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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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2/2)Ironically got offered a phd as my prof attended one of these events (the phd is on engineering microbes to produce sustainable protein and other stuff) Moved to the dark side (academia) but fighting the good fight from inside the system, still want to maintain connection to people in frontier tech doing cool things In my free time u can catch me djing at bioinspired raves, running, cycling, yapping about biology and generally just touching grass.

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Perhaps you can help me with something. According to Google AI, and a couple of sources I found, oxygen cools the atmosphere. In other words, more oxygen equals a cooler earth. While we've been adding carbon to the atmosphere, we've also been cutting down trees and plants. Meaning there's fewer organisms doing photosynthesis. Meaning the amount of oxygen added to the atmosphere has gone down. So...if oxygen increases help cool the atmosphere, the decrease in oxygen is probably helping warm the atmosphere. Meaning it's contributing to global warming. What would happen if we put that oxygen BACK? After all, it's much easier to add oxygen than it is to remove carbon. I'm not talking about electrolysis. That creates hydrogen, which gets combined with oxygen when it's used for energy. In other words, electrolysis puts oxygen in the air, but when the hydrogen from it is used for energy, it takes the oxygen right back out. But maybe a microbe...?

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