AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Someone 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. 010
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thank you @devawo.bsky.social for speaking up for restorative science, and against predatory technology! 110
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. 010
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In “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 000
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Search the title “From Black Print Culture to Digital Blackness” at muse.jhu.edumuse.jhu.eduProject MUSE 020
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The 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. 320
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 04/09/2026To 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...uvahealth.comNanotechnology IDs New Target for Treating Glaucoma 000
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I 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 022
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I 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. 000
Reposted by AfroBiotechDr. Karmella Haynes @drkhaynes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026It 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 0166
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Captain 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... 021
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Imagine 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 010
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 09/02/2026For 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. 000
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 10/01/2026It quells anxiety. I suspect that anxiety is a common, debilitating challenge for very brainy people. 010
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Maybe 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. 000
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Inclusive 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 010
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Do better, History Channel. 🙄 That is lazy production. Not only did he enable the success of peanut butter, he was an agrotechnology visionary. 100
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Folks 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. 060
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Today 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_...en.wikipedia.orgGeorge Washington Carver - Wikipedia 120
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. 🎶 001
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This 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.comprecisionneuroscopics.comPrecision Neuroscopics 010
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Brain-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. 110
AfroBiotech @afrobiotech.bsky.social · 03/01/2026What 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. 020