Tessa A 🔸

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

Posts

Biosecurity Happy Hour - EAG Bay Area 2023
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2023-02-23 | +8 | 0 comments

List of Lists of Concrete Biosecurity Project Ideas
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2022-07-16 | +212 | 0 comments

Aiming for the minimum of self-care is dangerous
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2021-12-09 | +230 | 0 comments

Examples of Successful Selective Disclosure in the Life Sciences
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2021-08-19 | +51 | 0 comments

Tessa's Quick takes
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2021-05-30 | +5 | 0 comments

Retrospective on Catalyst, a 100-person biosecurity summit
by Tessa A 🔸, Spiracular, Fin, Jeffrey Ladish, Brian Wang, decodyng @ 2021-05-26 | +67 | 0 comments

A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading+ List
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2021-03-14 | +135 | 0 comments

How to run a high-energy reading group
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2021-03-01 | +145 | 0 comments

What are your top papers of the 2010s?
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2019-10-22 | +25 | 0 comments

Evidence Action – We’re Shutting Down No Lean Season, Our Seasonal Migration...
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2019-06-16 | +10 | 0 comments

Will splashy philanthropy cause the biosecurity field to focus on the wrong...
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2019-04-30 | +45 | 0 comments

Scott Alexander – Axiology, Morality, Law
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2016-08-28 | +9 | 0 comments

Minding Our Way – Dive In
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2016-06-13 | +10 | 0 comments

Minding Our Way – Deliberate Once
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2016-05-23 | +16 | 0 comments

Minding Our Way – Conviction without self-deception
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2016-05-08 | +9 | 0 comments

Scott Alexander – Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2014-12-19 | +41 | 0 comments

Carl Shulman – How migration liberalization might eliminate most absolute...
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2014-05-27 | +9 | 0 comments

Paul Christiano – Machine intelligence and capital accumulation
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2014-05-15 | +21 | 0 comments

Carl Shulman – What portion of a boost to global GDP goes to the poor?
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2014-01-24 | +24 | 0 comments

Brian Tomasik – Reasons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2014-01-17 | +24 | 0 comments

Brian Tomasik – Differential Intellectual Progress as a Positive-Sum Project
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2013-10-23 | +28 | 0 comments

Carl Shulman — How are brain mass (and neurons) distributed among humans and the...
by Tessa A 🔸 @ 2013-09-10 | +41 | 0 comments