I’m giving a brown-bag at UMass Amherst on DIYbio and Synthetic Biology on 07apr10
I'm going to be out at UMass Amherst visiting my PhD advisor, Craig Martin. He's been so kind to let me do a brown-bag discussion around DIYBio and Sy...
Category: The Narrative
Institutional science needs to change
I was having lunch with some old ex-lab friends. Unlike me, who left the lab at the end of the 90s, all three of them have kept on doing research and medicine a...
Hacking microscopes – DIYBio meetup 13dec09
We had another gathering at The Sprouts. Mac, Jason, Jason, Dave, Kay, and I (with my son) gathered and talked about moving forward with safety stuff (pages, FA...
Increasing tinkerability – explaining DIYbio
I was with my father this Thanksgiving and he asked me about "that Biology thing" I've been getting involved in. He's known for some time th...
Mac, Sophia, and the philosophy of 21st-century Biology
Mac has written two short but deep posts, inspired by a talk by Sophia Roosth. What inspired Mac was Sophia's "anthropological insight" that DIYb...
“The Machinery of Life” – a great book for molecularly-minded folks
I've been meaning to share this for the longest time. I've had this book for ages and never tire of it. "The Machinery of Life," by David Go...
Is the interent killing storytelling?
I'm always interested in storytelling in its many guises, so the recent article titled "The internet is killing storytelling" was sure to catch m...
DIYbio and Main Stream Scientists – 2004 all over again?
Back in 2004 I was flying all over the place, promoting blogging. It was the year The Blogger entered the public eye, came out in magazines, built empires. One ...
DIYbio at iGEM 2009
iGEM for me was the first time I got to meet folks in the DIYbio "movement." The DIYbio folks from NYC and Boston had a meeting the first night to dis...
Report on iGEM 09, from a newbie
This iGEM was my first. I’d read about it, talked about it, but this is the first time I’ve been immersed in it. OK, so I wasn’t part of a tea...