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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

When I close my eyes and dream about bioproducts this is what I see if you even care

Original Apple I in wooden case designed and built by Steve Wozniak

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

💚 Some personal news… 💚 (1/2)

Last week I wrapped up at Ginkgo after 13 amazing years. It was, without a doubt, the best postdoc I could have asked for. I knew there was something special about Ginkgo’s founding team when I joined back in 2012, and I’m forever grateful that Jason, Reshma, Barry, Austin, and Tom took a chance on me back then. It’s been an incredible honor to be part of growing Ginkgo, going from a tiny pre-seed company, to seeing our work in fermentation tanks, field trials, and clinical trials. If you’ve been here, you’ll know that some of the most talented, creative people in the Boston area and beyond have made it a special place.

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It's been just over a year, and either no new papers have been published with AI-generated rat balls, or the newer models are just that good at generating anatomically correct rat balls

It's that AI-generated figure of a rat with giant balls. You know the one

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It must be hard for designers to keep up with rapid tech changes for long-lasting stuff like airplane seats, but I wish I could’ve been a fly on the wall for the meeting where they locked in the seatback Ethernet jack

Closeup of an airplane seat with USB-A and Ethernet on the back

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

My feed here is way more academic than on twitter, so as an industry scientist I feel like this all the time

Meme of Hillary Clinton visiting an East Harlem apartment

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Long egg would be an ideal chassis for new yolk chromatypes

Two long egg logs, with sliced cross sections

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

If the world weren’t so weird about GMOs we could have a new fruit dropping every week

Street ad for the “Envy” apple - “Hey, Boston! Get ready to taste your new favorite apple”

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Took butter out of the fridge so that it’s room temp when I need it later

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Boston folks should check out our monthly Engineering Biology Club event - next one is coming up on Thursday 12/5 at 5:30PM. Come for the free food, and sign up for a lighting talk if you want to jam with us! Hosted by the one and only @synbio1.bsky.social www.ginkgobioworks.com/learn/engine...

Title card for Ginkgo Bioworks' Engineering Biology Club. Background photo of a pin that says "Born to gene edit" on it

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Can't wait for people to skeet me with their syn bio problems because I already know the way to fix them

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I need people to understand that when I say Star Trek is my ideal future I mean that 100% literally

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I’m not going to explain everything I did on twitter to the new folks but I will say that our lab safety team gave me a placebo e-stop button to stop me from hitting the real ones

Big red emergency stop button that isn’t connected to anything

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

The new PDX terminal is a love letter to woodgang

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Looks like it’s iGEM FOMO season again. I’m just in the office having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They’re all just out of frame, laughing too

I hope you all get the Nathan Fielder reference

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Slowly convincing myself that it’s worth grinding for followers on here after 15 years on twitter

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

I remember thinking it was silly to make undergrads buy bio textbooks since the field moves too fast, but 20 years later I needed something to weigh down the liner I bought for my car trunk and there’s no way I could have done it with PDFS

Biology textbooks weighing down a liner for a car trunk

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