Re: [DIYbio] Internship Petshop.bio physical microbes store

Don't do that, please. People devaluing one another's work to the lowest-common-denominator is the kind of peer anti-support that keeps everyone labouring in obscurity.

Leaving asode the fact that a brick-and-mortar biohacking shop is costly (but it apparently exists!), there are significant advantages to buying a strain for the paltry cost of €30: strain identity can be known, sterility and purity guaranteed, and you're standardised with everyone else who bought that product and can avail of a community for support.

I recall getting this crap when I was planning to sell an open source plasmid *customised for DIYbio* for around €45: cheaper than pUC18 at most vendors, but I distinctly remembering someone accusing me of profiteering for not selling at $1. As if years of work designing and testing had nothing to do with making the thing and only the costs of fermentation mattered. I was even threatened that I'd be deliberately undercut and pushed out of business.

I hope Petshop.bio works out and I'm confident that the prices won't be the reason it doesn't. More likely the domain name will get seized by the organic association who own .bio. ;)

On 28 April 2016 21:16:12 IST, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
Really, 30 monetary-units for some mycelium?
https://www.petshop.bio/products/mycelium

Why not go to the bulk food store and pay $0.05 USD for a chunk of
oyster mushroom?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
This isn't about those "stuffed animal" microbe dolls, is it?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Pieter <pietervanboheemen@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a unique opportunity for a student that is interested in mixing
biotech, creativity and retail skills! After running a number of successful
concept pop-up stores at festivals and launching our online www.petshop.bio
microbe store, we are now aiming to take the next step: opening up a microbe
store in a busy shopping street in Amsterdam.

Customers range from DIYBiologists, curious shopping addicts to bio artists
and designers. When in need if pigment producing microbes for bio ink,
glowing bacteria for living lamps, mycelium for a fungi sculpture or smart
slime molds to play with they turn to Petshop. There is more in our
incubators, fridge and freezer that can be added too.

With Petshop.bio we aim to bring microbiology closer to the public. And
Amsterdam is the perfect place for that, with multiple creative biotech
spaces like our Open Wetlab and the microbe zoo Micropia. The shop is highly
experimental so lots of new things to try and be prepared for the
unexpected.

People from 180 nationalities live in our city, so speaking Dutch is not a
prerequisite. You will become part of the Open Wetlab team at Waag Society,
the home of the Dutch DIYBio community.

For more information check out http://waag.org/nl/job/petshopbio-internship

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