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Figuring out how to make science better
@radialscience

[Experiment Foundation @exp_foundation]

Field Builders make the fields that make the future. More people should consider the role.

We’re backing at least 50 Field Builders to launch grant programs in emerging scientific fields. Each Field Builder will award $70,000 to researchers they recruit and receive a $5,000 honorarium for leading the work.

Applications for the Field Building Accelerator are open now through December 15, 2026: https://t.co/ffUvFYCop5

[Becca J. Carlson @beccajcarlson]

We're hiring a surface proteomics scientist - join us!

[Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc @SynBio1]

“AI can’t possibly know everything about biotech because some of it is tacit knowledge you can only experience first hand.”

The tacit knowledge:

[Prism Science @PrismScienceOrg]

We need new ways to understand disease & design drugs. Protein motion holds the answer.

[Becky Pferdehirt @beckypferdehirt]

Are you a creative science writer? Come join our team and work side-by-side with our scientists to shape how their work gets shared, reused and built upon! Details below 👇 @radialscience @AsteraInstitute

[Bianca Lê @drbiancale]

@AsteraInstitute @radialscience If you have first-hand experience as a research scientist, care deeply about how science is communicated to other scientists, and love to experiment with creative formats (interactive figures! beautiful illustrations! executable code!), then I strongly urge you to apply.

[Bianca Lê @drbiancale]

🚨 Job post! We're hiring a Science Writer at @AsteraInstitute

You'll work with all the brilliant researchers at @radialscience to shape how their work gets read, reused, and built on, by humans and machines alike.

https://t.co/EbKtgctzXh

[Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc @SynBio1]

I generally agree that AI will precipitate a crisis of meaning. The most important work of our lives will be to rebuild a sense of purpose not tied to work. But the discourse is missing something.

Americans, with our puritanical cultural heritage, are slow to appreciate the role of pleasure in a meaningful life. Pleasure, to Americans, is a dirty sin for which you are punished with obesity and professional failure.

This belief system is particularly strong among Silicon Valley VCs, tech entrepreneurs and other winners in American capitalism. They didn’t get to be winners because they stopped to smell the roses.

But outside the Calvinist bubble, many cultures have elevated pleasure to an art form and found deep meaning in it. The Epicureans, Edo period Japan, the royal court at Versailles.

I believe that pleasure can provide meaning in a post-AI world and that the most meaningful pleasures are inherently biological.

Biotechnology can make our bodies beautiful, our fruit sweet, and our planet lush and green. Is that not a life worth living? Is there any other future worth living in?

[Bianca Lê @drbiancale]

Read more here: https://t.co/vFlXEhEQBM

Feedback encouraged!

[Bianca Lê @drbiancale]

If you're a scientist, how different would your work look like if publishing requirements were abolished? If grant cycles were gone? If you were paid to train in a different field?

I’m mapping the growing ecosystem of orgs experimenting with different models for doing science

[Bianca Lê @drbiancale]

The structure of your research institute shapes how you think.

New research institutions are being designed so that scientists can think more creatively and take bigger bets, with the goal of producing more breakthroughs.

I'm mapping these orgs here: https://t.co/vFlXEhEQBM

[Cecilia Chang @cclwnchng]

If you really love America and care about Making America Healthy Again, you should love cultivated meat (or at very least, get out of the way while we try to build it...) 🤠🚀

[Mission Barns @MissionBarns]

"I’ve been struggling to describe the experience, because cultivated meat short-circuits my brain — my mouth thinks I’m eating a real pork meatball, but my brain knows that it’s fundamentally different and that Dawn didn’t have to die for it." - @grist

https://t.co/SbIplypk7h

[Bianca Lê @drbiancale]

An op-ed spicier than MB's meatballs.

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

NEW: America loves tech again. The Trump admin has been generally pro-innovation. Yet when it comes to food... even the loudest techno-optimists sound more like the Amish.

PSA from @cclwnchng: stop demonizing lab-grown meat. Let the scientists cook 👇
https://t.co/h22b48sizU

[Mission Barns @MissionBarns]

🛒 CULTIVATED MEAT WAS SOLD IN US RETAIL FOR THE FIRST TIME 💫
On Saturday afternoon, shoppers at Berkeley Bowl West lined up to be the first to put cultivated pork in their grocery baskets. (a thread)

[Mission Barns @MissionBarns]

Run, don’t walk, to aisle 16 at Berkeley Bowl on Nov 1 🛒 🏃‍♀️

We’re kicking off Bites from the Barn, a new series bringing our cultivated pork directly to you — starting with our first-ever grocery sale.

Who’s having cultivated meatballs for dinner? 🍝✨
https://t.co/CGj2xpqeCZ

[Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz]

Congrats to @MissionBarns for making the first ever sale of cultivated pork. They are the 6th company to have sold cultivated meat around the world. Here's the current breakdown:

[Bianca Lê @drbiancale]

@CraftmeatI Thank you!! We can't wait for you to try it one day :D

[Bianca Lê @drbiancale]

Last night, pork meatball pasta was sold at an Italian restaurant. That’s it. Nothing flashy, just the same dish people order on a weeknight, time and time again. And that’s exactly the point.
@MissionBarns #cultivatedmeat
https://t.co/snInLJNtLx

[Mission Barns @MissionBarns]

✨ The guests for our first sale pop-up have been chosen! ✨

This is only the beginning! Stay tuned for upcoming events and more chances to taste Mission Barns with us. 🍴 Thank you for all the excitements!