AfroBiotech
@afrobiotech.bsky.social
We read the papers AND the room. Scientists doing it right, we see you. Half-@ssed biotech design and funding gatekeepers - you are not enough. Managed by @drkhaynes
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
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...
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
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.
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
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_...
George Washington Carver - Wikipedia
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🎶 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. 🎶
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.
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.
