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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Another magical moment from my run yesterday. Standing face to face with a wild horse at the most westerly point in Wales. Moments like this make you question the rat race and city life. Maybe I should take a leaf from @cyrus & @gmo and start a bio lab out here. Would love to do a meta genomic analysis of different bryophytes and seaweeds in the area.

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Totally beautiful morning run this morning. This is why you wake up at dawn

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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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The people have spoken and they like synbio. Here’s more synbio.👨🏼‍🔬 (Headphone user warning x) Follow /synbio if u want more /synbio Synbio

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