Danny @danwchan@scholar.social

I've been running a online journal club during the pandemic with a friend from gradate school. We used to do one week news, one week deep dive but we're slowing down a bit and trying to put more effort into the deep dives. Vote on the birbsite on our deep dive or tune in over YouTube

https://twitter.com/microtwjc/status/1463561788058918919

https://www.youtube.com/c/Defectivebrayne/featured

@eearroyo1312 Yr reason for studying bacteria made me smile. I teched in a lab studying prefrontal cortex devbio and it was tiring and a little heavy culling litters. I saw animal work as an important part of my grad school app but when I chose my project I stuck to infecting cell culture. Also I couldn't justify to myself the extensive use of animals to advance basic science. I'm still conflicted with that thought because basic science is great/cool... but who does it serve? Anyhoo great talk!

It's a great zombie romp set in Australia where a contrast between indigenous and colonial communities is depicted. I think it does a great job showing that there are different knowledge traditions which do not inherently have superiority over each other. It encourages that we remain open to this reality because the world is full of zombies (unknowns). Plus the ecology of these zombies makes me gush a little.

Hello scholar.social! Many years ago I participated in a microbiology journal club on the birbsite #microtwjc.

One of the former members and I are trying again. This time with a video live stream. We both did infectious disease in grad school but are currently a more communications focused fields.

We are planing to talk about this on sunday: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.043166v1.full.pdf

https://microjc.diybio.fun/index.html

Please share!

Here are three little things I #painted for social media for some upcoming #events at #Biotech without borders. Links are below. Please share!

Synthetic biology class (Dec 7, 15 & 21): https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=82969890175

Cutting DNA workshop (Dec 5):
https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=83186429851

Luxterna journal club/discussion (Dec 11):
https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=83181912339

Back into the city over the same route as my first time visiting as an adult. Dark water and bridges give way to an all too familiar skyline. At that time i thought it could consume my life so that i may never leave. Indeed the people and institutions are quite amazing. But i have healed some rifts and know more about myself now to have the strength to leave one day. I am certainly impressed and changed by my experiences in the city. But it will not be my home for long.

Ok, biosummit 2019 over. It was all really great. A bit too tired at the end of the final day to forge deeper into the crowds but valuable discussions and connections were had.

https://gmodetective.com/ this is an amazingly conceived and executed open source class on gmo detection

Learning about LAMP for a hands on session

Its been eye opening to see the different ways in which diy bio around the world integrates with their localities and begin to build international relationships

This panel on education is amazing and there is a high school student from my alma matter!

Biosummit 2019 begins and i like that we're explicitly being shared some culture norms that seem to be designed to facilitate the safe and open sharing ideas.

After a nice interview about ethics im at the harvard natural history museum! Basically just to read everything in this room

I'm on a train to Biosummit at MIT media lab to meet other DIY biologists, educators, hackers and community members. So psyched!

I'm on a train to Biosummit at MIT media lab to meet other DIY biologists, educators, hackers and community members. So psyched!