Christina Agapakis

“If chaotic good was a biologist” 🧬🦠🧫🌱🥩🌽🦀🐉 working wherever biology, technology, and people collide at and @americanwetware

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

Found the perfect necklace at the neighborhood Halloween parade/craft fair

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

#woodgang 🪵

[Adam Feuerstein ✡️ @adamfeuerstein]

Biotech is the wood chipper. You are the wood.

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

@jimmysb1 💁‍♀️

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

I can do your genetic horoscope for you https://t.co/Kkv63yu5IA

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I can't find a way to use my genome.

I’m the most intense longevity athlete in the world and haven’t used my genome for a single thing.

Fully sequenced in 2012. Again this year, paying $7,902 for matched 30x long read + 100x short read.

Still, nothing.

What am I missing?

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

@p_maverick_b I'll do your horoscope too

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

@hhlee

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

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[Daniel Filan 🔎 @freed_dfilan]

i am once again asking why sperm cells are anthropomorphized but egg cells are not

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

@ATinyGreenCell

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

"Science" seems to be both of these at once and more -- the tasks we perform, the results we find, the applications we can imagine, and the power we project by doing all of the above

[Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc @SynBio1]

It's been a few years now since it became clear that the future will not include humans drafting legal documents

But somehow the legal profession never had a "gut punch" moment like the one mathematics is experiencing. The difference is interesting

Both professions draft documents that must be, in a sense, formally correct

But mathematicians see almost all of their work as encoded in the document. If you write a formally correct proof, you have done the core job of a mathematician

Lawyers understand that most of their work is outside the document. Their relationships to clients and judges. Their sensitivity to the subtle politics of human institutions. So you can be a good lawyer and never write a word of legal language yourself

AI reveals how much of a particular job is about expertise and how much is about the people skills that wrap around and guide expertise

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

@markowenmartin Oh that’s so interesting!

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

"research collective" is so 🤌

[Onyx @onyxbio]

Today we're introducing Onyx, a research collective building a virtual immune system: a model of how real people respond to infection, inflammation, and treatment.

We're launching with an $8M seed round led by Dimension Capital.

https://t.co/Am8NUIhRxg

[Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc @SynBio1]

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[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

The whole essay is really really good https://t.co/xV205nPuOM

[Lexer @LexerLux]

every word of this paragraph is absolutely mindboggling

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

Jack-o-lized 🎃

[Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @ATinyGreenCell]

"As an ultrabiologist" does have a nice ring to it...

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

@baym @SynBio1 We should make stickers

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

@DVirilis It brought it up! I had a really long list of categories and a long context document and it correctly identified that it was probably a keyword issue from some of the context and if i split out the categories that were causing trouble it could complete the rest

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

Opus 5.5 helped me troubleshoot how to get around the bio safeguard classifiers so I could finish a bioproduct feasibility analysis

[Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive]

AI researchers should study this topic more