Patrick Boyle
I was a Synthetic Biologist before it was cool, now working on something new. iCSO at ATCC. Previously CSO at Ginkgo Bioworks. @p_maverick_b on the old site
- Any bio artists out here? I’m interested in commissioning 1-2 pieces, leaning more towards the art side but love stuff that is science-inspired... DM me if you're interested!
- Oops - DMs now open!
- I've heard biologists complain that AI isn't useful because new bio data doesn't make the models better... but what if AI is a mirror showing us that a lot of data isn't as insightful as we think it is? How do we identify experiments that are maximally informative to a model?
- When I close my eyes and dream about bioproducts this is what I see if you even care
- Not to upset anyone but I'm coming down on the side of microplastics in the human body being mostly an experimental artifact until someone puts out stronger data: www.science.org/content/blog...
- X is cooked I hope people I like are still here instead. Please don't make me go to LinkedIn
- 💚 Some personal news… 💚 (1/2)
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- Reposted by Patrick Boyleevolution really went off with brassica oleracea
- “Komagataella phaffii”
- Few papers perfectly intersect my interests better than this paper on advanced baseball bat designs via genetic algorithms from the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing mdpi-res.com/d_attachment...
- I think about this a lot
- Props to the guy playing a clearly AI-generated TikTok on loop in a public bathroom, will file that in my “dystopian vignettes” folder
- A new report I worked on for NAS on AI and biosecurity is out today - we looked at risks posed by SOTA AI and opportunities to use AI to improve biosecurity. It builds on a report we wrote back in 2018, which feels like a million years ago in AIxBio! nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/28868
- Today, everything's computer, but tomorrow, everything's crabputer arxiv.org/abs/1204.1749
- I'll be with the Ginkgo team at Nvidia GTC next week! Sign up here to for a demo: automation.ginkgo.bio/nvidia-gtc-2...
- AI in biology has a wet lab bottleneck. We solved it with our automated lab-in-the-loop system. 📍Demo our RAC automation platform at NVIDIA GTC and see how AI models can: - Design experiments - Run them autonomously - Learn from physical results 🔗 Schedule: automation.ginkgo.bio/nvidia-gtc-2...
- Since twitter is down I'll mention that I'd spend more time here if engagement was higher (with real people not the bot slop X has). Feels like tuning the algo to boost replies a bit more would be useful - my feed is mostly people shouting facts into the void
- Support for the Ribosome Panspermia Hypothesis grows unabated
- RNA xkcd.com/3056
- It's been just over a year, and either no new papers have been published with AI-generated rat balls, or the newer models are just that good at generating anatomically correct rat balls
- Reposted by Patrick BoyleIt’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
- Reposted by Patrick BoyleWe're excited to announce our 2025 Ferment Series, an evolution of our flagship annual conference dedicated to advancing our mission of making biology easier to engineer! We can't wait to see you in Boston Read more: www.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl... Sign up for updates: www.ginkgo.bio/ferment-2025...
- It must be hard for designers to keep up with rapid tech changes for long-lasting stuff like airplane seats, but I wish I could’ve been a fly on the wall for the meeting where they locked in the seatback Ethernet jack
- Me in 2005: it would be fun to connect with my fellow students on the facebook Me in 2025: the new meta is getting your message out via tradwife accounts on xiaohongshu before either government sees it
- My feed here is way more academic than on twitter, so as an industry scientist I feel like this all the time
- Just an update that no one new has been added. Thinking about trimming it down, tbh
- Here it is... it is exclusive, it is arbitrary, and membership will be determined solely by me. You should be upset if you are included, and also upset if you are not included go.bsky.app/JZc9HXeat://did:plc:jjjebqhi7xgzrvfkrydza6ld/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lfb44pxlxr23
- Here it is... it is exclusive, it is arbitrary, and membership will be determined solely by me. You should be upset if you are included, and also upset if you are not included go.bsky.app/JZc9HXeat://did:plc:jjjebqhi7xgzrvfkrydza6ld/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lfb44pxlxr23
- I'm afraid I'm losing the urge to post - Twitter gives me brain worms and Bsky is a little too...earnest? Is there a starter pack for science goblins?
- Reposted by Patrick BoyleThank you, Jimmy Carter. This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm. ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
- Slack would be lethal if deployed in this environment
- If I'm staring at you it's because I'm waiting for you to notice that my eyelashes are higher volume thanks to my B STRUCTURAL VOLUMIZING + LENGTHENING MASCARA featuring Bolt Threads' recombinant B-silk™️, a product of Haus Labs by Lady Gaga www.hauslabs.com/products/b-s...
- Making academic pay more competitive with industry will make academia more diverse, but until then industry (especially startups if you have equity) are the key to upward mobility in science. Science doesn't need to make you rich but it shouldn't be designed to keep you poor either
- My favorite academic trope on here is when y’all skeet about the burdens of academia and it’s all extremely normal work stuff like answering an email
- ❤️ "tinfoil shield" as a term. If it was up to me, every workshop on science policy would have a buzzer that would go off when a scientist says "we should educate the public more" on an issue that is value-driven. Then you have to sit in a penalty box and read about why the deficit model doesn't work
- If the world weren’t so weird about GMOs we could have a new fruit dropping every week
- Reposted by Patrick Boyle[Not loaded yet]
- Ok I love precision fermentation but what if we just made all the milk the country needs with a single megacow
- Compared to the 1920s, the average US dairy cow now yields around 6x more milk(!) In a great new article for Works in Progress, @pablohutch.bsky.social explains how big data, artificial insemination, cryopreservation, and more, created the modern dairy cow. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-bi...
- Happy Ribosome Monday www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9dh...
