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Alex Merz

Alex Merz

@Merz

merzlab.org

Professor of Biochemistry @UW cell bio · infectious disease · med ed ☣️ 🧬🧪🔬 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏿 🗽 🇺🇸 Coincidences between my opinions and UW's are coincidental.

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Lens Rankings

Science

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#220 0.000796 Epidimiology Twitter
#347 0.000423 Epidemiology Journalism
#377 0.000301 Biotech
#1984 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4445 0.000024 ClimateTwitter

Culture and Political Economy

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#1560 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1588 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
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#1684 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1713 0.000002 Sierra Clib
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#1937 0.000002 350.org
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#4208 0.000013 Degrowth
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#4593 0.000001 Works in Progress
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#5056 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6604 0.000001 Anarachists
#7858 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8194 0.000001 Rationality
#8329 0.000001 Progress Studies
#9793 0.000009 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams

Think Tanks

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#2788 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3285 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3431 0.000028 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
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#8280 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8366 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#8599 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9679 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

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#2323 0.000002 Stat News
#2661 0.000002 The Verge
#3268 0.000002 The Economist
#3426 0.000036 The Atlantic
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#3962 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4810 0.000002 Wired
#5055 0.000001 The Intercept
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#8366 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#9398 0.000001 Recode
#9631 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9756 0.000001 The Dispatch

Crypto

#1444 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1562 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1624 0.000002 Polkadot
#2561 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
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#3662 0.000001 Cosmos
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#4589 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6090 0.000001 Ethereum
#6364 0.000001 Decentralized Web
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#8798 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9410 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#1426 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1485 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1923 0.000002 Accel
#2318 0.000002 Sequioa
#2812 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2981 0.000001 Bessemer
#3374 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3519 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3598 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3981 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4259 0.000001 Homebrew
#5144 0.000001 Village Global
#5334 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6399 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#1566 0.000002 Rust
#2424 0.000001 Zig

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