No, Mars Doesn't Need a Magnetic Field

The atmosphere isn't going anywhere

Jun 4 • Pioneer Labs

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May 2026

BioBloom: Bringing Scanning Mutagenesis to Whole Genomes

Millions of mutations, one experiment — and the libraries are public

May 5 • Pioneer Labs

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April 2026

We Replaced Our Automation Software Stack With Python 🐍🤖

Open-source software is faster to build, easier to debug, and free to share 🔓

Apr 9 • Pioneer Labs and Jordan Mancuso

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We regret to inform you that Green Mars may have an insect problem

An urgent end-state consideration for planetary engineering

Apr 1 • Pioneer Labs

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December 2025

12 days of Negative Results 🎄⛔🧪

Failures are still real science! 😜

Dec 25, 2025 • Pioneer Labs

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Decoding biology with functional genomics

🧬 🔢 Gathering quantitative genotype → fitness data at scale: Part 2

Dec 16, 2025 • Pioneer Labs, Jonathan Liu, Karin Isaev, and Edward Sukarto

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November 2025

What’s the best way to make a Mars Microbe?

How ‘should’ you do bacterial directed evolution?

Nov 20, 2025 • Pioneer Labs

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October 2025

An Introduction to Mars Terraforming 🚀

The beginning of a field

Oct 17, 2025 • Pioneer Labs

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July 2025

Our first target microbe for Mars, and how we chose it 🏗️

Goal: push the limits of science AND be practically useful

Jul 9, 2025 • Pioneer Labs and Harley Greene

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May 2025

Laying the groundwork for data-driven evolution

Gathering quantitative genotype --> fitness data at scale: Part 1

May 8, 2025 • Pioneer Labs and Jonathan Liu

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December 2024

🏆 A Biologist’s Guide to Mars Dirt

Just add water

Dec 10, 2024 • Pioneer Labs and Una Nattermann

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October 2024

The first turn of our engineering crank 🛠🧂

Beyond deletions: additive strain engineering and adaptation

Oct 24, 2024 • Pioneer Labs, Devon Stork, and Una Nattermann

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