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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Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty9 Sep

If you like this, then you'll love @AsimovPress, a magazine about biology. You should subscribe! It's free! 1.9K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty9 Sep

@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 1.3K views · 24 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty9 Sep

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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Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty8 Sep

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! 22.1K views · 264 likes · 40 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty8 Sep

Very excited to see this new FRO launch! 3K views · 22 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty7 Sep

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

22.5K views · 417 likes · 77 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty4 Sep

@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. 116 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty4 Sep

@NikoMcCarty Where's My Plastic Eating Microbe? https://t.co/vnUeHNNVbO 430 views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty2 Nov 2025

If you like this, then you may like the articles we publish over at Asimov Press! https://t.co/mnGw0DY3HM 3.8K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty2 Nov 2025

@NikoMcCarty Small typo, the paper was published in 2002. Foundational work for single cell biology! 1.4K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty2 Nov 2025

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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Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty9 Sep 2025

@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 266 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty9 Sep 2025

If you like this, then you may like the articles we publish over at Asimov Press! https://t.co/mnGw0DY3HM 2.1K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Niko McCarty. ✓@NikoMcCarty6 Aug 2024

This is an ongoing thread for my series, "30 Essays to Make You Love Biology." ❤️🧬 I'll pin it on my profile. 154.6K views · 794 likes · 142 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Dibandingkan akun berukuran sama

8 postingan dari 90 hari terakhir, dibandingkan dengan rentang 10K–100K pengikut. tampil ke lebih banyak orang dibanding akun seukurannya.

Median tayangan2 439akun ini924median untuk 10K–100K

Jangkauan, %4.71%akun ini3.62%median untuk 10K–100K

Interaksi, %1.71%akun ini1.52%median untuk 10K–100K

Metrik	Akun ini	Median untuk 10K–100K	Rasio
Median tayangan per postingan	2 439	924	2.64×
Jangkauan (tayangan ÷ pengikut)	4.71%	3.62%	1.30×
Tingkat interaksi	1.71%	1.52%	1.12×

Akun lain pada rentang ini → Bandingkan dengan akun lain → Bagaimana tolok ukur ini disusun →

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

266

76.7K2 Nov

1.4K

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4304 Sep

116

22.5K7 Sep

3K8 Sep

22.1K

49.9K9 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

0.33%9 Sep

0.75%

1.03%2 Nov

1.38%

0.18%

2.79%4 Sep

4.31%

2.24%7 Sep

0.81%8 Sep

1.45%

0.99%9 Sep

1.97%

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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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Frequently asked questions about @NikoMcCarty

How many followers does @NikoMcCarty have?

51 729 followers.

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Collected posts: 14. Views: 340 253. Likes: 2 667.