CompMotifs: Hack the Sciences
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The Computational Motifs Initiative is running a hackathon — and it’s designed for scientists who code.
Following our successful San Francisco event, we’re excited to bring the Computational Motifs Hackathon to London on 7–8 June. This two-day event is for researchers across computational physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience who use code to explore and solve scientific problems — whether or not you’ve ever been to a hackathon before.
You don’t need to be a software wizard. If you can write and understand code, you’ll fit right in: coding matters, but intensity doesn’t. We want to make space for thoughtful collaboration. In particular, we strongly encourage women and people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. You are very welcome here.
What to expect:
- Day 1 (Saturday): We’ll start at 9:30am with short talks from industry and academic experts, group discussion, and structured brainstorming to find shared bottlenecks across computational science. By lunchtime, teams will be in place, ideas locked in, and we’ll kick off building after a well-deserved bite to eat.
- Evening: We’ll wrap up hacking around 6pm and share dinner together at the venue (no overnight hacking!).
- Day 2 (Sunday): We’ll continue building from 9:30am and finish by 7pm with project demos. We are pleased to have Ben Tenmann from ScienceMachine on our panel of expert judges. Alongside our judged winner, we will also have a people's vote. We do have prizes, and these are to be announced.
This is a hackathon about de-siloing science — connecting researchers across disciplines to uncover common computational challenges and co-design tools and approaches that move us all forward.
What’s been built before?
At our San Francisco hackathon, we had amazing projects emerge from our collaborative model:
- GreatProtocols (Winner!) – an AI tool that generates complete experimental protocols from quick notes.
- LikeMinds – a web app to find collaborators by analysing shared Bluesky likes.
- Deep-Critic – an ensemble of language models to peer-review academic papers.
- BYOL Hierarchy – a system for generating hierarchical embeddings for long-range scientific reasoning.
- MINERVA – a tool that generates causal graphs to suggest alternative scientific hypotheses.
We will be flying out the winners from the SF hackathon to join us in London.
So if you’re curious, collaborative, and keen to build something meaningful — we’d love to see your application.
Powered by ARIA, future.bio and IQ Capital. Dinner on Saturday is sponsored by Leap Labs. Supported by ScienceMachine. Compute provided by Modal.