Ayan

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Just got back from Synbiobeta in San Jose It was great to hear directly from old and new players where present day synbio is at and where they see the future headed. I’ll be chiming in on my blog editlife.substack.com very soon also here is a lovely moment where I accidentally photobombed @bryanjohnson 😅

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For those curious about what sort of conference brings together biohacking billionaires, AI protein model builders, VCs, academics and astronauts, here is my piece covering my main takeaways from the SynBioBeta /synbio multiverse: https://open.substack.com/pub/editlife/p/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of?r=2sgxx6&utm_medium=ios

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How can something so beautiful die Who’s working on flower longevity Brb Engineering ‘Forever Flowers’ **Pls send all of your 💵 for early access 🙏🏽 🌷

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Back when biologists were experimenting based off of vibes Jacob von Uexküll measured the perceptive worlds of animals He found snails perceive 4 moments/second & humans 18/second I like to imagine that for snails we’re just teleporting around & to faster creatures we are the snails + I highly recommend reading his book that was published for scientists + the public: A foray into the worlds of animals and humans: with a theory of meaning https://xenopraxis.net/readings/uexkull_foray.pdf

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I met a group of awesome people at a party last night and we spent so much time in the corner together we created a group chat called “the corner” IRL connections>>>

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Crying at how unhinged the Boys Club email subjects are 😭

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The cost of sequencing your genome 📉 The cost of a flat white 📈

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Sometimes I feel like a plant navigating my own phototropism where I have to grow as tall as I can + bend/contort my body to try and reach the sun It can be a common feeling among people who have to fight to be in certain spaces s/o to my fellow plant people🌻 Also would highly recommend this read: Phototropism: Bending towards Enlightenment https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1456868/ Also I think dandelions are deeply misunderstood 🥲

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Do you notice something about this picture of the “Don’t Die” dinner hosted after SynBioBeta last week? Women have left the chat— Is the longevity space ignoring the biggest consumer group for health, wellness and anti-aging?! Not to mention the ladies are already living longer 👀 In the USA alone Women are paying roughly 15 BILLION more each year for healthcare, 18% more specifically in out of pocket spending/year (excluding pregnancy related expenses!!) We also can’t miss the approx. 600 billion dollar beauty industry that is becoming more and more about proprietary anti-aging R&D! @bryanjohnson we need to tawk

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Gene therapy is coming to a baby near you

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@usv has entered the /synbio chat! If you haven't been paying attention before, let this be your signal 🧬

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Who said you can’t wear /firefits at a biotech conference (also incredibly awkward to film these things in public fyi 😅 new respect unlocked for influencers)

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Couldn’t stop thinking about the magnolia tree… My thoughts on my blog Life, Edited: https://open.substack.com/pub/editlife/p/an-ecological-elegy-100-million-years

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I’m not being very social media lately but I just came on here to tell you about the magnolia tree I saw yesterday. It was so magical and made even more magical today as I learned there are fossil records of magnolia trees from over 100 millions years ago. The dinosaurs smelled the sweet magnolias just as I did🥲 *photo of 200 year old magnolia tree planted by president Andrew Jackson that was removed this April at the White House entrance for safety concerns

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Did I miss something in the farcaster timeline… Since when— What

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If @cxs didn’t launch /firefits and @cyrus wasn’t reflecting on regenerative techno-utopias in /webtree and @pauline-unik and @tako-unik weren’t cultivating 🌶️ in /los-fomos and @benna wasn’t giving me digital art culture realness in /lanparty and @afrochicks wasn’t sharing her Olympic (!) journey on-chain and @keccers.eth wasn’t being an internet encyclopedia w personality 24/7 and @eulerlagrange.eth hadn’t launched /science I don’t think I would be spending as much time on the purple app

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I started a blog 4 weeks ago and this is a comment on my latest piece 🥲 I think I finally found a form of digital sharing/social media that feels genuinely rewarding and motivates me to keep sharing.

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So, there’s a lot of dire wolf debate happening in the world of genetic engineering. Perhaps even more so in the world of Game of Thrones nostalgia. Here is my perspective where I go a bit beyond the more surface level debate of whether or not they can be considered truly de-extinct Ice Age wolves. 🐺 https://editlife.substack.com/p/dire-wolf-resurrected-navigating

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me and @cyrus obvi I call being Neo 🙋🏽‍♀️

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How it feels to be on social media for more than 3 minutes

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