1/2)Been back on farcaster for a month or so since @gmo mentioned it and realised I hadnβt done a proper intro - Iβm Alfie, Iβve 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 theyβre 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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Hardest one of the block. V pleased to have under belt 6km warmup 9km at 3:30/km 5.5km at a conversational pace 8km at 3:30/km 5.5km cooldown
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Small request for my high agency, high quality social graph: At a writing retreat I received mixed feedback on integrating crypto incentives into scientific data creation. Curious what the ppl of fc think. My article is here: https://centuriae.github.io/posts/12.html Tldr how can you create a system of biological data creation with trust built in.
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