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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Homeworld Academy applications are closing today! Join our free 8-week remote course where early-career bioscientists will learn to identify high-potential climate applications for their biological research. Apply here by EOD today: homeworld.bio/academy

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Cave microbes are a substantial methane sink. A @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion from Sean Bay, Bob Leung, Homeworld, and @sparkclimate.bsky.social proposes enhanced subterranean aerotrophy, a prospective atmospheric methane removal pathway in caves or mines. www.cell.com/trends/micro...

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📣 Deadline extended: applications are still open for the inaugural Homeworld Academy, a free 8-week remote course where early-career bioscientists will learn to identify high-potential climate applications for their biological research. Apply here by August 25: www.homeworld.bio/academy

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato is joined by @evangroover.bsky.social, a plant synthetic biologist at MIT's Whitehead Institute, to discuss plant genome editing and potential #photosynthesis improvements for more efficient agriculture. www.homeworld.bio/podcast/

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Applications are open for the Homeworld Academy course, "Fundamentals in Biotech Translation and Climate Impact." This remote & interactive 8-week course is built around a translation project of your research, with mentors to support your learning. Apply by August 18: www.homeworld.bio/academy/

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We surveyed 130+ people in climate biotech and interviewed 63 of them. We are excited to share the results: an interactive dashboard where you can explore the data, discover what we found, and develop your own conclusions. View the Climate Biotech Community Survey Dashboard: survey.homeworld.bio

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato talks with Robbie Wilson, a research scientist at #MIT, about engineering #RuBisCO to improve photosynthesis and build more climate-resilient crops. #ClimateSky #ClimateBiotech www.homeworld.bio/podcast/

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato talks with Henry Lee, CEO of @cultivarium.bsky.social, about building genetic tools for non-model organisms and widening the aperture on what biology we can use for applications. #ClimateSky 🎧 Apple/Spotify: www.homeworld.bio/podcast/

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato talks with Kiara Reyes Gamas, an environmental synthetic biologist, about tracking horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities and rethinking environmental release. #ClimateBiotech 🎧 Apple/Spotify: www.homeworld.bio/podcast/

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato talks with Eli Hornstein, founder and CEO of Elysia Bio, about engineering feed crops to address methane emissions from livestock, and more. #ClimateSky #TheClimateBiotechPodcast 🎧 Apple/Spotify: www.homeworld.bio/podcast/

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Homeworld's new Biomining Handbook is live: an open resource for biologists and mining professionals to design better projects together. This includes Mining 101 for biologists, Biology 101 for mining pros, flowsheets, a materials guide, a research roadmap, and more. #Biomining bit.ly/4tTCJkG

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The microplastics field is quickly evolving. A necessary first step towards building the field is making the research landscape more accessible. Great work by @sarah-i-daniels.bsky.social in shedding light on #microplastics research at a timely moment of new funding for this area.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

📣 Homeworld’s Pollution Program is spinning out Engineered Resilience, led by @sarah-i-daniels.bsky.social, to address an overlooked driver of chronic disease: pollutant exposures. If you’re a funder or #biotech builder and want to learn more, please reach out. 🔗 bit.ly/4dpM8vt

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

📣 Methane causes ~30% of global warming, & despite emissions reductions, a major gap will remain by 2050. #BiologicalMethaneRemoval is one of the most promising ways to close that gap. With @sparkclimate.bsky.social, we convened 30 experts, resulting in 22 problem statements. 🔗 bit.ly/3PdO1RL

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

📣 30 episodes in, Dan Goodwin hosts his final episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, distilling the wisdom and lessons learned, then passing the mic to incoming Executive Director, Paul Reginato. #ClimateSky #ClimateBiotech #TheClimateBiotechPodcast 🎧 Apple/Spotify: www.homeworld.bio/podcast/

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🌱 The Homeworld 2025 Annual Impact Report is out! When we connect researchers to high-leverage problems, the right collaborators, and funding resources, they respond with creativity and rigor. See what we've built together. #ClimateBiotech #GreenSky #ClimateSky www.homeworld.bio/blog/homewor...

Cover image of Homeworld Collective's 2025 Annual Impact Report - white text on a blue and green background.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

📣 On the latest episode of the Climate Biotech Podcast, hear how biocement creator Ginger Krieg Dosier from Biomason is now building BIOME Consortia to accelerate biology from thousands to billions of strains for applications. 🎧 Apple: bit.ly/4pZniVH 🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/4qSvhFy #ClimateSky #BioSky

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Quote on cream background from Ginger Krieg Dosier on the Climate Biotech Podcast: "Bringing biology to concrete was very new at that time. And so the conversations with the industry were more about, okay, here's what they can do. This is very exciting. We compared a lot of the work to beer production."

