At first I thought this picture was just somebody from woodgang hornyposting so imagine my delight to see bark-dwelling microbes on the cover of science magazine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists often assume that "the public" has an innate and knee-jerk opposition to GMOs, lab-grown meat or other novel bioproducts But when you make something people really want it turns out they have a higher weirdness tolerance than you might expect

This is how I feel about attempts to build a virtual cell model

Biotech goals

Writing your lover a note on paper made from your own hair is the kind of high-upside romantic bet you can only make with a bio-based product

Proud to announce SimPhyNI, a new tool for bacterial GWAS with higher precision and scalability than existing tools. Try it out and let us know what you think!!

I wonder if we could replicate this pipeline to get more of the the fitness-style biohacking community interested in fundamental biology and lab-style biohacking

When you're brainstorming about bioproduct ideas one thing you look for is signs of an unmet market need

We could have GFP cats just sayin

Hope it's called WetterHelp

Who’s building BetterHelp for biology grad students where instead of a therapist you get another grad student to complain to about why your Western blots aren’t working

Science is an attention economy. “Novelty” is “Virality.” Citations are Likes. Editors are content curators. Prestige journals are the “For You” page. Yes, scientists prefer fact-based content. But facts need to earn attention before they can drive discoveries or make careers

Scientists be like “ah the holidays a chance to take a break from the grind” and then read 87 journal articles about the gila monster pancreas

My new startup will genetically engineer bay leafs that actually do something when you add them to a recipe

Is anyone building doordash for that tube of Proteinase K that you need for a time-sensitive experiment but your inconsiderate labmate used it all and didn’t reorder

High throughput screens be like

It is actually amazing to see in 2025 a political focus group of normal Americans who are 100% happy about something. Democrat & Republican. Men & Women. White, Black, Latino, Asian. What are they happy about? Weight loss drugs. Politicians take note. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This but I unfurl the Roche Biochemical Pathways chart and stick a dagger right in the center of the Krebs Cycle

Sometimes trying to be good at both engineering and biology feels like one of those Fraser episodes where Fraser goes on two dates at the same time

At this point I’m hoping google cracks agi pretty soon because maybe the agi will be able to add a gmail feature whereby searching your emails for a keyword reliably returns a list of emails that contain that keyword

“I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.” - H.P. Lovecraft

Product is hard in biotech

I miss the good old days when academics would post twitter threads for all their papers I just find it so much easier to pay attention to things when they're on my phone

This is why people go to grad school

Telling my nieces and nephews that this is a labubu

What you're a blob of neurons that became self-aware piloting a mech suit made of meat? That's crazy me too we have so much in common

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This is the kind of elevated biohacking content that YouTube needs more of

I love the ritual of putting on a pot of coffee if you and me are ever in an 80s sci-fi thriller where we have to pull an all-nighter to decode a message from aliens I will be the guy who puts on the pot of coffee

If human genetics becomes more engineerable in the future many social conventions about the human body (race, gender, beauty, parenthood) will become untenable and, I suppose, be replaced with other social conventions that we cannot see from this side of history

Americans make great biologists because we are forged by the hardest challenge in all of biotech: getting flavor from a turkey

You can't judge a scientific discipline by it's cover

Amplicon sequencing is getting close to the price point where it starts to makes sense to just sequence your PCR product instead of running an agarose gel to see if it worked. Imagine a future without agarose gels. What will grad students do all day?

Given that GLP-1 drugs were found in gila monster venom it's not totally unrealistic to imagine that one day a breakthrough drug will be discovered in literal snake oil and a biotech startup will be like "ok how do we market this"

I dare you to put this in your next talk instead of the slide acknowledging funding sources

"We should keep saying how AI can enable biomedical breakthroughs people seem to like that"

boy dinner

These hotdog looking plants are magic there has to be some kind of cool biotech we can invent from this

Biotech needs a tickle-me-elmo moment a product so desirable that people will stampede over police barricades to get it

Has anyone explored the possibility that Eroom's law and the decline in biotech R&D productivity may be due to the fact that our reagent packaging no longer gives sleek midcentury optimism

Somebody once sent me a DNA sequence in a Microsoft Word document and something about seeing nucleotides in Times New Roman font really stresses me out

There's a lot of bioproduct innovation happening in the world that isn't well connected with academia or the industrial biotech scene like what conferences is this guy attending and how do I get invited

How it feels to add the transformation recovery broth to your microbes after electroporation

Justice for furbaby

Enemies to lovers but make it biology and engineering

The application of humanoid robots that I’m the most excited about and one that will definitely work is super dope ass fortune teller machines

Victor frankenstein did nothing wrong

Will AI-generated genomes read like AI slop? Like you’ll be scrolling GenBank one day and it will be full of microbial genomes with the nucleotide equivalent of “This lac operon doesn’t just encode LacA and LacY — it expresses LacZ”

It may seem obvious but honestly it is worth taking a moment to reflect on how amazing this actually is

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