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I was very grateful for the opportunity to share and experience the day with you all. It was very inspiring! Wonderful to finally meet you in person!

Our first lab note! experiment.com/u/LL0Ufg consider supporting & sharing out! This is a collaboration with Tim Dobbs &Danny Chan. It is a BioArtBot exploration using Opentrons & local fermented food microbes to grow place-based living color palettes to create art.

WOW! We are almost there! Please support and help bring this project to life! 10 hours left and 94% of the way there! experiment.com/projects/how-c…

Mahalo nui loa to all who supported this experiment campaign. This project is centered on increasing community interest in & relationships with Hawaiian plants through interactive gameplay & cultural mo'olelo storytelling. Mahalo to grant manager Dr./Prof. Keolu Fox!

A place-based microbial color palette! Tim Dobbs envisions living colors grown from SF Bay Area microbial strains cultured from bay diatoms, sourdough bread yeast, filamentous bacteria nestled among redwood tree roots, & heat loving bacteria growing on Berkeley solar panels

The inaugural Eahou Fest will serve as a vibrant celebration of the rich mo’olelo of Mōʻiliʻili & aims to spark conversations around developing a circular, regenerative, and self-sufficient Hawai’i economy.

The Ohio Mushroom DNA Lab is offering free DNA barcoding for any wild collected fungus, found anywhere in the world. They need to be dried and packaged in ziplock snack sized bags, labeled with the iNaturalist observation # docs.google.com/document/d/1Kz…

This article highlights how settler colonialism has impacted Yaqui homelands & how understanding soil health is important to address issues like soil salinization, agrochemicals & waste runoff negatively impact environmental and cultural health news.mongabay.com/2024/07/loss-o…

Great Purple Prize launch event last night: “Designing for People & ʻĀina, informed by People & ʻĀina” 🚀 Our mission is to develop community serving, tech-enabled solutions rooted in decolonial thinking as we seed an ecosystem of innovators to build a sovereign Hawaiʻi economy.

We are excited to bring ‘ĀinaQuest to life in a multigenerational prototyping gameplay event at Native Books, Honolulu. We'll gather feedback on card design features & grow conversations centered in Hawaiian plant mo'olelo & the ahupua'a system. Lab note: experiment.com/u/oWKmOA

Mo’o Shapeshifter, of the Pono STEAM kit, an accessible activity storytelling passive fluid flow at a range of scales: from millifluidic lab on a chip (for use as environmental sensors) to the innovative Hawaiian land management systems of the ahupua’a. experiment.com/u/yMd6tg

Designing rotating LEGO landscapes for upcoming Floating Future Gardens community events. Anyone know where to get a single 12ft tall x 2ft blank sonotube in LA? (Images: digital concept sketch & photo of a past scultpural piece that is informing this current one)

Today I’m so excited to launch The Biocreative Index, a directory of people working at the intersection of biology and creative disciplines. Want to join the index, be connected to our community, or contribute a resource? Head over to our website for more: biocreativeindex.com

Check out the abstract from Corinne Okada Takara for the #RBiotechnologydesign community: Cultivating Biodesigners: Integrating Local Biology, Culture, and Place-Based Design in Education bit.ly/4dsIvSF #biotech #biotechnology #design

Our latest paper Nature Microbiology: converting waste into delicious food using fungi. We studied a traditional Indonesian food and discovered a mold domesticated for waste-to-food conversion. Amazing international collab involving scientists, chefs. tinyurl.com/36rzkr57

Huge thanks to the staff nature and Sam Jones for putting this piece together (the art + interviews are world class). Interested in learning more? Please check out Native BioData Consortium for more information 🧬❤️ nature.com/immersive/d415…

I am thrilled to share that Baltimore Underground Science Space (BUGSS) Lisa Scheifele, Foad Hamidi AlyshaSwann Anja Scholze Corinne Okada Takara & I received 1.7M U.S. National Science Foundation @aisl award to study @syntheticbiology ed with families. This investment will help us understand how to learn and interact with modern life science.

Latest lab note drop for Pono STEAM kits: experiment.com/u/VXpcQQ Mahalo Justice Toshiba Walker, PhD & Dr./Prof. Keolu Fox for supporting this journey.

Did you know that over 80% of the lei purchased in Hawaii are imported flowers? The Lei Poinaʻole Project is focused on revitalizing & supporting the lei industry in Hawaiʻi with initial focus on more propagation of native flowers with community access. leipoinaoleproject.org

U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan leads the National Archives, which oversees billions of government documents, photos, & records. But instead of educating the public about WWII incarceration & other dark chapters of American history, Shogan has spent the last year erasing history.