Niko McCarty. ✓
@NikoMcCarty · Subscribe to Asimov Press · joined 19 Nov 2016
Biotechnology for flourishing. Founding Editor @AsimovPress. Fellow @RenPhilanthropy. Podcast, essays, and occasional microgrants. Site: https://t.co/GabLJnLEnG
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@NikoMcCarty Great post, Niko. I have attempted to change the number and time of washes for a western (as an example), sometimes out of curiosity and sometimes out of laziness, and each time it brings me back to the standard protocol, which gives reliable results. However, if I d
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Bunsen burners don’t reduce contamination. It was all an illusion. My biology teacher was wrong.
This isn’t surprising, though. So much of biology, and the way we do experiments, claims to be “scientific” but is actually swaddled in mysticism.
Just walk into a laboratory and ht
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Life updates: @AsimovPress is officially back, with a renewed focus on original reporting and arguments in biotechnology.
Also, we'll be helping (some) scientists launch philanthropic funds around the ideas published in the magazine with @RenPhilanthropy. More on this soon!
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This is a "detective story" paper that shows how setting up the right negative controls can lead to real discoveries.
Basically, the authors wanted to reproduce a published result showing that a specific CRISPR tool, called Csm, could chop up RNA molecules and lower their levels
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@NikoMcCarty But like... is it a good idea to have microbes out in the wild eating plastics? What are the guarantees that it will only happen in controlled conditions?
I suspect e.g. supermarkets would not appreciate a world in which you can't store water bottles.
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@NikoMcCarty Where's My Plastic Eating Microbe? https://t.co/vnUeHNNVbO
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@NikoMcCarty Small typo, the paper was published in 2002. Foundational work for single cell biology!
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Take two cells and place them side by side. Both cells have the same genome. And yet, oddly enough, they behave in different ways. They divide at different times and their RNA levels are distinct.
Now let’s go one step further. Take those same two cells. But this time, imagine h
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@NikoMcCarty It’s also worth thinking about it from the transposons POV. Selection at their level favors only germinal replication so being active (or even present) in the soma does them no good and may harm the host. In fact I think that excision machinery comes from transposons
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This is an ongoing thread for my series, "30 Essays to Make You Love Biology." ❤️🧬
I'll pin it on my profile.
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Against accounts of the same size
8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views2 439this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %4.71%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.71%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 2 439 | 924 | 2.64× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.71% | 3.62% | 1.30× |
| Engagement rate | 1.71% | 1.52% | 1.12× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
154.6K6 Aug
2.1K9 Sep
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22.5K7 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.62%6 Aug
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1.03%2 Nov
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2.79%4 Sep
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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
Likes52.4%2 667 in total
Reposts8.1%410 in total
Replies1.6%82 in total
Quotes0.3%17 in total
Bookmarks37.6%1 917 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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