One of my favorite (very long) paragraphs I've ever read:

Politics told me that I was oppressed and, without even being aware of it, I oppressed others; the answer was to revolt—violently, if necessary. Zen Buddhism told me that life was an illusion and asked me, ‘What is the

SmidgION, capable of generating more sequence data in a few days than existed in entire world at the turn of the century, resting on my pinkie

#nanoporeconf

The beauty of SF hits me in the chest every day. 🌁🧬

Lada is a very interesting thinker working on important problems.

This should be a productive journal club. It’s the intersection of two important fields.

Check it out!

Generating (Somewhat) New Biology with AI 🧬

Some notes and thoughts on using protein language models for Digital Evolution.
centuryofbio.com/p/digital-evol…

Humans: nanotechnology will never work!!!

Bacteria: hold my beer.

Instead of ripping dead organisms out of the ground, we should engineer living organisms to meet the world’s physical needs sustainably.