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sachinxr.bsky.social
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I wrote about how irritated I am by the latest Colossal misrepresentation. defector.com/colossal-bio...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

For an article, I am looking to speak with a company developing AI tools for predicting toxicity as an alternative to animal testing. Particularly interested if they do that for non-pharma products.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

No AI, this is a real photo taken by Percy’s engineering cameras of astronomical twilight on #Mars! You can see Deimos in the sky too. I worked pretty hard to plan, execute, and analyze this image, and it came out beautifully! A bit noisy, but it was very dark out after all. #astro #planetary

submitted 14 days ago • 28 comments

Speaking of "AI" (since that's all we talk about anymore), my latest article on "AI" in medical imaging is up! When hospitals push this tech on doctors, it can lead to misdiagnoses or diagnoses on entirely wrong criteria: www.siam.org/publications...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

If you stop collecting weather & climate data it does not have an impact on rising GHGs. They will still continue to grow if we continue to burn fossil fuels. And it certainly won't end droughts, floods, or extreme weather events. It will just make us less prepared for those disasters. 🧪🌊🔌💡☀️💨🔋

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

🧪 The world has a seemingly insatiable appetite for fats and lipids but this high demand comes at a massive ecological cost. ✍🏽 For @synbiobeta.bsky.social, I wrote about sustainable, synthetic biology-based fat alternatives www.synbiobeta.com/read/halting...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

🫀 As we age, heart muscle cells thicken and lose elasticity. Cellular damage marks cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disorders, fibrosis, etc. 🧪 ✍️🏽 New for @synbiobeta.bsky.social: Regenerative cell therapies could reverse the damage, rejuvenating organs. www.synbiobeta.com/read/change-...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

📌 New paper alert!!! 1/5 How is the spread of epidemics shaped by both random walks and commuting? We answer this question in this paper appeard in Physical Review E by @pvalganon.bsky.social, A Brotons, @sorianopanos.bsky.social & @gomezgardenes.bsky.social 👇

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

#MathArtMarch Day 25 Chaos. In 2018, Julia and I crocheted twin Lorenz Manifolds from the pattern by Hinke Osinga. Not only is this a stable manifold in the Lorenz system, mounting them resulted in chaos of the colloquial kind. 80 hours of crochet, and countless hours of wrangling.

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

🚀 Growing food in situ will be critical for long-term space travel. Synthetic biology could enable resource-efficient and sustainable food production in space. 🧪 New for @synbiobeta.bsky.social. www.synbiobeta.com/read/galacti...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 Decentralized science platforms are changing how scientists fund, conduct, and publish research. ✍️🏾 For @synbiobeta.bsky.social, I write about what that means for building with #SyntheticBiology. www.synbiobeta.com/read/decentr...

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Participants in clinical trials have been abandoned in the middle of clinical trials because of a Trump order. The stop-work order on USAID-funded research has left thousands w/ experimental drugs & devices in their bodies w/ no access to monitoring or care www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 112 days ago • 4 comments

New article by @synbiobeta.bsky.social and Sachin Rawat on the advances in synthetic biology driving innovation in climate resilient crop improvement. Interviews with myself, Claire Grierson (Univ. Bristol), Todd Michael (Salk, Cquesta), Karsten Temme (Pivotbio). www.synbiobeta.com/read/enginee...

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

🧪🫚 Plants use roots to find water and nutrients, interact with soil microbes, and withstand environmental stresses. For @synbiobeta.bsky.social, I wrote about how engineering roots to upgrade these functions could make crops climate resilient. www.synbiobeta.com/read/enginee...

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 Interview request: I'm looking to interview a #PublicHealth researcher who could speak on how street-level weather forecasts can be used for urban public health. My DMs are open!

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 New for @physicsmagazine.bsky.social: Multiple chromosome sets dilute the impact of a single mutation. However, redundancy also allows for the gain of new functions. Does polyploidy speed up or slow down #evolution? ✍️🏽 I write about a new study on this puzzle. physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 Interview request: I'm looking to interview a #PublicHealth researcher who could speak on how street-level weather forecasts can be used for urban public health. My DMs are open!

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 If you cannot eat a particular food item, no matter how hard you try, it’s likely that your negative expectations, more than the taste itself, determine that outcome. 🥗 I wrote about how expectations influence our subjective experience of food. bigthink.com/neuropsych/y...

submitted 136 days ago • 4 comments

🧪 Hello Bluesky! I'm a freelance science writer. For an article, I'm looking to speak with a (theoretical, computational, evolutionary, etc) biologist who could comment on this new study on #polyploidy and #evolution. My DMs are open if that's you! journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

submitted 149 days ago • 3 comments

What are the limits to engineering multicellular systems? Can we invent new organs or synthetic behaviour? We discuss these and other ideas in our latest paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social @jgojalvo.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social & cols www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 Hello Bluesky! I'm a freelance science writer. For an article, I'm looking to speak with a (theoretical, computational, evolutionary, etc) biologist who could comment on this new study on #polyploidy and #evolution. My DMs are open if that's you! journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

submitted 149 days ago • 3 comments

📄 RNA dynamically folds into secondary structures that can be put together into more complex shapes. ✍🏽 My latest for synbiobeta.bsky.social looks at how researchers are folding RNA into custom nanostructures with therapeutics and gene editing applications. www.synbiobeta.com/read/fabrica...

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

Materials for #bioelectronic interfaces are either too rigid to be paired with living tissues or have poor electrical performance. Now researchers have created a hydrogel semiconductor that hits the sweet spot. physics.aps.org/articles/v17... ✍️ My first article for @physicsmagazine.bsky.social.

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Implantable devices such as glucose monitors for diabetics and pacemakers for heart patients need interfaces that are both electronically capable and biocompatible. Researchers have now found a new material that fits the bill: a hydrogel semiconductor.

submitted 188 days ago • 1 comment