Oana Carja
0ana.bsky.social
Oana Carja
@0ana.bsky.social
The best science is similar. The best science doesn’t necessarily help us solve problems. Much more powerfully, it helps us formulate them correctly.
June 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
April 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Have been reading more poetry lately and this one took my breath away this week!!
April 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Serious play 🥰
February 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Happy ❤️ day from our cells! :) Took us a long time but our designs are finally starting to work!
February 15, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Sneaked a quick visit to my DC happy place: the Rothko room at the Phillips Collection.

3 new (temporary) paintings! 🥰
January 4, 2024 at 12:54 AM
My favorites (by far!) this year.
December 14, 2023 at 10:08 PM
🥰 My students.
Missing some people in this photo, but we are growing as a group. And hiring!
December 11, 2023 at 2:33 AM
Beautiful David Whyte book on work as pilgrimage
September 9, 2023 at 10:55 PM
We just got some of the best reviews I’ve ever got for a paper and I am 💪💪💪
September 8, 2023 at 3:57 PM
🎉 Happy new semester! 🎉
Feeling very grateful I get to (co)teach/talk/think about some of my favorite things this semester!:
From mechanistic towards less interpretable ML models, how do we go about building useful, predictive, beautiful, elegant models in biomedicine?
September 5, 2023 at 3:13 PM
My first time in this part of the world for a conference (NAS and Kavli Foundation Frontiers of Science) and feeling very grateful: learned and experienced SO much! 🥰
August 15, 2023 at 2:35 AM
At a Kavli/ National Academy of Sciences frontiers symposium and learning that even Lincoln wanted scientists to work for free (‘out of a sense of civic duty’) 😅
August 9, 2023 at 1:35 AM
Yesss to gardens and (fake) birdsong in airports 🤗
August 5, 2023 at 12:02 PM
July 12, 2023 at 3:22 PM
It’s a bit surreal to be in Athens and read about the lives of people from not that long ago and also read about how we can now make transparent mice :)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01846-0
July 11, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Other people’s friends: let’s talk about generative AI and alignment and gravitational waves!

My friends: here’s a cool leaf I saw …
July 11, 2023 at 3:42 PM
I really love the feeling of waking up early and just meandering around a new city as people start their daily normal (with pastries, of course!)
July 8, 2023 at 1:56 PM
❤️
June 23, 2023 at 6:32 AM
Sitting next to these three women who just had the most heartwarming airport reunion (Hallo, madchen! 🥰)
June 21, 2023 at 8:40 AM
How do I prompt engineer ChatGPT to help me ask better questions?
June 21, 2023 at 8:05 AM
Who needs a bottle of champagne when you have Leonard Cohen
June 21, 2023 at 8:03 AM
Yesss to long-form texts and yess to bringing back romance in texting and yesss to words like cerebral and ethereal and yes to don’t-fuck-with-me vibes!
June 21, 2023 at 8:00 AM
June 21, 2023 at 7:49 AM
‘Turn upside down for new perspective’ 🥰
June 17, 2023 at 4:07 PM