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In the News

🧜‍♂️ Researchers at Northwestern have invented a new carbon-negative building material made of seawater and captured C02.

🧠 We now have a map of mitochondria throughout the brain, which could shed light on how neurodegenerative diseases progress.

🪢 Scientists in China have successfully sent encrypted quantum messages over 12,900km to a university in South Africa. The breakthrough paves the way for near-instant communication anywhere on earth.

🔥 FireSat, a new satellite constellation dedicated exclusively to identifying wildfires, may help us catch and contain fires before they get out of control.

💉 A simple, clever invention of auto-retracting syringes can massively reduce infections borne from sharing needles.

Opportunities

The Ocean Cleanup has a lot of openings, including two internships for computer vision and data quality. “Our mission is to develop and scale technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. Returning the ocean to its former glory requires us to complete one of the most ambitious megaprojects on the face of the planet. To succeed, we look for people willing to go all in and who don’t wait to be told what to do. They can simplify complex situations and continuously challenge themselves and those around them.”

Founders Pledge is looking for a SWE. “At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good. Since launching in 2015, we’ve raised over $10 billion for the most impactful social causes. We offer the simplest path to impact for successful entrepreneurs, providing end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a worldwide network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our 2000+ members include the people behind industry-leading companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.”

Climate Policy Radar is looking for a data engineer and an engineering manager. They help researchers and analysts access up-to-date climate data. “Our data pipeline aggregates information from dispersed sources. We extract and translate text from all languages, and store this data for seamless access and analysis. Our database includes 5000+ national-level climate laws and policies and more than 2000 documents related to the global stocktake.”

CareMessage is on the lookout for a few senior engineering roles (DevOps and SWE). “CareMessage is leading a new class of tech non-profits aiming to solve meaningful problems at a scale never seen before. We’ve adapted best practices from traditional SaaS and product-led organizations, to create both products and services that deliver healthcare transformation.”

What We’re Watching

China’s equivalent of SpaceX is soaring, figuratively and literally.

There are still hundreds of millions of pastoralists out there relying on seasonal migrations to survive, but geopolitical tensions and climate change threaten their way of life.

Thousands of workers at federal health agencies are being laid off. 😢

Robot hands are still quite bad (paper here, video here)… but probably not for long.

Quotes We Love

“Service to others is the rent you pay for the room here on earth.”

- Muhammad Ali

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