I am ***absurdly*** excited to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity through Experiment dot com!!! You have one month to pitch something wonderful in the realm of plant biology/biotech research and education. $10,000 max grant. PLEASE RT!!! 1/3 experiment.com/programs/plants

i would love to see implementation of this idea from David Lang. let's make it happen! davidlang.substack.com/p/where-are-th…

I’m thrilled to announce that the application for the 2025 edition of our MIT Media Lab and global synthetic biology course, “How to Grow (Almost) Anything” is now open! Application link in thread 👇

The most fun part of my job is thinking w/ smart people on bottlenecks in science and technology & how they might be solved. Don't forget to scroll down in the FROST-UK announcement to the part where we have a "Request for FROs", with some ideas for inspiration -- screenshot

🌱 Garden Grants is back — this round focused on Greenhouse Gas Removal (GHGR) Homeworld Collective is excited to launch our second Garden Grants program, offering $50k-$150k grants (up to $1M total) to de-risk innovative ideas intersecting biotechnology and GHGR.

The Garden Grants application window is open! We're offering $50k-$150k grants (up to $1M total) to support de-risking ideas that intersect biology and GHGR. Application window closes 2/28. Apply here: homeworld.bio/grants-greenho…

I have, of course, known about Christopher Michel's incredible photography. But I only recently learned about his excellent *writing*, too. And I love the website layout: christophermichel.com/New-Heroes/Nat… This is a real gift to the scientific project.

I love this story, and the photos make it even better. Breakthroughs can come from the most unlikely places—anywhere curious minds are set free.

I expect this to be obvious to future historians: The 20th-century American Dream is famously tied to homeownership, but the true magic was always about *garage* ownership. To each their own place for tinkering, maintenance, and invention.

I lived on this little boat for a year. It was a joy. There's no better neighborhood in the Bay Area than the Sausalito waterfront.

I agree with Dwarkesh Patel here: narrative oral history is an underrated and enlightening publishing format. I wish there were more, especially for technical standards. A longer plea: davidlang.substack.com/p/protocol-his…

ICYMI: the deadline to nominate a publishing trailblazer so we can amplify their efforts is October 31!