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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 01/05/2026

I’ve been amazed seeing influencers raving about algae oil on tiktok so I went down a rabbit hole on the history of oil producing microbes, the promises of industrial biotechnology, and how we undervalue the real transformative work of product development open.substack.com/pub/oscillat...

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Niche construction in the biomanufacturing valley of death

The thing about the valley of death is you have to wander it

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 12/04/2026

The children made a cake for Greek Easter αληθώς ανέστη!

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 26/03/2026

“We choose to not go to the moon… because it is hard.”

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 20/12/2025

every year we make a commemorative felt ornament for the tree, this year’s is:

a felt mothra ornament on a green plastic Christmas tree

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 31/10/2025

two greyhounds dressed like Mothra and Godzilla

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Kenn Pike @thutigger.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

32,000 years ago, an arctic squirrel ate parts of a plant, silene stenophylla, including its seed. The squirrel was digesting it when its life ended. Its body was recovered and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed. This silene stenophylla just bloomed. It is 32,000 years old

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 02/09/2025

I can trade shoes with my ten year old now

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 01/09/2025

A beautiful Somerville Christmas moment when five uhauls unite on the same block

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 24/08/2025

You can just do things (half pineapple half pickle pizza)

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 19/08/2025

Found a friend for the Elaine #1 The Greatest mug we’ve had for 20 years

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 17/08/2025

You should be mahjongmaxxing

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 15/08/2025

little dudes with a job

a flying leafcutter bee holding a bit of leaf

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

I do genuinely believe the reason we don’t talk about fungi more is because if the average human thought about it all for too long, it would lead to the destruction of civilization.

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 21/05/2025

We scientists have a funny relationship with our humanness. For a long time, talking about science as a *human* practice could be perceived as a threat to objectivity and the validity of science.

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 20/05/2025

“Now it is Tuesday but soon it will be tuesNIGHT” said the seven year old, sinisterly

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 24/04/2025

Gave a talk today about public perception of engineered biology and managed to recreate the crazy wall meme position nearly exactly

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 11/04/2025

Poppy had a good website design idea so we made it: howtolovebooks.com We’d love if you would share some good books for people just getting into books!

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 06/04/2025

Just had to do the “in this house we don’t say ‘it’s science’ to win arguments” lecture

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 06/04/2025

There are cathedrals (spicy pickle pizza) everywhere for those with eyes to see

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Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" - Raymond Williams (radicalized by @agapakis.com)

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 30/03/2025

Teaching my gen alpha kids what rizz and aura mean, I’ve still got it (for now)

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 25/03/2025

The executive order undoing the Biden biomanufacturing EO called it “radical biotech” so I made us some stickers. Lmk if you want one (while supplies last)

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 24/03/2025

“This is some of the most precious data that exists about you; you’re right to be concerned that it may be up for grabs” … apparently not that precious womp womp

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 22/03/2025

Godzilla versus a Godzilla-human-rose hybrid

a giant rose monster rising out of a lake, subtitled “but that plant has a human spirit”

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 22/03/2025

Experiencing some art with poppy

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 22/03/2025

My bio friends get triggered when Thiel suggests lack of progress in bio is a skill issue, and make arguments about physicists in the field and how technical we are. But what if it’s about a lack of non-technical skills, of imagination and conviction and…marketing? open.substack.com/pub/oscillat...

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On the "lack of progress" in biology

How is the "century of biology" going so far?

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 21/03/2025

“I’m actually a word rotator”

Nick playing a puzzle where you have to rotate alphabet wheels to make words

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 16/03/2025

It’s done and he likes it after all 😌

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 15/03/2025

Are we entering a unicorn-based biotech aesthetic renaissance?

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 15/03/2025

Sometimes the thrift gods smile on you

A button down shirt with a bright colored mushroom fabric

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is why "Promising" was perhaps key term #1 in Meat Planet, and why Stefan Helmreich & colleagues have been writing about the idea of potential - say in stem cells - for so long.

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 12/03/2025

A funny thing about biotech marketing is everyone is constantly trying to both “harness” and “unleash” something, often at the same time!

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 12/03/2025

New engineered microbial drug delivery route just dropped "Engineered commensals for targeted nose-to-brain drug delivery" www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S00...

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 09/03/2025

Chatted with Claude about feminist epistemology—Claude gets it!! open.substack.com/pub/oscillat...

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AI as feminist technology

A conversation with Claude

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Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 08/03/2025

What are we 40+ cool girls wearing for warm weather shoes with moderate arch support? Cute flats aren’t cutting it anymore 😭

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.

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