After a long day in the lab frustrated, after following a highly cited methodology for the 6th time and not being able to characterise my cells. I spoke to all the smartest colleagues I knew and to my dismay everyone agreed that using published research methods in the lab never/rarely works. I was shell shocked; all the money, all the time, all the psychiatric break downs academics go through when they can not replicate a study and assuming it’s because they are useless.

I headed to the internet to explore what is being done to solve this problem. After wading though some ‘open access hype” which I found to be the big publishers charging even more for publication so that they can provide it openly to the community, I went to bed wandering if I had chosen the right career.

However the next morning I came across xy mirror, back to Reddit, back to Anna’s archive and began reading everything I could. Until finally I came across cryptography and how it can be used to keep scientists honest. I was optimistic it felt solid, transparent and most of all tamper resistant. I set about uploading my raw data to IPFS, I felt proud of myself. However I was still not connecting the dots, that for years I gave my partner a lot of grief for investing thousands in crypto because “the banks will never allow it”, but still had no idea that my newly discovered amazing way to keep scientific research honest was actually crypto? Surley not? Crypto bros, traders, twitter this can’t be the same thing ? But I was wrong the more I read the more I was blown away for the first time in many years I saw a way for many of the worlds most acute problems to be solved, it became my special interest I learnt everything I could, I got a wallet, I started to explore every corner of web3, IPFS, layer 1, layer 2 and it felt divine the timing.

This was 2 years ago I am still here optimistic as ever that cryptography has the potential to save us from the corrupt greed ridden world we are currently living in.

Good night and god bless✌

Byrney babes out 💅🏻

After a long day in the lab frustrated, after following a highly cited methodology for the 6th time and not being able to characterise my cells. I spoke to all the smartest colleagues I knew and to my dismay everyone agreed that using published research methods in the lab never/rarely works. I was shell shocked; all the money, all the time, all the psychiatric break downs academics go through when they can not replicate a study and assuming it’s because they are useless.

I headed to the internet to explore what is being done to solve this problem. After wading though some ‘open access hype” which I found to be the big publishers charging even more for publication so that they can provide it openly to the community, I went to bed wandering if I had chosen the right career.

However the next morning I came across xy mirror, back to Reddit, back to Anna’s archive and began reading everything I could. Until finally I came across cryptography and how it can be used to keep scientists honest. I was optimistic it felt solid, transparent and most of all tamper resistant. I set about uploading my raw data to IPFS, I felt proud of myself. However I was still not connecting the dots, that for years I gave my partner a lot of grief for investing thousands in crypto because “the banks will never allow it”, but still had no idea that my newly discovered amazing way to keep scientific research honest was actually crypto? Surley not? Crypto bros, traders, twitter this can’t be the same thing ? But I was wrong the more I read the more I was blown away for the first time in many years I saw a way for many of the worlds most acute problems to be solved, it became my special interest I learnt everything I could, I got a wallet, I started to explore every corner of web3, IPFS, layer 1, layer 2 and it felt divine the timing.

This was 2 years ago I am still here optimistic as ever that cryptography has the potential to save us from the corrupt greed ridden world we are currently living in.

Good night and god bless✌

Byrney babes out 💅🏻