We're serious about science, but not about ourselves. Here's a sneak peak into last week's team retreat in Bulgaria!

Oct 9th and 10th: IrisAI CEO @twitnitnit will be in participating on the panel discussion: Incumbents vs start-ups – who is better positioned to win the innovation race/design in the next breakthrough innovation?

Who else will we see at CIEX 2019?

If you're a weirdo, passionate about science, a bit of a rockstar and above-average geeky, driven by the idea of leaving a positive imprint of the world, we're looking for you!

Learn more about the current opportunities and apply to join the team at: https://iris.ai/join.

In an example of how policy can have unintended consequences in academia, a new study explores why self-citation and international citations have increased rapidly in Italy.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/clubby-and-disturbing-citation-behavior-researchers-italy-has-surged

Exciting to see more work happening in the AI and Chemistry space, exploring other areas for knowledge and process improvement.

A team out of Cambridge has developed a platform for predicting the outcome of complex chemical reactions with 90% accuracy.

https://m.techxplore.com/news/2019-09-ai-language-chemistry-medicines.html

An Irish teen took the grand prize for the Google Science Fair by introducing a method of removing microplastics from water with 87% effectiveness. #sciencefair #youngscientist #Discovery #ScienceTwitter

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-student-science-award-microplastics-4745270-Jul2019/

Discussions about #AGI still have "a whiff of science fiction," as this article puts it, but a new $1 billion investment into @OpenAI from @Microsoft may prompt some big developments in the space.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/technology/open-ai-microsoft.html