The African Scientist Hub
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The African Scientist Hub
@AfScientistHub
DeSci-powered hub accelerating African science into credible, investable assets, open data, reproducible protocols, and ethical benefit-sharing.

Classism ontop 200k salary is insane. All of us are corp members. Rest.



@aproko_doctor wetin e mean if person pee come clean like swan bottle water 😭










Introducing Thinktica: the engine for autonomous scientific research.









In 2025 almost 70 thousand people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just in America. The 5-year survival rate is 13%. It’s incomprehensible to me that we could have a cure to the deadliest form of cancer and yet the man who discovered the cure has to go on tv to beg for funding. The funds should have been given the second he went public with his discovery. 30M€ is equal to $35 million. Elon Musk makes $698 million a day. Jeff Bezos makes $78 million a day. Mark Zuckerberg makes $230 million a day. There are almost 3 thousand billionaires in the world right now. The money required to fund Barbacid’s clinical trial is pocket change to them. They could fund the trial in seconds and save millions of lives. I can’t imagine having so much money that you could change the world for the better, and choosing not to.


AI for bio has a scaling obsession. Yesterday on stream, @SynBio1 (ex @Ginkgo, Harvard PhD) made a point that stood out while demoing BIOS, our new AI scientist. Most of the scientific AI ecosystem is chasing a familiar playbook: build gigantic nine-figure datasets, train huge models, predict everything. Jake’s excitement was about something way more accessible. He ran BIOS on a metabolic engineering prompt and it produced a yeast program for sandalwood oil: • market pricing ($500–$2,500/kg) • techno-economic targets • a peroxisome scaffolding strategy • freedom-to-operate / IP review Then it did the important part: it produced a wetlab experiment you can actually run. Engineer 4 strains, run 120-hour fed-batch fermentations, measure output via mass spectrometry. Cost: tens of thousands of dollars. Jake’s point: human scientists learn from tiny datasets all the time. Biology advances through “touching nature in small bites” and tight feedback loops. BIOS is built for that loop.



