What I'm up tohttps://marcfm.com/https://marcfm.com/now/2025-06-13/https://marcfm.com/now/2025-06-13/Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT<p>I have recently started looking into genetics, specifically gene transcription (scRNA-seq). I am especially interested in CRISPR screens, a relatively easy way to generate interventional data.</p> <p>I am currently reading:</p> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2006/01/Bishop-Pattern-Recognition-and-Machine-Learning-2006.pdf">Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning</a> by Christopher M. Bishop</li> <li>Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick</li> </ol> <p>I’ll be taking a trip around Florida in ~20 days!</p>Marc Franquesa Monéshttps://marcfm.com/now/2025-05-24/https://marcfm.com/now/2025-05-24/Sat, 24 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT<p>I am halfway through my stay as a visiting student at MIT, which is going great!</p> <p>Yesterday, I went to my first <a href="https://www.bostonballet.org">ballet</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Opera_House">Boston Opera House</a>. I got to see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymonda"><em>Raymonda</em></a> re-envisioned by Mikko Nissinen (the Boston Ballet artistic director), as well as two pieces by Jiří Kylián; <em>27’52”</em> and <em>Petite Mort</em>. I found <em>27’52”</em> especially curious, to put it one way.</p> <p>Last week, I submitted my first paper to a conference. To celebrate, I went on a weekend trip to Cape Cod with some friends. The weather was good, but unfortunately not warm enough to swim.</p> <p><img alt="cape-cod" width="1536" height="2048" loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/_assets/cape-cod.BSrQ64B__6Okt0.webp" ></p> <p>I also recently gave myself a buzz cut 👨‍🦲. Thanks Edu (top right in the picture) for the trimmer!</p>Marc Franquesa Monés