_Kulveit 4:29

6d ago4:29

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Recently, I've noticed a growing tendency within EA to dissociate from Rationality. Good Ventures have stopped funding efforts connected with the rationality community and rationality, and there are increasing calls for EAs to distance themselves. This trend concerns me, and I believe it's good to make a distinction when considering this split. We …

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The Short Leash: 3 Emails You Can Send in 20 Minutes Or Less! 10:24

7d ago10:24

10:24

A lot of pet indsutry business owners, pet influencers and content creators tell me they have an email list but they don't know what to send. Or maybe they haven't emailed their list of pet lovers in a long time and it's feeling a little awkward now. In this short episode, I share 3 email ideas that you can write and send in less than 20 minutes. P…

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“Ten minutes to speak up for ~4.5 million caged chickens” by Ben Stevenson 5:41

10d ago5:41

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(You can read this post as a Google Doc. You might find this easier to share with animal-sympathetic non-EAs. Also: I work at Rethink Priorities, but I'm writing in a personal capacity.) A few weeks ago, I shared some suggested responses for a Defra consultation on welfare labelling. I was really pleased to hear that many EAs and animal rights advo…

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EP 140: The future of Electronic Health Records and data analysis with Ben Goldacre 52:51

7d ago52:51

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0:00 Intro to The Genetics Podcast 1:00 Welcome to Ben Goldacre 02:22 Ben’s open data projects at the Bennett Institute and the challenges they aim to tackle 04:03 Using Electronic Health Records (EHR) to help the National Health Service improve care 06:18 The importance of software development within healthcare data and how to manage salary scales…

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“Kaya Guides Pilot Results” by RachelAbbott 32:50

10d ago32:50

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Summary. Who We Are: Kaya Guides runs a self-help course on WhatsApp to reduce depression at scale in low and middle-income countries. We help young adults with moderate to severe depression. Kaya currently operates in India. We are the world's first nonprofit implementer of Step-by-Step, the World Health Organization's digital guided self-help pro…

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“Are our Top Charities saving the same lives each year?” by GiveWell 51:14

14d ago51:14

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This is a link post. Author: Adam Salisbury, Senior Research Associate In a nutshell We’ve had a longstanding concern that some of our top charity programs, including insecticide-treated nets, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), and vitamin A supplementation (VAS), may have less impact than we've estimated due to “repetitive saving.” These prog…

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EP 139: Rare disease breakthroughs using tRNA with Michelle Werner, CEO of Alltrna and CEO-Partner of Flagship Pioneering 44:42

14d ago44:42

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0:00 Intro to The Genetics Podcast. 01:00 Welcome to Michelle. 02:00 Sstop codon diseases and how are they characterised 03:45 Diseases caused by premature stop codons in haploinsufficient genes. 04:35 The role of transfer RNA technology in finding solutions for premature stop codon diseases. 06:16 How Alltrna is engineering tRNAs which can bind to…

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Episode 702: The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode One - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman - 1 of 8 1:36:51

15d ago1:36:51

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The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode One - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman - 1 of 8 Welcome to The Story of Buttamilk Podcast 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Buttamilk, the influential collective that made a lasting impact on its Philadelphia audiences and people all over the world. If you’ve ever heard of Jill Scott,…

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Episode 702: The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Two - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman - 2 of 8 1:32:17

15d ago1:32:17

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The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Two - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman Welcome to The Story of Buttamilk Podcast 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Buttamilk, the influential collective that made a lasting impact on its Philadelphia audiences and people all over the world. If you’ve ever heard of Jill Scott, and have…

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Episode 702: The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Three - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman - 3 of 8 1:44:57

15d ago1:44:57

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The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Three - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman - 3of 8 Welcome to The Story of Buttamilk Podcast 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Buttamilk, the influential collective that made a lasting impact on its Philadelphia audiences and people all over the world. If you’ve ever heard of Jill Scott…

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Episode 702: The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Four - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman - 4 of 8 1:18:36

15d ago1:18:36

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The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Four - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman Welcome to The Story of Buttamilk Podcast 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Buttamilk, the influential collective that made a lasting impact on its Philadelphia audiences and people all over the world. If you’ve ever heard of Jill Scott, and hav…

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Episode 702: The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Five - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman - 5 of 8 2:12:45

15d ago2:12:45

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The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Five - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman Welcome to The Story of Buttamilk Podcast 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Buttamilk, the influential collective that made a lasting impact on its Philadelphia audiences and people all over the world. If you’ve ever heard of Jill Scott, and hav…

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Episode 702: The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Six - Qool DJ Marv Opening Sets Live at Buttamilk 1994-1997 - 6 of 8 1:50:56

15d ago1:50:56

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The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Six - Qool DJ Marv Opening Sets Live at Buttamilk 1994-1997 - 6 of 8 Welcome to The Story of Buttamilk Podcast 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Buttamilk, the influential collective that made a lasting impact on its Philadelphia audiences and people all over the world. If you’ve ever heard of Jill Scott, and have…

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Episode 702: The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Seven - Performances from Episodes 1-4 -- 7 of 8 2:22:28

