Christina Agapakis

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...

Had a lot of fun making bioshrek and collaborative pixel art www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gWSEdP/

The children made a cake for Greek Easter αληθώς ανέστη!

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

The two genders

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

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

I can trade shoes with my ten year old now

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

Returning to my roots

“Is there a name for art where the vibe is “poetic science project?”” news.artnet.com/art-world/ag...

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

Bostonmaxxing

You should be mahjongmaxxing

little dudes with a job

We should be flowermaxxing

We should be whimsymaxxing

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.

Right handed this time

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Biology is amazing

Trend alert: tiny Stanley

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

Patience

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)

“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

Godzilla versus a Godzilla-human-rose hybrid

Experiencing some art with poppy

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...

“I’m actually a word rotator”

It’s done and he likes it after all 😌

Are we entering a unicorn-based biotech aesthetic renaissance?

Sometimes the thrift gods smile on you