Jake Wintermute

Have fun in the small pumpkin underclass losers

Me and everyone who keeps calling it Pichia pastoris holding out against the attempt to rename it Komagataella phaffii

How it feels to start opening tabs on a new research project

There are still some good gene splicer jobs

You must assemble the 4 lost parafilms of type "L," "N," "O" and "P"

The children yearn for bioproducts

fruitpilled peachcel

I'll give you the secret tech for good popcorn: nutritional yeast

The good version of the future includes a decentralized bioeconomy supporting lots of good green-collar jobs in bioproducts and bioservices

Sourdough microbakeries hint at what that future might look like
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/d...

If you had an LLM from the year 3000 and a writer's room of all the greatest communicators in history you could never invent a more worthless and confusing name for a statistical technique than "Design of Experiments"

The fancy popcorn from the organic market is bad at popping compared to the cheap popcorn from the normal grocery store and I’m tired of pretending it’s not

Techbio / Biotech

When you work in a yeast lab and you pause a moment to enjoy the aromas of the yeast

I don't want to be the main character I want to be the quest giver

Mutagen Man, Living Ooze

This vintage Abcam fridge magnet does me so right

It’s odd, it’s playful, it’s memorable. But what I like best is the way you can tell if reflects a real human’s sense of humor. It wasn’t designed by committee.

More marketing like this please biotech companies

But there's nothing like the warm sound of an orbital shaker

LinkedIn is where I go when I want to find out what people are thrilled to announce

My son's school has scheduled the dungeons and dragons club, the chess club and the programming club all at the same time and I'm just trying to figure out how this could have happened

This is the strongest argument in favor of automated labs

I've often daydreamed about fantastically large fruits and vegetables, living in a pumpkin house, boats made of watermelons, things of that nature

But maybe I need to re-imagine that future because these large carrots are actually quite unsettling

At first I thought this picture was just somebody from woodgang hornyposting so imagine my delight to see bark-dwelling microbes on the cover of science magazine
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists often assume that "the public" has an innate and knee-jerk opposition to GMOs, lab-grown meat or other novel bioproducts

But when you make something people really want it turns out they have a higher weirdness tolerance than you might expect

This is how I feel about attempts to build a virtual cell model

Biotech goals

Writing your lover a note on paper made from your own hair is the kind of high-upside romantic bet you can only make with a bio-based product

Proud to announce SimPhyNI, a new tool for bacterial GWAS with higher precision and scalability than existing tools. Try it out and let us know what you think!!

I wonder if we could replicate this pipeline to get more of the the fitness-style biohacking community interested in fundamental biology and lab-style biohacking

When you're brainstorming about bioproduct ideas one thing you look for is signs of an unmet market need