About AstroBiota
AstroBiota is an independent biological observatory focused on continuity-preserving living substrates and their role in recording ecological and technological consequence across time.
Much of modern biology and technology assumes that systems can be optimized without consequence — that behavior can be reset, corrected, or scaled without accumulating cost. In practice, this assumption repeatedly fails.
Biological systems operate differently. They carry history. Their present behavior reflects prior exposure, stress, and recovery. Rather than treating this history as noise, AstroBiota documents how it accumulates — and how it can be shaped deliberately through environment and process, not genetic modification.
Our work engages highly wild biological systems that resist standard domestication. By operating at the edge of controllability, we record where variance collapses, where stability emerges, and what real biological domestication actually requires.
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Public writing and research notes related to AstroBiota’s work.
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AstroBiota maintains an independent Conservation–Observation–Operation Program focused on some of the most difficult symbiotic systems known, including lichens and proto-lichen morphologies.
This program exists to culture, observe, and sustain long-lived symbiotic states that are rarely accessible to industry or laboratory work. These systems function as both conservation targets and experimental references — allowing us to study how highly wild partnerships stabilize, reorganize, and retain history over extended time horizons.
Proto-lichen systems are cultivated not as products, but as long-horizon symbiotic substrates: living systems that test the limits of domestication, memory, and behavioral stability. Insights from this work inform our broader process development while contributing to the preservation of fragile biological lineages.
Hi, I’m Hiram — a drug delivery and biotech engineer. I work on methods for conditioning wild biological systems into stable, repeatable forms, using some of the most resistant organisms available to understand what real domestication requires.