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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc

@synbio1

Developer evangelist @ginkgo Foundry theorist: foundrytheory.substack.com stay humble biodesigners

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It’s 2035 and we finally get a soham for biotech but then it comes out that all the companies he works for are involved in human cloning in some way

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Super interesting to watch scientific publishing eat itself like this. I can’t see where this ends. But it definitely doesn’t end with “the literature” as we know it surviving as the focal product of the scientific enterprise.

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We need to be nice to octopi for the same reason we need to be nice to AI - as a hedge against the possibility that they will one day be our masters

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Draft rules for academic dinner theater roulette: - Go to any restaurant in Cambridge - Players take turns picking tables to approach - You must open with “I loved your recent preprint. Where are you planning to submit it?” - Player who starts the longest conversation wins

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I have a version of my pitch deck that is just a patch of moss stamped with arcane runes for any investors out there seeking alpha in epistemic illegibility

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As a geriatric millennial, biotech nerd and GMO-lover this ironic throwback monsanto tee is hitting a sweet spot that I cannot explain in words

As a geriatric millennial, biotech nerd and GMO-lover this ironic throwback monsanto tee is hitting a sweet spot that I cannot explain in words
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Goldblumaxxing: optimizing my social media content to elicit the greatest number of life-uh-finds-a-way reaction gifs (I cherish every one not even joking)

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The Transmaterial Catalog is a resource for architects to browse next-gen materials and imagine ways to use them I've always thought industrial biotech needed something similar. A compendium of all the weird stuff biology makes that doesn't (yet) have a home in a product

The Transmaterial Catalog is a resource for architects to browse next-gen materials and imagine ways to use them

I've always thought industrial biotech needed something similar. A compendium of all the weird stuff biology makes that doesn't (yet) have a home in a product
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1/4 🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament. This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️ #AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering

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🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament. This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️

#AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering