“Dunia” means Earth.
Our Goal is simple: To build the engine that discovers the materials of the future for this planet.
Because every leap in human history began with a material.

🧱 Turning air into building materials?

Here’s how we’re making it happen in a world-first direct air capture project in Norfolk.

Scientists who switch research fields face a “pivot penalty,” receiving fewer citations than peers who stay put. A massive analysis of 26M papers shows that venturing into new territory may slow academic impact even as it broadens horizons. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Find more in our research, led by @unpopularscience.bsky.social. In Table 1, we show that carnivorous fish farms for seabass, bream, and salmon require 2 to 5 kilos of wild caught fish for every 1 kilo of farmed fish they produce. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When the team were building Mission Zero, it was specifically with a view to use CO2 taken directly from the atmosphere to displace carbon from fossil fuels - this is a world-first validation of that idea and it's massively exciting to see it live.

📣 We’ve arrived!

At Mission Zero, we know the sky’s the limit — and right now, our atmosphere could use a little help.

Since 2020, we’ve been rapidly scaling direct air capture technology to tackle the excessive amount of CO₂ already in our atmosphere.

#DirectAirCapture #ClimateTech

Brilliant @theguardian.com article by @samirashackle.bsky.social on @clientearth.bsky.social and Monica Feria-Tinta. I love the idea of forests and rivers having rights as persons, arming them to fight against companies, that other unlikely set of legal persons. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Infinite flight, harnessing the innate immune system, learning to live forever from insects and truly preparing for the next pandemic - lots of very cool stuff from the second cohort of ARIA Programme Directors

Been learning a lot about about the future of air source heat pump innovation, and it makes me optimistic about space heat electrification.

Here's a 🧵 on 5 innovations that can solve cold climate electrification challenges, in order or least to most important.

💥"This is what happens when we allow the world’s most bureaucratic institutions to gatekeep the future of civilization."💥

Some great stuff from Ben on motivations for unbundling universities.

I particularly loved "Stop requiring university affiliations for grants" as an actionable conclusion.

Beyond proud to have been involved in incubating @g-heller.bsky.social and the @bindresearch.org team to create the UK's first Focused Research Organisation. Huge congrats to the team for securing £25.8 million to make disordered proteins druggable and thereby transform drug discovery

Super interesting to come late to the work by TransCap on mapping systemic challenges - here a map of the challenges with transitioning to regenerative agriculture in the American midwest transcap.kumu.io/financing-th...

One of our doctoral scholars Winnie Wambugu previously built a company which with backing from the UN World Food Programme trained 2000 smallholder farmers in Kenya. Winnie was recently interviewed by AgFunder on her decision to join the Venture Science Doctorate: agfundernews.com/a-kenyan-sci...

“I don’t think there’s any good universities in the UK yet when it comes to tech transfer — but they are all getting better,” says @sethbannon.bsky.social, casually brutalising the entire UK tech transfer ecosystem. @sifted.eu @t-nugent.bsky.social

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Mark1: a project development accelerator, is now open for applications. Objective is to get first of a kind climatetech projects financed within 18 months, all underwritten by EPCs and philanthropies

Germany’s disruptive innovation funder is backing a new “venture science doctorate” launched by a British investment company that seeks to help PhD students create a spin-out from their research

#AcademicSky #EduSky

"What can we learn from the mind of a mammal?" Love this roadmap from E11 - towards an optical mouse connectome within *5 years*!

Are you a nerd about tech transfer? Ever wondered why Europe doesn't create new types of research organisation? Want to hear me talk for the best part of an hour with Sam Arbesman from Lux, without mentioning even 1 of our 45 portfolio companies? www.luxcapital.com/content/the-...