Im doing some talks this Fall in Seattle. Cocktails and fun science. What's not to like. Only $10. Our Modified World: Meet the GMOs in Your Life Tickets | The Lab at Ada's | Seattle, WA | November 19, 2025. Doors at 7pm, Presentation at 7:30pm | Stranger Tickets share.google/1QYDlDwUtJV7...

Grading lab reports from a lab you thought was a mess and that all you'd done was confuse all the students, then seeing that they did in fact get it and were doing great work. What a rush. #teaching #science

Another Nobel prize win for Seattle. Congratulations to Mary Brunkow (and Shimon Sakaguchi and Fred Ramsell).

Episode 3 released. The One with Mendel and his Peas www.modifiedpod.com/e/the-one-wi... #podcast #science #genetics #gmo #science_communication

And just as I wonder what middle age has in store for me, the universe enters with the answer... puzzles

Some positive news in the world is really welcome. And amazing to see the many decades of public investment into biotechnology worldwide bearing fruit with a gene therapy against this horrible disease.

As a British American, despite having lived here 10 years there are still some things I can't wrap my little European brain around. And the American health insurance system is one of them.

Bluesky? What are your questions about genetics or plant science? I will research and answer them in an upcoming episode. #plantscience #genetics #botany #podcast #science

Episode 2: What genes are made of. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3ivci...

www.glofish.com anyone ever owned a Glofish? How was it? My glowing firefly petunia died young - that was a forgetting to water her incident. Not a GMO problem #gmo #gmofish

Love science? Check out the first episode of my soon-to-be hit new science podcast www.modifiedpod.com/e/introducin... #podcast #science #scicomm #genetics

So apparently I totally neglected to remember that hashtags exist. So here we go. My names Orlando and I'm bringing you everything you wanted (and didn't know you wanted) to know about GMO crops in my podcast. #podcast #podcasting #science_podcast #GMO #genetics #science

Try to contain your excitement somehow. The first full episode of Modified (aka my GMO podcast) is gonna drop this weekend

France you MF you've done it again. Chocolate pastry from crappy station shop better than the fanciest offering at the most overpriced Seattle bakery.

Introducing Modified - www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-mx...

Anyone know if there are any GMO biofortified bananas actually out there getting grown at scale for consumption? #gmo#biotechnology#foodscience

I don't agree the British horror of AC is borne of cruelty. But I totally agree that the effect is cruel. And it does boggle my mind how blind folks are to the death toll.

I've been reading a lot of Sci Fi books that feature galactic empires that offer an ideal lifestyle in exchange for a loss of autonomy and identity. Was this all kicked off by Iain M Banks' Culture novels?

I uploaded the picture on the left and asked my fave AI tool to show me what I'd look like with ice blue hair. And well, I guess I wasn't clear enough in my prompt

As much as it seems fun to have an LLM design a website for me, I think Im going to retreat back to the nostalgic embrace of wordpress

The problem with social media is that people can just declare things to be a certain way and it seems more true because a stranger wrote it down in a place where news is also shared.

Should the concrete floor of a research greenhouse be flat or graded?

Such a good video getting into the messed up game of telephone that is "Science News". www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDx...

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The vending machine was out of diet Pepsi so now I'm having vitamin water. It feels like I'm being punished

In the 2010s I threw my hat in with synthetic biology, certain that it would reshape the world. At a biotechnology conference this week the phrase has been used a total of once.

Listening to David Baker at #lsinw2025 - 30 years ago he couldn't get biotech companies to locate to Seattle now they just ask where in Seattle they should be. As a Seattle booster I choose to believe that's true

Nice to so many joyously furious people at Seattle Center today.

I was looking into mini pig cages at Tokyo. I read about how stressful it is for the pigs to be forced to interact with different people every 30 minutes. And how it makes them angry and stressed. It resonated.

What's one thing you read/saw/experienced that changed how you think about genetically modified organisms? 🧪👨🏻‍🔬🌿

What is a public opinion and how do they get made?

So after starting a bluesky for science communication it's become a discover wall of cool Warhammer figurines. And I'm not mad about it.

"Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say" by Hannah Devlin for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #Banana

Rise up Washington! Come to the next Evergreen Resistance 50501 protest Sunday, March 16th from 12-4PM in Bellevue! Unite for Justice! NE 4th and Bellevue Way across from Bellevue Square. #EvergreenResistance #50501movement #NoKings www.evergreenresistance.org

Where do I find the duckweed people of blue sky?

Share widely. Stand up for SCIENCE! For NIH, CDC, NSF, NOAA, NASA, all research universities and institutes - all who comprise the backbone of U.S. SCIENCE!