Asimov Press ✓
@AsimovPress · Cambridge, MA · joined 25 Sep 2023
Asimov Press is a publisher focused on biotechnology for flourishing. Proudly supported by @AsimovBio, @RenPhilanthropy, @EdisonSci, Fulcrum, and other donors.
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We'll be attending! Come find us to talk about AIxBio, synthetic biology, or anything in-between.
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In 1918, influenza killed between 17 and 100 million people, as much as 5 percent of the global population.
During the 1918 pandemic, most scientists believed bacteria caused the disease. The influenza virus was not isolated until 1933! Around that same time, pathologists in
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Private personal AI. Reversing cellular age. Brain-computer interfaces. Universal fabricators. Funding human agency. New life on Mars. Whether AI can be conscious, and whether it matters.
Nov 13-15, Vision Weekend returns to San Francisco!
Three days of expert talks, curated ht
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Two decades before writing his magnum opus, Principia Mathematica, Newton jotted out his ideas using his deceased stepfather's prayer book.
This notebook, which Newton called his "Waste Book," can be seen at Cambridge University today. It is decrepit from abundant use.
Writing
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We'll be releasing new podcasts roughly twice per month, in addition to our many reported articles (and books).
Here is our first episode with @KateAdamala.
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New @AsimovPress episode with @KateAdamala.
Her group made SpudCell, a synthetic cell capable of eating, growing, and dividing for at least five generations. Adamala thinks it might be able to reproduce perpetually by 2030; a feat she claims would finally make it “alive.”
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@AsimovPress @RenPhilanthropy woot!!!! 🎉awesome to see this back! Congrats!
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Original articles will start appearing soon. We have two podcasts, live events, and books in the pipeline, including a history of the research laboratory.
Thanks to @AsimovBio, @EdisonSci, Fulcrum, and Likith Govindaiah for making this possible.
Timelapse by @NickDesnoyer.
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It's official: We're back!
Asimov Press is returning with a sharper focus on intensive reporting in biotechnology. We're also working with @RenPhilanthropy to build our ideas in the real world.
See more: https://t.co/SEpahlZVAN https://t.co/PNZokGQfNm
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New Essay: How to Build a Strep A Vaccine
Strep A is "one of the most important, neglected, and tractable pathogens to work on," says @JacobTref. Its disease burden rivals HIV/AIDS, yet annual funding is just $14M (vs. $1.5B for HIV).
How can we finally make a vaccine? https://
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Newton took his stepfather's book and "began adding his own prolific...notes on mathematical problems."
In the following centuries, from Faraday to Pavlov, lab notebooks evolved a lot. Excellent new piece by @ulkar_aghayeva.
Read: https://t.co/Xc0pJTiO3m
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A Brief History of Lab Notebooks
Early lab notebooks were little more than pocket diaries, where "thinkers" collected quotes from classical Latin authors. Newton's first notebook was adapted from his stepfather's commonplace book (filled with "excerpted scriptural commentary")..
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New essay: A Brief History of Bioinformatics Software
Although the word "bioinformatics" wasn't coined until 1970, the first computer program to analyze protein sequences, named COMPROTEIN, was published in 1962.
From our forthcoming book, "Making the Modern Laboratory." https:
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Against accounts of the same size
9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views1 466this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %12.03%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.43%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 1 466 | 924 | 1.59× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 12.03% | 3.62% | 3.32× |
| Engagement rate | 1.43% | 1.52% | 0.94× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.57%7 Apr
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes62.0%1 197 in total
Reposts10.6%204 in total
Replies1.6%31 in total
Quotes1.8%35 in total
Bookmarks24.0%464 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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Daily snapshots since 18 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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