@tomknightsynbio.bsky.social
Engineer of stuff that is alive or computes.
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Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
Crabz.
Today, 22nd June is a Crab Day in Japan, a good excuse to make crab postings! 9 crabs enjoying muddy feast.
今年もやってきたカニの日！これを口実に、干潟のツマツマ特集です。
🦀🦑🧪
#crab #カニ #invertebrate
今年もやってきたカニの日！これを口実に、干潟のツマツマ特集です。
🦀🦑🧪
#crab #カニ #invertebrate
June 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Crabz.
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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
May 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
Crabz
May 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Crabz
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
Crabz
May 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Crabz
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Some of these innovations were directly funded. Others build upon basic research funding by the US government. If you haven’t seen Engelbart’s 1969 “mother of all demos” (where he introduces the mouse, word processor, collab editing, video conf, etc.), watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8Z...
The Mother of All Demos
YouTube video by Stanford
www.youtube.com
May 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Some of these innovations were directly funded. Others build upon basic research funding by the US government. If you haven’t seen Engelbart’s 1969 “mother of all demos” (where he introduces the mouse, word processor, collab editing, video conf, etc.), watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8Z...
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returning to the Red Sea to spawn is an essential and beautiful part of the Super Hornet life cycle
A $60 million US Navy fighter jet was lost at sea after it fell overboard from an aircraft carrier.
US Navy loses $60 million jet at sea after it fell overboard from aircraft carrier | CNN Politics
A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been “lost” at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement o...
www.cnn.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
returning to the Red Sea to spawn is an essential and beautiful part of the Super Hornet life cycle
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Hot take: the only true metric of human progress is the global reduction of suffering. Any technological advancement that does not work in service to this is a lateral step, not forward progress. I don't care if we get to Mars, when rampant famine and disease and poverty remain unsolved for.
March 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hot take: the only true metric of human progress is the global reduction of suffering. Any technological advancement that does not work in service to this is a lateral step, not forward progress. I don't care if we get to Mars, when rampant famine and disease and poverty remain unsolved for.
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This is why your lab automation sucks
March 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is why your lab automation sucks
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Today, we're thrilled to announce RANGER: RApid Next Generation Sequencing for Effective Medical Response, a consortium project supported by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency.
biosecurity.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl...
biosecurity.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl...
We're Partnering with HaDEA in an Up-to-€24 Million Consortium Project to Deliver Next-Generation ‘Agnostic Diagnostics’ for Respiratory Viruses at the Point of Care | Ginkgo Biosecurity
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...
biosecurity.ginkgo.bio
February 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Today, we're thrilled to announce RANGER: RApid Next Generation Sequencing for Effective Medical Response, a consortium project supported by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency.
biosecurity.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl...
biosecurity.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl...
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This is exactly right, I’ve said it 1,000 times, and @schumer.senate.gov and @schatz.bsky.social and @warren.senate.gov need to wake TF up and understand it:
These are abnormal times, the media isn’t covering things as abnormal, and that’s b/c Dem Senators are not ACTING like things are abnormal.
These are abnormal times, the media isn’t covering things as abnormal, and that’s b/c Dem Senators are not ACTING like things are abnormal.
February 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is exactly right, I’ve said it 1,000 times, and @schumer.senate.gov and @schatz.bsky.social and @warren.senate.gov need to wake TF up and understand it:
These are abnormal times, the media isn’t covering things as abnormal, and that’s b/c Dem Senators are not ACTING like things are abnormal.
These are abnormal times, the media isn’t covering things as abnormal, and that’s b/c Dem Senators are not ACTING like things are abnormal.
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How Ironic that on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Woman's portraits have been taken down at NIH and Women is a forbidden word that if found in your NSF grant could get it revoked. #womeninstem
February 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
How Ironic that on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Woman's portraits have been taken down at NIH and Women is a forbidden word that if found in your NSF grant could get it revoked. #womeninstem
Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day. I celebrate Emily Noether, capturing the remarkable relationship between conservation and symmetry in Noether's theorem. Einstein said she was a "creative mathematical genius."
