Jake Wintermute

I heard somewhere that AI will solve plastic recycling in 10 years so this is probably fine

East coast is the yeast coast

“AI can’t possibly know everything about biotech because some of it is tacit knowledge you can only experience first hand.” The tacit knowledge:

Sell me this bioproduct

gonna turn this into a midi controller and make some of the worst music you've ever heard in your life

I'd like to get a 90s-era medical device console like this and install some kind of AI soundboard in it so it can be my sassy lab companion

So funny when preclinical biotechs sign these big biobucks deals. Oh you're going to get a 20% royalty on annual net sales exceeding $1 billion? Buddy the fog is gonna consume us in 2027. The fog is coming. The fog is coming. The fog is coming

Nobody there cares but I do it anyway

Everyone wants to cure all diseases but nobody wants to do no hard ass biology experiments

Can anyone who played CELLQuest on the original Becton Dickinson tell me if it was fun? Is it worth trying to vibe code an emulator for some retro gaming?

I look forward to the day when every lab instrument runs linux and the entire UI is just an MCP for my agents

If weeds can overgrow a fake lawn then it stands to reason that you could develop a strain of grass that would functionally replace the fake lawn except be real

How it feels to do biotech in 2026

Bioproduct idea gluten-free damp dusters for the market of people with celiac disease who want to eat their scrub daddies

Had a lot of fun making bioshrek and collaborative pixel art www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gWSEdP/

I am literally begging you to start a biotech company, literally any biotech company, and incorporate slop maximalism into your branding I am in love with biotech slop maximalism. I will do free work for you. I will shill whatever bioproduct or AI model thing you sell.

1) Apparently snails can eat graffiti 2) Apparently snails actively seek out graffiti to eat 3) ??? 4) Start a biotech company that sells snails for graffiti removal

Very proud of this work and all the efforts from my team and collaborators on this! You can now use DGRs for in vivo targeted hypermutagenesis in E. coli. We also included some early proof of concept in Yeast thanks to @seth-shipman.bsky.social !

I will personally award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the first person who engineers a peptide that can do the worm

Hands-free lab automation solves this problem

We know that AI increases the value of human biological data. But by how much? Super interesting to see a specific class of human biological data assigned a spot price in a real market event

Lab coats should have elastic scrunchies on the sleeves

16 years ago I blew off my thesis research for one day to make a YouTube video about plasmids www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeC... Today I'm in the plasmid sequencing tutorials for Plasmidsaurus www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeC... The trick to having a fun career in science is say yes to random fun things

@synbio1.bsky.social is cooking again youtu.be/nHJKpC2GUsw?...

Me when I click on an in-line citation in an online article and it takes me to the references section of the same article instead of opening the new article in a new tab

Bioproduct idea: sooner oats

We’re so blessed that evolution made the shape of eggs be the literal only possible shape for eggs that isn’t deeply unsettling

Biotech startups 0.0003 nanoseconds after the lab team ships a breakthrough drug to clinical trials

The funniest version of the future is the one where we invent ASI only to watch it immediately start culturing brain cells to invent ASSI www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Have fun in the small pumpkin underclass losers

Me and everyone who keeps calling it Pichia pastoris holding out against the attempt to rename it Komagataella phaffii

How it feels to start opening tabs on a new research project

There are still some good gene splicer jobs

The children yearn for bioproducts

fruitpilled peachcel

The good version of the future includes a decentralized bioeconomy supporting lots of good green-collar jobs in bioproducts and bioservices Sourdough microbakeries hint at what that future might look like www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/d...

If you had an LLM from the year 3000 and a writer's room of all the greatest communicators in history you could never invent a more worthless and confusing name for a statistical technique than "Design of Experiments"

The fancy popcorn from the organic market is bad at popping compared to the cheap popcorn from the normal grocery store and I’m tired of pretending it’s not

Techbio / Biotech

When you work in a yeast lab and you pause a moment to enjoy the aromas of the yeast

I don't want to be the main character I want to be the quest giver

Mutagen Man, Living Ooze

This vintage Abcam fridge magnet does me so right It’s odd, it’s playful, it’s memorable. But what I like best is the way you can tell if reflects a real human’s sense of humor. It wasn’t designed by committee. More marketing like this please biotech companies

But there's nothing like the warm sound of an orbital shaker

My son's school has scheduled the dungeons and dragons club, the chess club and the programming club all at the same time and I'm just trying to figure out how this could have happened