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

On the latest ep of the Climate Biotech Podcast, hear how synthetic biology legend @loogerl.bsky.social is turning his protein engineering expertise to developing tools to study methane monooxygenase, an enzyme that could unlock methane removal. Listen in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Buz Barstow @buzbarstow.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Thanks to Dan Goodwin and @homeworld.bsky.social for having me and Esteban Gazel on their podcast to discuss the Microbe-Mineral Atlas and synthetic biology and sustainability: 🎧Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7gzl...

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Transforming Minerals with Biology: Rare Earth Extraction and Carbon Storage with Buz Barstow and Esteban Gazel

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Hendrik Schäfer @hendrikschaefer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Very grateful to be part of @homeworld.bsky.social #GreenhouseGas Removal Garden Grant 2025 cohort. www.homeworld.bio/grants-green... We will characterise #methane degrading bacteria in tree #phyllospheres to advance understanding of a potentially globally important methane sink. #methanotrophs

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Garden Grants GHGR — Homeworld Collective

Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We're excited to share that we're deploying ~$1.4M to 11 groundbreaking teams through our Greenhouse Gas Removal Garden Grants! Funded projects span from methane-eating microbes on tree surfaces to bio-enhanced rock weathering. See the full announcement: www.homeworld.bio/blog/announc...

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Announcing Our Greenhouse Gas Removal Garden Grant Awardees

Meet the 11 teams selected for Homeworld Collective’s Greenhouse Gas Removal Garden Grants, a $1.4M initiative accelerating breakthrough research in biological greenhouse gas removal through a novel p...

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Plastic → perfume? On the new Climate Biotech Podcast episode, César Ramírez-Sarmiento shares how his lab uses Antarctic enzymes to break down plastic at low temps and turn it into high value products, like fragrances, that fit Latin America's market needs. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

📣 Big news from Homeworld: We’ve published over 50 problem statements from proposals submitted to our second Garden Grants program, focused on greenhouse gas removal.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Every technology starts with a techno-economic analysis (TEA) - a basic financial model that bridges ideas with practical feasibility. More than the financial sense, it shows that the innovator knows HOW your invention would become something in the real world. www.homeworld.bio/blog/the-uni...

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The Unignorable Economics of Turning Science Into Technology

In this post, we share progress on an internal research project at Homeworld using AI to encourage technoeconomic thinking in climate biotech

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

During the Garden Grants: Greenhouse Gas Removal (GHGR) application window, we will share a series of problem statements describing priority challenges identified by thought leaders in biological GHGR. Today’s focus: Using microbes to speed up mineral weathering for carbon removal.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

During the application window for Garden Grants, we will share a series of problem statements describing priority challenges in biological GHGR. We welcome proposals targeting these problems! Todays focus: unlocking the enzyme particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) for methane removal technology.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The Garden Grants application window is officially open! We’re offering $50k-$150k grants (up to $1M total) to support de-risking ideas that intersect biology and greenhouse gas removal. The application window closes 2/28. Apply here: www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...

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Garden Grants GHGR — Homeworld Collective

Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🌱 Garden Grants is back — this round focused on GHGR. Homeworld Collective is excited to launch our second Garden Grants program, offering $50k-$150k grants (up to $1M total) to de-risk innovative ideas intersecting biotechnology and GHGR. 📌 Learn more: www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...

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Garden Grants GHGR — Homeworld Collective

Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Attending the Plants and Animals Genome Conference this weekend or based in San Diego? Here are two upcoming community events sponsored by Homeworld Collective: ▪️ Women in Genomics Dinner: bit.ly/40ovjdk ▪️ Climate Biotech Meetup: lu.ma/puz6aia0

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Climate Biotech Meetup · Luma

Join us for the 🍹🍹 Climate Biotech Happy Hour 🍹🍹 at Tommy Bahama | Marlin Bar in Fashion Valley Mall, just steps away from the Plant and Animal Genome…

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🎧 New episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast! What’s the future of biotech beyond universities & companies? Daniel Goodwin chats with Jasmine Neal & Elliot Roth about the promise, challenges, and potential of community biolabs. 🔽 Listen here: Spotify: bit.ly/3DrS8DV Apple: bit.ly/3VMFvd4

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Lead poisoning impacts 800M children worldwide, yet scalable detection solutions remain limited. Our new Target Product Profile offers a roadmap for affordable, portable blood lead testing technologies in resource-limited settings. Learn more: bit.ly/4feu7gD Read the full report: bit.ly/3DdCBrj

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Lead, Roadmaps, and 800 Million Children

Today we are releasing our target product profile (TPP) report for blood level lead testing, in partnership with Renaissance Philanthropy and Pahlé India Foundation. To our knowledge, this is the firs...

