Kelsey Sakimoto

Founder, Principal Investigator @bikobiolabs. PhD chemist, microbiologist, engineer. HI to MA and back.

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

@WHCOS @mehdirhasan Baby Boomer GOP killing social security just in time so Gen X will never benefit has the same pettiness, but more malice, as Millenials keeping Hocus Pocus alive to annoy Gen Z.

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

@davidsirota "We tanked the environment so we had to make a peanut that could survive in the desert landscape we created. Here's some buzzwords..."

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

@Zach_8675309 Practically, building regional food production requires money. Fed money is key, but consumers who can afford to can help by paying the extra dollar at the farmer's market. CSAs have been great for adding stability to small farming, allowing farms to plan, borrow, invest and grow

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

Centralized, industrial farming works well until it doesn't. A dry Mississippi throttles our overly complex ag supply chains. All the more reason for #local #foodsecurity
https://t.co/wbMW4famfE

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

@Zach_8675309 I think the place to start is shifting food systems from a national to a regional scale. Rely less on a few states to feed the country. There's enough farmland in western MA, PA and upstate NY to feed all the Northeast. Shortening supply chains by even a day is impactful.

[Dr. Lisa Iannattone @lisa_iannattone]

Business consultant in China: Stay the course. Keep covid out. Within 10 years, the West will fall because of long covid.

Consultants in the West: Gut public health and tell everyone the pandemic is over. If they notice that people seem sicker, say it’s because of the LoCkDoWnS.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

Disabled workers. Not a coincidence. #LongCovid is going to screw us over if we allow #COVID to continue to keep spreading. Downplaying COVID is tantamount to sentencing a generation to a multi-organ debilitating disease. #CovidIsNotOver

[Civil Eats @CivilEats]

Massachusetts has funded 487 projects, including geothermal-powered greenhouses and electric tractors, to strengthen its food system and make local production more efficient. @WilcoxMeg with more. https://t.co/GIbKYJRMze

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

It really is a confluence of threats to #foodsecurity heading into 2023: from the war using Ukraine decimating global grain balances, to #ClimateCrisis drought lowering the Mississippi enough that American farmers have to wait until next year to export.
https://t.co/W6Q1auVhpm

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

Very cool exhibit on environmental justice at the @BPLBoston with an emphasis on our history here in Boston.

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

@meghanpowpow @MBTA Back Bay stole some of the Charles River, its only fair that we carve up Kendall Square and allow the river to percolate and create the Venice of Eastern Mass.

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

@meghanpowpow See, @MBTA, you build public transit to and from the city center, AND in circuits around the city so you don't have to first go to Downtown Crossing to get from Cambridge to Malden.

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

What a horrifying visual on the increasing rate of mutations when a replicating virus is allowed to bounce through the population unchecked.
On one hand: cool science! On the other: this is going to be a tough winter.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

10) Shit, UK 🇬🇧 also seeing #BQ variants spiking— over 30% as of last week (red, lower right). This is now very very bad. Notice how fast it is displacing other variants that are all falling. This matches the new 27% #BQ scoop above.

HT @chrischirp

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

There are a lot of Musk/Twitter headlines knocking around.

None of them seem to say: ‘DeSantis supporter takes control of one of the most influential political communications sites on planet earth.’

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

This TikToker was fired after exposing how plastics are getting into pig feed

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

Like the movie Armageddon, we're in the "send Bruce Willis to space as a Hail Mary" phase of the #ClimateCrisis.
https://t.co/Sl4wJj41Ot

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

While a perfectly legal move in the game of Capitalism, a pretty dick move by any other measure.
https://t.co/W9it2BBIT0

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

@realBurhanAzeem Because of rounding, I think mole day should actually be 10/24. #chemtwitter

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

@RossowElliot One helpful thing is we regard microplastics as new. The burden on macroplastics may be to show their harm, but for microplastics, their obvious novelty ought to place them in the category of "show me that this is safe".

[Kelsey Sakimoto @KKSakimoto]

@ChemBark While not as nice as a proper hardbacked text, loose pages sure are much easier to scan, print and distribute by enterprising undergrads as an act of rebellion against greedy publishers.