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We read the papers AND the room.
Scientists doing it right, we see you. Half-@ssed biotech design and funding gatekeepers - you are not enough. Managed by @drkhaynes
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What up good people? This is the official Bluesky home of AfroBiotech, spun out of the ABT conference series founded by @drkhaynes. We read the papers and the room. We call out bad biotech design and $$$ gatekeepers. We give props to scientists doing it right. We keep it real over here.
What in the … ? My eyes!!! 😫
January 22, 2026 at 11:46 PM
It quells anxiety. I suspect that anxiety is a common, debilitating challenge for very brainy people.
January 10, 2026 at 3:02 AM
January 10, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Maybe somebody realized that if you go the anti-DEI route you have to start talking about race, and their position would be more visibly/ covertly racist. Those of us who have the actual receipts of discrimination against us would win that battle.
January 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Inclusive science fills important gaps in knowledge and technology. Therefore, inclusive science is real gold-standard science. I said what I said. #illegalDEI #DEI #STEM #biotech
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Do better, History Channel. 🙄 That is lazy production. Not only did he enable the success of peanut butter, he was an agrotechnology visionary.
January 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Folks act like biotech is brand new. Turns out, this man was doing biotech with peanuts & sweet potatoes since the early 1900s. GW Carver’s lived reality & genius gave us agricultural biotechnology, plant-based materials, and sustainable systems thinking, long before “biotech” became a buzzword.
January 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Today is #GeorgeWashingtonCarver Day (est. 1953). Carver’s work is deeper than “100’s of inventions.” He was a top genius who solved problems from his lived experience: depleted soil, fragile farming systems, communities forced to make more with less. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
George Washington Carver - Wikipedia
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January 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
🎶 MAGA don’t allow no DEI ‘round here.
MAHA don’t allow no rational thinking’ ‘round here.
Well we don’t care what MA-blah don’t allow.
We gonna do real science anyhow.
MAGA don’t allow no DEI ‘round here. 🎶
January 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This isn’t a “diversity problem.”
It’s a design and funding problem. Narrow test populations + lazy assumptions = exclusion by default. The fix?
Design for all humans from the start & fund the engineers already doing it right, like Dr. Jasmine Kwasa. 🧠✨ www.precisionneuroscopics.com
Precision Neuroscopics
www.precisionneuroscopics.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Brain-wave reading (Electroencephalography, EEG) caps are cool, not gonna lie. *polite clap* But exactly WHOSE head and WHOSE hair is this for? Not mine. If your “cutting-edge neurotech” only works for one phenotype, that’s not gold standard tech, it’s a lazy short cut.
January 3, 2026 at 2:37 AM
What up good people? This is the official Bluesky home of AfroBiotech, spun out of the ABT conference series founded by @drkhaynes. We read the papers and the room. We call out bad biotech design and $$$ gatekeepers. We give props to scientists doing it right. We keep it real over here.
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 AM