an AI researcher going back to school for microbiology

The Missing Medical Data Holding Back AI

ethics
machine learning
science

The negative spaces of what data is missing shape how AI is applied to healthcare.
Jan 24, 2025
Rachel Thomas

What AI can tell us about microscope slides

machine learning
science

A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
Jan 16, 2025
Rachel Thomas

AI and Immunology

machine learning
science

Applying powerful tools to a complex and high-impact field.
Nov 20, 2024
Rachel Thomas

5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us

science

The immune system is impressive, but so are the mechanisms pathogens use to evade it.
Nov 12, 2024
Rachel Thomas

In defense of screen time

education

A controversial approach to parenting
Oct 29, 2024
Rachel Thomas

Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences

ethics
machine learning
science

Recognizing gaps in how AI is applied to scientific research can prevent potential shortcomings and risks.
Sep 10, 2024
Rachel Thomas

Your Immune System is Not a Muscle

science

Our immune systems evolved for a different world (that didn’t involve 100,000 global flights per day).
Aug 13, 2024
Rachel Thomas

AI’s Quest to Predict T Cell Binding– The Holy Grail of Immunology

machine learning
science

Different neural nets can be used to predict T cell binding, and it is unclear which is best.
Aug 1, 2024
Rachel Thomas

The Most Common and Useful Neural Nets

machine learning
science

Explainer: what are AI architectures and which are the most important ones?
Jul 24, 2024
Rachel Thomas

Decoding T cells with AI

machine learning
science

Can AI tell us what a T cell will bind to? Part 1 of this series covers the basics of T cells and protein folding.
Jul 9, 2024
Rachel Thomas

The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby

science

How microbes create snow, travel through smoke, and change with your social contact.
May 7, 2024
Rachel Thomas

Surprises of the Microbiome

science

There are trillions of microbes in the air, in the soil, traveling along plant roots, and inside of us.
Apr 25, 2024
Rachel Thomas

Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics

machine learning
science

Bacterial resistance to existing antibiotics is an urgent threat. AI is being used to search for new antibiotics.
Apr 3, 2024
Rachel Thomas

“AI will cure cancer” misunderstands both AI and medicine

ethics
machine learning
science

The enthusiasm about AI in medicine is failing to grapple with realities of the system.
Feb 20, 2024
Rachel Thomas

How Immune Cells Communicate

machine learning
science

Immune cells are like a social network. Both math and benchtop experiments are useful in studying them.
Feb 6, 2024
Rachel Thomas

Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks

machine learning
science

Immune cells talk to each other through complex networks. NLP, math, and immunology are useful in studying these networks.
Jan 23, 2024
Rachel Thomas

4 Things I Learned About Bugs

science

I learned several fascinating and surprising facts about insects in my microbiology courses.
Jan 9, 2024
Rachel Thomas

AI and Power: The Ethical Challenges of Automation, Centralization, and Scale

ethics
machine learning

Moving AI ethics beyond explainability and fairness to empowerment and justice
May 16, 2023
Rachel Thomas

Viruses: The Silent Triggers of Autoimmune and Neurodegenerative Diseases

science

How a simple cold can lead to life-changing disease
Mar 22, 2023
Rachel Thomas

Viruses are weirder, worse, & more preventable than you realise

science

The suprising, devastating, long-term consequences of viruses
Mar 7, 2023
Rachel Thomas

How to Remember Anything

advice
education

A study technique for all ages and all subjects
Feb 21, 2023
Rachel Thomas

I was an AI researcher. Now, I am an immunology student.

education
science

Last year, I became captivated by a new topic in a way that I hadn’t felt since I first discovered machine learning
Feb 7, 2023
Rachel Thomas

My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey

education

Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
Sep 6, 2022
Rachel Thomas

Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI

ethics
machine learning

Following the thread of any quantitative issue leads to qualitative questions.
Jun 1, 2022
Louisa Bartolo and Rachel Thomas

AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual

ethics
machine learning

Much like pollution, the harms caused by algorithmic systems are often collective and communal.
May 17, 2022
Rachel Thomas and Louisa Bartolo
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