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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Any bio artists out here? I’m interested in commissioning 1-2 pieces, leaning more towards the art side but love stuff that is science-inspired... DM me if you're interested!

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

I've heard biologists complain that AI isn't useful because new bio data doesn't make the models better... but what if AI is a mirror showing us that a lot of data isn't as insightful as we think it is? How do we identify experiments that are maximally informative to a model?

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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 · 16/01/2026

Not to upset anyone but I'm coming down on the side of microplastics in the human body being mostly an experimental artifact until someone puts out stronger data: www.science.org/content/blog...

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Are There Accumulating Microplastics in Human Tissue or Not?

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

X is cooked I hope people I like are still here instead. Please don't make me go to LinkedIn

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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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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/04/2025

evolution really went off with brassica oleracea

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Few papers perfectly intersect my interests better than this paper on advanced baseball bat designs via genetic algorithms from the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing mdpi-res.com/d_attachment...

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Props to the guy playing a clearly AI-generated TikTok on loop in a public bathroom, will file that in my “dystopian vignettes” folder

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A new report I worked on for NAS on AI and biosecurity is out today - we looked at risks posed by SOTA AI and opportunities to use AI to improve biosecurity. It builds on a report we wrote back in 2018, which feels like a million years ago in AIxBio! nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/28868

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The Age of AI in the Life Sciences: Benefits and Biosecurity Considerations

Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’m doing my part bsky.app/profile/patr...

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Yeah, I think the custom feed stuff also fragments the userbase - would be nice to have one main algorithmic feed (in addition to the non-algo following feed) so that all users are in one place. I was hoping "Discover" would be that feed but it needs a little bit more juice

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Yeah same - just give us a little bit of an algo, as a treat

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Engage with my post, I'm starting to lose consciousness

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Since twitter is down I'll mention that I'd spend more time here if engagement was higher (with real people not the bot slop X has). Feels like tuning the algo to boost replies a bit more would be useful - my feed is mostly people shouting facts into the void

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Support for the Ribosome Panspermia Hypothesis grows unabated

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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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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Ginkgo Bioworks @ginkgobioworks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We're excited to announce our 2025 Ferment Series, an evolution of our flagship annual conference dedicated to advancing our mission of making biology easier to engineer! We can't wait to see you in Boston Read more: www.ginkgo.bio/resources/bl... Sign up for updates: www.ginkgo.bio/ferment-2025...

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We're Hosting Our 6th Annual Ferment as a Boston-based Conference Series | Ginkgo Bioworks

Headquartered in Boston, Ginkgo Bioworks uses the most advanced technology on the planet—biology—to grow better products. Our cell programming platform enables the growth of biotechnology across diver...

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’m gonna be straight with you, the only animal I know of is the raccoon. Final answer

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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

Me in 2005: it would be fun to connect with my fellow students on the facebook Me in 2025: the new meta is getting your message out via tradwife accounts on xiaohongshu before either government sees it

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

Have to respec from PvP to PvE over here

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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 · 11/01/2025

Just an update that no one new has been added. Thinking about trimming it down, tbh

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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 · 08/01/2025

Here it is... it is exclusive, it is arbitrary, and membership will be determined solely by me. You should be upset if you are included, and also upset if you are not included go.bsky.app/JZc9HXe

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Might as well choose your particular anachronistic affect, like how the New Yorker still uses umlauts

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I read this in the tone of a Shark Tank pitch

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Ok I'll leave you off the starter pack but you're still a goblin to me 🫶

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I'm afraid I'm losing the urge to post - Twitter gives me brain worms and Bsky is a little too...earnest? Is there a starter pack for science goblins?

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Thank you, Jimmy Carter. This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm. ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Slack would be lethal if deployed in this environment

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Making academic pay more competitive with industry will make academia more diverse, but until then industry (especially startups if you have equity) are the key to upward mobility in science. Science doesn't need to make you rich but it shouldn't be designed to keep you poor either

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My favorite academic trope on here is when y’all skeet about the burdens of academia and it’s all extremely normal work stuff like answering an email

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

❤️ "tinfoil shield" as a term. If it was up to me, every workshop on science policy would have a buzzer that would go off when a scientist says "we should educate the public more" on an issue that is value-driven. Then you have to sit in a penalty box and read about why the deficit model doesn't work

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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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Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Been this way since asilomar back in '75

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Patrick Boyle @patrickboyle.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Remember that week when we were all tooting

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