Patrick Boyle
@patrickboyle.bsky.social
I was a Synthetic Biologist before it was cool, now working on something new. Previously CSO at Ginkgo Bioworks. @p_maverick_b on the old site
💚 Some personal news… 💚
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June 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
💚 Some personal news… 💚
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Reposted by Patrick Boyle
evolution really went off with brassica oleracea
April 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
evolution really went off with brassica oleracea
“Komagataella phaffii”
March 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“Komagataella phaffii”
Few papers perfectly intersect my interests better than this paper on advanced baseball bat designs via genetic algorithms from the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing mdpi-res.com/d_attachment...
mdpi-res.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Few papers perfectly intersect my interests better than this paper on advanced baseball bat designs via genetic algorithms from the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing mdpi-res.com/d_attachment...
I think about this a lot
March 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I think about this a lot
Props to the guy playing a clearly AI-generated TikTok on loop in a public bathroom, will file that in my “dystopian vignettes” folder
March 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Props to the guy playing a clearly AI-generated TikTok on loop in a public bathroom, will file that in my “dystopian vignettes” folder
A new report I worked on for NAS on AI and biosecurity is out today - we looked at risks posed by SOTA AI and opportunities to use AI to improve biosecurity. It builds on a report we wrote back in 2018, which feels like a million years ago in AIxBio!
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/28868
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/28868
The Age of AI in the Life Sciences: Benefits and Biosecurity Considerations
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
nap.nationalacademies.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A new report I worked on for NAS on AI and biosecurity is out today - we looked at risks posed by SOTA AI and opportunities to use AI to improve biosecurity. It builds on a report we wrote back in 2018, which feels like a million years ago in AIxBio!
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/28868
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/28868
Today, everything's computer, but tomorrow, everything's crabputer arxiv.org/abs/1204.1749
Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate
Soldier crabs Mictyris guinotae exhibit pronounced swarming behaviour. The swarms of the crabs tolerant of perturbations. In computer models and laboratory experiments we demonstrate that swarms of so...
arxiv.org
March 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Today, everything's computer, but tomorrow, everything's crabputer arxiv.org/abs/1204.1749
I'll be with the Ginkgo team at Nvidia GTC next week! Sign up here to for a demo: automation.ginkgo.bio/nvidia-gtc-2...
March 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'll be with the Ginkgo team at Nvidia GTC next week! Sign up here to for a demo: automation.ginkgo.bio/nvidia-gtc-2...
Since twitter is down I'll mention that I'd spend more time here if engagement was higher (with real people not the bot slop X has). Feels like tuning the algo to boost replies a bit more would be useful - my feed is mostly people shouting facts into the void
March 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Since twitter is down I'll mention that I'd spend more time here if engagement was higher (with real people not the bot slop X has). Feels like tuning the algo to boost replies a bit more would be useful - my feed is mostly people shouting facts into the void
Support for the Ribosome Panspermia Hypothesis grows unabated
February 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Support for the Ribosome Panspermia Hypothesis grows unabated
It's been just over a year, and either no new papers have been published with AI-generated rat balls, or the newer models are just that good at generating anatomically correct rat balls
February 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's been just over a year, and either no new papers have been published with AI-generated rat balls, or the newer models are just that good at generating anatomically correct rat balls
Reposted by Patrick Boyle
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
Reposted by Patrick Boyle
We're excited to announce our 2025 Ferment Series, an evolution of our flagship annual conference dedicated to advancing our mission of making biology easier to engineer! We can't wait to see you in Boston
Read more: www.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl...
Sign up for updates: www.ginkgo.bio/ferment-2025...
Read more: www.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl...
Sign up for updates: www.ginkgo.bio/ferment-2025...
