Jake Wintermute

Somehow this is both my ideal research lab setup and my dream bedroom décor

If you don't have your own leaf you can borrow one of mine

"Hacking the Network on a Sugar High" is a phrase that still gets stuck in my head like an earworm when I think about metabolic engineering
www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Don't bring that evil in here

In the 90s the Simpsons depicted sitting on the couch and watching TV together as the epitome of American brainrot but this is kind of no-phones family time is exactly what I aspire to as a dad in 2025

Real time footage of what goes on inside the echo 650 series acoustic liquid handler

Uracil is baby spice

As a biologist, I've tried many Electronic Lab Notebooks and never found true love

It could be the inherent complexity and messiness of biology. Or it could be that all creative work is hard to document

Curious if software people see note-taking as a (mostly) solved problem?

You Say Potato, Evolution Says Tomato About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the modern-day cultivated potato

“Now we have a story to tell about potato origins,” says Walter De Jong, a plant geneticist at Cornell University...

“another addition to our growing understanding of what makes a potato a potato."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

They deserve to live out their lives in a museum

Wisdom of a level 20 biohacker

Reading the 2-paragraph method the journal publishes vs. actually replicating the experiment

Do we have an origin story for the notion that biology and math are somehow opposed or rival disciplines? It feels like such an arbitrary feud.

It's like biology's grandpappy stole math's grandpappy's donkey back in 1832 and we all have to take sides ever since.

You can be Mr. High Horse Judgy McJudgepants or you can ship bioproducts

Wake the fuck up samurai we have an industry to biologize

We’ve all heard the advice “choose your business partners carefully because the average startup lasts longer than the average marriage” so honestly I’m just doing my due diligence by searching all my linkedin contacts in the tea app

🐺🥵🥵

We can complain about unrealistic dating standards or we can get into the lab and make this werewolf thing happen

I’ve never really seen ivory up close

I wonder if it really had uniquely desireable aesthetic or material properties that could be replicated in a biosynthetic?

Or maybe it was just rare and part of a craze? A labubu for the colonial era?

You can just goo things

A slow but inevitable convergence

I was ready to believe but no way does the future still have bulb pipettes

I can deal with biotech being in an economic down cycle but what does irk me somewhat is that biotech culture is so buttoned up we barely got to enjoy the up cycle

Like I was invited to literally zero cocaine junkets to ibiza during the zirp years. I was in the lab like a nerd

Overheard two guys at my local garden shop planning to use glyphosate to kill the tree of heaven and I thought they were talking about a side quest in dark souls

Cultured meat is not easy to deliver at scale but it is going to be essential if we want supply chain resilience in this cyberpunk ass future we're building

He can't believe you mixed up protein kinase a with protein kinase b

Follow the wizard he knows the way

I'm generally opposed to synthetic biologists playing god but low key I would probably do this

Living in the USA as a person who wants people to thrive together is like being stuck in a mandatory group project with the worst partner ever.

We stand on the shoulders of giants