Very excited to attend and proud to have co-organized this with @uwaterloo.ca WCMR. See you at #SynBio8!

Proud of this work with @osn-scott.bsky.social. We challenge the assumption that DNA should be expensive and hard to access. We provide clear steps to making biology more open for strengthening the bioeconomy. 🧬

🚨JOB ALERTS🚨 @flowgenomics.bsky.social in Toronto is hiring a Laboratory and Operations Manager 🧬 and Dr. Yufeng Zhao (University of Toronto) is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher focused on advancing Organ-on-a-Chip (OOC) models ❤️‍🩹 www.synbiocanada.org/job-board

A particularly dark day in the world. Driven by human decisions, not inevitability. I reflect on this paragraph when I need inspiration for what our world could be. What we can make it to be.

The natural gas facility..will produce 1.4 gigawatts of energy each day, solely to power what could become the largest artificial intelligence (#AI) data centre in the county. That’s equivalent to the daily demand for the entire city of Edmonton.' thenarwhal.ca/olds-alberta...

Registration now open for SynBio 8.0, June 15-17 at the University of Waterloo. www.synbiocanada.org/synbio8 Join us at Canada’s premier synthetic biology conference, bringing the community together to showcase advances from across the country and across the full breadth of the field! #synbio8 🍁🧬

If Canada was the 51st State this would be our Vichy Gov’s official statement:

Oh FUCK this and fuck anyone who voted for this

Here's another #MegabaseSpark submission, from @osn-scott.bsky.social: "The Open Yarrowia Collection" (detail in reply) Like and repost if you like this idea! #SynBio #RootPath

@bhutilakarpoche.bsky.social has been a steadfast ally from Day 1. When other politicians turned a blind eye to price fixing and predatory landlords, Bhutila stood up for tenants. That's what true leadership looks like!

Finally identifying the problem with AI I couldn't quite articulate.

TORONTO’S NEW LANDLORDS: They’re ultra rich & over the next 8 years they’re bringing 21,000 units without rent control to a new building near you. Meet the corporate firms that a growing number of Torontonians are paying their rent to. www.westendphoenix.com/stories/toro... ✍️: Emma Paling

The iGEM Grand Jamboree doesn't feel like any other scientific conference. It's zany, it's authentic, and most of all, it's FUN I wrote this OpEd piece for ACS Synbio about what makes iGEM work and why other scientific events need to take notes pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Would you rather live in a world without modern medicine or a world without B2B SaaS? When someone claims "biotech shows a lack of progress relative to digital tech" let's keep in mind that there are other metrics of progress besides how fast you can start and 100x a company

"3D printed homes" but no mention of rent control. Are you kidding me? Real rent control, including vacancy control, is the simplest and fastest thing that we can do to tackle the #housingcrisis macleans.ca/longforms/ho...

Are you a tenant in Canada 🇨🇦? You will NOT want to miss this!

Need a little hope? Join us April 15th to learn how tenants have been working to #StopTheLandlordCartel Register for this FREE virtual event: tenantunion.ca/landlordcartel

"The housing crisis will not be solved by a policy debate. This is a social movement. This is class war!" - John Clarke #housingjustice

We're at @housingjusticenow.bsky.social in Montreal where @cynthiablack.bsky.social is speaking about Big Tech vs #housingjustice

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

Thinking of my family, friends, and colleagues in the US. It's obvious that this 🇺🇸🇨🇦 #tradewar is delusional. But the manufactured crisis may boil over into long lasting tension. Never forget who the real enemies are — the ones who gain power and popularity by sowing division.

Which DNA polymerase / PCR kit would you recommend to genotype from crude lysates? This is for heat-lysed cultured mammalian cells right after clone picking. We need robust on 2-3kb amplicons. KOD Xtream works amazing but $$$ and backordered - Thx!! 🧬

There are some weeks in the lab where absolutely nothing works. And then there are weeks where just one thing works, but it validates all hard work before it. This week was the latter...and I'm very excited about what happens next!

The difference between #techbio and #biotech is hubris. Where #techbio believes biological mystery can be overcome by more data and that the underlying mechanism is unimportant, #biotech (and it's children #synbio #engbio) believes that the mechanism itself will lead to new wonders

Great read. A focused assessment of where engineering biology is. Plus some hints about where it needs to go. 🧬