Alfie (alfie)

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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I really like my home feed atm

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The fact this post got me more calls than sharing in a group chat I created with 900 members clearly demonstrates farcaster’s usp as a network of high agency supportive builders. Thank you to everyone that shared this and especially to folks that donated their time 💚

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Feel like this channel is a lot of people interested in science rather than practitioners so made a lil behind the scenes vid about one of the every day tasks of bioscientists. Enjoy xx 😈

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You impress the in laws with small talk, I haul a 35kg olive tree across London. We are not the same.

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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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gmgm! I'm doing some research into how people experience doing science today - whether you're in academia, industry, a community lab, or working independently. I want to speak to anyone who: - Runs or has run experiments in any setting - Has tried to use, access, or build on someone else's data - Is involved in running a community biolab - Works at a small biotech and deals with data quality or reproducibility - Funds scientific research and cares about what happens to the outputs Drop a comment below if you consider urself in any of these categories would be great to chat for max 15 mins :)

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