Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 01/05/2026I’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...open.substack.comNiche construction in the biomanufacturing valley of deathThe thing about the valley of death is you have to wander it 040
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 27/04/2026Had a lot of fun making bioshrek and collaborative pixel art www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gWSEdP/tiktok.comI made this picture of shrek out of living fluorescent bacteria. What will you make at cheap.americanwetware.com? #shrek #bioshrek #science #robot #lab TikTok video by American Wetware 072
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 12/04/2026The children made a cake for Greek Easter αληθώς ανέστη! 161
Reposted by Christina AgapakisNick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 26/03/2026“We choose to not go to the moon… because it is hard.” 2171
Reposted by Christina AgapakisNick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 20/12/2025every year we make a commemorative felt ornament for the tree, this year’s is: 2121
Reposted by Christina AgapakisKenn Pike @thutigger.bsky.social · 05/09/202532,000 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 1729974
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 01/09/2025A beautiful Somerville Christmas moment when five uhauls unite on the same block 161
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 24/08/2025You can just do things (half pineapple half pickle pizza) 250
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 20/08/2025“Is there a name for art where the vibe is “poetic science project?”” news.artnet.com/art-world/ag...news.artnet.comWhy Is This Artist Growing Metal in a Box? | Artnet NewsAgnieszka Kurant's "Collective Intelligence" at Marian Goodman shows her left-brain art for right-brain people (and vice versa). 050
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 19/08/2025Found a friend for the Elaine #1 The Greatest mug we’ve had for 20 years 010
Reposted by Christina AgapakisNick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 15/08/2025little dudes with a job 071
Reposted by Christina AgapakisRick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2023I 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. 0192
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 21/05/2025I’ve been writing recently with Anna Marie Wagner on the topic of taste and tacit knowledge in science. Here’s part 2, which features how to make a peanut butter sandwich, how to measure the Q of sapphire, and how to train an AI as an artist www.oscillator.blog/p/taste-part2oscillator.blogHundreds of daily decisionsPart 2 in a collaborative series on taste and science 030
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 21/05/2025As a scientist, I have always learned so much and benefited from working with art and STS, and it’s been interesting to see new intersections today in light of these big shifts in the world. 120
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 21/05/2025But as we grapple with the politics of scientific funding, the challenges of reproducibility and translation, and the threat of AI, our humanness is taking center stage 100
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 21/05/2025We 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. 220
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 20/05/2025“Now it is Tuesday but soon it will be tuesNIGHT” said the seven year old, sinisterly 030
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 24/04/2025Gave a talk today about public perception of engineered biology and managed to recreate the crazy wall meme position nearly exactly 0181
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 11/04/2025Poppy 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! 040
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 06/04/2025Just had to do the “in this house we don’t say ‘it’s science’ to win arguments” lecture 1150
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 06/04/2025There are cathedrals (spicy pickle pizza) everywhere for those with eyes to see 060
Reposted by Christina AgapakisJake 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) 061
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 30/03/2025Teaching my gen alpha kids what rizz and aura mean, I’ve still got it (for now) 000
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com · 26/03/2025I think it’s anything that falls under the previous bioeconomy executive order bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...bidenwhitehouse.archives.govExecutive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy | The White HouseBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. 010
