Help us shape our funding focus areas Astera Institute (a dedicated synbio residency is coming soon)! We welcome any of your wildest dreams, but short & sweet plz. A few sentences is OK, you can submit as many as you want to compete for $1K

astera.org/call-for-ideas/

There's a huge class of science/tech advances markets won't produce, not because there isn't a big enough pot of money to be captured, but because VCs can't figure out how to diligence them

🚨Attn: local supporters of #OpenScience . We’re hosting a demo night in Berkeley on the evening of May 16th where developers of open science tools and projects can share what they’re working on (including our Astera Institute Open Science Residents listed here…

If you could do a favorability poll of America on any topic, is there anything that would have a higher approval rating than Costco?

We lost a useful feed, but we got all this value in return

Man, Twitter really fell off for breaking news

Just wanted to share some good news: After really truly almost dying of cancer, beyond the point we’d all accepted it & she was stopping treatment, my mom’s scans in Dec. showed sudden & miraculous improvement after a Hail Mary & today she heard she doesn’t have cancer anymore.

no love, however brief, is wasted

What an exciting role working with the amazing folks at Institute for Progress who think so carefully about innovation policy that will unlock societal progress!

More context on our call for ideas here! We're looking for very short statements, and an individual can collect multiple bounties.

Importantly, all of the submissions will be published openly. Moving the needle will take us all and this is a team sport. If you want progress in our lifetime and would love the universe of ingenuity to advance solutions for society, let’s go!

Astera is seeking input on foundational innovations (think: organisms and hardware) that could help synthetic biology scale. We just issued a call for ideas and are awarding five $1,000 bounties to the best ones we get. More info here 👇 astera.org/call-for-ideas/

I have such a crush on my husband

i am once again pointing out that we need experimental data and scale on putting the breaks on these self - accelerating warming feedbacks. ice cools itself off and the area around it by reflective light; the open ocean absorbs sunlight like 8-9x more, and therefore heats itself…

On the one hand, I don’t think cyberpunk is supposed to be just normal city stuff in the rain at night

On the other hand, I can’t think of a counterexample

Everyone please stop writing interesting stuff, you are running me ragged

Just a banner day all around