Adiam Asfaha

R&D Strategy @driscollsberry #agtech #biotech #commercialization @CornellCALS @USCMarshall alum here to learn & share. views are mine

[Jason Kelly @jrkelly]

Real life Avatar!!

Petunias designed by Light Bio to glow in the dark approved today by USDA for sale in USA 🌱🧬🇺🇸

we're so back😏🙌

reserve one here:
https://t.co/Y2CylQQkJX

[Gabriel Wilmoth @agrigabe]

Yep, unit economics actually need to work, once the hype fades https://t.co/W4Wwn5R3mj

[Madhur Srivastava @TheNonSeriousPI]

Our lab's research yielding community benefits - Conserve energy, save on electric bill with app developed by Cornell professor https://t.co/8JDwcftDe0

[History Defined @historydefined]

An interview with Arthur C. Clarke on ABC about the future of computers, 1974.

[Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie]

The great decoupling.

🇺🇸🌽 US corn since 1866:
⮕ Production increased more than 20-fold.
⮕ Land use to grow corn increased just 3-fold. Actually lower today than in the 1930s.

Beautiful.

https://t.co/kU61T3n80g

[Adiam Asfaha @add_yam]

@Miss_Tesfaye Happy Birthday 🎉

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The WHO approved the first ever malaria vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said, and is a "historic event." https://t.co/i1hcYBhbvb

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Pre-colonization Glass Gem Corn, Indigenous to North America, regrown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma. This particular corn is a mix of ancient Pawnee, Osage and Cherokee varieties.

[Adiam Asfaha @add_yam]

Remembering HM2 Xin Qi today

[adam harris @AdamHSays]

This is quite a sentence. https://t.co/ExPAkbYuKl

[Daniel Norero @DanielNorero]

New #DNA analysis of 445 types of #lettuce shows how lettuce changed from a weed to a vegetable over a 6,000-year period. The special history of 🥬 has been described in detail thanks to the 🧬 analysis of 445 types of lettuce. https://t.co/Fx5gn2eTxH Via @WUR

[Adiam Asfaha @add_yam]

If you’re using a liquid handling robot you can adjust the flow rate of your aspiration and mixing cycles. We avoid contamination with non filter tips with some creative programming

[Adiam Asfaha @add_yam]

We were in full panic mode when we started running out of stock mid-September. From what our vendors told us, there is a nation wide shortage in the US because there is a backlog from the filter manufacturers

[Nick Loman @pathogenomenick]

Please send me your filter tip stories.

[Gabriel Wilmoth @agrigabe]

Nice #digitalag summary from this week’s ⁦@UpstreamAg &⁩ ⁦@ShaneAgronomy⁩.

[Adiam Asfaha @add_yam]

@Ms_Nutt I try

[National Farmers Union @NFUDC]

In response to our press release last week on racism and police brutality, we've heard from several people saying that this is "not an agricultural issue."

But we disagree. Agriculture, like many industries, is rife with racism. It is our responsibility to fight that racism.

[Adiam Asfaha @add_yam]

@sijank524 Eid Mubarak and Happy Birthday!

[Pivot Bio @pivotbio]

Excess nitrogen doesn’t help anyone, not the crop, not the environment, and definitely not the farmers who are paying for something they never get to use. https://t.co/JiZTaw2fkD

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

I miss libraries.

[Masters of Scale @mastersofscale]

Price volatility + razor-thin margins + tens of thousands of markets: Welcome to the global food system. Learn how this vital sector is being impacted by Covid, in a deep dive into market data by @SaraMenker of @GroIntel. It's the latest #RapidResponse: https://t.co/nMUrT4qQJg