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That's great! Honestly I'm still navigating more pressing existential crises (like which country and then city to set roots in, if I even have a choice) but aft

That's great! Honestly I'm still navigating more pressing existential crises (like which country and then city to set roots in, if I even have a choice) but after that the plan is to embrace fields that are amenable for cheap amateur experimentation. In that regards, I have some connectomics projects with c. Elegans in mind, followed by evolution with basic cell lines. Depending on answers to aforementioned crises I was planning to be near some big univs so I can mooch off of their inventory control auctions and core facilities as need be and go from there! However if there's actually communities of similar minded people that'll only be great since it'll expand the no. Of topics I can dabble in (which is precisely what you can never ever do in academia contrary to whatever crap they peddle to get you into the system).

fuzzfactor 6y ago
I find the surplus equipment from universities is not usually sent to _asset recovery_ (auctioned off) until it is older and more worn out compared to industrial operations. So I always wanted (always did) have my lab in a heavy industrial area. For biotech the US area of New Jersey and Connecticut has a high concentration of pharma giants and their many satellite contractors. One business model has been to become enough of a contractor yourself to pay the bills, then research all you want and own it all yourself.
crawfordcomeaux 6y ago
Here's what I want: a lab to experiment with these findings (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0078-7)in https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0078-7)in a 3D colonies from the perspective of encoding various structures from human culture (particularly the community housing the lab) and seeing how the microbes address different perturbations. And then remodeling the community's culture based on whatever findings are uncovered to test the relationship between human and microbial cultures. Or remodel the cultural blueprint within some communal space to see how it works with the outside world. Or...I don't know. There are so many ways to play with culture in this way. We're tackling the question of where to live, too. I find it useful to identify my values & then to use that to filter my options. Choosing based on availability of resources tends to lead to all kinds of blindspots in my experience. We're also trying to figure out how the community model can work without moving and what the process looks like for building it out where anyone is. The approach I'm going for right now is to identify the exact spaces and ways of relating to them I want, creating an absurdly long organization name with all those words in the name, and a mission of "evolve the name" or something similar, short, and simple.

fuzzfactor 6y ago

I find the surplus equipment from universities is not usually sent to _asset recovery_ (auctioned off) until it is older and more worn out compared to industrial operations. So I always wanted (always did) have my lab in a heavy industrial area. For biotech the US area of New Jersey and Connecticut has a high concentration of pharma giants and their many satellite contractors. One business model has been to become enough of a contractor yourself to pay the bills, then research all you want and own it all yourself.

crawfordcomeaux 6y ago

Here's what I want: a lab to experiment with these findings (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0078-7)in https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0078-7)in a 3D colonies from the perspective of encoding various structures from human culture (particularly the community housing the lab) and seeing how the microbes address different perturbations. And then remodeling the community's culture based on whatever findings are uncovered to test the relationship between human and microbial cultures. Or remodel the cultural blueprint within some communal space to see how it works with the outside world. Or...I don't know. There are so many ways to play with culture in this way. We're tackling the question of where to live, too. I find it useful to identify my values & then to use that to filter my options. Choosing based on availability of resources tends to lead to all kinds of blindspots in my experience. We're also trying to figure out how the community model can work without moving and what the process looks like for building it out where anyone is. The approach I'm going for right now is to identify the exact spaces and ways of relating to them I want, creating an absurdly long organization name with all those words in the name, and a mission of "evolve the name" or something similar, short, and simple.