We're Hosting Our 6th Annual Ferment as a Boston-based Conference Series | Ginkgo Bioworks
Headquartered in Boston, Ginkgo Bioworks uses the most advanced technology on the planet—biology—to grow better products. Our cell programming platform enables the growth of biotechnology across diver...
www.ginkgo.bio
February 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We're excited to announce our 2025 Ferment Series, an evolution of our flagship annual conference dedicated to advancing our mission of making biology easier to engineer! We can't wait to see you in Boston
Read more: www.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl...
Sign up for updates: www.ginkgo.bio/ferment-2025...
Read more: www.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl...
Sign up for updates: www.ginkgo.bio/ferment-2025...
It must be hard for designers to keep up with rapid tech changes for long-lasting stuff like airplane seats, but I wish I could’ve been a fly on the wall for the meeting where they locked in the seatback Ethernet jack
January 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It must be hard for designers to keep up with rapid tech changes for long-lasting stuff like airplane seats, but I wish I could’ve been a fly on the wall for the meeting where they locked in the seatback Ethernet jack
Me in 2005: it would be fun to connect with my fellow students on the facebook
Me in 2025: the new meta is getting your message out via tradwife accounts on xiaohongshu before either government sees it
Me in 2025: the new meta is getting your message out via tradwife accounts on xiaohongshu before either government sees it
January 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Me in 2005: it would be fun to connect with my fellow students on the facebook
Me in 2025: the new meta is getting your message out via tradwife accounts on xiaohongshu before either government sees it
Me in 2025: the new meta is getting your message out via tradwife accounts on xiaohongshu before either government sees it
My feed here is way more academic than on twitter, so as an industry scientist I feel like this all the time
January 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My feed here is way more academic than on twitter, so as an industry scientist I feel like this all the time
Just an update that no one new has been added. Thinking about trimming it down, tbh
Here it is... it is exclusive, it is arbitrary, and membership will be determined solely by me. You should be upset if you are included, and also upset if you are not included
go.bsky.app/JZc9HXe
go.bsky.app/JZc9HXe
January 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Just an update that no one new has been added. Thinking about trimming it down, tbh
Here it is... it is exclusive, it is arbitrary, and membership will be determined solely by me. You should be upset if you are included, and also upset if you are not included
go.bsky.app/JZc9HXe
go.bsky.app/JZc9HXe
January 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here it is... it is exclusive, it is arbitrary, and membership will be determined solely by me. You should be upset if you are included, and also upset if you are not included
go.bsky.app/JZc9HXe
go.bsky.app/JZc9HXe
I'm afraid I'm losing the urge to post - Twitter gives me brain worms and Bsky is a little too...earnest? Is there a starter pack for science goblins?
January 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I'm afraid I'm losing the urge to post - Twitter gives me brain worms and Bsky is a little too...earnest? Is there a starter pack for science goblins?
Reposted by Patrick Boyle
Thank you, Jimmy Carter.
This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
December 30, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Thank you, Jimmy Carter.
This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
Slack would be lethal if deployed in this environment
omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
December 30, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Slack would be lethal if deployed in this environment
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December 23, 2024 at 8:18 PM
If I'm staring at you it's because I'm waiting for you to notice that my eyelashes are higher volume thanks to my B STRUCTURAL VOLUMIZING + LENGTHENING MASCARA featuring Bolt Threads' recombinant B-silk™️, a product of Haus Labs by Lady Gaga
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Making academic pay more competitive with industry will make academia more diverse, but until then industry (especially startups if you have equity) are the key to upward mobility in science. Science doesn't need to make you rich but it shouldn't be designed to keep you poor either
Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
December 23, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Making academic pay more competitive with industry will make academia more diverse, but until then industry (especially startups if you have equity) are the key to upward mobility in science. Science doesn't need to make you rich but it shouldn't be designed to keep you poor either
My favorite academic trope on here is when y’all skeet about the burdens of academia and it’s all extremely normal work stuff like answering an email
December 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM
My favorite academic trope on here is when y’all skeet about the burdens of academia and it’s all extremely normal work stuff like answering an email