🚨Attn: local supporters of #OpenScience . We’re hosting a demo night in Berkeley on the evening of May 16th where developers of open science tools and projects can share what they’re working on (including our Astera Institute Open Science Residents listed here…

Help us shape our funding focus areas Astera Institute (a dedicated synbio residency is coming soon)! We welcome any of your wildest dreams, but short & sweet plz. A few sentences is OK, you can submit as many as you want to compete for $1K

astera.org/call-for-ideas/

A call for ideas Astera Institute:

Excited to finally launch something we've been brewing on Astera Institute . We're going upstream in synbio! We'll be funding more basic research to enable actionable, scalable solutions, esp for synbio start-ups. Step 1: hearing more from y'all on what's needed! Please RP

Astera is seeking input on foundational innovations (think: organisms and hardware) that could help synthetic biology scale. We just issued a call for ideas and are awarding five $1,000 bounties to the best ones we get. More info here 👇 astera.org/call-for-ideas/

Check out our new #OpenScience page Astera Institute where you can learn about our Open Science Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, learn about current residents, join our network of early users for what they’re building, or apply to join the program!

astera.org/residency/open…

Welcome Cate Hall! One of the first things I learned about Cate was through this awesome piece of hers: usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be-mo…

Not only does it focus on one of my favorite topics, agency, but I love the optimism in her account

📣 We’ve been searching far and wide to find someone open minded who can lead thru iteration. Someone game for more open experimentation/sharing on this front. We have some exciting announcements coming soon for new initiatives that Cate Hall and will help launch so stay tuned!

I'm thrilled to be joining Astera as Executive Director today! Astera is uniquely situated to radically experiment with novel approaches to funding, doing, and sharing public-goods science, and I'm grateful for the chance to play a part in building something truly special here ✨

We’re excited to announce Cate Hall is joining us as Executive Director! Cate’s background ranges from law to professional poker to biotech, and we’re excited for her to bring her approach to experimentation, risk, and systems-level thinking to what we’re building.

We’re continuing to hire folks who want to build new solutions for #OpenScience Astera Institute. Now that Jessica Polka is on board (❤️❗️) we’re ready to do the next round of application review at the end of March.

If you’ve got a great idea and aren’t afraid to go all in to…

With Jessica Polka’s departure after many years of invaluable service ASAPbio, I knew she’d have many opportunities to choose from and was thrilled to be able to successfully recruit her as our new Open Science Program Director Astera Institute! Beyond excited we’ll still be…

After 8+ incredible years at ASAPbio , I am beginning a new chapter as Open Science Program Director at Astera Institute later this month. So, we're looking for new leadership: please share this posting with people passionate about open science!

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So excited about this awesome Astera Institute project to supercharge the ease, speed, and utility of research sharing with FAIR nanopublishing via science social media!

New year, new ways to do science! 🍾🔭 I'm excited to share some details about Sensemaking Networks, the project I’ll be developing this year Astera Institute! 🧵1/
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Reposting and reminding folks that there’s no commitment required - happy to just have a convo and meet you where you’re at!

🎉Life update: I'm starting a new position as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence Astera Institute!

I’ll be working on upgrading science social media by combining AI and federated semantic nanopublishing to improve how we collaboratively make sense of science (in the open!) >

entrepreneurs also know about failing fast, but it sucks to not share learnings. i'm interested in funding ~10 icebox experiments thru Astera Institute for start-ups that want to publish their science as/after they ramp down. hit me up: forms.gle/jLaUx1QC641yii… #startupicebox

It's true! Exciting things are already in the works. There's no need to wait for those who want to jump in: astera.org/science/

Want to be considered for our Astera Science EIR program in 2023? Submit your materials by November 6. Applications received after the 6th will be reviewed in Q1 of 2024.
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