February 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day. I celebrate Emily Noether, capturing the remarkable relationship between conservation and symmetry in Noether's theorem. Einstein said she was a "creative mathematical genius."
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why do people still post their papers on X? I'm trying to find papers to read and it seems BlueSky doesn't propagate papers as much as X or maybe because people still post their new papers on X instead of BlueSky? Because I always find myself wander over there to find relevant papers.
February 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
why do people still post their papers on X? I'm trying to find papers to read and it seems BlueSky doesn't propagate papers as much as X or maybe because people still post their new papers on X instead of BlueSky? Because I always find myself wander over there to find relevant papers.
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Engineering Biology Club: where the pizza is hot, the conversations are fascinating and the Os are GM'd
Join us this Thursday night (Feb 6) in the Boston Seaport to meet people who build tools for building biology
www.ginkgo.bio/events/engin...
Join us this Thursday night (Feb 6) in the Boston Seaport to meet people who build tools for building biology
www.ginkgo.bio/events/engin...
February 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Engineering Biology Club: where the pizza is hot, the conversations are fascinating and the Os are GM'd
Join us this Thursday night (Feb 6) in the Boston Seaport to meet people who build tools for building biology
www.ginkgo.bio/events/engin...
Join us this Thursday night (Feb 6) in the Boston Seaport to meet people who build tools for building biology
www.ginkgo.bio/events/engin...
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DEXTROROTATORY ONLY
January 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
DEXTROROTATORY ONLY
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If someone genuinely believes that we're in a peer-level competition with Beijing, it is utterly foolish to cancel NIH and other research efforts primarily out of a Vought-driven ideological mission to terrify civil servants. It's utterly counterproductive.
As someone who is outside of the DC circle, I am missing some context. Could u elaborate a bit on why this is the case?
January 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If someone genuinely believes that we're in a peer-level competition with Beijing, it is utterly foolish to cancel NIH and other research efforts primarily out of a Vought-driven ideological mission to terrify civil servants. It's utterly counterproductive.
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hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Enjoy the last day before tomorrow. Then four years…
January 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Enjoy the last day before tomorrow. Then four years…
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Over a decade ago... I don't recall what the student project aim was, but they wanted to study crabs & chose horseshoe crabs as their representative.
I got home and told my wife: "of all the crabs that aren't crabs... I mean... the possibilities are limulus..."
#invertebrates #PhDchat #AcademicSky
I got home and told my wife: "of all the crabs that aren't crabs... I mean... the possibilities are limulus..."
#invertebrates #PhDchat #AcademicSky
January 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Over a decade ago... I don't recall what the student project aim was, but they wanted to study crabs & chose horseshoe crabs as their representative.
I got home and told my wife: "of all the crabs that aren't crabs... I mean... the possibilities are limulus..."
#invertebrates #PhDchat #AcademicSky
I got home and told my wife: "of all the crabs that aren't crabs... I mean... the possibilities are limulus..."
#invertebrates #PhDchat #AcademicSky
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Crabz.
I wish I could have captured the skittering but just too much wind
December 29, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Crabz.
Crabz. and Lisp.
Interestingly, I ran this by @bluegenes.bsky.social (since we are working on a search tool) and she pointed me towards carcinization: "Every animal body plan eventually becomes crab-like."
I am honestly amazed at this connection: lisp, e-mail, and crabs!?
I am honestly amazed at this connection: lisp, e-mail, and crabs!?
December 24, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Crabz. and Lisp.
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Build instructions for DIYNAFLUOR, a $40 fluorimeter for DNA quantification - uses 3D printed filter cube, LED source, TSL2591 sensor, cheap 10mm square bandpass filters - with full protocols for SYBR Safe dye measurements
github.com/traulab/DIYN... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/traulab/DIYN... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 21, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Build instructions for DIYNAFLUOR, a $40 fluorimeter for DNA quantification - uses 3D printed filter cube, LED source, TSL2591 sensor, cheap 10mm square bandpass filters - with full protocols for SYBR Safe dye measurements
github.com/traulab/DIYN... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/traulab/DIYN... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...