LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠

Accelerating the progress of talented biologists is my jam🌻

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

Hey folks! I'm announcing a series of bounties – break a world record, make a thousand bucks! https://t.co/KvNzqEMmKv

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

American universities lost their way when they started treating people as members of morally ranked identity groups. They will keep shocking the nation and continue losing legitimacy until they return to treating students and faculty as individuals enjoying equal rights.

[Anthony Goldbloom @antgoldbloom]

A new survey suggests TikTok is a meaningful driver of a surge in antisemitism. #TikToxic

Spending at least 30 minutes a day on TikTok increases the chances a respondent holds antisemitic or anti-Israel views by 17% (compared with 6% for Instagram and 2% for X).

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@larsiusprime Some examples?

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@p_maverick_b Crabs transcend biology, they are the perfect design. crablike beings will be found at planetary scales

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@ruvi_l Beautiful!

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@TJlexicon @toil_is_stupid @MindMeldMedia @jasonhickel There is plenty of demand, but these industries are choked by regulation! look at plastic surgery vs regular healthcare for example — the former is cheap and high quality because it falls outside the purview of what’s covered by Medicare (and therefore other insurers must cover)

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@JohnDol84297193 @ATinyGreenCell Wow, what is it?

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@srikosuri @DanNomura @CarolynBertozzi @kevansf @RapeLab @aliceyting This would be awesome!

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@ATinyGreenCell Great discussion of this in one of my favorite books, “Behave”

[Sam Altman @sama]

"the price of housing should increase faster than inflation over time" is catastrophically bad public policy.

in fact, an interesting framework for setting public policy would be "make everything get less expensive over time".

[Chenxin Li, PhD (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) @ChenxinLi2]

I’ve been waiting for someone to just scratch Rubisco for plants and make the plant run Kreb Cycle backwards (like many bacteria do) in the chloroplast. Why hasn’t anyone gotten it to work?

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@AttackOnChitin What for?

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@NikoMcCarty But Kcat ***under what conditions***?

[Dylan LeClair @DylanLeClair]

This translation of a part of Putin’s latest speech is absolutely wild.

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@SievaKozinsky Instagram acquisition

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@breakliquid @ATinyGreenCell @rachelwmartin @pop_gen_JED @Amandatron89 Whoa why would an organism need 1260 chromosomes

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@asyapluggedin There is beauty in the mundane

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@_LucasRizzotto

[LB Agar 🏎️ 🦠 @shasta_bio]

@sachaker @WillManidis What’a cognito

[@drewendy.bsky.social @DrewEndy]

Know any high school students curious about bioengineering? We will offer @Stanford's Intro. to Bioengineering for credit at no cost to students in Title 1-eligible schools. Info. session THIS Thursday: https://t.co/wmHMTjc3Sq Grateful for retweets. @EdEquityLab @jennbrophy7