15d ago2:22:28

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The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Seven - Performances from Episodes 1-4 Welcome to The Story of Buttamilk Podcast 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Buttamilk, the influential collective that made a lasting impact on its Philadelphia audiences and people all over the world. If you’ve ever heard of Jill Scott, and have ever read her liner notes for…

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Episode 702: The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Eight - Bonus Performances - 8 of 8 1:48:23

15d ago1:48:23

1:48:23

The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Eight - Bonus Performances Welcome to The Story of Buttamilk Podcast 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Buttamilk, the influential collective that made a lasting impact on its Philadelphia audiences and people all over the world. If you’ve ever heard of Jill Scott, and have ever read her liner notes for her first a…

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“Why so many ‘racists’ at Manifest?” by Austin 10:50

19d ago10:50

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Manifest 2024 is a festival that we organized last weekend in Berkeley. By most accounts, it was a great success. On our feedback form, the average response to “would you recommend to a friend” was a 9.0/10. Reviewers said nice things like “one of the best weekends of my life” and “dinners and meetings and conversations with people building local c…

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“Help Fund Insect Welfare Science” by Bob Fischer, Daniela R. Waldhorn, abrahamrowe 4:00

21d ago4:00

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The Arthropoda Foundation Tens of trillions of insects are used or killed by humans across dozens of industries. Despite being the most numerous animal species reared by animal industries, we know next to nothing about what's good or bad for these animals. And right now, funding for this work is scarce. Traditional science funders won’t pay for it;…

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“Maybe let the non-EA world train you” by ElliotT 13:56

19d ago13:56

13:56

This post is for EAs at the start of their careers who are considering which organisations to apply to, and their next steps in general. Conclusion up front: It can be really hard to get that first job out of university. If you don’t get your top picks, your less exciting backup options can still be great for having a highly impactful career. If th…

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“Maybe Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust is powerless” by Zach Stein-Perlman 5:15

23d ago5:15

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Crossposted from AI Lab Watch. Subscribe on Substack. Introduction. Anthropic has an unconventional governance mechanism: an independent "Long-Term Benefit Trust" elects some of its board. Anthropic sometimes emphasizes that the Trust is an experiment, but mostly points to it to argue that Anthropic will be able to promote safety and benefit-sharin…

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HPX: Changing Trends in the Healthcare Workforce: How to Build a Whole Person Culture for the Healthcare Employee 23:57

21d ago23:57

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Join Dr. Samaneh Wilkinson and Rick Couldry as they discuss the landscape of the post pandemic workforce in healthcare. Potential staff shortages, burnout, and changes in staffing responsibilities are just some of the challenges leaders are facing. What should leaders know moving forward to build a whole person culture in healthcare.…

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Episode 701: Qool DJ Marv Live on the Soho House Manhattan Rooftop - June 11 2024 - Good Looking up 4:00:38

23d ago4:00:38

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Qool DJ Marv Live on the Soho House Manhattan Rooftop - June 11 2024 - Good Looking up --- https://sohohouseny.com/ + https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5gQLsodBsCys1_3Zbm83vg

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“Summary of Situational Awareness - The Decade Ahead” by OscarD 36:36

24d ago36:36

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Original by Leopold Aschenbrenner, this summary is not commissioned or endorsed by him. Short Summary Extrapolating existing trends in compute, spending, algorithmic progress, and energy needs implies AGI (remote jobs being completely automatable) by ~2027. AGI will greatly accelerate AI research itself, leading to vastly superhuman intelligences b…

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From Blank Page to Engaging Email Sequences for Petpreneurs 34:44

23d ago34:44

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Email marketing is a game-changer for petpreneurs! But when it comes to automated emails, many of us are stuck thinking that only means a welcome email sequence. In this episode with copywriter Sara Gillis, we’re taking a look at two powerful types of email sequences that you don’t want to neglect: nurture sequences and launch sequences. These stra…

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“I doubled the world record cycling without hands for AMF” by Vincent van der Holst 8:40

25d ago8:40

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A couple weeks ago I announced I was going to try and break the world record cycling without hands for AMF. That post also explains why I wanted to break that record. Last Friday we broke that record and raised nearly €10.000 for AMF. Here's what happened on friday. You can still donate here. What was the old record? Canadian Robert John Murray rod…

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“Announcing a $6,000,000 endowment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy” by Sofia_Fogel 1:34

27d ago1:34

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The NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program will soon become the NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy (CMEP), our future secured by a generous $6,000,000 endowment. The CMEP Endowment Fund was established in May 2024 with a $5,000,000 gift from The Navigation Fund and a $1,000,000 gift from Polaris Ventures. We now welcome contributions from other …

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Episode 700: Qool DJ Marv Live at The Record Room in Long Island City NYC - June 5 2024 - Studio 4709 4:58:58

27d ago4:58:58

4:58:58

Qool DJ Marv Live at The Record Room in Long Island City NYC - June 5 2024 - Studio 4709 Thank you @recordroomlic and see you again soon! This night is themed "Studio 4709" and the mood is Disco, Funk and House music. 5 hours of vinyl selections. https://www.recordroomlic.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5gQLsodBsCys1_3Zbm83vg https://podcast…

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