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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank you @devawo.bsky.social for speaking up for restorative science, and against predatory technology!

AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The collection “From Black Print Culture to Digital Blackness” just dropped in the Black History Month Bulletin! 16 articles & 11 lesson plans spanning law, media, education, engineering, & sciences. ABT’s “Who Gets to Engineer Life? Biotechnology, Power, and Participation” is included.

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

To watch: UVA team led by Dr. Evan Scott used targeted nanotechnology to probe fluid drainage in the eye; id’ed Prox1 as a potential gene therapy target for glaucoma. Great example of nanotech as a tool for discovery & therapeutic innovation. #AfroBiotech #Nanotech www.uvahealth.com/news/nanotec...

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Nanotechnology IDs New Target for Treating Glaucoma

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I hear that AfroBiotech might be headed to New Orleans in 2027 👀. And maybe at a certain university with a legendary history of educating Black scientists and health professionals 👀 👀. Nothing official yet, but we’re talking. #AfroBiotech2027

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I need a double Dutch machine in every Planet Fitness, LA Fitness, and Orange Theory. And this brilliant engineer needs to get paid for all of them.

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Dr. Karmella Haynes @drkhaynes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It is my honor to “hood” two STEM PhDs, Cancer Biology (left) and Biomedical Engineering (right), today at the #EmoryCommencement ceremony. As a first-gen URM PhD myself it is especially exciting to bestow this hard-earned title to two black women scientists #blackinSTEM

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Captain Victor Glover, yes you did that! 🚀 🙌🏾 And in the same week Dr. Josephine Allen and colleagues dropped this fire article in NPJ Microgravity on supporting inclusive space travel biomedical research!!! 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Left: Captain Victor Glover of the Artemis II crew, who returned to Earth on April 8, 2026. Right: Dr. Josephine Allen, co-author of “A cohort intervention to boost space health grant funding success for researchers from historically minoritized groups: 2022–2023” published in NPJ Microgravity, April 7, 2026.

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Imagine downloading every single “one weird thing your doctor doesn’t want you to know” click bait ad from the internet, loading it into an android wearing a suit, and putting it in charge of public health policy #MAHA

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

For the record, we don’t support MAHA. One that note, what in universe was that MAGA/Tyson #superbowl ad? MAHA’s whole schtick is intellectual laziness.

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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_...

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George Washington Carver - Wikipedia

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

🎶 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. 🎶

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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.

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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.

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