Alfie

@alfie

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1/2)Been back on farcaster for a month or so since @gmo mentioned it and realised I hadn’t done a proper intro - I’m Alfie, I’ve been crypto adjacent (in /DeSci) for 3 years having cofounded @descilondon, but right now particularly focusing on engineering microbes to address the climate crisis. I realised the importance of decentralising access to science when working for a biotech startup building shipping container labs (chronic lack of labs in London and they’re super expensive). Went down a rabbit hole of all the problems academia is entrenched in - misaligned incentives, publications over actual impact, profs writing grants not doing science, reproducibility crisis etc etc Decided to start a community @descilondon along with Bharat (@bh1991 on X) where we showcased people doing science in radically different ways, grew the community to nearly 1k ppl in our telegram & hosted a bunch of conferences

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Found a quiet lil spot to swim in the Thames over the weekend!

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Tfw when ur pi questions ur experimental plan

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If you centrifuge homemade fermented ginger beer and drink the supernatant, will it reduce the funk?

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Rate my labmate Shishun’s sandwich: gouda, crab sticks, chicken and mayo triple decker on brown bread (gotta get that fibre). Posted with his permission obvs

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The Society for Technological Advancement, set up by a couple of people that did the Polaris EF (Entrepreneurs First) Fellowship just received this from Downing Street. Hard not to feel bullish on the UK when the government is doing stuff like this. Will post a link below with the questions

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Curious to hear other people’s reasons for joining Farcaster but one thing I am really enjoying is the fact none of my circles are here - Sharing joys with people that just really like the same stuff as you via channels is such a w let alone the fun web3 incentives for posting.

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Just onboarded @sellyd, u guys aren’t even ready

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Solstice Gm 😌

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To crit or not to crit

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You could be forgiven for mistaking the south of England for the south of France this morning

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Keith Pardee just spoke at Imperial about his research - his goal through decentralised biomanufacturing is to make personalised medicine affordable for low and middle income countries. He’s got a bunch of hardware you can just make. Pic of protien synthesis device workflow Manufacturing on the go (Mango).

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Ngl @griv was lowkey the reason I went to the gym today - forgot headphones so rawdogging 2x20min on bike no music 💀

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Microscale magnetic bead purification of DNA

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I feel like rewards has brought out the 14y/o like4like Facebook energy from the 2010s and kinda here for it. Comment below and I’ll rate your pfp and guess your star sign xxx

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📊 Just scored 7 points for fitness data on @griv! Nothin like 5x5min 110% FTP to start the day! Gm to those well acquainted with lactic acid xx

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Seeing stuff like this makes me wonder why on earth the UK isn’t acting more aggressively trying to get scientists affected by trumps grant cuts to relocate to here.. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html

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Massive s/o to Manuel the founder of OpenCloning for saving my week. I messaged him about some troubles creating a crispr lib and within 5 mins we were on a call and he was walking me through the free open platform he’s built for rapidly building/testing different clones in silico. It’s super helpful and free to use!

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Nothing beats these sounds

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