Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc

Biology is incredibly powerful, and more incredibly frustrating. I built/build things. Doing that again, with a new flourish.

[Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc @dwidmaier]

#hotgirl biotech summer 2026?!

[NewLimit @newlimit]

Following breakthrough results, we’re bringing longevity medicine to human trials.

We’ve raised a $435M Series C led by @foundersfund to make it happen.

Reprogramming cell age has the potential to create more healthy years for everyone. We're closer than ever to realizing it.

[Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc @dwidmaier]

😳🔥

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.

Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.

Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.

It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.

Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.

That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.

Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.

The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.

[FilmLadd @FilmLadd]

Looks like the new management for Sports Illustrated gets why the previous management is the previous management.

[Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc @dwidmaier]

Has there been a leader in recent memory with such strong buyer’s remorse as @Keir_Starmer ? I’m curious for twitter to do its thing and make a list

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Keir Starmer says he won’t remove the exemption which allows Sikhs to carry large ceremonial knives on them.

Meanwhile, English women are being prosecuted for carrying regular pepper spray on them when out on the streets at night

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

Excited for Lux family co @westmagco led by brilliant @boxcardavid who is definition of an obsessed super smart sector founder who has likely forgotten more about motors actuators and magnets and robotics than most will ever know!;)

[Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc @dwidmaier]

@viriditax The VCs are acting logically to the incentives provided. The challenge for us as a field is to figure out how the incentives should be altered to protect the outcome.

@jrkelly isn’t wrong that the profits come from selling the drugs out the other side to Americans

[Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc @dwidmaier]

Facts, we are killing our homemade golden goose in biotechnology and justifying it’s okay with the fig leaf of a few who stand to profit arguing that capital efficiency and strategic priority have overlaid goals.

[Jason Kelly @jrkelly]

Nothing new in here, unfortunately, and biopharma VCs like @LifeSciVC continuing to push to offshore biotechnology without a care for strategic implications for US. It's not 2008 anymore -- we're simply in a different strategic relationship between the US and China now.

From the post:
"The reality is rank and file talent is less expensive in China.  Why wouldn’t we want to augment our global workforces with some of these resources?  Why would we want to be less efficient?"

Low cost scientific labor and more lax regulation around clinical trials are the two big drivers for the rapid offshoring a very strategic technology. We are now at 1/3 empty lab space in Boston area and R&D jobs declined by 1,100 in 2025 -- the first declines since @MassBio started tracking it. I'm disappointed that our leaders aren't stepping up to protect and invest in our US biotechnology R&D ecosystem that did so much for them. Doing the opposite in fact -- it's tiring.

We have the power to keep this strategic industry onshore -- it's much easier to keep it then to lose it and try to bring it back. Our power originates in the fact that US citizens are the source of 70% of the profits in the drug industry. We set the rules on what drugs can be sold, how USG reimburses for drugs, etc.

We should add biotechnology to the COINS Act list of strategic technologies! And lean in to be make our US R&D infrastructure and trials more efficient! We can do both! Let's get to work! I'd love you to help us Bruce!

[Jason Kelly @jrkelly]

Testing bottlenecks on our transport algorithm with some engineering runs on Nebula, our autonomous lab today.

If you want to see 160 lab devices connected by 105 robots (and the world's coolest train tracks 😆) come visit during our happy hour tomorrow for @Ginkgo Datapoints!

Weds June 3rd, 6pm in Seaport in collaboration with our partner Helical ! Register here:
https://t.co/myyodNGvyB

[NewLimit @newlimit]

Following breakthrough results, we’re bringing longevity medicine to human trials.

We’ve raised a $435M Series C led by @foundersfund to make it happen.

Reprogramming cell age has the potential to create more healthy years for everyone. We're closer than ever to realizing it.

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

Native British should be able to carry their people’s traditional ceremonial weapon, the Lee Enfield rifle

[Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc @dwidmaier]

@draecomino Because politics is a field about reaction, not foresight

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.

[Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc @dwidmaier]

This video is horrific. How could anyone consider this an acceptable response from public servants sworn to protect the people in their community?

Absolutely and completely unacceptable. Where is the accountability?

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Hampshire Police have finally released the Henry Nowak bodycam footage:

It’s horrific.

The last words Henry heard as he bled out were his rights having been arrested.

The police handcuffed him AFTER he told them he’d been stabbed.

Even if they heard the accusation of racist comments at the time, racist comments present no lethal threat to life.

Being stabbed clearly does.

My heart goes out to Henry’s family.

For the sake of all the incredible and brave police officers in this country, there must be swift action here.

And there must be AN END to two tier policing in this country.

We cannot go on like this.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

I don't know why you need this information, but this is the aerodynamics of a beaver

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Quand tes ancêtres pouvaient pister du gibier sur plusieurs dizaines de kilomètres ...

[Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc @dwidmaier]

@suekhim Would love to try this for my two kids, we’ve tried several ai tutor programs and love to find the right one

[People’s Unicorn @peoples_unicorn]

The best street name you’ll see today.

[Jason Kelly @jrkelly]

Biotechnology is a national security topic. The sooner @IAmBiotech and other industry leaders wake up to this, the better.

We should not offshore biotech R&D from US to Beijing, it will not go well long term. 👇

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

There's no place like the United States of America.