Phil Kyriakakis

Phil Kyriakakis

@breakliquid.bsky.social

Senior Research Scientist at Stanford Bioengineering | Taking apart and building biology.🧪

2.2K followers3.2K following750 posts

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optimisticsoap.bsky.social
@optimisticsoap.bsky.social

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

Phil Kyriakakis
@breakliquid.bsky.social

Two preprints up in the same week! This one was from work I finished in 2014, my PhD work! FINALLY. It describes the biochemistry of the yeast glucokinase, which is in the actin family, and forms ATP/ADP-regulated glucose-6-phosphate filaments! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

biorxiv.orgGlk1p is an actin fold metabolic enzyme whose polymerization is sensitive to nucleotide stateThe actin fold is present in enzymes ranging from sugar kinases to chaperones. Previous work on the actin fold metabolic enzyme, glucokinase (Glk1p) in S. cerevisiae found it could form filaments in r...
Phil Kyriakakis
@breakliquid.bsky.social

OooooopenEvo! What a journey building this @atinygreencell.bsky.social , our baby is born! We hope this serves as a nice research tool as well as a teaching tool for biology, electronics and more!

Sebastian S. Cocioba@atinygreencell.bsky.social

@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

biorxiv.orgOpenEvo: An Open-Source Platform for Automated Evolution and AnalysisHere we introduce OpenEvo, a fully open-source, low-cost turbidostat platform for automated continuous culture and directed evolution experiments. Existing tools are expensive, complex, or lack open-s...
Phil Kyriakakis
@breakliquid.bsky.social

I thought maybe I invented this term, but its already a thing! Its better than PCR, GCR! “Gratitude Chain Reaction uses the psychological ripple effect of appreciation to inspire a cycle of reciprocal kindness”

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Sebastian S. Cocioba
@atinygreencell.bsky.social

SPLICECRAFT v1.0 IS LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! Open your terminal and type in "pipx install splicecraft" if you want to try it out, then spam "splicecraft update" often as I push updates frequently. A labor of love for the community I adore. Enjoy! 💚

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Andy Rivkin
@asrivkin.bsky.social

🔭🛰️🧪

Alex Turnbull@alejandroturnbull.space

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

darksky.orgSatellite proposals threaten the night skyIn the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
@princess-vimentin.bsky.social

Exciting! Stanford researchers have developed a UNIVERSAL INTRANASAL vaccine. A study in mouse models shows that vaccinated mice were protected against Covid & other coronaviruses. Still a long way to humans. This study was #NIH funded. A potential game changer. 🧪 med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

med.stanford.eduOne vaccine may provide broad protection against many respiratory infections and allergensStanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.

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Wim Meijer
@wimgmeijer.bsky.social

The system acts as near-permanent archival storage for backup of critical data. It stores 4.8 terabytes, the equivalent of around 2 million printed books Data survives for 10,000 years at a temperature of 290ºC and much longer at room temperature. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comMicrosoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts for millenniaResearchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.

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Tapani Hopkins
@tapani-hopkins.bsky.social

Replying to @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social

I suspect one reason science social media has done reasonably well post-Twitter is that it didn't get (too badly) scattered. There's a viable population on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Here's one (opt-in) way of of connecting those two populations to make sciencesky even bigger. 🧪

Tapani Hopkins@tapani-hopkins.bsky.social

Haven't advertised this for a while: If you follow @ap.brid.gy on Bluesky, your posts will show up on Mastodon too, and Mastodon users's replies to you will show up on Bluesky. Good way for connecting with people whichever place, Mastodon/Bluesky, they happen to be on.

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Tim O'Connell
@tinosaurs.bsky.social

Okay, but for #BlueSky to gain a fraction of the value in networking that we once enjoyed over at #Twitter, we all need to be reposting pretty much everything we see. Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

academic.oup.comScientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to BlueskySynopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
Phil Kyriakakis
@breakliquid.bsky.social

Here is the TinkCAD link if anyone wants to use it. I made the part that attaches to the lab bench earthquake thing for my lab, so it might not match another lab. I used that shape to hang all sorts of things, pippetters, kimpwipe boxes etc., even computer monitors!

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Mark Peifer (He, him)
@peiferlabunc.bsky.social

This is VERY cool! 🧪

Marco Fumasoni@marcofumasoni.bsky.social

🗞️ New preprint from the lab, led by our postdoc Ana Garoña (not on here) in collab with @andreagiometto.bsky.social: “Experimental evolution of cellular miniaturization reveals a mechanism for cell size evolution”, aka: “honey, we shrank the yeasts!” 🎥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...