By this time next year, either: 🏆 we'll have engineered PETase enzymes actually work industrially & recycle plastic ... or we'll know that AI-for-proteins is still a bit underbaked 😜 Excited to see what happens!!!! 😬 Spread the word ⬇️

Heads up: terraforming Mars isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a real possibility that’s possible with today’s technology. Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼 What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars! 👇

Can we do BETTER than evolution with the help of AI? It starts with data. 🧬 🔢 Check out @pioneerlabs.bsky.social's breakdown of how we get large-scale, high-fidelity data out of every engineering and evolution experiment!

I went to the 2025 Symposium on Biomaterials, Fuels and Chemicals with an invitation from @nils-averesch.bsky.social to speak about our work at @pioneerlabs.bsky.social engineering organisms for sustainable biomanufacturing on Mars! I took 80 pages of notes. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚀 New proposal from Align! The experimental platform aims to standardize #microbial #phenotyping & support predictive modeling. 🦠 Capturing data across 1k strains & 1k conditions; using BacterAI; generating high-quality datasets for ML @jensen_lab

Ever wonder how we’ll unlock Mars as a living world? 🌏 In our substack post we break down the 'red planet recipe'—the chemistry of mars soil — for growing life on another world. Dive into the science to find out more!

The next Alphafold2 will be a predictive model of protein expression. I think it's possible, and @alignbio.bsky.social is going for it! 🧬 Every single protein engineering project I have ever worked on at one point or another ran into expression issues. 😠 It can't come soon enough! 🙏

💡💥Here’s a modest proposal I’ve been pondering for a while on how to change the PEER REVIEW process and start more community-driven SCIENCE FUNDING. Lots of feedback/discussion welcomed! Other variants of the idea might exist already—not claiming originality. (a long 🧵) (1/9)

I just read the Evo paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... from the @arcinstitute.org and have some thoughts. Tl;dr: I can see this being a fundamental part of the future of biology, but this paper is light on experimental data and I don’t think many of their demos are very interesting. 🧵

Want to follow along as we engineer microbes for circular biomanufacturing in space? We're launching open science updates through our substack! ⬇️