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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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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Did you plan it out handwritten first?

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Ikr every time I go on it feel like I’m being simultaneously radicalised & spammed with adverts

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How did u get the bag from the /firefits challenge? 😂 @cxs

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Stripes and spots 🪁

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Totally agree 💚🧬

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Haha thought so! It meant intersection of art and biology for me before the programme and I think this programme probably uses it in an uncommon way as I know nobody on the course that would consider themselves a bio designer (Daniel Grushkin bdc vibe etc). I think of it as applying a more creative artistic approach to synbio now.

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

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So cool! Would never expect oktoberfest to be next to dungeon rap also wtf even is dungeon rap

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*brave new world

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This is making my head hurt as someone on a ‘biodesign eng’ phd- are u implying biodesign is more human sculpted or is it a top down/bottom up reference or am i overthinking and it’s just vibes

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Lit I’ll cop that

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Bioprospecting in the meadow: Swabbing stems, Scraping lichen, Storing fragments for sequencing. — Bioprospecting is the practice of collecting biological samples to uncover hidden genetic or molecular information. @gmo and I are exploring how field samples can reveal the invisible stories encoded in DNA.

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I said above! But can give you another: the you can just do/build/make it vibe :)

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