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@afrobiotech.bsky.social
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We read the papers AND the room. Scientists doing it right, we see you. Half-@ssed biotech design, you are not enough. Managed by @drkhaynes

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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Someone may have used it, but here, it was off-the-cuff. It’s my way of summarizing your brilliant point. The Black History Bulletin collection I recently shared is in the spirit of this idea. DM me if you need access.
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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!
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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Who Gets to Engineer Life” 🧬 has something for @blackinbiophys, @blackinengineering, and @blackinmicrobiology too! We discuss how biotech, from environmental remediation to biomedical devices and engineered cell systems, is shaped by who participates and whose needs are considered in design.
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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In “Who Gets to Engineer Life?” we highlight work developing technologies to measure brain activity across a wider range of hair textures and skin tones, with a shout-out to Jasmine Kwasa and colleagues for their work on more equitable EEG technology. @blackinneuro.bsky.social
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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Search the title “From Black Print Culture to Digital Blackness” at muse.jhu.edu
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Project MUSE
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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 · 22/01/2026
What in the … ? My eyes!!! 😫
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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
It quells anxiety. I suspect that anxiety is a common, debilitating challenge for very brainy people.
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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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.
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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
Do better, History Channel. 🙄 That is lazy production. Not only did he enable the success of peanut butter, he was an agrotechnology visionary.
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AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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.
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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
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
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Precision Neuroscopics
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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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