🧬📦If cells could schedule deliveries, this would be it.
Thunyapat Silpsamrit
@thunyasilps
engineer mammalian cells with synthetic control over secretory phenotypes—boosting bioproduction and enabling neuroendocrine-like regulated secretion.
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Attorneys for Columbia student Yunseo Chung, whose green card the Trump administration is trying to revoke over her ties to Gaza protests, have asked to unseal the search warrant affidavit that federal agents filed last month to search her dorm room. theintercept.com/2025/03/28/i...
Ok, the studio ghiblification function in ChatGPT is pretty darn good. Makes me wonder about the artists though
We are so excited to welcome @ronanoconnell.bsky.social to the lab as a new postdoc. He defended his PhD at Rice Uni where he worked in the Caleb Bashor lab. Ronan will spearhead an ongoing collab with the Bashor and @alexholehouse.bsky.social labs to map IDR sequence-function space at scale.
for my next newsletter and episode i bought the bestselling laptop on Amazon to try and explain how shitty most people's exposure to tech is. Currently at 30 minutes of menus and updates. I have agreed to three privacy policies and created two new accounts. We live in hell
Nice to see you and ty for making the pack!
Since ~2020, I've noticed that the suggestion algorithm was getting worse and worse and drowning my feed w/ commentary I'd rather not see. Post-Elon, that became even worse. It's just too exhausting to sift thru all that to find the useful nuggets of wisdom; worth trying this for a bit.
Some BG on why I'm on Bluesky now: I used Twitter/X to find interesting papers in the cell engineering/BME field and read the "tweetorials" to get the gist. Very useful. Also in the late 2010s, it was a pretty good way to get live news updates from community-oriented journalists on the ground.
hey, bluesky!