Christina Agapakis
@thisischristina
“If chaotic good was a biologist” 🧬🦠🧫🌱🥩🌽🦀🐉 exploring and helping wherever biology, technology, and people collide at http://oscillator.bio
Yup 💀 the company behind the face swapping is inGen, same company who revived the dinosaurs
When I was a postdoc I remember talking to a ChemE freshman who wistfully was like oh you’re a biologist I wish I could major in biology. I was like…you can? And she said “well….I want to get a job”
biology majors in the US are one of the most highly educated yet most underemployed groups. 63.4% have graduate degrees, yet among recent college grads who studied biology, over 45.6% are underemployed in jobs that don’t require college degrees :///
Loved this post! I see a broad consensus that the Vannevar Bush model of institutional science is in crisis and must change Who is acting on this belief? Where are the biologists who are preparing for the world that does not revolve around elite universities and NIH grants?
Science is in crisis. When we’ve faced challenges in the past, scientists have retreated to the status quo. It’s time for extraordinary metascience.
This is what it looks like to RELEASE YOUR CREATIVE BIOTECH POWERS. Link below 😈
"It would be folly to set up a program under which research in the natural sciences and medicine was expanded at the cost of the social sciences, humanities, and other studies so essential to national wellbeing."
I love Couture Week man like wdym you put a living system 'cultivated in seawater and encapsulated in a specialised nutrient gel' inside of a dress??!!!
125 million living bioluminescent algae were used for the opening look at Iris Van Herpen!! They emit light in response to movement. Simply incredible!
We need new stories. The mechanic/hacker is not the right trope. We are alchemists, wizards, witches, deep forest druids, singing and weaving life. You cannot code something that mutates. You must dance with it and pray to the tiny gods in every little creature.
Sufficiently advanced investing is indistinguishable from art patronage
i recently went to a party, and it was very, very cold. so, after an hour of shivering around and holding a drink that i never drank, i decided to leave but on the way out, a woman collided with me, a women dressed head to toe in Rick Owens. i looked closely. her shoes were…
Hell yeah. Honestly I think biotech is in a “try anything” era. The only thing for sure is that the old stories aren’t working.
Taco Bell Labs
This deep dive on the taco bell innovation labs offers some genuinely fresh insights on what it takes to consistently ship bioproducts that people want Biotech can learn a lot from taco bell and I am deadly serious about this qsrmagazine.com/uncategorized/…
In >FASTA, I mostly write about biotech co's that fundraise and shit, but the real Biopunk virus is biotech philosophy that converts the most influential biotechnologists in the world to a different way of growing. To influence the way biotech develops in the world, little by…
"my ChatGPT rather identifies as a mycelial superorganism" biopunk.life/p/fasta_18 @biopunklabs