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November 26, 2025 — Derek Lowe, "In the Pipeline," discovery science, and pie!
Derek Lowe is a medicinal chemist working on drug discovery. He’s been writing a renowned science blog called “In the Pipeline” since 2002.
Lowe tackles a mix of scientific updates, political perspectives, and critiques of scientific publishing, all in an extremely down-to-earth and readable manner. He’s also the author of a 2016 book, The Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry.
In a recent post Lowe described himself as an “AI Realist,” while writing a great line about current LLMs:
They are extruding an optimized slurry of words into…
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