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New episode! This time on The Climate Biotech Podcast, Homeworld Collective co-founders Dan Goodwin and Paul Reginato sit down with the legendary George Church—a pioneer in genomics and synthetic biology. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6LfF... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

"Inconvenient truths don't actually motivate people as much as convenient solutions. That’s what we should be seeking — and those solutions tend to be synthetic, and probably biological." – George Church, Ph.D. on The Climate Biotech Podcast

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Garden Grants is back! This time, we’re looking to de-risk novel ideas in biotechnology for greenhouse gas removal. 📉 We're especially excited about bio-enhanced rock weathering and methane removal. To learn more, sign up for our webinar happening tomorrow, 11/13: lu.ma/m6oglamb

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Garden Grants Webinar: Greenhouse Gas Removal · Zoom · Luma

Join our upcoming webinar to learn more about the second round of Homeworld Collective's Garden Grants, focusing on Greenhouse Gas Removal (GHGR). We’re…

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

We’re excited to welcome Jayme Feyhl-Buska to Homeworld Collective as our Geobiotechnology Program Lead! With a strong background in geomicrobiology, Jayme has led research teams and developed sustainable technologies, including microbial methods for copper extraction from arsenic-bearing ores.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Happy Halloween from Homeworld! If you’re working in climate biotech, check out these slightly spooky research developments… 🧵⤵️

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Homeworld Collective’s first cohort of Garden Grantees is an impressive bunch, publishing game-changing findings across a spectrum of sustainable solutions. Check out some of their recent work as inspiration for an impactful week ahead! 🧵⤵️

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

These three funding opportunities could support your work in climate biotech 🔽 🧵 1/4

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

From trees as methane sinks to microbial extremophiles, explore cutting-edge research at the intersection of microbiology, ecosystem science, and climate technology with our latest blog posts — featuring recent interviews from The Climate Biotech Podcast. 🧵⤵️

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Working in climate biotech? ✅ Check out these relevant reads from the past several weeks. 🧵⤵️ (1/4) #climatebiotech #HomeworldCollective #carbonremoval #circulareconomy

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

❇️10/16: Homeworld’s Co-Founder Paul Reginato will join bioeconomist Nazish Jeffery, Ph.D. of @fedsci.bsky.social to discuss the current state of #climatebiotech research with Connecting Genetics to Climate’s Co-Director, @leonorsierra.bsky.social. Register for free: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Register now for "The Landscape of Climate Biotech," presented by Connecting Genetics to Climate. October 16th at 1pm ET on Zoom — with Nazish Jeffery, Bioeconomist at the Federation of American Scientists and Paul Reginato, Science Director at Homeworld Collective.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

This team is exploring how much enzymes could impact the cost and energy of DAC, and modeling the process designs and enzyme performance benchmarks that enable the greatest benefit. 🔽 🧵⤵️ (1/7)

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

🌊 At its best, ocean iron fertilization (OIF) may provide a cost-effective and elegant way to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by enhancing the ocean’s natural biological carbon pump. 🧵⤵️

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

In the newest episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Braden Tierney and Dan Goodwin discuss everything from sampling unique, ocean-dwelling microbes to confronting the biggest challenges climate biotech faces today. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! 🌊⤵️

There's one underlying thesis that links together every single thing I have ever done: microbes, in general, are nature's self-assembling machines.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Working in climate biotech? Check out these relevant reads from the past several weeks. 🧵⤵️

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

🌳 Could trees play a role in methane removal solutions? On the latest episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast with Daniel Goodwin and Paul Reginato, Vincent Gauci shares groundbreaking research suggesting that trees are a substantial methane sink, owing to methanotrophs colonizing their bark. ⤵️

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Some good news in climate biotech as we enter the fall season 🧵🔽 ▶️ Plonts officially launched their product plant-based cheese made with microbes, now available in select restaurants in San Francisco and New York: techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/w...

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

Don’t miss our conversation with Brad Zamft about synthetic biology, pathways from academia to policy, how plants can be deployed as climate solutions, & more on The Climate Biotech Podcast! Listen wherever you get your episodes, or read the highlights on our blog 👀➡️ homeworld.bio/blog/transfo...

A quote from Brad Zamft on The Climate Biotech Podcast that says: "Half of the terrestrial land mass is agriculture. If you want to talk about scale, if you want to talk about having an impact — plants really are the biggest lever that you can push."

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